Recipients of the Urbana 03 Offering
We’ll take an offering at Urbana 03 to help delegates contribute
to God’s Kingdom through financial stewardship. After Urbana 03,
watch for updates on how the offering is used.
The Offering will be divided as follows:
Mission Organizations
Africa Inland Mission (Canada)
Africa Inland Mission International (Canada) is part of AIM International,
an interdenominational foreign mission organization serving in Africa
for over 100 years. Urbana funds will support a project designed to meet
the physical and spiritual needs of families impacted with HIV/AIDS disease,
in the Shinyanga District of Tanzania. www.aimcanada.org
Enterprise Development International
Enterprise Development International, through business training, small
business loans, and mentoring relationships, enables the hard-working
poor to develop their own small businesses to support their families.
Its program in the Philippines also exposes loan clients to the Gospel
message and discipling relationships. Urbana funds will serve thousands
of poor families, particularly Muslim families, in Mindanao with economic
and spiritual development. www.endpoverty.org
International Aid (Kosovo)
International Aid provides relief, development, and training globally to
people in need. Urbana funds will increase health care practices, improve
literacy, and introduce Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior to residents
of Brekoc Village and the surrounding communities in Kosovo. www.internationalaid.org
IFES (The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students)
As an expression of our relationship in the family of God, we will give
a significant portion of the offering to IFES, which will go to developing
national student organizations in the Muslim world. www.ifesworld.org
International Justice Mission
International Justice Mission seeks to serve victims of forced prostitution,
many in Muslim contexts; ensuring their placement in Christian aftercare
to allow them to heal from the horrors of their ordeals; bringing their
perpetrators to justice; training, empowering, and equipping national
professionals; and encouraging structural changes to prevent future abuses.
The Urbana funds will help transition their Manila overseas office to
indigenous leadership. www.ijm.org
InterServe (Canada)
Interserve (Canada) is associated with an international, interdenominational
fellowship of Christian professionals committed to serving the church
in holistic ministry, predominantly in countries of majority Muslim influence.
Urbana funds will be used to provide medical and rehabilitative health
services, a disaster management program, microenterprise development,
theological training and salary support for national medical personnel,
all in Afghanistan. www.hardplaces.ca
LEADS (Sri Lanka)
LEADS (Lanka Evangelical Alliance Development Service) is a Sri Lankan
organization that works in partnership with like minded agencies to demonstrate
and develop Christian care for the neglected and disadvantaged. Urbana
funds will provide housing, security, and income generation for at least
150 poor families, and the creation of a network that promotes incentive
for success. In doing so, we would be partners in providing opportunities
to fulfill the mandate of the Gospel that calls us to holistic transformation
which reflects God's purposes to redeem his creation in all its dimensions.
SAT-7 (Middle East & North Africa)
SAT-7 provides a unique form of Christian television in Arabic, offering
a full schedule of Christian programming, including dramas, documentaries,
films, Christian news reports, and T.V. shows for children beamed by
satellite to every country in the Middle East and North Africa. Over
half their programs are produced in their own studios in Lebanon and
Egypt. Urbana funds will support half the yearly salary for the Audience
Relations Manager and the administrative costs of her department, which
is responsible for viewers correspondence, Telephone Counseling Centers
and the overall nurture and discipleship of the viewers. www.sat7.org
Scientific Technological and Language Institute
The Scientific Technology and Language Institute (STLI) Associates are
Christian professionals recruited to contribute to the various physical,
educational, socio-economic and spiritual development of the countries
of Central Asia. Urbana funds will aid a rural development project in
a Central Asian country. The goals are to train leaders of the community
in four basic skills of problem solving and create a favorable spiritual
climate in the community. www.stli.org
SIM
SIM is an interdenominational sending agency of evangelical tradition engaged
in church planting, broadcasting, development, theological education,
medical work, and support of national churches. Urbana funds will help
meet the needs of recovering drug addicts and alcoholics in the “Davapur” area
of Asia (with special emphasis on those from Muslim communities). www.sim.org
World Relief
World Relief works with the Church to help alleviate human poverty and
suffering. Urbana funds will provide agricultural help, healthcare, community
banking support, school and home rebuilding, emergency food distribution
and church leadership training in Iraq, Sudan, and Kosovo. www.worldrelief.org
Other Student Mission Conferences
Caribbean Student Missions Fest [May/June 2005]
The objective of this conference is to provide the only forum where college
and university students from the entire Caribbean region can meet together
for worship, information, reflection, and commitment to world evangelization.
The goal is to challenge students to consider Christian mission as an
important vocation to which God calls and commissions His people. They
expect over 300 to attend.
Commission 2004 (Kenya)
Every three years since 1988 the Kenyan IFES movement has been organizing
mission conventions and involving sister movements from the neighboring
countries in East, Central, and Southern Africa. Their goal is that the
delegates will embrace holistic/integral mission and thus leave the convention
convinced of the need to be involved in both proclamation and social action
as inseparable elements of biblical mission. This year they will place
a strong emphasis on Muslim evangelism. They expect an attendance of 2,500.
Indonesian
Students for the Harvest [December 2003]
This convention is organized by the Indonesian Unreached People Group
Network, with a core membership of over 25 denominations and mission
organizations
and involvement from over 200 denominations and organizations. All the
major streams of Christian expression in Indonesia are represented and
all of the international major mission organizations are involved. The
basic vision is to see Indonesian students mobilized to reach the unreached
people groups in Indonesia and 10/40 window. Participation will be by
invitation only, and they expect 1,000 to attend.
Latina 2005 (Latin America)
This conference, to take place in Bolivia, is sponsored by the Latina
Coalition, which consists of eight entities, led by the Latin America
Mission. Its
objective is to motivate, challenge, and orient every new generation
of Christians to embrace and develop their ministerial vocations. Their
vision
is broader than just cross cultural mission, though the mission concern
is at the heart of their focus. During the Latina 2003 conference over
a quarter of those who attended had missions as their interest. The
motivation of these conferences is the awareness of the growing lack
of leadership
for the Latin American churches that are growing in numbers. Expected
attendance, 2000 youth.
Missions Korea
Since 1988 Mission Korea has been organizing bi-annual student mission
conferences, which have grown to attract over 6,000 young people. Urbana
funds will help them carry out one of their goals which is to build a
world-wide data-base of mission mobilizers, invite Korean students living
abroad to attend the Mission Korea conferences, encourage neighboring
emerging Asian sending countries to help them birth mobilization structures,
and invite nationals of other countries to attend the Mission Korea conference
to build the mission sending movements at home.
Mission Live (Europe)
[2003]
The goal of the fourth mission-live conference is to see Christians
and churches mobilized to be involved in missions in the 10/40 Window
and to
offer them concrete opportunities for their involvement there. They are
targeting the youth, young adults, university students, and trainees
from Germany and other European nations and beyond. The conference
will be held
in former East Germany and expects an attendance of 2,500 people.
NAIITS (North American Institute for
Indigenous Theological Studies)
NAIITS is a pioneer effort to explore a critically contextual approach
to mission, ministry, and discipleship among Native North American peoples.
It seeks to build with and on the foundation of biblical, orthodox, evangelical
scholarship and mission practice as found throughout the evangelical
community of Christ. It has successfully organized two symposia on mission
and ministry, involving some 300 people. Urbana funds will enable its
leaders to secure ongoing resources and ways of promoting their vision,
crucial to their continued success and growth as an organization.
Student Mission Awareness Convention
(Ghana, Africa) [July 14-19, 2004]
This convention is organized by GHAFES, the IFES movement in Ghana, an “inter-denominational
and non-denominational fellowship, indigenous and national in scope” with
a 40 year history. They hope to attract 800 students from 27 campuses.
They desire is to see a life-time change in students and graduates as a
result of this convention, illustrated by a lifestyle of praying and giving
toward mission work, as they unify evangelism and social action.
Student Mission Conference (Brazil) [2006]
In 1976, the Brazilian IFES movement (ABUB) hosted the first student mission
conference in Latin America. Now 30 years later, in 2006, their plan
is to host another, this time inviting students from other brother movements
in Brazil, including Youth for Christ, Youth with a Mission, and Campus
Crusade. They expect to attract 1,500 students and recent graduates.
They plan to call attention to the biblical understanding of mission,
challenge those who attend to follow God’s call, and give information
on how Christians can be involved in God’s mission and agencies
with which they could work.
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