Following the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, the work of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) has blossomed remarkably in many countries.
As he comes to the end of his tenure as General Secretary of IFES, Lindsay Brown reflects on some of the marvellous stories of how God has been at work in the lives of students worldwide.
God sometimes works in very unusual ways.
Rebekah, a Bosnian student at one of our conferences, met with Femi Adeleye, IFES Regional Secretary. Rebekah had grown up as a fundamentalist Muslim; her father was an Imam. She had never met a Christian until God reached out to her. Her life began to change through dreams (not unusual in Muslim cultures). She dreamt of a cross stretching from her pillow into the heavens, of a great white light drawing others upward while she remained in darkness; and of a large book spread before her on which was boldly written in Arabic, ‘Jesus is the Son of God. Worship him!’
