April 23rd 2011
New ISCCF St. Lucia National Staff Worker

Ms. Yana Zabie Terris has been appointed as the new Staffworker for the Inter School and College Christian Fellowship (ISCCF). Yana was raised in a Christian home and has developed a deep passion for ministering to young people. Presently, she serves as a youth leader in her local church and is involve in the worship and dance ministries.
Yana has been a part of ISCCF from the Leon Hess Comprehensive Secondary School. However, she recalls that it was at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, that she really understood the personal value and importance of the student ministry. ‘ISCCF’s Friday sessions were like a church altar when Sunday service seemed far, a time of refreshment after a tireless week of lectures and assignments’, she recalls. Yana served on the Student Executive as the Vice President and was a member of the delegation to the Regional Tertiary Students' Conference held in Barbados in 2006.
Since then, she has served ISCCF through camps, student rallies, special projects and other functions. Yana believes that this ministry is strategically positioned to impact the life of every student in St. Lucia. “Our commission is not only to teach that Christ died on the cross, but that in dying there is hope for a better life, even while here on earth and that to me is the full gospel”, she declares.
Yana serves as the founder/ coordinator for the Women of Substance Ministries. She credits ISCCF for giving her the skills and courage to take on the task of leading women through that ministry, to live a life of purity and devotion to God. As for being Staffworker Yana says “I believe that I have been called to serve God by leading the youth, and it is not one that I am about the take lightly. The standard and banner of God has to be raised in my country, the Caribbean and the world at large and it starts with me”.
Yana’s life passion is to know and encourage others to follow after God and serving as the Staff Worker for St. Lucia is the prime opportunity to do so. She lives in the community of Derniere Riviere, situated in Dennery and is a recent graduate of Monroe College.

The Inter School and College Christian Fellowship (ISCCF) is a Christian Student Movement in the Secondary Schools and Tertiary institutions. It is part of a worldwide organization, the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), with headquarters in London, UK, serving students in over 165 countries. The organization is currently active in eighteen secondary schools in St. Lucia and the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College.

ISCCF supports the fundamental truth of the Christian faith, the central one being salvation through the repentance of sin, personal belief in and confession of the saving work of the Lord Jesus Christ by His death and resurrection.
The organisation works with individuals and groups and shares the essential faith as outlined in our Doctrinal Statement. Believing that students don't know enough until they know the Lord Jesus Christ, and recognizing that the students of today will be the architects of our nation’s future, ISCCF tries to make the learning process complete by enabling students to learn more about Jesus Christ.
Attempts to establish a student ministry in St. Lucia began in the early 1970’s by a Trinidadian Staffworker known as D. Corbin. During the 1980’s, Frank Goveia made several visits to the island and contacted leaders and teachers in the Evangelical Community to share the vision of student ministry.
In September 1988, efforts were intensified when a combined group of university students from Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana visited churches and schools on the island. This resulted in the formation of several ISCCF groups at secondary schools and Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. The appointment of the first Staffworker Josephine Romain from Grenada took place in 1989. Subsequently, Bing Roncesvalles from the Philippines, Kevin John from St. Lucia and Kerwin Stuart from Guyana have served as staff workers. We now have a new staff worker Yana Terris who is the organisation’s second national Staffworker.

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