Urbana 15 'LiveBlog' 1

Dec 27

Yo.

"It's been a long day" my roommate just said. We were on a bus for nearly 22 hours? I didn't keep very good track and there was a time change. But I am now at Urbana and already it's a very different situation than last time. We got in pretty much on time, registered, got transit passes then went over to our hotel.

I'm actually so happy with my roommates. Part of why I came was to bring others and God brought these two guys (and my other friend who was also going, so he's rooming with us too).

Our room wasn't ready yet and we had plent of time and a transit pass, so we took the light rail towards the zoo. We ended up in the History museum and saw exhibits about the world's fair, coffee, and the arch. Then we figured the zoo wasn't worth going to in the rain, went back, checked in to the hotel (so spacious) then went for dinner.

Hardee's was really good. They were not prepared for a dinner rush though so 3 employees (cash, cook, manager) had to suddenly deal with 50 customers. Then we headed over to the dome.

Main session was crazy. We were down on the floor seating. Already worship has been in English, French, Spanish, Korean, Swahili (and Hebrew..? Hallelujah? no?). This evening's worship was primarily 'black church' style, repeat after me, pentecostal, y'know? But it was good to mix it up. After introductions from our 'coach' for the week and the main director guy, our main speaker for the week Patrick Fung (OMF) exposited Matt 2:1-19 and shared stories of ministry in China. Very convicting testimonies as well as sharing the stories in Matthew. The theme of the week is "What story will you tell?" about our stories, but more importantly, God's story.

This evening I was feeling very guilty and unworthy. That I was not suited to bring the gospel to anyone when I'm not living it out myself. This is something I'd been thinking about before the conference. Especially going to prayer ministry about those things sometime.

Ya.

Ttyl.

D.Fa