Yesterday was a public holiday (just as in Australia), and we took the opportunity to go to Bologna (240 km south of here) for the annual meeting with the other seven churches of an association that the church at Trento belongs to. There were about 40 from the church present, which is the most we […]

There were a couple of special meetings at the end of last week. On Friday evening there was the monthly ladies’ study. This time it was Pinuccia’s turn to give the study. This meant that I stayed at home with the children, although it was one of the easiest evenings ever - Daniele went to […]

After a long absence from the band - caused by them changing the day of the practices - last Friday I was able to go again because they had changed the day back again. So it was good to get out and relax with a bit of music again, and to see my friends there. […]

Daniele and I did not hold out much longer after my last post: Daniele got a fever a Sunday night, and I got the other symptoms of this type of laryngitis on Monday. I seem to get sick a lot more often with two children, although at least I did not get a fever this […]

I blogged a few weeks ago about the end of an era for me, as I stopped going to the last of the cell groups that I was running 5 years ago. Today might go down in the history of the church as the beginning of a new era. After the service and the monthly […]

We came back this afternoon from our week at the ECM biennial conference in Spain. Every conference lately for me has been different, going by myself six years ago, on my honeymoon four years ago, then with a six month old baby, and this time with two small children. So this time there were less […]