Princeton Evangelical Fellowship
Murray-Dodge Hall, in which PEF has held meetings since the 1930s.
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| Founder | Donald B. Fullerton |
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| Registration no. | 22-1903095 |
| Purpose | Religious instruction |
| Headquarters | 24 Moore St., Princeton, NJ |
| Coordinates | 40°20′53″N 74°39′29″W / 40.347940°N 74.657938°W |
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Executive Secretary
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William C. Boyce |
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Budget (2013)
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$574,754 |
| Website | princeton |
The Princeton Evangelical Fellowship (PEF) is a nondenominational Christian ministry at Princeton University whose purpose is "to help undergraduate and graduate students... grow as believers and followers of Jesus Christ... [and] to let the rest of the University community know the full message of Christianity so that others can come to believe and have faith in Jesus Christ." Founded in 1931 by Dr. Donald B. Fullerton, a member of the Princeton University Class of 1913, the PEF is one of the oldest campus ministries of its type, predating the founding of Campus Crusade and Intervarsity by a decade or more. PEF is one of the largest student organizations at Princeton University, and is currently led by the Rev. Dr. William Boyce, a member of the Princeton Class of 1979.
From 1825 until its demise amid controversy in 1930 the Philadelphian Society was the center of Evangelical religious life on campus. This left a lack of organized evangelical ministry at Princeton and the next year a friend of Donald Fullerton called him worried over the hard time his son was having spiritually as a student. Dr. Fullerton had previously served as a Plymouth Brethren missionary on the northwest frontier of British India, the border regions of modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, but was forced off the mission field by ill health. He made an attempt to return to the mission field in 1929, sailing out on the RMS Mauretania. He prayed that God would turn the ship around if it was not His will that he return to the mission field. While still in New York harbor the Mauretania collided with a car float forcing a return to dock and signaling to Dr. Fullerton that his days of overseas service were at an end.
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