News and prayer information from Richard and Pinuccia Wilson

Today we had a visit from the church at Formigine, which is about 200m south of here, and where another one of Pinuccia’s cousins attends. The whole church came together, which almost doubled the number at the service. Since our hall is too small for us by ourselves, let alone when another church joins us, we hired a larger hall for the occasion. Since it happens to be very close to where we live (and is in fact where we had the wedding party for those at Trento), I looked after the booking and the organisation of the logistics of the hall. So that kept me busy most of the day, both at the service and during the lunch for over 100 people. The fun part for me was when I helped our two experts at the bar (which in Italy means serving the coffee). They (of whom one, strangely enough, was a lady from Bulgaria) looked after the coffee, making a hundred or so in about a quarter of an hour, whilst I was busy washing the cups and chatting with the “clients”. Even the people from Naples where happy with our coffee, which is indeed a great compliment.

At the Bible study at Rovereto on Tuesday I got a surprise when I saw a new person in the group when I arrived. Gradually as the meeting went on I learnt various things about her, until right at the end I suddenly realised that I knew who she was. Although her family lives at Rovereto, she is studying at Bologna, and refounded and led the group at the university there (which is how I heard about her). I also knew that she is very enthusiastic in her evangelism. In fact, even though she only moved back to Rovereto last Sunday, by the Tuesday evening she was already looking at planning an evangelistic event there and had done some preliminary organisation. I believe that she is just the type of person that will be a great help to Suzanne Bikker in her church planting work at Rovereto, and has arrived at just the right time. God’s time, of course.