World Student Day! : Video

Did you know InterVarsity is a part of a world network of student movements?
 
The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) has member movements in 150 countries and InterVarsity is the American movement. (Some of you will remember my visit to our IFES sister movement in Central Asia.) World Student Day is IFES’ annual day of prayer and celebration for all that God is doing through its member movements. On that day we — students, staff and ministry partners — pray for students around the world.

My job this spring/summer was to devise a plan and create materials to promote World Student Day among our students and staff. I consulted our staff, recruited a team, and worked with the IFES office in Oxford. We wrote and designed a handbook, a video, and other smaller materials to share the vision with students. Two of our summer interns, Lauren Burchard and Jeff Son, worked on the World Student Day video with me as one of their main summer projects. We wrote the script, they looked through hours and hours of 2100 footage, edited, recorded, picked music, edited some more. It was my first time producing a video with a spoken script, and without a long-term video staff partnering! (I've produced mostly ambient videos for stages backgrounds.) After much hard work, I hope the video will inspire you:

 
World Student Day 2013 (Oct.18th) from InterVarsity twentyonehundred

On seeing the video, the IFES wanted to use it as the official world student day video world wide! Of course we said yes! Responce: "Wonderful! It's like Christmas come early! When can we start using it?!”

We made versions with French and Spanish subtitles, and so far, Staff from Brazil and Lithuania have asked to make their own versions, too. By making this, we've been able to bless all our sister movements and IFES national--I hope that excites you as much as it excites me! The videos have been viewed in 111 countries so far, check out the map:

So friends...will you join in praying on October 18th?
Invite your church too! Write it on your calendar now & sign up to see prayer requests at: ifesworld.org/worldstudentday