Many years ago, when I was contemplating a full time missionary service, I read that the famous evangelist, Paul Rader, was once asked: “Why are the laborers always so few?” He replied: “They can’t seem to be broken fast enough, and God can only use truly broken men and women!”
The writing continued: “”How true! God only uses broken men and women, no others will do! Others are too self-confident in their own strength! God has to break them, melt them and mold them again in the hands of the Potter …

It was the summer of 1980, and Patrizia and I, with our 3 years old little girl, Chiara, had come from our mission field of Bangladesh to Italy for a little furlough, and we were camping in a caravan by Lago Maggiore, one of the big lakes in the north of our country. Together with us were two other young couples with their little ones, each with their own caravan, and they were hungry for God’s Word. We were sitting by the lake, under a tree, and I was teaching …