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 […]

Last night, I met with the two elders and another person of the church to talk about our plans for Rovereto, where we want to plant a new church. It is what we call the Rovereto project, which is a part of the Trentino project for the whole province which I have written about before. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tonight we will finally get to go out to celebrate Pinuccia’s birthday last Monday. The first three nights of the week I was out at Bible studies, then on Thursday Pinuccia when to a leaders’ training meeting. The first idea was to go out on Friday, which was our free night together for the week, […]

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 […]

The dinner together of the Rovereto group went well, and I could see the relationships between the members grow as there were opportunities to talk and get to know each other that there aren’t during a typical Bible study night. There were also two people who don’t come to the group usually (for my Seattle […]

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 […]