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4/25/2019Nathan Peterson, Urbana Missions

For Claire, everything about Urbana 15 was unexpected and life-changing.

Between bad weather the night she was supposed to drive in to St. Louis and frustration over missing out on a ski trip that was happening at the same time, she almost didn’t come to Urbana at all. “Now I cannot imagine having missed it. That’s terrifying to me,” she said.

March 11, 2019By Nathan Peterson, Urbana Missions

Amy climbed out of the plane into Liberia’s summer heat. For most of her life, she’d never even known this West African country existed. And now in 2007, she was going to be living there for months.

One of the people standing outside the airport looked familiar. The last and only other time they’d met was in the crowded exhibit hall of Urbana 06, when neither of them could have imagined their next meeting taking place here, halfway around the world.