Well, I don't read much fiction...in fact, I think the last novel I read was in 2004 while vacationing poolside in Mombasa, Kenya. It was a Grisham novel...I love Grisham!

And I love Davis! Tom is a fellow doctorate student with me at George Fox University. Together, we are working on our Doctor of Ministry degrees in the Global Missional Leadership program.

Tom is the President of Children's Hopechest and is passionate about caring for orphans. I have a deep amount of respect for him, and only hope that Impact Campus Ministries can become as successful in our desires to connect college students with young students in impoverished parts of the world.

Scared: A Novel on the Edge of the World is a story about the intersection of two very different lives: a young African girl and a male American journalist. The difficulties of life in Africa are revealed to the journalist and his life is forever changed.

When the "edge" of the world becomes not something way over there, but something so close that we are also a part of it, our perspective changes. Davis works hard to bring two worlds together...to eliminate space between the two edges. This he does very well. You will sit and read, and yet find yourself traveling to a previously unknown world.

This is the key for Davis as one who is leading us in the western world to begin to care for the less fortunate in other parts of the world...we must see life as they see it, and experience life together. I desire to see the action that Davis displays in his personal life from college students as well, and I will recommend this book to them...and also to you.

Thanks Tom for all you do to bring us all to the "edge of the world."