The Bible tells us that people perish for lack of knowledge or vision.

Vision is not something mystical or strange. When a person sees a serious, painful, damaging problem that needs to be solved and wants to solve it, the first step is to pray for wisdom, and the second step is to get an image of what the solution to the problem will look like to us when it begins to happen.

Mission identifies where we are right now and in once concise sentence describes in general terms what we will do to make the vision happen.