lot of last week was spent thinking about and planning the dinner on Saturday night for the young adults of the church. And then on Saturday the whole day was spent preparing the house (a super cleaning session, and furniture rearranging) and then the dinner. We ended up with 22 people coming to dinner, [...]

The highlight of this week was the cancellation of the church leaders’ training meeting on Thursday night. Not because it isn’t good – Pinuccia goes to those meetings and finds them very helpful – but because it was also Pinuccia’s birthday. Since I am out most nights, and Pinuccia out the others, being able to [...]

I spent most of the week thinking it was the wrong day. Firstly because on Monday the whole family went to the ECM-Italy meeting a couple of hours to the south of Trento, which seemed like a weekend activity. So Tuesday seemed like Monday. As well as that Stefania had a slight cold, and so [...]

I did (just) manage to prepare the last two studies of the two series of Bible studies that we are doing in the church this academic year (until the end of June). So that gives me about three months of extra time, to dedicate to my Internet ministry, improving my web site and my computer [...]

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 [...]

Pinuccia got through her week with various commitments – ladies’ Bible study on Thursday and Sunday School teachers’ meeting on Saturday. The teachers’ meeting is always interesting: with eight females and myself, there is a different way of discussion to what I am used to in male dominated meetings!
This week it is my turn, with [...]

I’m getting ready to go out for the monthly service at Rovereto (where it will be my turn to preach), but apart from that the week is over for me, and so I can write a bit. In any case, when I return from the service, it will be straight to dinner, then getting the [...]

We are in the middle of packing for our departure for Australia tomorrow afternoon. Although I must say that we have found it a lot easier packing for a visit in summer, there are a lot less clothes to take. So in fact we have almost finished, and tomorrow morning we will pack the things [...]

We were supposed to be, at the moment, in the middle of four heavy days. But Stefania got a fever on Thursday night, which meant that we dropped out of a lot of our commitments, and life became a bit easier. On Saturday afternoon, I went to the Bible study in the Valsugana by myself, [...]

The main non regular event this week was on Saturday afternoon, where the two older classes of the Sunday School worked on preparing for next Sunday’s market day in the church. They created wrappings for home made goods (that some people in the church had made), plus signs and other things for the sale, and [...]