Archive for September, 2007

Compassion, band break, and family

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

After the usual activities in the past few days (Thursday a rare free night, Friday band practice, Saturday afternoon with the teenagers), today (Sunday) was different and busy. We had Compassion, an organisation that runs adoption at a distance and through which the church members have adopted 23 child (we have one in Rwanda), come […]

Massages

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

This week Pinuccia and Daniele have been doing a baby massage course, which someone in the church has been running at Trento. Pinuccia had in fact got some personal lessons when Stefania was born, but the revision has been helpful, and in any case the course needed some mothers and babies to demonstrate the techniques […]

Co-ordinating groups

Monday, September 24th, 2007

After the cell groups in the first three days of the week, Thursday is a more general planning and training day. Especially this Thursday. First of all in the afternoon we went to visit the couple that are looking after the new Young Adults’ group (about a dozen people from 17 years to late twenties) […]

Good sleep

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

The really good news this week is that Daniele has slept right through the night (until 7am) for the first time the last three nights, so Pinuccia especially has enjoyed getting some uninterrupted sleep. Although it has not also been so uninterrupted, because Stefania has had a few symptoms of a cold, like a sore […]

The first 15 years

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

After the anniversary of my birth on Wednesday, there was another significant milestone today: it is 15 years since I arrived in Italy as a young, eager missionary. A lot has happened since then of course, and I thank God for his support and the way he has worked in my character. I might be […]

The first week of work

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

For the next few months at least, most of my activities are concentrated in the first half of the week. So now it is Thursday morning, and I have already done the three cell groups that I am attending. (I still have the Youth Group study to prepare for Saturday, but I do that study […]

Back to work

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

We had a good time in Tuscany this week. Pinuccia commented that it was good to have a “change of air” from the usual activities at home. Being able to talk with others in similar situations to us (missionaries, cross cultural marriages, father working at home, two small children) was helpful as well. I also […]

Visiting doctors and Tuscany

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

We have been making the rounds of the doctors again in the last few days. On Thursday the pediatrician at the hospital rang to say that a problem had been found in the routine blood tests that they do on all new born babies. So we went to the hospital on Friday, where he explained […]