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The Impact of an Urbana Decision Card on One Life
Tags: david howard, decision, intervarsity, urbana
David Howard was a 20-year old sophomore at Wheaton College when he attended the first Student Missionary Conference held in Toronto, Canada in December, 1946. He attended with Jim Elliot, his best...
An Interview with Dr. David Howard
Looking Back at 66 Years of Urbana
Tags: college, david howard, intervarsity, student, urbana
Background: I first met David Howard at the 1970 Urbana Student Missions Convention held in Champaign-Urbana, when he was serving as Assistant Director of the event and I was a senior in college....
What I’ve Learned from 14 Urbanas
Tags: apostolic, generation, insights, student, urbana
Editor’s Note: Steve Hoke first attended Urbana ’67 as a 17-year old freshman at Wheaton College. Since that convention of 5,000, he has only missed two conferences, and has attended in several...
Urbana Gets Radical
Celebrating 66 Years of Global Impact
Tags: college, conference, radical, urbana, youth
Enter the Conversation from Urbana ‘12
Tags: american church, ethnodoxology, urbana, western, worship
Empowering Every Tribe and Tongue to Worship Jesus
A Conversation with the editors of the new book from William Carey Library, Worship and Mission for the Global Church, by Robin Harris, James...
Urbana Gets Radical
Tags: generation, justice, radical, student, urbana
“What happens when every student in this room makes their primary ambition, their primary plan, their primary dream, the proclamation of the gospel to the nations? When that takes hold in our...
Editorial
Urbana's Enduring Legacy: Changed Lives
Tags: david platt, global, legacy, perspecives, urbana
Over the last 66 years, no other missions event has had so powerful an influence on the mobilization of students for cross-cultural involvement in missions as the Urbana student mission conventions...
Further Reflections
The Younger Generation
Tags: generations, intervarsity, urbana, young people
It was the fall of 1946. Ralph D. Winter was 22 years old, already a graduate of Cal Tech. About ten years before, he had become friends with Dan Fuller, son of popular radio preacher Charles E....
MANI 2011 Abuja, Nigeria
A Continental Commitment to World Evangelization
Tags: mission, unreached people group, urbana
In 1981, Ralph D Winter predicted in his article Four Men, Three Eras, Two Transitions that the third Era of Protestant missions would be dominated by mission sending from the former mission fields...
The Stuff of Basic Evangelicalism
Tags: john r. stott, lausanne, urbana
Earlier today John R. W. Stott died at the age of 90.
I can’t think of another evangelical theologian who would come close to Stott, both in the depth of his diligent scholarship and in the...