| | Many of the readers of my xanga know of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
Now, I just read this from the probably most cited source of information for most high school essays in the United States: Wikipedia.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship grew out of a student movement at the University of Cambridge in England in 1877. A group of students gathered together to pray and study the Bible.
Similar groups began at other British universities. Eventually, the
groups formed an organization they called the Inter-Varsity fellowship
(the British term for a University was 'Varsity'). In 1928, students at
several Canadian universities and graduate programs asked the British
InterVarsity for help in beginning their own movement. The Canadian
InterVarsity in turn provided help to independent evangelical student
movements in the United States as they tried to organize. In 1938, University of Michigan students formed the first InterVarsity Chapter in the United States. By May of 1941,
the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA was fully chartered, staffed
mostly by Canadian members. IVCF/USA helped to found the International
Fellowship of Evangelical Students in 1947,
an organization that connects national Christian student movements in
143 countries at this moment.
It's pretty much official, without Canadians the world would have been depleted of so much.. We helped start IV...but there's so much more that influence the world today.
Here's my list of some notables:
(1) The Canadian military
(2) Shania Twain
(3) Hockey (best playoff sport)
(4) Avril Lavigne
(5) Me
(6) Byran Adams ("Everything I Do" may be the greatest love song ever... which brings me to ...)
(7) Celine Dion... Celine Dion... Celine Dion
(8) William Shatner (Star Trek, The show that spanned decades and should be used as a model for Intervarsity talks about learning across cultural differences!-- plus where would Priceline.com be)
(9) Michael Buble
(10) CFL
I think enough is said.
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