Being the Light
If you all are looking for a long overdo update, you’ll find a short one at the end of this blog post. For those of you who need a refresher because it’s been so long… I’m Rachel, a Christian missionary in Catania Sicily. Alan, my husband, and I have been here for three years, and we are staying on for another two years. We have a 16 month old son and another on the way. Our main work is evangelism with the local church. Our main outreach/mode of doing evangelism is teaching English for free using the Bible as our text. We also do a few other things here with the local church. But those will be included in the update at the end of the post. Why, you might ask, are you a missionary? And in Italy? Aren’t there other countries? Haven’t the Italians already heard the Good News? Well, my answer to you would be in the form of a question. What makes my husband and I missionaries? Is it the fact that we live in a foreign country from the one we were raised in? Is it