JAMES VINCENT (B.A., UCLA ; M.A., University of Illinois) served as assistant professor of communications at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, for ten years. He has written or cowritten three historical books on missionary aviation (A Vision with Wings), a family operated skiboat business begun in 1923 (Parting the Waters), and an earlier centennial history of Moody Bible Institute (MBI). He is now senior editor at Moody Publishers in Chicago. Jim lives in Indiana with his wife, Lori, and their three sons.