Christmas Miracle Time!!!

Hello, friends!

I've posted about Urbana already on this blog once before. Well, we are just a few days away from Urbana and I'm pretty excited about it. There are a to of reasons to be excited but here's one of my favorites: we're about to see a Christmas miracle happen. The best part? You get to be a part of it!

Since Urbana is so near and dear to me, I made a simple promise to everyone from in Columbia who signed up to go: you pay the deposit ($100) and we'll cover the rest of your costs, including housing. The way that we were going to do that was to invite our friends, family, coworkers, churches, and neighbors to come alongside us and donate to the scholarship fun. And, we were going to pray like crazy. We set a goal of $6000 to cover the entire cost for each student from Missouri attending.

Friends, we are THIS CLOSE to reaching our goal. As I'm typing (and you're reading) we are just under $600 away from reaching our goal. It's been really fun to see God show up in miraculous ways, anonymous donors, random people coming up to me and asking if there were any conferences where they could give scholarships, churches pitching in, and it's been really fun to see students take steps of faith. Now we're almost there and I am asking you to consider being the partner to put us over the top.

Depending on the topic of the blog post, this blog gets anywhere from 30-200 hits per post. (In case you're wondering, posts about social justice and my wife are the most popular). I would say the typical post gets around 50-60 hits.

Here's what that means: It means that if you, dear reader, click here give $10 to the Urbana scholarship fund, we'll have reached our goal in the time it takes you to finish reading this sentence.

Of course, if you feel so inclined, you can give more. Any overages will be used to help students attend other conferences in the Spring semester or next year. And, of course, if you aren't in a position to give then we totally understand that too. No worries. You can also share this post and get some of your friends to join in on the fun too!

Regardless of whether or not we reach our goal, I'm still so thankful for all of the partnership we've already received and am confident that Urbana is going to blow some minds. =0).

Have an excellent day!

~Adam