Take Your Best Shot, By Austin Gutwein with Todd Hillard
Take Your Best Shot Cover
This book was provided to me free to review by the Thomas Nelson book review blogger program.
Nine year old Austin Gutwein became concerned about the number of children who were dying of AIDS in Africa. But unlike most of the rest of us, he actually did something about it.
Now 16, Austin started the Hoops for Hope organization to help raise money and hope for the AIDS children in Africa.
This book is the story of that journey, with challenges throughout the book for the reader to rise up and do something bigger than yourself, whether it’s joining in with the Hoops for Hope effort and doing something else you feel led to do.
It’s interactive in format, with easy to read chapters, that would make a great study for a group of teens or others who wanted to consider how to do something bigger than themselves.
Austin took an act that’s very simple- shooting free throws- and turned it into a “vehicle” to raise over a million dollars for AIDS children in Africa. Groups have taken Austin’s challenge to shoot free throws and the movement is growing year by year.
Take Your Best Shot is highly recommended as a motivating and inspiring book to read by yourself or with a group of people.