Urbana Conference

January 06, 2016

By Sarah Yockey

Urbana is information and question overload. My mind and notebook are full of thoughts, ideas, observations, and questions. One question in particular came home with me for more consideration.

January 05, 2016

By Paul Borthwick

5 Ways to Process Urbana 15

After I attended my first Urbana Student Mission Conference in 1973 as a 19-year-old college sophomore from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, I returned home exhilarated: the size of the

Tags: Growth | Urbana Conference

January 04, 2016

By Jaime Gweshe

On Being a Black Greek intervarsity Student at Urbana

It’s important because I am their sister, I go to meetings with them, wear the same clothes as them, attend the same school and many of the same classes but I am still thought of as less and I can be in danger of my life because of my skin color.

Tags: Justice | Urbana Conference | Student Blogs

January 03, 2016

By Stephanie Jimenez

Game Time

We've spent a week in intense training together and now it's time to begin putting what we've learned at Urbana15 into practice.

Tags: Growth | Urbana Conference | Student Blogs

December 31, 2015

By Lindsay Olesberg

Living Word Series

Here are the videos which were used in the Manuscript Bible Studies at Urbana 15. To download video, click vimeo in the player, then click download and select your desired format.

Tags: The Bible | Urbana Conference

December 31, 2015

By Christian Stith

Secret Chords

My work at the Hack4Missions hackathon wasn't perfect. But my God is. I'll be focused on that for the final day of Urbana15.

Tags: Growth | My Major | Urbana Conference | Student Blogs

December 31, 2015

By Lynda MacGibbon

Obey Today

“Take the next step—don’t take a huge one, don’t look very far. I have learned the will of God is not hidden. It’s not very far. I have learned to obey him for what he’s telling me to do today. And that becomes a stepping-stone to the next thing, to the next thing and the next thing.”

Tags: Growth | Urbana Conference

December 31, 2015

By Louie Guan

Press In.

I struggled tonight with feeling disengaged and tired from the evening session. For those going through such a valley with me, let's share in this walk together and look to God.

Tags: Urbana Conference | Student Blogs

December 30, 2015

By Jaime Gweshe

Shared Faith, not freedom

How is it, that simply by being born into a certain country, I am free to practice my faith where as my brother and sisters in Christ do so at the risk of losing their life?

Tags: Justice | Urbana Conference | Student Blogs

December 30, 2015

By Sharon Hong

Whatever the Cost

As a 15-year-old Muslim woman from North Africa, Farida heard the gospel from a nurse, who then invited her to a two-day youth camp. At first, Farida rejected the gospel. Despite having immigrated to Paris with her family at a young age, she saw her identity fully as a North African and a Muslim…

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