Let your mission be where your heart is

Film lights me up inside like nothing else can. Now, don't get me wrong, I love my husband more then my life itself. But film, as a career, as a passion, is so thrilling. It's part of my makeup. It's written in my DNA and we all know Who did that.

It is a pure delight to me to serve the way we serve while we make our films. I consider us on the mission field, as unconventional as it may seem. There is just as much need, if not more in some respects, here then any place on earth. The weeks recent celebrity news serves as small testimony to the work yet to be done here.

I know many of you keep us in yours prayer in this respect, and I can't thank you enough for that. We need it. We love it. And it is a feeling of solidarity, camaraderie that we get when we find others in the industry with the same focus and goals as Adam and I.

We have been blessed by just such a friendship and I am -- well I'm so touched and so pleased to be able to bring this story to you. M Power Pictures is releasing their cinematic masterpiece The Stoning of Soraya M. tomorrow at a theater near you. The synopsis is as follows:

Stranded in a remote Iranian village, a French journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman who has a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances of her death the day before...

As the journalist turns on his tape recorder, Zahra takes us back to the beginning of her story which involves Soraya's husband, the local phony mullah, and a town all too easily led down a path of deceit, coercion, and hysteria. The women, stripped of all rights and without recourse, nobly confront the overwhelming desires of corrupt men who use and abuse their authority to condemn Soraya, an innocent but inconvenient wife, to an unjust and torturous death.

A shocking and true drama, it exposes the dark power of mob rule, uncivil law, and the utter lack of human rights for women. The last and only hope for some measure of justice lies in the hands of the journalist who must escape with the story -- and his life -- so the world will know.

It is an amazing story that is unfolding before our eyes at this very moment. Truth, injustice and basic human rights are brought into focus through a wonderful cast starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno and Jim Caviezel including Navid Neahban, David Diaan, Ali Pourtash, and Parviz Sayyad; directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh.

I cannot stress to you all enough -- this is our heart. This is a story that needed to be told by people who have the heart, they love, the experience and the means to bring it into the light. These are people who have the same passion and desire and purpose as Adam and I. We are truly blessed by our relationships with them.

Please visit their website: www.thestoning.com to learn more about this incredible film and to find a theater in your area. I cannot recommend a movie more highly to you. However, I will warn that the picture has been rated R for the violence that is inherent with this type of film.

I hope you all have the opportunity to experience this picture. If you do, please let me know your thoughts and feelings on it, or if you have any questions before you go please don't hesitate to email me. I'd love to discuss it further with you. If you'd like to write a personal message to the producers at M Power Pictures, I'd be happy to pass it along for you.

Thanks again for supporting all of us out here trying to live the difference you'd like to see in this world. I know we're few, sometimes not as prominent or hiding from view, but we're here, making a difference every day.