Stefania has successfully overcome her first week of pre-school. She quite enjoyed it, and looked forward to going each day. She didn’t actually speak to the other children or the teachers (in either language), but she did at least play with some others instead of playing by herself with other children around, which is what […]

First day of school today for Stefania and Pinuccia. Stefania seemed to cope with her hour and a half, although she is so calm that she doesn’t usually let anything upset her. Daniele seemed more upset, because he wasn’t allowed to stay with all the toys. Pinuccia had a longer day than usual, since there […]

Maybe it is not quite holidays, since there are a lot of things to do around the house, and small projects (like my tax return and making a family video of our time in Australia) that I want to wrap up before the church and school commitments start up, but it is a nice break […]

Last night I led my last Bible study for the church year, and so naturally also my last before we leave for Australia. There are still a few commitments left (guests passing through tonight, end of year ice cream with the Youth Group on Saturday, church on Sunday (including the end of year presentation by […]

Things are starting to come to a close here - partly because summer is on the way (although the official break doesn’t start for another five weeks) and partly because we will be leaving in 10 days’ time. So for example on Thursday night there was the last meeting of the cell group leaders together, […]

We were kept busy over the weekend by various activities. First of all, the local cooperative bank had its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, and the band was invited to play at a refreshment afterwards. Unfortunately, as AGMs tend to do it finished late, so we waited around in a big tent under the rain […]

The house has been getting a good clean lately, with quite a few visits. First on Saturday there was the usual Youth Group meeting. Then on Sunday we had invited three people for lunch after church. However at the last minute they had three guests from another part of Italy come with them to the […]

Since Thursday is the only night that no cell groups meet in the church, it is set aside for leaders’ meetings - usually the church committee, training and coordination meetings. But the free Thursday nights are also used for other meetings - and sometimes there are not enough such free nights. So last night at […]

Yesterday I had my annual meeting with the elders, to talk about the program for the cell groups after the summer break, and about my personal program. We try to have partly a common program across the groups (a direction that we want the church as a whole to go), whilst leaving freedom for each […]

Yesterday was a public holiday (just as in Australia), and we took the opportunity to go to Bologna (240 km south of here) for the annual meeting with the other seven churches of an association that the church at Trento belongs to. There were about 40 from the church present, which is the most we […]