Urbana 2009

More than 20,000 college students will attend the Urbana 2009 Student Missions Conference on Dec. 27-31. This year, World Vision’s ACT:S College Activism Network will co-host a learning track focused on poverty and advocacy and host an interactive exhibit to invite students on a journey of faith and justice.

Worship, fellowship, exploration

Urbana is a triennial student missions conference sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Students from all over the country will meet in St. Louis to learn about critical global issues from dynamic teachers and spend time in worship, fellowship, and exploration.

Poverty and advocacy track

The poverty and advocacy learning track is one of the six offered during the conference. The track will equip participants to act as advocates and community organizers, providing them with a biblical framework for their advocacy and preparing them to amplify the voices of the poor by using their own.

ACT:S is also hosting an interactive exhibit that will engage conference participants in a journey of faith and justice. The goal of this exhibit is to inspire thought and reflection, encouraging students to grapple with the scriptural call to justice and how they can incorporate effective activism into life on campus.

Focus: child slavery

Along with this, ACT:S will launch a new creative activism campaign to respond to the issues of child slavery, including bonded labor, sexual exploitation, and child soldiers. World Vision ACT:S, together with Sojourners and International Justice Mission, will mobilize the entire Urbana conference to understand and seek to right this human wrong.

Learn more about Urbana09, and invite college students you know to register.

If you have questions about ACT:S or Urbana, please contact the ACT:S team at acts@worldvision.org.