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Temples
OMF Taiwan - Monday 03 August 2009According to a recent report Taiwan has 14,993 temples, an increase of over 3,000 in the last year! That is one temple for every 1,500 people in Taiwan.
This is not news to us as we constantly see new temples being built. But the official statistics help confirm our gut feeling that folk religion here is alive and flourishing.
Most of these temples are Taoist (rather than Buddhist), but temples here are eclectic and offer a whole range of gods to worship. The largest number of temples are found in the southern counties, the areas that we want to target for church planting.
Keep praying for the Lord of the harvest to send more workers into the large and needy harvest field.