{"id":14375,"date":"2026-01-08T08:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14375"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:47:50","slug":"usa-student-missions-conference-draws-thousands-of-students-to-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14375","title":{"rendered":"USA: Student Missions Conference Draws Thousands of Students to Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Marti Wade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urbana, InterVarsity\u2019s triennial student missions conference, has come and gone, and we\u2019re hearing good things. In fact, only good things. Were you there? Or have you engaged with young adults who were part of this conference?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted Esler of Missio Nexus observes, \u201cIt was not exactly a return to the \u2018good old days\u2019 (which are long gone) but a GenZ-focused event that was surprisingly rich in content and approach.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/tedesler.substack.com\/p\/urbana-observations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>InterVarsity also created a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1150749789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">five-minute video recap<\/a>. Worth watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not over yet. The last day\u2019s call to action invited students to identify their next steps and offered resources and connections. I pray that each attendee gets the encouragement or coaching they need to take those next steps\u2014maybe from someone in your church or ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Urbana 25 Summary Video\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1150749789?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Marti Wade Urbana, InterVarsity\u2019s triennial student missions conference, has come and gone, and we\u2019re hearing good things. In fact, only good things. Were you there? Or have you engaged with young adults who were part of this conference? Ted Esler of Missio Nexus observes, \u201cIt was not exactly a return to the \u2018good old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USA: Student Missions Conference Draws Thousands of Students to Phoenix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14377,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions\/14377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}