Saturday 16 March 2024

Sunday Service: Visiting Preacher - Billy Goss

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.

 

Billy Goss mission director of The Baptist Preparatory School in Little Rock, Arkansas, US, will preach on: "Grace - The perfect power of weakness" from 2Corinthians 12:7-10.
The Lord said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2Corinthians 12:9-10.
 
During the service we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper and The Baptit Prep. choir students will conclude with a time of praise and testimonies followed by a family lunch!

Monday 11 March 2024

App2Timothy - Mid-Week Bible Study

Tomorrow evening we'll have our App2Timothy (Applying the 2nd Pastoral Letter of Paul to Timothy), our series of Mid-Week Bible Studies in which we'll keep interacting with what we're learning through the preaching in our Sunday services 

We'll meet at the Central Café, in Budrio, where we'll engage with 2 Timothy 4:1-22.

Saturday 9 March 2024

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 4:9-22

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


At 10.30 we'll start our service continuing our series on the Pastoral Epistles. We'll engage with 2Timothy 4:9-22 - God's Grace is with us!
This is the certain hope that Christ gave to Paul in the prison in Rome, the certainty that Jesus will save him in his heavenly Kingdom, that the Kingdom of Christ is real: it has come and is coming, it is fulfilled and is being fulfilled, that God's missional will is done on earth as it is in heaven, even as Nero's reign is about to end Paul's life, because the church, even in its weakness, by faith and in the power of the Holy Spirit, lives and proclaims the Gospel to all nations!
"Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Matthew 6:9-13
 
We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Friday 8 March 2024

Theology for Breakfast

Tomorrow we'll continue
our series of meetings:  
Theology for Breakfast! 
Following Luther's Table Talks example, we'll meet from 9 to 11am @ Central Café in Mezzolara where, while enjoying a breakfast with capuccino & croissants, we'll engage with God's Word discovering the beauty of theology in our everyday life!


Together we'll interact with the module: Union with Christ, starting Unit 1: "What Is Union With Christ".
 

Union with Christ is the centre of the gospel. It’s been called the central doctrine of salvation. This course will teach you how the profound truth of a Christian's union and identity with Christ drives us to mission and joy in him.
All that Christ has achieved for his people is ours through our union with him. Heart change and mission flow out of who Jesus is, and how we are bound to him by faith. This course will teach you to understand and enjoy your relationship with Jesus in everyday life on mission.

Saturday 2 March 2024

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 4:6-8

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


At 10.30 we'll start our service continuing our series on the Pastoral Epistles. We'll engage with 2Timothy 4:6-8 - I have kept the faith!
While many have shipwrecked in the faith, the Lord has judged Paul faithful (1Timothy 1:12 contains this adjective), and He has kept him faithful in finishing the race of the ministry, he has been given to do. Paul is telling Timothy that it is the faithfulness of God that, just as He sustained him and kept him faithful, will sustain Timothy in keeping him faithful in living and preaching the Gospel. It is Jesus who, by his death and resurrection, has secured for his people the crown of righteousness!
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:1-2
 
We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Wednesday 28 February 2024

App2Timothy - Mid-Week Bible Study

Tomorrow evening we'll have our App2Timothy (Applying the 2nd Pastoral Letter of Paul to Timothy), our series of Mid-Week Bible Studies in which we'll keep interacting with what we're learning through the preaching in our Sunday services 

We'll meet at the Central Café, in Budrio, where we'll engage with 2 Timothy 3:1-17.

Saturday 24 February 2024

10th Anniversary of Church la Piazza - All the cities and villages!

Tomorrow afternoon we'll celebrate the 10th Anniversary of our church presence in Budrio, at the Auditorium.

From the beginning our church vision has been characterised by the desire to live the Gospel in the Community, carrying out the Mission of Christ!

This vision emerges clearly in our name, which refers back to the Book of Acts, in the Bible, where we read of the Apostle Paul's arrival in the city of Athens. Here we find him daily in the market square reasoning and discussing the Gospel with those who were there (Acts 17:17). Every Italian piazza is then made up of the many typical blocks, represented in the cross of our logo, reminding us how each of our church family members is unique and different, but in Christ we are united in a wonderful way to be together the body of his church (Romans 12:4-5). 

"All towns and villages!" is the theme we choose for our 10th anniversary, taken from the words of the Gospel of Matthew 9:35 - "Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages... proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom!"
Our desire is to translate into practice the love of Jesus for all cities and villages, which includes and enhances mutual opportunities and challenges, developing a joint vision, between and for, the urban and rural context. 

For this we're very happy to have as speakers: Mark Reeves, pastor of Buffalo City Church in Jamestown, US, who has experience in pastoring churches both in urban and rural contexts; Rob Scothern, pastor of Peak Trinity in Bakewell, UK, member of the Steering Group of The Rural Project and Elio Vannelli, vice-chairman of Acts 29 Italy!

Sunday Service: Visiting Preachers - Mark Reeves & Rob Scothern

Tomorrow we'll have a special morning service for our 10th anniversary to celebrate God's faithfulness.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


We'll have with us, Mark Reeves, pastor of Buffalo City Church in Jamestown, North Dakota, US, who will lead our worship, celebrating the richness of God's people from every nation, and Rob Scothern pastor of Peak Trinity Church in Bakewell, Peak District, UK, who will preach on "The Great Banquet" from Luke 14:12-24.
We have been called to the feast, to come without money and eat. There’s strength for the weary and hope for the poor; at the table of the Lord. And, we have been called to extend the Lord’s invitation - to the city and the countryside.
 
During the service we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper and we'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Friday 23 February 2024

Jeremiah 29:7 - Seek the welfare of the city!

Tomorrow morning we'll have a meeting in Budrio Town Council Hall with the mayor and the councillor for School Policies, Associations and Active Citizenship Projects, with our friends from Buffalo City Church, Jamestown, US, and from Peak Trinity Church, Bakewell, UK, and with various representatives of the musical, cultural, sporting and social promotion associations of Budrio, to learn about and explore the possibility of joint initiatives with the communities of Jamestown in North Dakota, US and Bakewell in the Peak District, UK.

Saturday 17 February 2024

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 4:1-5

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


At 10.30 we'll start our service continuing our series on the Pastoral Epistles. We'll engage with 2Timothy 4:1-5 - Preach the Word!
Paul charges us to preach and live the Word of God, for our responsibility is not only to hear it, believe it, and obey it, but also to proclaim it and live it before everyone, in the power of the Holy Spirit, who guides us in urging, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting, in season and out of season, with complete patience and teaching, for now is the day of salvation!
"Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, "In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation." 2Corinthians 5:20-6:2
 
We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Sunday 11 February 2024

Home groups & Missionary Prayer Meeting

On Monday the 12th we'll have our home groups. We'll have a bring and share meal and we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper together, with a family prayer time involving little ones and grown ups.

This month we'll also have with us on Zoom Giuseppe & Sun-min, who will share how the Lord is guiding them to serve Him in Germany working with WEC with refugees.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”  C.T. Studd, founder of WEC International.

Saturday 10 February 2024

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 3:10-17

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


At 10.30 we'll start our service continuing our series on the Pastoral Epistles. We'll engage with 2Timothy 3:10-17 - You, however, follow and be steadfast in Christ!
Only those who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus, are steadfast in Christ and follow him in His mission, expecting persecutions and conversions, and the means that God uses in the power of the Holy Spirit, to give the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, is the Word of God: believed and lived, proclaimed and taught, in the family, in the church and in the world.
"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession." Hebrews 4:12-14
 
We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Saturday 3 February 2024

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 3:1-9

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


At 10.30 we'll start our service continuing our series on the Pastoral Epistles. We'll engage with 2Timothy 3:1-9 - The difficult times of apparent religion!
Paul shows us true love in the beauty of biblical harmony, between the sovereignty of God preserving both the truth of His Word and the missional faithfulness of His Church; and our responsibility to defend the truth of His Word and protect His Church by clearly proclaiming and openly living the Gospel.
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." Luke 10:27

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Saturday 27 January 2024

Under the sun of rural Tuscany!

This afternoon Stefano will speak at a meeting of young people from Tuscany. Stranger Teens is a programme for middle and high school teens organised monthly by the Evangelical Church in Sovigliana. Stefano will present the Youth for Christ Italy programme on the theme of Gender, starting with 2 films from 2023: Barbie & Close

Tomorrow morning he'll be with our dear friends from the Evangelical Church in Montespertoli, preaching from 1Timothy 1:1-11 - The aim of our charge is love! It will be a joy to share God's Word with the loved ones of this church that Stefano has known and appreciated since he was a teenager!

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 2:22-26

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on the Pastoral Epistles. With Matteo we'll engage with 2 Timothy 2:22-26 - The Lord's Servant flees, pursues and hopes in the Lord!
This is the Lord's Servant: able to teach the church, able to instruct the opponents! This is the work of the Lord's Servant par excellence, this is the work of Jesus, our Servant-King:
"Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice." Isaiah 42:1-3

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Friday 26 January 2024

Theology for Breakfast

Tomorrow we'll continue
our series of meetings:  
Theology for Breakfast! 
Following Luther's Table Talks example, we'll meet from 9 to 11am @ Central Café in Mezzolara where, while enjoying a breakfast with capuccino & croissants, we'll engage with God's Word discovering the beauty of theology in our everyday life!


Together we'll interact with the module: Gospel Relationships, concluding Unit 9: "Parenting".
 
Relationships are fundamental to our identity, yet they are fraught with difficulty, fear, conflict and uncertainty. Coming to Christ puts us automatically into relationship with a community of his people. The gospel enables relationships to fulfil their purpose and design. The gospel transforms all our relationships. It resolves conflict, and gives new purpose to friendships, parenting and marriages. Together we'll discover how we can be freed to serve and love others with gospel intentionality. 

Saturday 20 January 2024

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 2:20-21

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on the Pastoral Epistles. With Stefano we'll engage with 2 Timothy 2:20-21 - Pure, honourable, sanctified, useful for the master's service!
The ultimate purpose of our purification and sanctification, is that of lovingly serving Christ, and His church, in His mission: this is the revolution of the Servant-King!
"...You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." Mark 10:42-45

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.

Monday 15 January 2024

App2Timothy - Mid-Week Bible Study

Tomorrow evening we'll have our App2Timothy (Applying the 2nd Pastoral Letter of Paul to Timothy), our series of Mid-Week Bible Studies in which we'll keep interacting with what we're learning through the preaching in our Sunday services 

We'll meet at the bookshop La Terza Stanza, in Budrio. Stefano will lead this time where we'll engage with 2 Timothy 2:1-19.

Saturday 13 January 2024

Sunday Service: Visiting Preacher - Joshua Withman

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 

 

 

 

 

We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.


 
At 10.30 we'll start our service and Joshua Withman, Pastor of the Acts29 La Rocca Church in Imola, will preach on "The Return of Christ: What's it to me? " from 2 Peter 3:11-18
 
How do we await the return of Christ?
Do we long for the Jesus' return, awaiting it and hastening it, being diligent to be found without spot or blemish in peace, being on guard and growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
 
During the service we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper and we'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.