I got through my big week, with 6 studies in 8 days. Some of them went quite well, and I could see understanding in people’s eyes, and I enjoyed doing the two Sunday School lessons. I also taught the children the first verse of my new song on the life of Saul. I will gradually teach the following verses (there are a total of seven) as we do further lessons on Saul in the next couple of months. In the meantime, I also managed to prepare ahead another study that I will be doing in a few months’ time. This week instead is a “minimal” week, with just the two weekly cell groups to lead (Tuesday at Rovereto and Wednesday at Trento). So I hope this week to be able to also prepare the last two studies that I will be leading before the summer break at the end of June. (Although it might be necessary to prepare a few more for the last few weeks, if we finish the planned studies early.) That will give me more time for doing my computer work, which has suffered a bit for the last few months.

Pinuccia also had a good meeting yesterday with the church elders about the Sunday School, following on from the teachers’ meeting last week, thinking about the future of the children’s ministry in the church. There will be some changes, with no less that 8 new children coming in, taking the number of children from 25 to 33 (that was a very fertile year!). But there will be some children leaving at the other end, having moved into the teenager age range. We want to re-start the Youth Group for these teenagers after the summer, although there are practical problems to overcome (eg the seven teenagers live in 4 different parts of the province, with only two at Trento). But since two of the possible group members are daughters of the two elders, we can leave it up to them to work out when is the best time to meet!

Stefania has had a bit more pleasure in going to school this week, although there were still a few tears some days. And one day, when I had to take Daniele as well when I dropped off Stefania, he started crying because I would not leave him at school with her.

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