11/13/2018
An Artist Found her calling at Urbana. Hong Huo
I realize I never really shared on Facebook how Urbana has changed my life.
It was the year of 2015 and I just got into studying animation and new media art in my sophomore year. I was uncertain if that was the right major for me, since I’ve studied painting and drawing for years and I wasn’t good at animation. I prayed that God would make it clear for me whether He wants me to stay in my major.
At the end of the semester I went to my first Urbana. The first night when I saw the animation on the big screen, telling the story of the birth of Jesus, I knew that was His answer to my prayer. It was the first time that I realized, I can use my gift in Art to glorify Him; my story could be written in His Big Story.
Then I met people from 2100 Productions and the summer of 2016 I interned with them.
It was also the first time I learnt to pray in Chinese, my native language, with other Chinese believers; and God had sent me a vision, that He was calling me to do ministry among my own people.
Since then, I have been following these purposes of my life, to pursue art as a way to glorify Him, and being part of ministries to reach out to Chinese students and share the Gospel with them.
Today I’m graduated with a BFA in animation and working on Urbana animated stories with 2100 again, and part of a Chinese students ministry at UW Madison.
Urbana taught me to worship and glorify Him everyday, with every aspect of my life, to everywhere that I go, His Story in mine.
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