We are now back from one and two half days near Lake Garda, where the ECM Italy team (and a few guests) met for their annual time together. We certainly did pray, as the name suggests, but it was also an opportunity to just spend time together and get to know each other better, especially as there were two people there for the first time (one who started working near Milan in January, one who is studying at Bible school and intends to start working for ECM in one or two years’ time). It was also an opportunity to talk about what we thought of ECM and what we would like ECM Italy to become. ECM Italy has had a rather traumatic history lately - one person noted that at least one missionary has left every year since they joined 10 years ago, and in fact another announced during the prayer days that he had resigned. But this has been an opportunity to focus on what we as ECM Italy want to focus on. And the discussions were good. We are different personalities with different ministries, but the guests were impressed with the trust that there is in the team so that we can honestly say what we think about our role in the mission. We came back with some proposals to change what we do as ECM Italy together, and I pray that these changes will help to create an ECM Italy identity.

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