World Student Day
Thursday 16 October 2025
Release your joy. Enlarge your faith.
Let’s pray together for “immeasurably more” – World Student Day 2025 is on 16 October!
Each year, World Student Day unites thousands across the globe in 48 hours of prayer.
Students, staff, and supporters join together to pray for students worldwide and celebrate all that God is doing through local IFES ministry in the world’s universities.
So far, 15,717 people in 99 countries and territories will be praying this year.
Pray for Immeasurably More
On this 50th anniversary of IFES global prayer days, we’ll be guided by the Apostle Paul’s perspective in Ephesians 3 (vs.20-21).
Unite with students, staff, and supporters worldwide to celebrate how God has exceeded what we’ve “asked or imagined” and to seek “him who is able to do immeasurably more”.
Let’s enter into joyful thanksgiving for the multitude of students who’ve personally encountered Christ, for the thousands of universities impacted by student witness, for the many more countries that now have a thriving IFES movement.
And let’s pray with expectant faith for countless more lives, campuses, and communities to be transformed through “God’s power at work within us”.
On Thursday 16 October, let’s impact the world. Let’s come with grateful and hopeful hearts to the One who is able to do immeasurably more.
Get Involved Today
You can pray on World Student Day, share a prayer request, spread the word, receive updates, and start making plans.
Show us where you’ll be praying from on 16 October:
Pray for students using specific requests from around the world:
First prayer cards will be available for download on 9 October. All prayer cards will be ready for download on 15 October.
Share a need so that thousands can pray for God’s work on your campus:
Share your prayer request by 3 October to make sure others can pray for you on World Student Day!
Tell friends, churches, or ministry groups about World Student Day and invite them to take part:
Start making plans for your prayer time:
Make sure you’re subscribed to all the latest World Student Day updates and resources:
Find Inspiration
For our 50th anniversary of IFES prayer days, we asked you how you’ve seen God at work on campuses over the years.
So, release your joy and enlarge your faith with these testimonies:
Do you have a testimony of how God has worked on campus over the last 50 years?
See how students, supporters and movements across six continents marked World Student Day last year:
Last year, 34,500 people in 140 countries and territories prayed for God’s work among students.
Pray regularly for students around the world with Prayerline, grassroots ministry stories with points for prayer:
Learn more about the scope and origins of World Student Day with this Conexión blog post:
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“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”