With great passion, Verwer outlined "7 Reasons We Need To Go":

1) The love of Christ constrains us. If we have been touched by Christ’s love, how can we NOT be moved to bring the message of His love to those who have not heard?

2) The need is so great. Despite all the exposure to the need for worldwide witness that a convention like Urbana provides, the actual need is 10 times greater still.

3) There are phenomenal "open doors." There are so many new opportunities, so many new places open to the Gospel. The time for going has never been better.

4) If we don't go, who will? If those of us with the desire and opportunity to experience Urbana are unwilling to go, who do we imagine WILL be willing? "To whom much has been given, much will be expected." We must each confront the fact that God as brought us to Urbana for a purpose.

5) Because more resources are availabe than ever before. There are more tools—books, tapes, agencies, technologies, and so forth—than at any time in history. They make so many previously unthinkable things possible. Also, there are many Christians and churches with the financial resources to support missionaries. Verwer was insistent on this point: there are thousands of people today who are willing to go but who lack the funds—those with the money to send must respond! Going and sending are of equal value and importance!

6) If we commit to going, we begin to move. Decisions and commitments make things happen. If we move, we create inertia. Even if we do not actually end up on the mission field ourselves going, our movement may cause others to go.

7) Failure is the back door to success. We must not be prevented from going by fear of failure. Verwer, the self-proclaimed "General Secretary of the RAGAMUFFIN Missionary Failure Society," reminded us that God always works through ordinary, imperfect people. Verwer recalled an early missionary trip in which he tried to sneak scriptures into Soviet Russia: "Have you ever heard of my good friend, Brother Andrew, known as God’s Smuggler? … Well, I was God’s Bungler!" Verwer was arrested as a spy by the KGB and escorted by submachine gun to the Austrian border. However, it was after that fiasco, during a day of prayer, that he first conceived that idea that would later become Operation Mobilization.