MNN in Nebraska

I am in Lincoln, Nebraska through the end of Monday, May 7, visiting Back to the Bible. They're having their international directors meetings this week. I came to thank them for their work abroad for God's Kingdom, but also for the help they've been to Mission Network News.

James Kanaganayagam was one of my first interviews. He is the Sri Lanka country director. We have talked on the telephone for years, but have never met face to face. We were able to do that this weekend. What a wonderful servant. We'll be featuring James on our Tuesday broadcast this week.

I was also able to meet up with Berni Dymet-Australia, Leandro Tarrrataca-Brazil, David Logacho-Ecuador, Prem Swaroop-India, Frans Silalahi-Indonesia, Ettore Calanchi-Italy, Berington Laing - Jamaica, Clem Guillermo - Philippines, Henryk Dedo - Poland.

What a great group of men who are serving God no matter what the cost.

Be listening to Mission Network News throughout the week as we'll be presenting stories from many of these men.

Greg Yoder, Anchor/Executive Director

IDOP concert gearing up

Mission Network News and Discovery House Music are partnering together to develop a music cd that will celebrate those that are persecuted for their faith. The CD is yet to be named. In fact, all o the music hasn't been selected yet.

However, Shannon Wexelberg, Scott Krippayne and Charles Billingsley have agreed to sing on the project. Shannon, Scott and others are writing for it as we speak. This week we began calling radio stations to see if they'd like to have these three come in concert.

I won't tell you who those stations are until they say 'yes,' but we have at least three stations that have said a 'tentative' yes, as we try to secure dates. The dates of the tour (yet to be named) will be between October 25-November 11, as we remember the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.

Please be in prayer for this project. We're praying that we'll sell enough CD's and tickets at each event that we'll be able to send funding to families who are affected by persecution where heads of households can't support their families.

As we have more confirmed dates for the concerts, we'll be letting you know on our broadcast and on our website.

We're hoping to be in eight or nine cities in the United States.

Greg Yoder, Anchor/Executive Director

Stories for the week

We have some exciting stories we'll be sharing with you this week.

Laura Carlson has been working on a series of reports on short-term missions that good and the bad. The reports began airing today. You can either listen on our website at http://www.MNNonline.org or you can read the reports. Today is basically the introduction to the series. Tomorrow we'll focus on the good of short-term missions.

I've also be following the three martyred Christians in Turkey for the last couple of weeks. When we first heard about the killings we had no idea how horrific it was. Throughout the week we'll have reports on the impact their deaths have had on the country. Today we have Voice of the Martyrs, Canada talking about the situation. Tomorrow, World Evangelical Alliance will have some interesting things to report from the nation.

And, be praying for Ruth Kramer. Her father was diagnosed with cancer. I'll let her share details with you about that. Be praying for complete healing for him. He works with Transport for Christ.