a glimpse of sharon world...

u r b a n a.

wow. i was taking a look at the urbana website after receiving updates via e-mail from them, and i ended up at the past urbanas section...and i started to feel a little overwhelmed with something rather. i can't explain it but something in me was definitely touched. i didn't CRY. but my eyes did get a little watery...why? check this out.

did you know...

- the first urbana convention was back in 1946 and it took place at the university of TORONTO. wooot. :)
- there were 575 delegates at the first urbana conference (urbana 1946).
- at urbana 2003 there were more than 20 000 delegates and some had to be turned away due to lack of accomodations
- urbana is MOVING out of urbana-champaign, illinois (although they're still keeping the name, "urbana" for the mission convention) and into St. Louis, Missouri for MORE space. (and trust me, the university of illinois was m a s s i v e.)

what does this mean? GOD is MOVING. from 575 to 20000+ delegates in LESS than 60 years. unbelievable - and yet so believable at the same time. and that is why for some reason my eyes started watering. His work...His power...it's so amazing it's beautiful.

for those who have never been to urbana before and are thinking of going, you might want to take a look at this. :)