ICYMI, Urbana was on Periscope for Urbana 15. Those videos are now all up on our YouTube Channel with a bunch of other videos from Urbana, but these eleven are the best, IMHO.
We expend a lot of energy trying to figure out God’s will for our lives. We seek his guidance selecting colleges, majors, career paths—all with the underlying notion that there is a hole in God’s plan that only we can fill.
Hikari Saiga was an ordinary student at Waseda University in Japan. And she liked it that way. But recently, while an exchange student at the University of Washington in Seattle, God worked through her reluctant efforts and made himself known.
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How will my family react if I go overseas as a missionary? How do I even tell them? Will I be alone or find a spouse? Is this really my calling or might I have other motives? Patrick Fung (Urbana 15 Bible expositor) and Jennie, his wife, also asked these questions as they gave their lives to God and pursued his mission as medical doctors.
Scripture forms the basis for each Urbana. As such, Urbana 15 has developed several posts to give you context for the Gospel of Matthew, context for studying Scripture in general, and background on how Urbana approaches studying the Scriptures. Keep these posts handy as you engage with the Scriptures.
What follows is a way for individuals and small groups to delve deeply into the Bible, discover a passage’s core message, and learn to hear from and experience Jesus in his Word.
Your paths to fulfilling your commitments will look a little different for each of you. But no matter what your specific path looks like, plan for it to include these eight steps.
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 conference, the caliber of the speakers, the awesome worship, the array of workshops and exhibits, and the small group interactions combined to make that conference one of the greatest experiences of my life to that point. At the “anywhere-Jesus-says-I’ll-go” challenge, I stood and dedicated myself to go wherever God would send me in the world.
If it hasn’t already, there’s a good chance that your path in missions will include a short term missions program. If you haven't already had to, there’s a good chance you’ll need to avoid some pitfalls along the way, especially the pitfall of fear.