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, […]

There were a couple of special meetings at the end of last week. On Friday evening there was the monthly ladies’ study. This time it was Pinuccia’s turn to give the study. This meant that I stayed at home with the children, although it was one of the easiest evenings ever - Daniele went to […]

Yesterday we had one of our special nights with the teenagers: home made hamburgers and a couple of films. There was also the fourth member of the group for the first time for many months, and she does intend to come regularly again now. Since we started with dinner, there was a 7pm start instead […]

Last weekend Pinuccia lost her voice (probably caused by a bug that it flying around here), so she could not go to work. By the time she had regained her voice on Wednesday and went to the doctor to get a medical certificate, he said that it was better not to risk her voice and […]

I’m back at home now, after three days of long, but worthwhile, meetings at Madrid. “Necessity is the mother of invention” the saying goes, and Pinuccia discovered that she could indeed take the two children down and up the stairs by herself, which she had never done before and didn’t think was able to do. […]

No records this week, with a large number of people of the church at home with the flu. But there was nevertheless a good crowd, with several new people, to hear the president of an evangelical organisation for business and self-employed people - and then to have a good lunch together, as we usually do […]

This morning in church there were 70 regular adults, which easily broke our old record of 66. As well as that, there were more guests than usual, and more children as well. In fact there was another record, with five children less than seven months old, and they take up more space than an adult. […]

As a have often said, can’t have a meeting in Italy without eating, and so that has been big on the agenda in the last couple of days at our house. On Saturday night there were 13 here for the second combined meeting of the young adults and teenagers (plus three more who turned up […]

It’s Thursday, so I’ve finished my three Bible studies for the week. Although tonight it is Pinuccia’s turn to go out, as she will be going to a church leaders’ training meeting, and I get to look after the children and put them to bed.
Saturday is a public holiday here, but it will be a […]

My shift at the bookstall on Saturday morning went well - after almost two hours of not much happening at all (since it was still too early in the morning to have many people pass by), the last half an hour saw three interested people come to the stall to talk and take literature, including […]