LAKE FOREST, CA (ANS) -- Veteran international journalist, Dan Wooding, is offering media outlets, Christian leaders, and anyone else who wants “to keep up with world news and how it affects Christians,” a free subscription to the ASSIST News Service (ANS).

Dan Wooding pictured doing a TV report from St. Petersburg, Russia

Wooding, 71, began this unique service, that carries news about the persecution of Christians around the world, missions, features on inspiring people and popular culture, some 21 years ago. It is based in Lake Forest, California.

With a team of talented writers stationed in some of the world’s hot-spots including India, Pakistan and Egypt, ANS brings up-to-date news stories right into people’s in-boxes.

Many of these stories are carried widely by the Christian media and have also been picked up by secular media including USA Today, the Washington Times, The Minneapolis Tribune-Star, the New York Post, the Orange County Register, WorldNet Daily, the Fox News Channel and the Los Angeles Times.

Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents and moved with them to the UK when he was two years old, has been a journalist now since 1968. He has worked as Chief Reporter for Billy Graham's London newspaper, The Christian, also as a senior reporter with two of the UK’s top-selling newspapers, the Sunday People and the Sunday Mirror, and was a correspondent for the London Times.

He was also an interviewer for the BBC Radio 1 in London, and now has a weekly radio show in America called Front Page Radio which originates from KWVE 107.9 FM (www.kwve.com) and a monthly Internet TV show called His Channel Live (www.hischannel.com), which is seen in 192 countries around the world.

What makes Wooding and his team of writers unusual is the fact that none of them get a salary for their media ministry - they each raise their own support and look upon themselves as “Media Missionaries.”

Rick Warren being interviewed by Dan Wooding in Mexico City during a World AIDS Conference

Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, California, one of America’s largest churches, and author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” has provided an endorsement for Dan Wooding’s autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth,” which is one of his 44 books. Warren said, “Dan Wooding has lived one of the most amazing and exciting lives you could ever imagine.”

If you would like a free subscription, just send Wooding an e-mail at assistnews@aol.com and give your name and e-mail address and where you live, and he will add you to the list. Also, please feel free to tell your friends and colleagues about this free offer.

“However, please bear in mind that this is a news service, so you will be receiving several stories each day, many of which you will not read anywhere else,” said Wooding.

The website for ANS is www.assistnews.net and, by the way, your e-mail address will not be shared with anyone and is only used to send you these ANS stories.

Dan Wooding, 71, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 48 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. He now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California which is also carried throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK and also in Belize and South Africa. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 192 countries and also provides a regular commentary for Worship Life Radio on KWVE. You can follow Dan Wooding on Facebook under his name there or at ASSIST News Service. He is the author of some 44 books, one of which is his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, has also recently released his first novel “Red Dagger” which is available this link.