News and prayer information from Richard and Pinuccia Wilson

Note: I wrote this message last Wednesday, and only just realised that by mistake I had saved it rather than publishing it. So he it is anyway, which will help you understand the other post of today.

I was asked yesterday to do a talk at St Andrew’s Cathedral on Friday 18th, on the occasion of the World Youth Day, on Can YOU experience God directly? Certainly. It is rather short notice to prepare a talk on that, and it will take a while to do since I will have to think it think, and I don’t have a lot of time in this period. So pray please for the preparation, and that the talk will have a good effect on those who listen. There is more information on the series of talks half way down the page http://www.cathedral.sydney.anglican.asn.au/ (although as I write it hasn’t been updated yet to include my name).

We have had a bit of free time in the last few days, which have been good for getting the talk for Friday finished. I just have to go over it a couple of times now to practice it. I am feeling a lot more comfortable about doing it now, than when I accepted the invitation – thanks to those you prayed. I also went into the cathedral yesterday to hear one of the other talks in the series, and to get a feel for what is going on.

We also took advantage of these free days to do a bit of tourism – with the prayer week last week we had not had much time to relax together as a family lately. So had a great day catching a ferry across the harbour, then having a picnic in a park on the foreshores with play equipment (Stefania’s highlight, although she enjoyed the boat as well).

Now we have another busy few days. Tonight (Wednesday) there is dinner with the family, then on Thursday small groups to speak at both at lunch and in the evening, and another family meeting in the middle. Then on Friday lunch there is the talk in the cathedral, Saturday night another family dinner, and then on Sunday we will be speaking at two services in the morning before having our recommissioning service in the afternoon. Keep praying for energy and enthusiasm for all these meetings, and that there will be new partners for the work at Trento as a result.

PS I just checked my blog, and realised that my previous message was missing, which would make parts of this message a bit hard to understand. I have now published the previous message, which appears has having been posted a bit after this one, even though it was in fact written a week before.