This work of art titled Safely Home by Ron DiCianni served as an inspiration for this story.

Endorsements

“Randy Alcorn, one of the great storytellers among Christian writers today, has produced a powerful work. It’s not only a first-class story; it is a bracing wake-up call about Christian persecution in China. You’ll be challenged.”

—CHARLES COLSON, bestselling author and founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries

“Safely Home will change the way you pray for the persecuted church. This brilliant story mixes the warmth of a good novel with the harsh reality of the persecuted church. Randy Alcorn has mastered the art of educating while entertaining.”

—DR. TIM LAHAYE, bestselling coauthor of the Left Behind series

“Safely Home is a compelling and gripping story that not only forces the reader to look with eyes wide-open at the present-day persecution our fellow believers are suffering, but also shakes Western Christians from the slumber of spiritual apathy, theological error, and materialism. It should be required reading.”

—STEVE GREEN, recording artist

“Randy Alcorn shows us what it could be like to live and die for a faith that will last for eternity. Read this book and you may never be the same again.”

—CLIVE CALVER, former president of World Relief

“Inspiring—in the truest sense. Randy Alcorn does what the great story- tellers do. Combines truth and hope in the drama of human situations.”

—SIGMUND BROUWER, author of Fuse of Armageddon

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Safely Home

Copyright © 2001, 2011 by Eternal Perspective Ministries. All rights reserved.

Interior illustration copyright © 1998 by Ron DiCianni. All rights reserved.

Cover photograph of bicycle copyright © Claudio Arnese/iStockphoto. All rights reserved.

Cover photograph of textured paper copyright © rusm/iStockphoto. All rights reserved.

Cover photograph of landscape copyright © HAIBO BI/iStockphoto. All rights reserved.

Calligraphy written by John Cheng

Cover designed by Erik Peterson

Interior designed by Jenny Swanson

Edited by Curtis H. C. Lundgren

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Safely Home is a work of fiction. Where real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales appear, they are used fictitiously. All ...