Jan 08 2010

Urbana Dispatch – Final: Foundation for a Movement?

All done!

Three months of planning, writing, praying and creativity and now, a bit of rest before we get into 2010.

The first day of the new year of 2010, was spent driving back to Madison, WI from St. Louis, MO where we had spent the previous week with about 13,000 students and 3,000 other attendees both experiencing — and in some ways helping to shape — the future of missions in the US.
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Jan 08 2010

Urbana Dispatch #3: Yes, we CAN change the world!

No one comes to Urbana for fun. This is not a “winter break” vacation. Not by a long shot.

There are a couple of common threads that we have heard from each of the over 100 students we have talked to at our Urbana09 booth and the countless others that we have sat next to in the morning worship service, met in the lunch line or ridden with in the hotel elevator.

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Jan 08 2010

Urbana Dispatch #2: Pioneers in a movement

From Urbana09 in St. Louis, Missouri, the question is raised … What are the challenges that students face (and we face) with this thing we call Environmental Missions or creation care?

We had the first of the “Environmental Track” seminars today and the students, through their questions and extremely outgoing personalities told us a lot about what they think, what they fear and what they expect.

Here’s the story in a nutshell.

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