About a month ago I saw that one of the most famous Italian singers of the 70s and 80s (although he is still regularly making records and appearing on TV) was coming to Trento - Claudio Baglioni if you are interested. Since he is Pinuccia’s favourite singer, the concert was a Tuesday (my free night) […]
I have finished now my three studies for this week, although I do have to prepare the meeting for Saturday with the youth, but that will be easier because there isn’t a study this week. We are instead today getting things ready for the visit of the new ECM-Australia director this afternoon for three days, […]
The plans for these few freer days did not really work out. Stefania and I remained sick, every early evening my temperature shot up to 39 or 40, Stefania regularly gets a fever at 2am, and Pinuccia has been busy looking after both of us. So there was no trip to Pinuccia’s relatives, no planning […]
Yesterday I had my last study before the Christmas-New Year break, which lasts until January 8. It is a bit longer than the usual two weeks, since I didn’t have anything on Thursday and Friday anyway, and the day that everything in Italy usually restarts (the 7th, the day after Epiphany, or as they call […]
The long weekend at the GBU [the Italian Christian student movement] conference went well. Don Carson’s talks were as good as I expected them to be. There was quite a crowd of 350 people, which is a most I have ever seen at a Christian meeting in Italy. There were many people that I knew […]
This is one of the exceptions to getting one night free a week, as I mentioned last week. Today is a public holiday, so I have both today and tomorrow night free. Public holidays used to be a bit of a nuisance to me, as it didn’t change much except I was able to do […]
Welcome to my blog, in which I will try to keep you more up to date with what is happening in my ministry and my life than is possible with the printed and e-mail newsletters. The aim will be to write a couple of times a week, and at least once a week, although whether […]