Group meetings are held each week to discuss the
Bible in universities.[8] These groups are
Evangelical, but not attached to any particular confession.[9]
Organization
Representatives of all the member movements gather once every four years at the "World Assembly", where the General Committee meets to conduct official business of the fellowship.[10] IFES's General Secretaries have included:[11]
Christian literature distribution is also a feature of this ministry.
InterVarsity Press (USA),
Inter-Varsity Press (UK), Presses Bibliques Africaines (Francophone Africa), Harmat (Hungary), Andamio (Spain), and Ediciones Certeza (Latin America) are examples of regional publishing houses.
Douglas Johnson, A Brief History of the International Fellowship Of Evangelical Students, Lausanne, Switzerland, IFES, 1964.
Pete Lowman, The Day of His Power, Leicester, Inter-Varsity, 1988.
ISBN0-85110-794-X
Alice Poynor, From the Campus to the World: Stories from the First Fifty Years of Student Foreign Missions Fellowship, InterVarsity Press, 1986.
ISBN0-87784-947-1
David M. Howard, Student Power in World Missions, InterVarsity Press, 1979.
ISBN0-87784-493-3 (Brief history of North American students in mission beginning with the Haystack Movement through the SVM to the SFMF.)
C. Stacey Woods, The Growth of a Work of God, InterVarsity Press, 1978.
ISBN0-87784-741-X (Early history of InterVarsity/USA)
Keith & Gladys Hunt, For Christ and the University: The Story of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the U.S.A./ 1940-1990, InterVarsity Press, 1991.
ISBN0-8308-4996-3
Lindsay Brown, Shining Like Stars - the Power of the Gospel in the World’s Universities, Inter-Varsity Press, 2006.
ISBN1-84474-167-2 (Spanish translation: Brillando Como Estrellas, Andamio.
ISBN84-96551-28-8,
ISBN978-84-96551-28-2