Daniele’s operation, more students and babies
You may remember that Daniele had three health problems when he was born. Two of them fixed themselves up, but in the last week he has had a few check-ups to confirm that the third did not – his undescended testicle has still not descended (although it is there). So today he was put on the waiting list for an operation, which will probably be in a couple of months’ time. Naturally I will write more on that later.
Yesterday we had the annual influx of non Italian speaking students, as they all arrived at the university last week for a course of 12-18 months. There were four who turned up at the service this time, from various parts of the world. This of course meant some simultaneous translation for me, although this is a bit more difficult now as Pinuccia went out to teach the Sunday School, and Daniele does not sit still any more. At least Stefania goes unofficially to the Sunday School now, which makes it a bit easier. And there is an American in the church who could translate the sermon, whilst Pinuccia did the Sunday School and I the baby sitting.
In the meantime we are continuing our church growth policy. With a birth due this week, it looked like that would be no pregnant ladies in the church for the first time in over two years (in which time about a fifth of the ladies in the church have given birth). But just in time, another pregnancy was announced after the service.