Arul echoed the assertion that journalism is a vocation akin to traditional fulltime Christian service, as did others. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Kelly, late of Kosovo and anticipating an assignment to earthquake ravaged Turkey, brought along the bullet proof vest that's necessary in many of the venues he covers. Oliver was a journalist who came to Chichester from war ravaged southern Sudan. He had gone to Sudan from Kenya to fill the void of journalism there.
Journalists can play a role, or even stop the war.
Not everyone who attended the Chichester conference was a war correspondent, but for some the stakes were almost as high. Some working in the top levels of network broadcasting in the U.S. and government controlled media in other countries, could not officially let it be known that they were attending such a conference. One, Linda Rios Brook, had already paid a price for her allegiance to God over a secular employer. Brook, the former President and General Manager of KARE-TV in Minneapolis Minnesota, found herself at the center of a small media storm when word got out that she was conducting Christian Bible studies. Ordered by station owners to stop teaching the Bible classes, she instead resigned.