There isn’t much to report this week: with all the church and band activities having a break, we have instead being doing things with my parents. At least until a couple of days ago - first my Dad got a cold, then my Mum, and last night Stefania and I. Quite a nasty one too, […]

For my Australian readers Christmas is past by now, but here it is still going, although we are into the rest and winding down stage now. My activities started on Christmas Eve afternoon, when the band played at the local retirement home, then did a march through town with a hundred people following and the […]

Yesterday I had my last study before the Christmas-New Year break, which lasts until January 8. It is a bit longer than the usual two weeks, since I didn’t have anything on Thursday and Friday anyway, and the day that everything in Italy usually restarts (the 7th, the day after Epiphany, or as they call […]

…at least from Saturday afternoon, when the Youth Group met at our house. Gloria spoke on her mission trip to Senegal in October. In fact, there was a bit of a mission emphasis for the weekend, as she also spoke at the Sunday School during church, and there was a visit from Open Doors at […]

When we left the hospital after Stefania’s birth, as we were saying goodbye to the gynocologist I said, “See you next year!” Well, we just made it, because Pinuccia is pregnant again, and today we went back to the hospital for the first check-up. She is currently at seven and a half weeks, and the […]

The long weekend at the GBU [the Italian Christian student movement] conference went well. Don Carson’s talks were as good as I expected them to be. There was quite a crowd of 350 people, which is a most I have ever seen at a Christian meeting in Italy. There were many people that I knew […]

On Monday afternoon the ECM Field Ministries Director came to visit, and then on Tuesday we travelled together to Milan for the ECM-Italy Field Council meeting, so it was a good long time for talking about various ECM matters, both in Italy and in Europe. And the meeting went well discussing some issues, hearing how […]

First of all of course there was church, after which there was the usual lunch together for the first Sunday of the month. We left there a bit early for a 45 minute drive down to Arco, a town near Lake Garda, where the band marched around the Christmas markets playing a few songs and […]