Living in the Ex-Soviet Union, during the period often referred to as the “cowboy days” gave me many opportunities to face fear head on. In over 65 nations we have met challenges that required us to take a step forward without sufficient information. We lived in Russia when Yeltsin was rolling into downtown Moscow on a tank. We were present during the Tiananmen Square protests. I faced tremendous fear as we smuggled bibles into China and preached with terrorists in the shadows of a small Filipino village. I have learned through all of these experiences that the old adage is true, “There is nothing to fear but fear itself!”