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 …

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 Atallah, and …

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, encourage, learn …

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 …