Urbana

Christmas was great, once we got my sister home ... Just for the record, that DID happen on Saturday (as Plan B stated), and her story? Egads. Murphy was right.

Anyway, Christmas was a lot of fun ... Food (wow, food), some cards, a movie or two, general relaxation ... I'm not sure my appetite will fully recover for a week or two. I'm rather okay with that.

Next up: Urbana!

Urbana is a national missions conference held every three years since 1946. 20,000+ college students gather for a week to focus on all aspects of missions at every geographical level -- from opportunities within major US cities to global projects on every (inhabited) continent. In past years, it's taken place in Urbana, Illinois (shocking, hm?); this year, the conference was moved to St. Louis to accommodate the growing number of students that attend.

Urbana is a fairly intense week of speakers, seminars, workshops, and the like. It's also a chance for students from across the nation to worship together, offer each other support, and generally have fun. Personally, it's a chance for me to meet up with the awesome people I spent Pursuit with and hang out with some Techies for the last time (for awhile at least).
I anticipate an eye-opening, jarring experience. Who knows how things will look by next week at this time?
On that note, I'm going to be disappearing from the blog world until then. Have a great week, everybody!

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Megan said…
hope urbana was awesome! we prayed for all of you! waiting for your post/update about it...
02 January, 2007 13:08
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