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Inter
Collegiate Prayer Fellowship
It
is
the Full Gospel student ministry God raised to fulfill the task of
winning students for Christ. ICPF endeavours to encounter the
post matric student community with the Gospel of salvation. India alone
has more than 10,000 Arts, Science and Professional colleges and a lot
of other post matric educational institutions.
Born in a
student convention in Charalkunnu, Kerala, in 1980, ICPF has its roots
in the Full Gospel student camps held since 1973. To begin with there
were only a handful of voluntary workers and a few campus prayer cells.
In response to the tireless labour of scores of prayers and sacrificial
giving of God's Children, God protected it and made it grow and spread
its wings over eleven states viz. Punjab , Gujarat , New Delhi , West
Bengal , Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra . Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, with more than 80 staff workers and
more than 500 campus units.
During the
past years through its various activities thousands of students could
be contacted with the saving knowledge of God's Grace and hundreds were
rescued from the darkness of sin.
ICPF has also
been a platform for transcended fellowship of churches and
denominations where people of God come together bypassing minor
differences, if any, and share the partnership of God's ministry.
ICPF has
social concerns too. Through its Educational and Marriage Fund (EMF)
many deserving students are being assisted financially to pursue and
complete their education Also financial assistance for marriage is
provided to the deserving.
A Mobile
Health Care Unit provides casualty services and essential medical care.
The team also cater to the spiritual needs of over 4,000 villagers who
would otherwise remain unreached. Dr. K. Muraleedhar, ICPF president
coordinates its activities.
ICPF launched ANGELOS
I in 1980 and ANGELOS
II in 1996. Fitted with sophisticated PA systems, musical
instruments and power generation sets, they carry the Goodnews to
campuses and streets. During the past decade, ANGELOS
I conducted programs in most of the colleges in Kerala,
several colleges in Tamil Nadu I and South Karnataka . ANGELOS
II tours the North Indian states keeping New Delhi as its
base station.
INTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS CENTRES
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A hilly
stretch of land of one acre and twenty cents at Muttumon near Pullad is
purchased for building the proposed International Students Centre with
camping facilities.
Construction
of the Training and Rehabilitation Centre at Agali (Palakkad) is
completed. The facility is in use since January 2001.
The Centers
are for training and enrichment programs, refresher courses for staff
and leaders as well as camps.
Quality
literature for college students and educated youths needs to be
produced and distributed. ICPF plans to publish periodical magazines
with relevant articles and symposia on contemporary issues, as well as
tracts and books on various subjects.
CURRENT STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
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Campus
situations are changing in India . As we look at the new century, our
energies need to be continually channelised to the student work God has
called us to do. ICPF looks forward to spread the ministry in all the
28 states in India . Reaching the very last student of India is a great
dream. ICPF has plans to establish work in the Gulf countries and the
USA also.
Graduates/seniors
who were benefited by the ministries of ICPF, as well as parents and
ministers who love God's work among collegians come together regularly
to give effective prayer support and ministerial and financial backing
for ICPF ministries. There are more than 50 such chapters in India and
abroad.
ICPF is an
indigenous, Full Gospel, non denominational, Bible centered movement,
looking to God for the needs. It is supported by voluntary
contributions from India and Indian brethren abroad. ICPF requires
about four hundred and fifty thousand rupees every month to meet its
current expenses.
ICPF is
primarily a prayer ministry. Without prayer, such vast and varied
ministries cannot keep going. Your sincere prayers, active
participation and sacrificial financial partnership are urgently needed
to carry out our Master's task of impacting this generation.
You may, as an individual, family, group or church sponsor a
missionary, a camp, a two wheeler for a missionary, scholarships and or
educational/marriage assistance.
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