Global Giving Day 2025
THE WORK OF HIS HANDS • 2 APRIL 2025
🙌 THIS YEAR, EVERY GIFT WILL BE DOUBLED UNTIL WE REACH 110,000 USD! 🙌
Our world needs leaders shaped by God.
University students will be the leaders of tomorrow, shaping people and culture. But who is shaping them?
You know a God who can put his hand on our easily misshapen lives and form us into beautiful vessels fit for service.
Here is our hope: leaders shaped by the Potter – each one crafted for context, yet all wholeheartedly acting with integrity, resolutely serving the interests of others, and prayerfully relying on him. In a world desperate for solid leadership, realising this vision is as urgent as ever.
You, Lord, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
ISAIAH 64:8
Through Global Giving Day, you can partner with God by helping to shape an array of well-formed leaders – the work of his hands.
So far, supporters, staff, and students from 30 countries and territories have given USD.
Will you help us reach our goals of 100+ countries and 110,000+ USD?
UPCOMING WEBINARS: INSIGHTS INTO LEADERSHIP & GENEROSITY
An IFES/USA webinar: Dimensions of Leadership – Why IFES Invests in Training Christian Leaders.
1 April 2025, 16:00 UTC (11am Central US time, 5pm UK)
Explore why leadership development is a vital IFES ministry and hear about the need for good leaders in a region that has three of the largest IFES movements.
With Zelalem Abebe, IFES Regional Secretary for English- and Portuguese-Speaking Africa and former General Secretary for the national movement in Ethiopia.
An IFES webinar in collaboration with Stewardship: Generosity and Leadership in the Global Church.
2 April 2025, 12:00 UTC (7am Wisconsin, Cayman Islands, 1pm UK / Abuja, 8pm Kuala Lumpur)
Discover the power of biblical generosity, hear inspiring testimony from a young leader, and learn how IFES is shaping future Christian leaders.
With Kehinde Ojo (Director of the IFES Indigenous Support Development program), Megan Wilcock (Growth and Relationships Manager at Stewardship), and Abygale Elliott (student leader in IS/IVCF Cayman Islands, part of IFES Caribbean).
📣Here’s an announcement worth listening to!
We asked you what kind of leaders you’d like God to shape. In over 100 responses, here’s what you said:
Want to join in? Email hello@ifesworld.org with 3 words to describe the kind of leader you would like God to form for the university, the church, and the world.
THE DIFFERENCE YOU CAN MAKE
Through your support for IFES, you’re participating in God’s shaping of leaders around the world: students, staff, and graduates.
Regional training events for staff from national movements
Graduate ministry
Spiritual formation programs for student leaders in a region or sub-region
Global mentoring networks for staff with strategic potential
And you can now double your impact!
Thanks to a generous collective of donors,
every gift for Global Giving Day will be matched
until we reach our target of $110,000.
Give now and turn $15 into $30 or $500 into $1,000!
However big or small, your donation will go twice as far.
A godly character clearly matters.
Meet five leaders whose character has been formed through IFES leadership initiatives.
WISDOM: Gisela
COURAGE: Preeti
VISION: Frank
EMPATHY: Amine
Show your support for IFES students, staff, and graduates in leadership roles.
Your generosity will shape them – through experienced mentors, biblical reflection on leadership, and supportive networks.
As you join with God in moulding these leaders, they’ll shape campuses, churches, and societies for generations to come.
But it must start today.
Act on your faithful longing for well-formed leaders: give so that student, staff, and graduate leaders across IFES can become the masterly work of God’s hands – and shape people and culture for good.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE TOGETHER
Global Giving Day is an annual 48-hour event spanning the entire globe.
Students, staff, and supporters like you join in the joy of giving to God’s work on campuses around the world.
“We taste the sweet bond of the gospel as we show sacrificial generosity to each other. I see Global Giving Day as a beacon that invites us up the pathway of global fellowship. It beckons us to learn from each other’s stories and stand together in solidarity.”
This year, we’re hoping to see support from at least 100 countries and territories to fund leadership development across all 11 IFES regions.
While we have been living through difficult times in our country for the past decade, we have chosen as our annual theme for 2024, “Resilience and Mission”, studying 1 and 2 Corinthians. In this biblical and contextual journey, we are encouraged by the example of the Macedonian church in 2 Corinthians 8. We pray that the Lord will grant us to always dedicate ourselves to Him, and that by His grace we may always with joy and liberality take part in missionary assistance, no matter what circumstances we find ourselves in.
-Global Giving Day 2024 testimony from a movement in Francophone Africa
FOUR WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
Stay Informed
Get all the latest updates and learn how you can take part as we approach this year’s Global Giving Day.
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Donate
You can already give to Global Giving Day 2025!
Option 1:
Option 2: Give via bank transfer.
If you’d prefer to give via bank transfer, either in-person at your bank or using online banking, please email supporter.relations@ifesworld.org to request instructions. Please specify for which currency account and in which language you would like the instructions (English, French, or Spanish).
You can make a transfer in a different currency but please be advised that your bank may charge a fee for exchanging the currency, either at the point of transfer or from the amount sent.
Option 3: Give via regions and national movements.
If you are unable to use our online giving platform, several IFES regions offer different giving methods that you can use instead. In all cases, make sure that you note the gift is for Global Giving Day 2025!
Many other national movements can also receive donations on behalf of IFES. Please contact your national movement to find out if this is an option. When you give to your national movement, please also drop us an email at supporter.relations@ifesworld.org so we can say ‘thank you!’
To find the contact details for your national movement, visit Our World.
Mobilise Others
Take your commitment one step further!
Use your passion for God-shaped leaders to mobilise others to give.
Share
Tell others about the value and joy of Global Giving Day 2025. Get your student group, movement, church, or organisation involved with these ready-made and adaptable resources:
Essential guidance on how you can help others engage with Global Giving Day.
Graphics, slides, and videos to help you spread the word.
Create a Personalised Version of the Campaign
Experience shows that people give when they know the person who’s asking. Last year, individuals running personalised versions of the campaign through “crowdfunding” platforms proved highly effective in raising support.
So, what if you shared your longing for leaders formed by God with your social networks? Tell them how excited you are about the IFES leadership development initiatives that are making a difference in your region.
Fundraiser Links
Organising Events
In some cultures, sponsored challenges, auctions, sales, and entry-fee events are an effective way of getting others involved in giving. They are often even more engaging when they’re related to the theme of the appeal.
For example:
- Create, decorate, and sell clay pots.
- Organize a sponsored competition in which teams tackle “leadership challenges” such as topical debates, problem-solving, and trust exercises.
Host a ticketed Q&A event with key leaders at your university or church.
Are you planning to organise an event as a national movement? Why not schedule it in advance of 2 April 2025? Then, you can transfer the funds you’ve raised in time for Global Giving Day. Get in touch with finance@ifesworld.org to discuss how and when to make the transfer.
Pray
God is the master Potter! So, let’s pray for his gracious hand on Global Giving Day.
Here’s a prayer using the imagery and themes of Isaiah 64:
Lord, we need you!
Can you break through,
Come down among us?
Save us from this leadership wasteland:
Presidents, ministers, CEOs, pastors,
Ruined by greed and ego.
But it’s easy to point the finger,
When the poison’s also in us:
Pride dirties the good we do,
Selfish desires blow us off course,
Self-reliance diverts our gaze from you.
Potter God, point us to your fingers,
To your firm and gentle hands:
Remould us – hold us, shape us, form us.
Press out our misshapen motives.
Smooth our uneven thoughts.
Take control of our muddy lives.
Rejuvenate the leadership wasteland:
Presidents, ministers, CEOs, pastors,
Serving with love and humility.
For you came down among us.
You tore the curtain and broke through;
So, craft us – in the image of Christ.
Pray for IFES students, staff, and graduates in leadership roles:
- Pray for students who are leading campus groups each week – that as they prepare Bible studies and outreach events, the Lord will guide them, equip them, and work through them.
- Pray for staff in national movement leadership roles – that they will be Christlike role models for staff and students, full of grace and truth.
- Pray for graduates who are now leaders in businesses, medicine, politics, arts, and industry – that they will remain true to their Lord, serving him and others with integrity, courage, and kindness.
Coming soon: your chance to share a prayer
