World Student Day
IT’S WORLD STUDENT DAY 2026!
Are you part of this global wave of prayer?
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Pray for student witness
right here, right now!
Students and campus staff around the world have shared over 207 specific prayer requests.
See one at random and pray for them:
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Do you want to be part of what God is doing among students worldwide?
Then, join thousands around the globe to pray on World Student Day.
Each year, tens of thousands across the globeunite in 48 hours of prayer. Students, staff, and supporters intercede for students and campuses and celebrate how God is at work through local IFES ministry.
We’ve put together these resources to help you pray, prepare and invite others to take part in World Student Day.
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Pray for students around the globe.
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Discover “Lift Up Your Eyes”.
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Invite others to take part.
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Find resources for your prayer time.
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Prepare for this day by reflecting on the Scriptures in prayer.
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Reflect on Scripture and “Lift Up Your Eyes”.
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Lift Up Your Eyes
In a fractured and hostile world, we may feel overwhelmed and fearful. Our upward gaze on God can slip. So, this World Student Day, will you “lift up your eyes” in prayer? Will you refresh your faith in the Maker and Redeemer of our world?
On Thursday 8 October, join with tens of thousands to pray for students worldwide.
We’ll “lift up our eyes” to focus on a Sovereign Lord who gives strength to the weary and restores the downhearted (Isaiah 40). We’ll “lift up our eyes and look around” to notice how he is already at work among the nations (Isaiah 49, 60).
Together, let’s reorient our gaze.
Using Gen Z’s requests from campuses around the globe, let’s look around and celebrate what God is doing. And let’s pray for the anxious to behold Christ’s compassion and the spiritually seeking to see his saving power.
Wherever you are, however you feel, on World Student Day, let’s lift up our eyes.
“To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?