Husbands and wives make great ministry teams and they serve in many different areas, but not too many serve together as law enforcement chaplains. Billy and Robin Rider, from Maryville, Tennessee, serve as law enforcement chaplains with the Blount County Sheriff’s Department. Billy has served the Sheriff’s Department for two years and Robin has now been with them for one year.

Dr. Hong Yang, special assignment field representative, was recently honored at the Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, Ohio. The following is what the school said about Dr. Yang:

With the launch of the brand new social networking site www.holyrevivalradio.com, ratings and listenership are continuing to rise. Some set back was noticed initially as Holy Revival Radio began using SWCast as an interface for licensing and paying royalty fees. This switch was necessary for Holy Revival Radio to be one of the very few gospel internet stations that operate legally and complies with the rules and regulations as they stand now. Holy Revival Radio has great pride in being able to offer Christian and Gospel Artists not only a place to be heard, but a place that will also enable them to receive royalties for their music that is played on the station. This is important as not all internet radio stations comply with this.

ORISSA, India–Anti-Christian extremists continue their violent rampage against Christians in the state of Orissa. On September 8, they totally destroyed the church where Gospel for Asia missionary Prakul Chirag serves as pastor, and three other GFA missionaries barely escaped from being burned to death.

Friday, 12 September 2008

(Taken from AsiaNews)

Burning, looting, manhunts and violence against women and Christians continue in the state of Orissa as the curfew imposed by the government is expanded from the district of Kadhamal to other cities. Police are ordered to shoot on sight.

In the early morning hours of Saturday, September 13th the eye of Hurricane Ike slammed into the Texas Gulf Coast. The iconic hurricane that started as a tropical depression two weeks ago in the mid Atlantic Ocean became a monster leaving death and destruction in its wake.

By Michael Knight, National Church Planting Office

The Harvard Business Review in May of 2008 featured an article by Dr. John J. Medina. He is a leader in neuroscience and its affect upon leadership. Medina writes about The Science of Thinking Smarter. He believes that neuroscience can show managers ways to improve productivity.

PHILIPPINES — As a missionary kid, I’m full of stories of God’s healing power, miraculous provision and unfailing protection. But the story that typifies our lives as a mission family isn’t really all that dramatic, involving only a desperate father and a prayer. But to me, an MK, it exemplifies all that my parents’ lives are about—a burden, a call, and the fight to save souls.

Weeks before the movie Fireproof opens in theaters, The Love Dare, a book that began as a plot device in the film, has sold 300,000 copies into bookstores and is in its third printing. Sony Pictures opens Fireproof in some 750 theaters this Sept. 26.