The cell groups have now all finished for the year - although with the last band practice tomorrow, the events I am about to describe, the first of three summer Bible studies I will lead for those still at Trento, and then the church committee meeting, it will still be more than a week before I get a free night.

You could pray now for a couple of “end of year” events in the next week. The first is the annual church houseparty this weekend, and then from Monday to Wednesday the ECM Italy prayer days on the southern shore of Lake Garda. The ECM Director of Ministries (ie in charge of the on-the-field work) is coming to speak at the houseparty, so it will also be a good opportunity from both sides to strengthen the partnership that the church and the mission have in order to plant churches in the province together. I will be going to Verona tomorrow afternoon to pick him up, and he will stay with us on Friday and Sunday nights. Then we will take him to the prayer days, from where he will return to Madrid. But we will bring back with us another person - a Dutch lady who is a missionary candidate with ECM, currently doing Bible school at Rome, and considering coming to work at Trento when she has finished in a couple more years. She will be staying with us from Wednesday until Monday, to get to know the church a bit better and so we get to know her a bit better.

So I think it will be the week after next when I really get to start my summer break. Even though there is a lot of work I will have to do then, but more on that in another blog message when I start to do it.

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