Urbana Gets Radical: Celebrating 66 Years Of Global Impact

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From the Editor / Rick Wood

+ Features

Urbana Gets Radical: Celebrating 66 Years of Global Impact / David Taylor

A Conversation with David Platt / MF Staff

The Impact of an Urbana Decision Card On One Life / Steve Hoke

Interview with David Howard / Steve Hoke

What I Learned from 14 Urbanas / Steve Hoke

Enter the Conversation from Urbana ‘12 / MF STAFF

+ Extras

A Dormitory in Rural Africa? / Glenn Schwartz

Book Review / Dave Datema

The Ethne Ephesus Vision / Justin Long

Kingdom Kernels / Steve Smith

Affinity Blocs: Eurasian and East Asian Peoples

Further Reflections / Greg H. Parsons

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Mar/Apr 2013; Issue 35.2

Over the last 66 years, no other missions event has had so powerful an influence on the mobilization of students for crosscultural involvement in missions as the Urbana student mission conventions sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. The list of people involved in the first “Urbana,” held in Toronto, Canada in 1946, includes historymaking luminaries J. Christy Wilson and Ralph Winter, who worked together to recruit students from Princeton to go to the first “Urbana.” Also among the 575 attendees from 151 schools at the 1946 conference were Jim Elliot, martyred in 1956 along with four others working to reach the Waodani people of Ecuador, and Elliot’s best friend, David Howard, who would go on to lead InterVarsity Missions and a number of the Urbana conventions. See our interview with David starting on page 15. The conference got its ultimate name when in 1948 the convention moved to the campus of the University of Illinois in the city of Champaign/Urbana. Starting in 2006, the Urbana conventions have been held in St. Louis.

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Urbana Gets Radical: Celebrating 66 Years Of Global Impact

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