It’s Thursday, so I’ve finished my three Bible studies for the week. Although tonight it is Pinuccia’s turn to go out, as she will be going to a church leaders’ training meeting, and I get to look after the children and put them to bed.
Saturday is a public holiday here, but it will be a very busy weekend for the church. On Friday there is another bookstall, in one of the shopping centres. It is the last of the four that were planned in this period, but since the one at Rovereto went so well we will do another one there on January 6. Then on Saturday afternoon/evening there is the second combined young adults and youth group meeting, this time at our place – we will see how many people we can squeeze into the lounge room for games, pizzas and a film. During the day, the children of the church will be baking biscuits at the house of one of the church members in the Valsugana valley, and the biscuits will be sold the following week to raise money for a Christian school in India that the children support. But we will have to miss that (despite the fact that Pinuccia is responsible for the ministry of the Sunday School), as we will be too busy preparing for the youth. There is also a Christian Arts Festival at Pescara in southern Italy on the weekend, where one of the elders of the church will be giving a talk on “Creactivity and Christianity” as well as being a part of the jury. Another church member who is interested in the arts (especially photography and video) as a Christian will be going with him.
Then on Monday night there is the end of year dinner (not pizzas this time!) and film with the Monday night cell group. It was supposed to be at the house of another member of the group, but as she will be busy organising the biscuit baking in Pinuccia’s absence on Saturday, and her husband is the elder who will be away for the weekend at the Arts Festival, she is too busy to prepare for the dinner. So it will be at our house again, which means two dinner and films in three days here, so we will be kept busy as well.