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Urbana mission conference makes us down right giddy. Urbana is Intervarsity's tri-annual collegiate mission conference where 15,000 + students will gather together to hear from top mission leaders on God's heart for the nations and how they can give their lives to His mission.
This year's Urbana conference is extra exciting because Urbana asked Perspectives to partner with them in promoting Perspectives as one of the best next steps for students who attend Urbana and a grant has been set up for the first 1000 students who register for Perspectives to receive a $180 scholarship. We are so excited for what God is going to do through this mobilization surge!
We have been busy preparing classes in the southeast to work with local college ministries and to prepare for the hopeful Urbana surge of new students. Pray with us that classes are overwhelmed with college students who want to take Perspectives!
I, Melissa, will be traveling to St. Louis to be on the Perspectives team who will be exhibiting at Urbana. I was also given the great opportunity to speak in two break out seminars with others from the Perspectives team. One seminar will be a "taste" of Perspectives where I will share on the Biblical basis of mission and others will teach on the history, culture, and strategy. The second is "Your place in God's global mission" talking about all the practical ways they can get involved in what God is doing to reach the unreached.
Please pray for all the students attending Urbana that they will fall deeper in love with their savior and begin asking the questions of how they can share that great love with the unreached. Pray also for our Perspectives team as we all travel to St. Louis and that our time there will be fruitful.
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