Welcome to our 7th carnival of Christians who are writing and praying for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. Once again, our hope and prayer is that you are encouraged by these writings and that you will find new friends and tell a few friends to join us.

Last week The Voice of the Martyr's had their "Wear the Crown" Conference and one of our faithful persecution bloggers, Jan Fletcher, attended. We asked Jan to share with us her experience at the conference.

Yesterday I was given top secret information from The Voice of the Martyrs that I was told I can now share with you all. So today I wanted to do just that. Did you know that The Voice of the Martyrs recently hosted a bunch of teens who went on a missions trip to Vietnam? Me neither, but when I found out I was very excited to learn that they blogged about their trip and also took video of it.

Blessed are those who are being persecuted for righteousness sake. I always remember these precious words from the living book of life when I hear of how our Chinese brothers and sisters are being arrested for simply printing the Bible and other Christian material.

Imagine with me for a moment if you were sitting at home and minding your own business celebrating Easter with some friends of yours from church, and then out of nowhere the police barged into your home and took your bibles and other Christian materials. How would you feel? What would you do? Unfortunately, this is something we don't have to imagine for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Uzbekistan because it happened to them only a few weeks ago. Here is a shortened version of a report from The Voice of the Martyrs about what happened.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in giving Todd Nettleton a round of applause for all the great blogging he did this weekend!!!

It is finished; another VOM conference is now in the past. We will never gather like this again. May the time spent this weekend, the challenges given and the hearts touched, echo in eternity.

Carrie McDonnall is the author of Facing Terror, and served in Iraq planting the seeds of the gospel through relief and development work. It was while working there that her husband, David, was killed when the vehicle they were driving in was attacked by gunmen wielding automatic weapons.

Dr. Tom Elliff is a part of the leadership team for the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Church and involved in training Christian leaders around the world, including restricted nations.

Gary Witherall, whose wife Bonnie was martyred in Lebanon, chose as his text a passage from the gospel of John, the passage where the woman breaks the expensive perfume bottle over Jesus' feet.