Helping to help
The highlight for me this week was meeting with the youth group leaders – one who helped me last year and took over in September, and the other who has just started to help. Even though it was their first meeting together, it was great to see the desire, and the God given gifts, to serve the teenagers. It made me happy that I was able to leave the leadership of that group, with people more capable of relating to that age group able to take over. It is a privilege for me to be able to help and encourage them – and the leaders of the other seven groups in the church that I am following. In fact, pretty much every week lately the highlight for me has been helping the other leaders. This week, it is the turn of the Val di Non group, the most distant group from Trento and another future church plant. I’m looking forward to getting encouraged by them as well!
During the week, there are some other meetings to pray for as well. There will be the first Bible study for the refounded group at the university. As I have said in the last couple of messages it has been a joy for me not only to be able to help the students start the group, but also because the university ministry is still on my heart. I also have the second meeting with someone I have started discipling and training. Pinuccia on the other hand has a planning meeting on Thursday night for the church children’s camp next summer, and on Sunday afternoon a camp reunion from last summer, of which the main aim is to continue the relationships with the many children who came and who are not from the church.