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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]