andy moore

I went to Urbana in my role with IFES, with jobs to do and people to meet. I went with an uncanny ability to block the sound of God’s voice, to keep me from being distracted from the work I had to do. Slowly I realised this had become a reflex action in many of [...]

Dear friends
This week’s prayerline comes to you direct from the last day of Urbana 09, InterVarsity’s 22nd missions conference, in St Louis, USA. Over the last five days, 17,000 students, staff, supporters and missions agencies have gathered here to worship, pray, and consider the theme ‘he dwells among us’.
A few weeks ago
we asked you [...]

It was chilly again in St Louis today, as the Urbana ‘tribe’ went about their daily routine of bible study, teaching, worship, seminars and receptions. Everyone seems to be figuring out quicker ways to do things now – quicker to file in and out of the massive Edward Jones Dome, quicker to find the way [...]

It’s the first full day of Urbana 09, and already it feels like everything is settling into its rhythm for the week. In hotels across St Louis, students and staff began their day with manuscript bible studies, before gathering back at the Edward Jones Dome for the morning session with teaching from Ramez [...]

Since yesterday, the quiet streets of downtown St Louis have been undergoing a dramatic transformation. From all corners of the United States (and the world), thousands of students, staff workers, exhibitors, media and more have been arriving for InterVarsity’s 22nd Urbana Missions Conference. Among them are 40 IFES delegates – here to teach, [...]

It sounds a lot grander than the rather more mundane reality.
With heightened security at Heathrow – following a failed terrorist attack on a United Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit – and a generous helping of snow in Chicago and across the mid-west, our connecting flight to St Louis has been cancelled, and we now [...]

Urbana has been an event that has changed many lives across North America, and indeed the world, as students hear God’s call to be involved in God’s work, where he has placed them – be that in the office, on campus, or living cross-culturally in another country.
I wonder how this fact sits with students as [...]

Latest update concerning internet access at Urbana:
There is unlikely to be any internet access at the arena. Best options are in your hotel, either free in the lobby (perhaps) or in the room (for a small fee). Or, of course, nearby shops with wifi (if they’re not too crowded).