Who We Are

INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (IVCF), PHILIPPINES is a member of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), a worldwide inter-denominational evangelical movements which links students work in more than 160 countries. Presently, IFES has over 500,000 members throughout the world.


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WHO WE ARE: OUR VISION

A Christ-centered community of Filipino students and graduates engaged in extending God’s kingdom worldwide.

WHAT WE DO: OUR MISSION

To disciple students and graduates for Christ in all areas of life to serve the campuses, churches and communities.

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HOW WE LIVE: OUR CORE VALUES

Dependence on God

We trust God in all things, thus prayer permeates our life as a movement.

Bible-centered

We submit to the centrality and authority of the Scriptures in all areas of life.

Faithful Stewardship

We manage our God-given resources responsibly to fulfill our vision and
mission.

Transformational Community

We nurture communities of disciples who love, trust, and serve one another.

Student Initiative

We believe that students are best reached by fellow students and that they
can build witnessing communities on campuses and beyond.

Filipino

We redeem and preserve our Filipino heritage, values, and practices.

Church Partnership

We equip students and graduates to serve the local and global Church.

Our Strategic Priorities

Incarnational Witness

We share and live out the Gospel by becoming all things to all men that some may be saved.

All-of-Life Discipleship

We participate in God’s work of transforming lives by imitating Christ in His love for the lost, His servanthood and His obedience to God.

Servant-Leadership

We equip students and graduates to be excellent and faithful servants and agents of change in the communities.

Holistic Missions

We engage in integral missions that relevantly demonstrates God’s compassion for humanity.

Nurturing the Movement

We develop partnerships with students, alumni, churches and like-minded individuals and groups through resource development and mobilization for the sustainable growth of the movement

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DISTINCTIVES

IVCF Philippines is . . .

CHRIST-CENTERED

The great emphasis is upon a personal faith in and a relationship to Jesus Christ. We must never allow loyalty to an organization to overshadow our loyalty to Christ Himself. The main object of the individual and of the group is fellowship with Christ, and obedience to Him in all areas of life.

BIBLICAL

We believe that the Bible is the Word of God. It is our supreme authority for all beliefs and behavior. We study it individually, discuss it in small groups, and expound it in public. We consult God’s Word in matters of doctrine, questions of ethics and even in problems of policy.

A FELLOWSHIP OF PRAYER

It was born in student prayer meetings; it will move forward only on its knees. It is not easy to engage in effective prayer, but whenever a chapter is really used of God, there is a group of students who really know the reality and power of prayer.

FILIPINO

We believe that the Gospel will thrive in the Philippines as it takes deep root in the native soil. Thus IVCF has remained a Filipino movement — governed by a Filipino board of directors, headed by a Filipino National Director, and supported mainly by Filipino Christians — since its recognition in 1959.

A MOVEMENT

We are basically a student and graduate movement. We have stood to our belief that the more effective witnesses to non- Christians in the academic and professional world are their colleagues who are Christians. IVCF’ers are missionaries in their respective spheres of influence.

A PARTNER OF THE FILIPINO CHURCH

We aim to build up God’s Church in the Philippines. We serve as a partner of the Church as we help nurture students and graduates to a lifetime of discipleship. We encourage IVCF’ers to take active part in a local church which is their long-term spiritual home.


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Basis of Faith

  1. The unity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in the Godhead.
  2. The sovereignty of God in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgment.
  3. The divine inspiration and the entire trustworthiness of the Holy Scriptures, as originally given, and its supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
  4. The universal sinfulness and guilt of all men since the fall, rendering them subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.
  5. Redemption from the guilt, penalty, dominion and pollution of sin, solely through the sacrificial death (as our Representative and Substitute) – of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God.
  6. The bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead and His ascension to the right hand of God the Father.
  7. The presence and power of the Holy Spirit in the work of regeneration.
  8. The justification of the sinner by the grace of God through Faith alone.
  9. The indwelling and work of the Holy Spirit in the believer.
  10. The one Holy Universal Church which is the Body of Christ and to which all true believers belong.
  11. The expectation of the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.