History
Our movement began with students at the University of Cambridge, England in 1877. There, a group of Christian students began to meet together, in spite of the disapproval of some University officials, to pray, to study the Bible and to share the good news about Jesus to fellow students. Soon, similar groups sprung up on other campuses. Eventually, they formed the British Inter-Varsity. (Hence our name, inter – meaning between, varsity – the British term for college level students.) From the very beginning they had a strong concern to take the gospel to those all over the world who had never heard it – a concern that continues in InterVarsity today.
In response to a plea for help, British InterVarsity sent a staff to Canada in1928. By 1937 the Canadians began to hear requests for help from students in the United States as independent evangelical student groups began springing up. By May of 1941 InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA was an official organization.
InterVarsity at Trinity has existed since the 1970s.