ARTICLE: “On a wing and prayer: Faith-based travel-boom bears witness to big market,” by Laura Bly, USA Today, 27 January 2006, p. 1D.

Evangelicals are estimated to be 25 percent of the current U.S. population, or about 70 million, and they are moved by their faith, apparently all over the world.

So it’s not just Narnia and Joel Osteen and Rick Warren books they’re buying. They’re booking vacations and spiritual journeys according to their faith-based view of the world.

Estimates are that 600k Americans travel abroad each year in search of various promised lands, with 50k churches (1 out of 9) sporting some sort of organized program, a significant jump of 20% in the last five years.

For God so loved the world, he’s apparently sending his missionaries across the planet, and none too surprisingly, most of their destinations are found inside the Gap.

Another interesting example of the global connective tissue represented by evangelicals and missionaries of all faiths.