David Zac Niringiye is currently a bishop in Kampala, Uganda. Before that he was the Regional Director for the Church Missions Society (CMS) in Africa, a mission agency working in partnership with churches in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

He worked as a Secretary for the Fellowship of Christian Unions (FOCUS) in Uganda and a Secretary for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in English and Portuguese-speaking Africa.

He graduated from Makerere University with a B.S. in Physics and a Diploma in Education. He received his M.A. in Systematic Theology from Wheaton College Graduate School and his Doctorate in Theology and Mission History from Edinburgh University.

Dr. Peter Kuzmič (pronounced Kooz′-mich) is the Eva B. and Paul E. Toms Distinguished Professor of World Missions and European Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a missionary-at-large for the Division of Foreign Missions of the Assemblies of God.  A native of Slovenia, and a citizen of Croatia in former Yugoslavia, Peter is the foremost evangelical scholar in Eastern Europe and an internationally recognized authority on the subjects of a Christian response to Marxism and Christian ministry in post-Communist contexts.

In 1999, Peter received the Presidential Award for Peacemaking from the President of Croatia.  He also received the Outstanding Citizen Award with the Golden Medal from the city of Osijek, Croatia for the year 2000.

We are honoured to have him on the first night of the mission-net congress.

On Good Friday we will have Brother Andrew speaking to us.

He is the most famous smuggler of Bibles and is the founder of Open Doors!

His heart is set on prayer and moving the world through it, but also on fighting for the cause of the persecuted Christians.

Connie Main Duarte lives in Portugal and works with the GBU. She has been the Coordinator of Evangelism for the last 6 years, a job she loves very much! Next to being a wife and a mom of two little boys Connie loves to be involved in discipleship and has a passion to preach the Word of God.</font>

Jason Mandryk co-authored the last edition of ´Operation World´ together with Patrick Johnstone. He is currently based at the WEC headquarters in the UK, where he is working on the next edition of the book. We are excited to have Jason with us sharing in our Prayer concert on some of the remarkable and challenging things happening in our world today

Jorge Verwer es el fundador y ha sido el Director Internacional de Operación Movilización, un ministerio de evangelismo, discipulado, capacitación y plantación de iglesias.  Jorge dirigió Operación Movilización durante 40 años antes de retirarse en Agosto del 2003.  Tiene una preocupación apasionada de vivir un cristianismo vital, propagador y revolucionario tanto en su vida como en las vidas de las personas que conoce.