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 […]

Tomorrow (Saturday) we go to Canberra for 8 days, our first trip of our deputation time in Australia, with three services to speak at in one church on Sunday, two services in another church the following Sunday, and seven other meetings of the two churches in the week in between. So we will be kept […]

Only another 7 hours until we leave the house now. Then there will be 26 hours in planes and stopovers, 30 hours from door to door. Having an evening flight makes things a bit more relaxed, as we can do the last bit of packing today, and there are also a few chores to do […]

Daniele and I did not hold out much longer after my last post: Daniele got a fever a Sunday night, and I got the other symptoms of this type of laryngitis on Monday. I seem to get sick a lot more often with two children, although at least I did not get a fever this […]

I blogged a few weeks ago about the end of an era for me, as I stopped going to the last of the cell groups that I was running 5 years ago. Today might go down in the history of the church as the beginning of a new era. After the service and the monthly […]

We came back this afternoon from our week at the ECM biennial conference in Spain. Every conference lately for me has been different, going by myself six years ago, on my honeymoon four years ago, then with a six month old baby, and this time with two small children. So this time there were less […]

The trip to Desenzano on Monday went well - it took us quite a few months to get it organised so that all the ECM missionaries in Italy could come, but in the end it was a good time together, even though with everyone having to travel to get there there was not a lot […]

There was an interesting study last night in the cell group, where someone was present who had been in Catholic religious orders for 9 years (as a Jesuit, as a monk, and in other forms); he is now studying theology at Trento, but believes after having read Luther and other Protestant theologians that the Catholic […]

We are about half way through our time in Sicily, and with visits to family, friends and church (plus the usual end of year activities) we have had just two free nights so far, and maybe just one more for the rest of our stay. So in that respect it is not too much different […]

This week Pinuccia and Daniele have been doing a baby massage course, which someone in the church has been running at Trento. Pinuccia had in fact got some personal lessons when Stefania was born, but the revision has been helpful, and in any case the course needed some mothers and babies to demonstrate the techniques […]