Urbana Report

Dear friends,

 

Greetings from St. Louis and the Urbana conference, which officially began Sunday night.  Most of the people who planned to be here have arrived, some after long delays due to weather, including Judy Shelly, who is the leader of my prayer team.

 

The prayer team to which I have been assigned is called "Global Connexions" and our focus is to pray for the exhibitors, of which there are hundreds.  Every major Christian organization has a booth in the exhibition hall, which covers several city blocks.  Yesterday we went through the hall, booth by booth, praying with whichever exhibitors weren't fully absorbed in conversation with students.  Actually the conversations with students are the most important thing that they do.   

 

I have met several people with connections to Tenth Church.  A woman named Candy, who works with World Impact in Chester reminded me of the Tenth connection there as Maranatha has worked with her group.  He great statement was, "I just LOVE Carroll Wynne!  He really loves the Lord!"  A woman named Karissa from Dordt College sends greetings to Dot.  Karissa attended Tenth Church while she was in Philadelphia. Ruth Kiehlmeier sends greetings and is doing a great job with AWM, who have a really great exhibit, which I think is supposed to be a nomad's tent, and a great place for conversations.

 

It's time to go to the "Dome" (where the St. Louis Rams play) for the morning meeting.  They told us to bundle up well since the heat is off in the dome due to a broken water main.  Is this part of the spiritual battle? Being on the prayer team here is a wonderful experience and I rejoice for the privilege. 

 

More later,

Cora