Last night I led my last Bible study for the church year, and so naturally also my last before we leave for Australia. There are still a few commitments left (guests passing through tonight, end of year ice cream with the Youth Group on Saturday, church on Sunday (including the end of year presentation by […]

Things are starting to come to a close here - partly because summer is on the way (although the official break doesn’t start for another five weeks) and partly because we will be leaving in 10 days’ time. So for example on Thursday night there was the last meeting of the cell group leaders together, […]

We were kept busy over the weekend by various activities. First of all, the local cooperative bank had its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, and the band was invited to play at a refreshment afterwards. Unfortunately, as AGMs tend to do it finished late, so we waited around in a big tent under the rain […]

The house has been getting a good clean lately, with quite a few visits. First on Saturday there was the usual Youth Group meeting. Then on Sunday we had invited three people for lunch after church. However at the last minute they had three guests from another part of Italy come with them to the […]

Since Thursday is the only night that no cell groups meet in the church, it is set aside for leaders’ meetings - usually the church committee, training and coordination meetings. But the free Thursday nights are also used for other meetings - and sometimes there are not enough such free nights. So last night at […]

Yesterday I had my annual meeting with the elders, to talk about the program for the cell groups after the summer break, and about my personal program. We try to have partly a common program across the groups (a direction that we want the church as a whole to go), whilst leaving freedom for each […]