home.

I snapped this picture in Venice last weekend.  This country is breathtakingly beautiful.  I don’t understand how it can be so beautiful and yet so….lost.  So broken.

There are 60,000,0000 people in Italy.
95% of those Italians are “Catholic”.
5% of Italians are actually practicing Catholics.
32,000 towns and cities throughout the country have no Evangelical witnesses.
Italy has the second lowest Bible literacy rate in the world.
0.6% of Italians are born-again believers.  Compare this to India and China, were over 5% of the population are born-again Christians.
90% of full-time missionaries leave Italy within four years of arriving.  More missionaries leave Italy than any other country in the world.

This is my home.  I can’t ignore it any longer.

~ by dailysurrenderings on October 3, 2008.