Over the past two or three decades there has been a dramatic shift in the way World Missions is done. In 2003 on a plane to Kuwait with another missionary, David Pursifull, to hold a cell conference in Kuwait City, there was a discussion about the changes that have taken place in missions during the last 20 years. During this discussion the book, "Who Moved My Cheese?" and how it deals with change in the workplace was talked about. David made the comment, "I feel like someone has moved my mission." He went on to suggest a book called "Who Moved My Mission?" be written to investigate the changing paradigms of missions. Since then he has written an article in the Global 12 Project magazine titled "Who Moved My Mission?" The beginning of this book was a result of that discussion.