In my newsletters I have mentioned that this church year (ie September-June, like the schools here) all the cell groups are doing a series of studies on different aspects of prayer, loosely based on Don Carson’s Call to Spiritual Reformation. I managed to arrange the program of two groups so that they both did the […]

On Friday Pinuccia had one of her regular check-ups with the gynaecologist. Everything is still going fine, but she was a bit surprised when the gynaecologist decided that she had an “at risk pregnancy”, partly because of an iron deficiency, partly because she is tired, and partly because she has an irregular work changing every […]

The flu that is still going around does have its advantages (if you don’t have it, of course). As was expected, the teacher that Pinuccia is substituting didn’t get over it in a week, so Pinuccia had her contract extended to a second week. And now it seems that the children are catching and spreading […]

At the end the film night for our friends did not go ahead; it was felt that there were too few friends coming, and that they would have felt a bit lost in the hall, as well as too outnumbered. But there were some friends who did want to see the film, so we will […]

Important prayer request: On Saturday the Monday cell group will be doing another film + pizza night for their friends. This time we will be showing the film Luther. There are five friends who have said that they are coming, plus another four who have been invited but not given a definite reply yet (including […]

I did manage to make it to the study at Rovereto on Thursday, but since there was only the hosting couple present we just chatted and prayed rather than doing the study, so that I could keep my voice a bit better. Friday I skipped the band practice, as I didn’t think I would be […]

Well I am feeling better now and could go out - but on Monday the voice disappeared and has not been seen or heard since, which makes leading studies rather difficult! So no study on Monday night (which had about 75% of its members sick anyway!) nor tonight Wednesday. Hopefully I will be right for […]

The plans for these few freer days did not really work out. Stefania and I remained sick, every early evening my temperature shot up to 39 or 40, Stefania regularly gets a fever at 2am, and Pinuccia has been busy looking after both of us. So there was no trip to Pinuccia’s relatives, no planning […]

My parents left this morning - we did have a good couple of weeks together, although the second half was not as we had planned as one after another of us fell sick. Pinuccia was the last to succumb, being wiped out yesterday, although she is already feeling reasonable today whilst the rest of us […]