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Jim TebbeJim Tebbe
Urbana Director

Background: Born in Pakistan, son of Presbyterian missionaries (father a college principal, Chemistry PhD). Have worked the last 25 years overseas with Interserve in Bangladesh, Jordan, Pakistan and since 1986 Cyprus where I was first Area Director West (Muslim countries), and International Director of Interserve since 1992. My lifelong call is to missions and to the Muslim world.

What I love about working for Urbana: I love missions, I love the people I work with on the Urbana team and I love the event!

A favorite book, movie or place: I loved the movie Forrest Gump. I love the Cotswolds in England (near Oxford) but even more the Himalayan mountains, of Nepal, India and Pakistan. Book - hmm. I enjoy travel logs. "Danziger's Travels" is very good. I liked An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliott (travels in Afghanistan), Eric Newby's classic A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is one of the few light reading books I have read twice.


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Psalm 103:19 (NIV)

 
 

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