Daniele arrived at the hospital at 7.30am, was in the operating theatre at 8.30, and then left the hospital at 5.30. The surgeon discovered that the problem was not an undiscended testicle, but the testicle did not exist at all. So he just removed the tissue that should have made it, fixed the another, and [...]

Main prayer point this week: Daniele’s operation which is due on Tuesday morning (European time). Pray that it will actually happened this time, that he doesn’t get sick or there are other unexpected obstacles like the other times. It will actually be a bit easier to organise this time, because Pinuccia’s parents are staying with [...]

Today the Sunday School kept me busy. It was my turn to do the lesson for the middle class, so that kept me out of the second half of the service. But I also had to do some videoing of a song that we will use at the end of year presentation. So in the [...]

At last night’s Bible study, we had reports from two of our travellers who had come back to Trento this week. One was the lady who God had prepared to work with the Chinese people at Trento – see this post for the original story. Last month she was in Hong Kong, but also went [...]

With Pinuccia and Stefania having Easter holidays from last Thursday until next Wednesday, with my parents visiting at the moment, and with fewer commitments in church and in the band, it has been very much a time with the family lately. We are making a few day trips out together, a few nights out, and [...]

Today, after our usual monthly lunch together after church, we held our annual church meeting. Some of the meeting was for such matters as approving the budget, but it was also an opportunity to update the members on some of the projects and vision. One of these was the official announcement of a new missionary [...]