Ramez Atallah will join a distinguished tradition of Bible teaching at the Urbana conference.
International (MNN) ― Ramez Atallah will be the Bible Expositor for Urbana '09, preaching on the first four chapters of the Gospel of John at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's 22nd Student Missions Conference.
"John is a powerful example of missionary communication," said Urbana director Jim Tebbe. "It is explicitly evangelistic and intends that those who come to believe through his witness will in turn become witnesses."
Atallah serves as general secretary of the Bible Society of Egypt and as program chair for the Lausanne III World Congress. A native of Egypt, he spent his teen years in Canada and got involved with InterVarsity while attending McGill University in Montreal. He later attended Gordon-Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts.
"Ramez has a passion for inductive Bible Study," Tebbe said. "He has been practicing it and teaching it all his life. His personable style, sense of humor, deep devotion to God and commitment to His Word, along with his experience as a dual citizen of Egypt and Canada, make him an ideal expositor for Urbana 09."
The triennial conference will be held at the America's Center and the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri, December 27-31, 2009. A.W. Tozer, Donald Grey Barnhouse, John R. W. Stott, and Ajith Fernando have all spoken at the conference, which was first held in Toronto in 1946.
Since then, most of the conferences have been held on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Over 20,000 people attended the conference in 2006, the first year it was held in its new location in St. Louis, MO.
The purpose of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is to establish and advance at colleges and universities witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord: growing in love for God, God's Word, God's people of every ethnicity and culture and God's purposes in the world.
