Records and a work week
Sunday, January 27th, 2008This morning in church there were 70 regular adults, which easily broke our old record of 66. As well as that, there were more guests than usual, and more children as well. In fact there was another record, with five children less than seven months old, and they take up more space than an adult. There were also two toddlers missing – but since one was born at 5.30 this morning, she had a good excuse for not being in church. That leaves just one pregnant lady in the church, out of the eight there were a few months ago. It was a good way to make the church grow 10% in just nine months! Anyway, the hall is usually quite full on a normal Sunday; today it was bursting and it was difficult to fit everybody in. Maybe we should put a maxiscreen outside… In any case, we certainly need to find a new hall to meet in, and we are still looking for an appropriate, and affordable, place.
The last few weeks have been relatively light for me, with just two studies to lead each week. This week was going to be a jackpot week, with all my occasional meetings coming up at the same time – as well as the usual Tuesday and Wednesday studies, I will be leading Monday to substitute someone who fell sick, on Thursday there is the bimonthly cell group coordination meeting I lead, and on Saturday it was my turn to lead the Youth Group study. However, two of the three teenagers couldn’t come yesterday so we postponed the meeting, so my turn will come up the following week. In the meantime, I have been fighting a flu which has made its way up through the family in the last 10 days, starting at Daniele and passing through Stefania and Pinuccia.