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Giving Thanks: Serving Over 400 Emerging Scholars at Urbana

February 7, 2016 by Hannah Eagleson No Comments

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Students at Urbana15 GFM Seminar Developing Your Mind for God’s Global Mission. Speaker: Greg Jao. Photo by Rebecca J. Carlson, ESN Scholars participant, Creative Commons license.

As we plan for 2016, we’re deeply heartened by the way emerging scholars participated in the 2015 Urbana Student Missions Conference. We’re filled with excitement as we work on ways to provide more mentoring, conferencing, and communal conversation for members in 2016. Stay tuned for more on that, but in the meantime give thanks with us for:

  • 1093 app checkins at ESN/GFM seminars (actual attendance much higher)
  • 400+ connections with emerging scholars, a number of which were made at a highly active booth and deepened through a number of additional opportunities (formal and informal)
  • 42 great questions and/or prayer requests received at the ESN Seminar on The Secular Academy as a Mission Field (audio, liveblogger summary)
  • 30 ESN Sponsorship/Scholars Program participants
  • 16 liveblog posts of Urbana15 talks
  • 9 livebloggers who generously volunteered their writing skills
  • 8 ESN meetups for social justice, tech, international teaching, and more
  • 7 GFM/ESN sponsored seminars, 1 more by an ESN writer
  • 4 great days of special guests and conversation at the GFM/ESN Lounge
  • 4 Small Groups in Math/Science, Social Sciences, and Humanities
  • 3 Urbana Bible study posts by GFM Staffer David Williams
  • 1 packed ESN reception
  • 1 ESN prayer and commissioning service

We’re profoundly thankful for the chance to welcome emerging scholars. And we’re even more thankful to see God’s work in all of us unfold, as it did at Urbana15 for Galina Pylypiv, a biomedical engineering student considering grad school (and a member of the ESN Scholars pilot program and the liveblogging team). She said:

Connecting with ESN has really enriched my experience at Urbana because it expanded my mind to see that God called me into the engineering field for a reason. Missions and academic/vocational pursuit are not two separate ideas, but rather beautifully intertwined to fulfill a piece of God’s bigger story for my generation.

ESN can’t wait to support this generation of Christian scholars as they live out God’s missional story in the academy. Stay tuned as we see what God will continue to bring out of Urbana15!

To God be the glory!

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Hannah Eagleson
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Dr. Hannah Eagleson loves building the ecosystem Christian scholars need to flourish and create positive impacts, in the university and beyond. She is Associate Director of InterVarsity’s Emerging Scholars Network, a digital first ministry serving thousands of early career Christian scholars. Dr. Eagleson launched the ESN student/early career track at the American Scientific Affiliation annual faith and science conference. She is the editor of *Science and Faith: Student Questions Explored* (Hendrickson, 2019), and the one-semester guidebook *Scholar’s Compass: Connecting Faith & Work for Academics* (InterVarsity Emerging Scholars Network, 2021), with design by noted liturgical artist Ned Bustard. She also launched the Scholar's Compass online devotional series in her previous role as ESN Editor. Dr. Eagleson holds an MA from St. John’s College (Annapolis, MD) and a PhD in Renaissance literature from the University of Delaware.

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