Now that we are coming to the end of the church year, it is time to start thinking about next year. On Tuesday afternoon I met with the elders to talk about how the cell groups went this year, and to think about the program after the summer break. Then on Thursday night there was the bimonthly meeting with the cell group leaders, in which we heard from them how they thought their groups went and we thought more about next year together.
For the studies, we thought of two themes, with one series working on the Christian character for about 10 weeks, and a shorter one on the church and especially the Christian’s place and role in it. I will be preparing these studies during the summer and then distributing them to the other leaders. Between these two series there will be an in depth look at Ephesians, which each leader will prepare for their own group. There will also be some “structural” changes. The first is that the Rovereto group will move from fortnightly to weekly meetings. It was hard to have much continuity meeting every two weeks, but on the other hand I am not sure if the group is stable enough to make the change. (There is only one couple that I am almost sure will be present next year; with the other people there is some doubt.) But I think also that moving to weekly meetings will give it the stability and continuity and group identity that it needs. At the same time, the two people that I have been training (Andrea and Carmelo) will take over the leading of the Monday night group. There might be the need of a fourth group at Trento, but we are not sure yet and will probably wait until September when we see how many people sign up before we decide. But if there is a fourth group, I will leave the Monday one and start the fourth with some helpers that I will train to take over. If there is not, I will attend the Monday night group for a while to see how it goes, but then around January when number two is a bit older the idea is that I will stay at home and Pinuccia will go to the group, so that she gets some fellowship and Bible study as well.

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