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Leadership Letter #8 Leadership and Vision I am asked quite regularly, What is YWAM Canada’s vision, or more broadly What is YWAM’s vision?  Frankly, this is a question I cringe to hear.  I usually answer the question fairly broadly with the hope there is enough substance in the answer that it satisfies the inquirer’s question.  I cringe because the question seems to me to come loaded with Christian presuppositions.  After all, people without a vision tend to perish.  (Proverbs 28:19a)  And after all God tends to speak to leaders.  So, iff he has not spoken to me convincingly about broad geographic vision, or national vision, or international vision then perhaps I am  not really a leader.  Or, if I answer with what I believe God has shown us about Canadian national leadership, perhaps it lacks the pizzazz of prophetic fervor, or enough current buzz words of the unending flux of current theological fads.   How could a “Meat and Potatoes” vision be authentic?  This seems to be the un