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I felt powerless—this is happening and<em> I didn’t even care.”</em></p> <p>Majoring in finance, Marie was prepared to help companies grow their businesses. But at Urbana she realized that she had never considered the plight of the poor.</p> <p>Ironically, just three years earlier Marie was frustrated that students—<em>Christian </em>students—would be taking over her dorm room during Christmas break to attend Urbana, hosted at that time by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “They stayed in my dorm and then left us Jesus literature that I read in a mocking voice to girls on my hall,” she recalled.</p> <p><a href="https://urbana.org/blog/escape-poverty" target="_blank">Read the rest of this story on ÂĚñŇůĆŢ's Urbana 15 blog</a>.</p> <p>For further information:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://urbana.org/message/help-and-hope" target="_blank">Watch the <em>Help and Hope </em>video about the poor, featured at Urbana 96</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://urbana.org/" target="_blank">Find out more about Urbana 15, beginning December 27th in St. Louis</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://urbana.org/register" target="_blank">Register for Urbana 15 in St. Louis</a>.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="_none block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenewsfield-news-keywords"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-field-news-keywords field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News Keywords</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1189" hreflang="en">Urbana</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1020" hreflang="en">poverty</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/961" hreflang="en">Missions</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/865" hreflang="en">Greek Conference</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:42:24 +0000 gordon.govier@intervarsity.org 8858 at