Book Review: Run With the Vision
by Laura Avers

Do you want to learn how to mobilize, how to send or how to go? Read this book. It's an easy and in-depth read on finding your niche in the world missions movement. Whether you're just investigating global missions or you are already involved, Run With the Vision, by Bob Sjogren, and Bill and Amy Stearns, answers many questions people ask, including:

• How do I get involved in God's 'world plan' when I'm here in the United States?
• Will a short-term mission trip help prepare me for long-term mission work?
• Can God use trials in my life to help me relate better to a particular people group?
• What questions may a mission agency ask to determine who to accept on its team?

This 280-page book serves as a relatively current reference with global statistics as recent as 1995. Geographical information is easy to digest, because the authors intertwine them with real-life news and missionary anecdotes about unreached people groups. Many of the 12 chapters also include topical references, related readings and video suggestions for researching more information.

Bonus! Run With the Vision is available at area Christian bookstores and comes in paperback, so it's both within reach and an affordable investment.

FYI: Bob Sjogren challenged students in the 1998 Perspectives class and was a keynote speaker spring of 1999 at the ACMC National Conference in San Diego, California.