The Urbana Student Missions Conference is a large, multi-day event focused on global missions, held roughly every three years by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. It brings together students from around the world to explore God’s global mission and their role in it. The conference features worship, Bible teaching, seminars, prayer ministry, and opportunities to connect with missions’ organizations and leaders.

 

 

Urbana Conference
SEMINAR SPEAKERS
from Global Recordings Network

Salas Rashid

Salas has served on the team at Language Recordings Institute of Pakistan for a number of years. He has shared our materials on the street, helped create the “Peace Library” of materials open to the public, and been part of recording teams to different parts of the country. There are 77 languages and dialects in Pakistan and 24 are still unrecorded.

Salas also serves in a leadership role for GRN recordists all over Asia. In October of last year he was one of the Senior Recordists leading the Asia Recordist Team Training workshop in Thailand, leading training sessions and mentoring newer recordists from several different countries.

His special qualifications for this Urbana workshop that he will lead are daughter who is hearing-impaired and a long-time interest in ministering to the deaf community in his country.

 

Joshua Bello

Joshua leads the work of Global Recordings Network in Nigeria. Born into a polygamous family, he was converted in 1996 through the transformative work of the Holy Spirit. Educated in Information and Computer technology, Cinematography, Digital Recording, and at the Christian Faith Institute in Jos, Joshua first served the Lord in the Jesus Film projects and then transitioned to Global Recordings Network in 1998.

A speaker of 4 languages, Joshua is compelled by the fact that most people groups in Nigeria have not had the opportunity to hear the Gospel in their own heart language. “Oral Bible storytelling is the most effective means for evangelism, disciple making and Scripture engagement. When I see someone listening to the Gospel for the first time in his language, they listen with great excitement and enthusiasm.” His goal is that God will continue to equip and expand the work of Global Recordings Network within Nigeria for reaching into every people group to establish the Christian faith of forgiveness and peace with God in hostile environments.

 

 Jude Mashal

Jude is a language recordist with Global Recordings Network in Nigeria. He was brought up in a Christian family and learned early the power of prayer and miracles when God healed both of his parents when he was a child. He fully accepted Christ in 2012. Jude has training in computer technology and mass communication.

He joined the work of Global Recordings Network in 2022 and has a passion to tell the story of Jesus in every language. He sees the great need of the people of Nigeria to HEAR the Gospel in their own language and dialect, which is especially relevant to the many who are uneducated or are disabled with blindness. His strength in ministry is digitally recording Bible stories and evangelistic messages which have been translated into languages where Biblical truth is unknown.

His faith in God, learned as a child, leads him into remote and sometimes dangerous areas to reach the unreached in their heart language. As a Gen Z missionary who is giving his life to reach every nation in Nigeria he is a model and example to the young people of America who can engage in reaching every nation around the world.

Hannah Doloso

Meet Hannah Rose Doloso, from a Christian family in Manila.  As the eldest daughter in a family devoted to ministry, she feels a lot of family responsibility.  Hannah grew up in a Christian community but it was a significant encounter with Christ that made her realize His love for her and changed her life. She has been in ministries of different types since she was a teenager: dance, music, then pastoral, and finally missions.

The work of GRN-Philippines captured her heart and Hannah’s desire is to share the Good News through recordings and materials in local languages.  Many remote areas in the Philippines remain unreached or least-reached. These communities are spiritually hungry:  longing for hope, truth, and peace. Hannah says: “By God’s grace, we now have the opportunity to reach them through audio recordings of Bible stories. I began as an Administrative Assistant in 2017 and am now trained as a recordist – moving ever closer to those who need to HEAR the Gospel in their heart language.”