Yesterday was another heavy day (as Sundays often are on deputation), with more than three hours at two church services in the morning, and then another almost three hours in the afternoon at a recommissioning service at our main supporting church in Sydney (Carlingford Anglican). But the afternoon was very encouraging for us, reminding us […]

I did the talk at the cathedral yesterday afternoon. The talk itself came out fairly well at the end, after slaving over it for a few days, and by Wednesday I had become more comfortable with doing it - thanks for praying for that. There wasn’t a lot of public though, about 20-30 people, of […]

Note: I wrote this message last Wednesday, and only just realised that by mistake I had saved it rather than publishing it. So he it is anyway, which will help you understand the other post of today.
I was asked yesterday to do a talk at St Andrew’s Cathedral on Friday 18th, on the occasion of […]

Next week will be another busy week, although not with deputation meetings. It is the annual prayer week for European Christian Mission in Australia, so most of the week will be spent, naturally, in praying. Although there will be a few other activities as well, since most of the ECM “family” will be gathered here […]

After the anniversary of my birth on Wednesday, there was another significant milestone today: it is 15 years since I arrived in Italy as a young, eager missionary. A lot has happened since then of course, and I thank God for his support and the way he has worked in my character. I might be […]

With the reduction in my activities, I will be posting less often until the end of August since there will not be as much to say. Except when number 2 is born of course. (There are two weeks from today until the due date, so we are in the “hot” period. Literally as well, as […]

Since the school year finishes a few weeks earlier than the church year, the Youth Group is the first of my regular commitments that has gone into summer hibernation. On Saturday we took the members of the group to the ice cream parlour that is under our previous apartment - the best ice creams in […]

Last night was the reason why we came to Sicily: the wedding of Pinuccia’s cousin and one of our friends. Since it was in the same church as our wedding three years ago, it brought back memories… Even the photographer recognised us (we had suggested him to the couple, since he did such a good […]

You may have noticed that the site (and hence also this blog) have been down for more than a week. This was because the site exceeded its bandwidth limit for the month, which was Google’s fault for spidering more than 15Gb of content in 22 days (although it is true that there is a lot […]

We had a little adventure today. Just as we got out of the door to go to church, we realised that we had both forgotten our keys - with the better weather now we had both changed coats and left the keys in the other one. So we were locked out of our house, and […]