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Students are eager to experience God's Kingdom at Urbana 03

MADISON, WIS., November 14, 2003 - This December 20,000 college students, missionaries, and church and campus leaders will gather for Urbana 03, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s 20^th Student Mission Convention. The event is held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from December 27-31, 2003.

Jim Tebbe, Director of Urbana, says, “Students in the 21^st century will be the greatest missionary force the world has ever seen. Urbana helps students find their place in God’s global mission.”

The theme for this convention is “Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done”. “Missionaries don’t advance God’s Kingdom; they reveal it. Urbana will shed a lot of light on God’s global mission.” says Tebbe.

Dr. John Stott, author, theologian, and missionary from the United Kingdom will open the convention with a talk on radical discipleship. Each morning students will participate in small group Bible studies and hear Bible teaching on the gospel of Luke in the general sessions. In the evening they will be challenged with talks on lordship, evangelism, cross cultural conversion, and missions. During the afternoons, delegates can choose from 300 different in-depth topical seminars and interact with missionaries from more than 325 missions agencies, graduate schools and seminaries.

“We have been delighted by the response of students registering to attend Urbana. We still have about 3,000 spaces open for delegates,” comments Tebbe. For registration details, visit www.urbana.org/go/register. Anyone who registers on or after November 1 until the convention fill is eligible for a $50 scholarship. Visit www.urbana.org for details.

Since 1946, Urbana conventions have challenged women and men to share God’s love with people throughout the world. The event is held once every student generation.

The convention is sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA and co-hosted by Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada and Groupes Bibliques Universitaires et Collégiaux du Canada. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA^®, an interdenominational campus ministry, has 810 chapters on more than 565 college campuses in the United States, and is a member movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, which has ministries in 150 nations.

More detailed information about Urbana 03 is available at www.urbana.org. You can learn more about InterVarsity at www.intervarsity.org.

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