Engaging an Emerging Generation at Urbana 2025

Fuller Seminary is proud to have participated in the recent Urabana 2025 conference, held in Phoenix, Arizona. Inaugurated in 1946 and hosted every three years by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the Urbana missions conference has for decades invited students and young adults to understand and imagine how God is calling them to participate in God’s global mission. The recent conference took place from December 28, 2025, until January 1, 2026.

Fuller was well-represented among the 7,000 students, ministry leaders, and InterVarsity staff who had gathered. Besides our information booth, which offered attendees to explore a Fuller education for future vocations in ministry in mission, Fuller faculty and trustees had a considerable presence. Trustee Tom Lin is president of InterVarsity, and trustee Nicole Martin, president and CEO of Christianity Today, delivered an opening night address. Among faculty, Dr. Soong-Chan Rah gave a dynamic mainstage message; Dr. Tommy Givens was interviewed on the mainstage about the communal reading of Scripture; and Drs. Steve Argue, Eleanor Baylon, Daniel D. Lee, Dwight Radcliff, and Alexia Salvatierra were seminar presenters.

In a world ever-hungry for the gospel of Christ, with a need for well-formed Christian leaders out of our emerging generations, Fuller is grateful for having had the opportunity to participate in a conference that mobilized young adults to pursue God’s missional call.

Dr. Alexia Salvatierra came away from Urbana encouraged, saying, “The students were an inspiration to me. We have a generation coming up in the evangelical church with a passion for holistic mission and integrity that will bless us all. I believe that Fuller’s unique vocation as a big tent which encourages discipleship, critical thought, and ecumenical dialogue is a good match with the theological education that these young adults want and need.”