We have recently seen intense debates in the UK and the US about whether a student organisation may legitimately demand of members and speakers an adherence to a statement of faith.
C. Stacey Woods, a name not widely known, set in place the vital importance of credal definition for an evangelical university movement.
British graduates, and Howard Guinness in particular, established a sister movement of the British Inter-Varsity Fellowship (now UCCF) in Canada in 1928. Stacey Woods, an Australian, brought the Canadian Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF) to the United States; he then served as first general secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) for almost a quarter of a century.
