The Takameter | 05-01-2023

Because Urbana '22 has just concluded, we thought it would be especially helpful to repost an article written after a previous Urbana by Asian Access missionary Sue Takamoto, who first...
Staff | 04-01-2023

Part 3: Until everything is about Jesus
In Part 1 of my testimony "What does obedience look like?", I shared about God’s call, my struggle to say yes, and having a glimpse...
Staff | 03-01-2023

Part 2: Holding onto the things I cannot see
In Part 1 of my testimony "What does obedience look like?", I shared about God’s call, my struggle to say yes, and...
Staff | 02-01-2023

Part 1: What does obedience look like?
"When God calls me, I'll pack up my bags and go."
This is what I used to believe, and I thought I had the faith...
Bethany Ho | 01-01-2023

We Made It!
I know us old folk serving as exhibitors and staff at Urbana 2022 were proudly declaring this at the very end of the year and rolling into 2023...
Bethany Ho | 30-12-2022

Diversity AND Unity
The prevailing theme over Urbana today was this idea of unity across diversity, love across division. I was already experiencing stirrings of this on Wednesday, but like any...
Bethany Ho | 29-12-2022

What is your one next step?
Tonight at Urbana, when introducing Bishop Claude Alexander, Anna "ah-yee" Lee-Winans prefaced with this question: What is your one next step? Bishop Alexander then walked...
Bethany Ho | 28-12-2022

The feeling started to come over me even as I was browsing the bookstore at the back of the Connection Hall. Exhibitors had yesterday and today to get set up...
Bethany Ho | 27-12-2022

We have made it to Urbana! Boy, what a trip it has been so far. And we're only getting started...
Bethany Ho | 08-12-2022

It didn’t take long for me to start feeling my age. I moved to Japan just two years removed from university, and from there most of my learning “to adult”...
Bethany Ho | 18-11-2022

In 2015, I made the transition from English teacher in Japan to missionary in Japan. Coming from a non-Christian background, I had quite a few conversations with family members who...
Bethany Ho | 08-11-2022

I recently scoured the internet archives to find the blog I started in 2011 as an English teacher in Japan, about five years before getting connected with SIM and Asian...
News | 01-11-2022

From Urbana to Japan!
Did you go to Urbana '22? Let's reconnect...
Urbana is a huge student missions conference sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship...