NVision, formerly known as Day of Discovery, was developed by Steve Shadrach, founder of Student Mobilization. Steve saw a need to help students and other believers discover God's biblical passion to reach all tribes, tongues, and nations with the gospel. While missions has been one of many themes which have been emphasized by the American evangelical movement, world evangelization is not a prevailing priority among believers in the United States. An opportunity exists to serve churches and campuses throughout the country by presenting four lively and engaging 90 minute sessions which thoroughly reveal our biblical, cultural, historical and strategic role in worldwide saturation of the gospel.

While evangelical believers are generally aware of missions as a priority of the church, a huge vacuum exists when considering how to connect Americans to God's passion for reaching the nations. Presenting the heart of God to reach every nation will inspire a new level of excitement and purpose.

One of the hurdles to igniting Americans with world vision is their busy schedules and their latent belief that "missions" is a boring and threatening subject. Past experience may hold encounters with missionaries with whom they are not willing or able to relate. In order to "inject" God's mission vision into His beloved people, a calculated plan for exposure is critical. NVision can be part of that plan.

Dr. Steve Shadrach, former Missions Pastor and founder of Student Mobilization, took the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course at the U.S. Center for World Missions in the summer of 1985. He then started and facilitated several Perspectives courses until 1995, when he spent a year in Ukraine. Upon return he began developing a one day condensed version of the semester long Perspectives course. He took the main four parts of the course (Biblical, Historical, Cultural, and Strategic) and created a note taking/resource notebook along with a power point presentation and video clips to provide believers with a hard hitting multi-media journey into the heart of God. Churches, Christian colleges, campus ministries, church and parachurch staffs, and mission conferences have benefited from this dynamic presentation seeking to help Christians become "World Christians" with God's perspective and heart for the nations.