Wednesday 30 September 2015

Mid-week Prayer & Envisioning Meeting


Tomorrow evening we'll have a mid-week prayer & envisioning meeting in our house.

Our desire is to keep committing to the Lord in prayer all we think, plan and do, so to be guided
by Hid wisdom and vision.

We also work to build up our church to have a passion for our community with a global vision for the world-wide work of the Lord!

Saturday 26 September 2015

Sunday Service - Bible Overview - New Testament

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 main room in
Le Torri dell'Acqua, the theatre&modern art-gallery right at the centre of Budrio, well known as a cultural meeting point.

At 10.30 am we'll continue
our series: Bible Overview

Stefano will preach on:
Our Missional God -
From the mission of the Redeeming Messiah, to a redeemed community in Mission

"And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself."
Luke 24:27 (ESV)

After the service we'll continue our fellowship enjoying a lunch together @ The Onion Fair in Mezzolara di Budrio!

Friday 25 September 2015

Porterbrook - Campus Bologna plenary session




After the graduation service we held last Sunday, where the first group of students completed the whole 3-years course,






tomorrow from 3.30 to 7.00 pm
in Nuova Vita Church we'll have
the plenary session for students
of the foundation year of
Porterbrook - Campus Bologna.




Students will engage with the module Evangelism,
led by Stefano, co-pastor of Impatto Budrio.

In this session, we'll interact with these units:
1. The message
2. The messenger
3. Building relationships



Together we'll learn how to share the gospel in everyday life with friends and neighbours.
This course teaches the importance of a church community in evangelism and making the gospel message relevant in everyday life. If our heads and our hearts are full of Jesus, then our conversations about him will flow out naturally.

Wednesday 23 September 2015

Living in the Community - The "Onion's Town Fair"

We're very excited because tomorrow will start the 57th edition of the Onion's Fair in our village.

Stefano & Jenny will be involved in serving food and helping in various ways on Tuesday, Friday, Sunday
and Monday evenings.

On Sunday we'll all go as church to have a traditional lunch with hand-made pasta at the Fair.

In the years this has proved to be a very good way
to get to know people in our community and to serve alongside them.
Please join us in praying that we'll be able to have many Gospel conversations!


Monday 21 September 2015

Bologna Pastor's Fraternal

Tomorrow Jonathan and Stefano will attend the Bologna Pastors' Fraternal.
We'll spend together the whole day at the wonderful Villa Ghigi Park in Bologna.
We'll have time to share and pray for each others and for our churches. We'll also plan some common outreach events and joined services while developing a long-term vision for a metropolitan church, discipleship & intern-ship and church-planting strategy!

Saturday 19 September 2015

Joint Service for the new Academic Year of Porterbrook Campus Bologna

Tomorrow morning we'll celebrate the Lord at the joint Service for the new Academic Year of Porterbrook - Campus Bologna hosted by Nuova Vita Church in Bologna.

5 churches of the Bologna Area will be present to honour the students from these churches who completed the full programme and to present the new Academic Year.

Gianluca, pastor of Nuova Vita,
will preach from Colossians 1:24-29
"warning everyone and teaching everyone 
to present everyone mature in Christ."

Friday 18 September 2015

2 Newspaper articles about the Exch@nge Camp in Budrio


This summer, Matteo Radogna, 
a journalist
from the national newspaper -
Il Resto del Carlino -
wrote and article about the Exch@nge Camp in the local section sold in all the Bologna province.

Follows the translation of the article.










From Houston to Budrio, in the name of friendship
Students get together to paint the sport-centre
Solidarity and good will come from where you don’t expect it. It happens in Budrio where, during a cultural exchange between students from Houston – Texas and from the Bologna county, kids, amongst many activities done during the camp, painted some areas of the sport-centre. This initiative was part of the English Sport Camp Exch@nge, organized by YfC Italia and the Baptist Church Impatto A Budrio. Exch@nge is a camp for local kids aged between 11 and 18 years-old, which offers the opportunity to improve their conversational English, to practice a lot of sport and to engage in funny yet educational group activities. The vision of Exch@nge is to offer teenagers a healthy environment where they can live growing experiences in the cultural exchange with peers from Houston – Texas, to enrich each other interacting with themes like culture, sport, fun, life, faith and much more.  
30 kids from Budrio and 10 from Houston joined the Camp with the help of many leaders from Italy, UK and US. “This year we especially interacted with our community. Alongside sport and educational activities – explains Stefano Mariotti, a Camp Staff – kids have been involved in our traditional Service Project, where we painted the athletes’ entrance and stairways of Budrio’s Sport-Centre. It was great to see Budrio kids working hard side by side with Texan kids in this edifying experience for our community to learn how to care for our town”.
They didn’t only work, they also enjoyed their time. “We organised a traditional Texan BBQ on the balcony of the Torri dell’Acqua – continues Mariotti – for friends and families of the campers, in partnership with the Torri Lounge”. The perfect ending, before the Texan team left, was a service for the kids and their families “where we celebrated together – concludes Mariotti – this incredible week explaining the values of this project”.
Matteo Radogna


The Town-Hall magazine, Terra e Civiltà, which is distributed to every resident in Budrio, published an article about the Camp.



English Sport Camp in Budrio
From the 29th of June to the 5th of July, we held in Budrio Sport-Centre the second English Sport Camp Exch@nge with the endorsement of Budrio Town Hall, organized by YfC Italy in partnership with the local Baptist Church Impatto A Budrio. 30 girls and boys aged between 11 and 18 years-old from Budrio and surrounding villages, experienced an amazing week with 10 Texan girls and boys aged between 15 and 18 years-old, their 4 leaders from Houston and many other volunteers from Italy, UK and US. During the Camp we had a lot of fun and interaction in many activities. Every morning Italian and American kids had the opportunity to engage with a Talk of 45 minutes on the theme of the day, taken from the Gospel of John. Every afternoon they interacted with an hour and half of English lesson with an English native speaker. This year we especially engaged with our local community. On Monday morning we hosted a team from the Grizzlies Lacrosse of Prato (Tuscany) and in the afternoon we had the Budrio team of Tae Kwon Do. On Tuesday morning a group of Italian and American kids had the privilege to participate in a lesson with the local Parkinson group, interacting and learning from this incredible group of elderly people. On Wednesday we enjoyed a refreshing day at Budrio’s swimming-pool. On Friday we played basket-ball and volley-ball ending the camp with the great Color War! On Saturday we painted the athletes’ entrance, corridors and stairways of the Sport-Centre. In the evening we had a traditional Texan BBQ on the balcony of the Torri dell’Acqua for  the campers and their families and friends, with the precious help of the Torri Lounge. On Sunday morning we concluded the Camp with a service for the kids and their families where we explained what we did during this amazing week and what motivates our vision. We had with us the mayor Giulio Pierini, who thanked us for this great opportunity we offer to Budrio’s teens. We would like to thank especially the local authorities and the social workers for their support and a special thank you to the Sport-Centre staff who hosted us with passion and friendship, and offered us amazing lunches!
Stefano Mariotti,
YfC Italy vice-presidents
Pastor of the Baptist Church Impatto A Budrio

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Mid-week Bible Study - Gospel Change



Tomorrow evening we'll have our home-group mid-week Bible Study in Budrio.
We'll continue to interact together concluding Unit 6: Holiness - its nature of the module
Gospel Change from the Porterbrook course. 

The goal of the Christian life is to be conformed to the likeness of Christ (Romans 8:29). In this course we will learn how to apply the gospel to our everyday life.

Saturday 12 September 2015

Sunday Service - Bible Overview - Old Testament 2

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 main room in
Le Torri dell'Acqua, the theatre&modern art-gallery right at the centre of Budrio, well known as a cultural meeting point.



At 10.00 am we'll enjoy our time as a church family
with a coffee & fellowship together.


At 10.30 am we'll continue
our series: Bible Overview

Stefano will preach on:
The Lord of the Promise -
from the Promised Land to the Promised Messiah

"And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself."

Luke 24:27 (ESV)

Saturday 5 September 2015

Sunday Service - Bible Overview 1

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 main room in
Le Torri dell'Acqua, the theatre&modern art-gallery right at the centre of Budrio, well known as a cultural meeting point.



At 10.00 am we'll enjoy our time as a church family
with a coffee & fellowship together.




At 10.30 am we'll start a new series: Bible Overview
Jonathan will preach from Creation to the Promised Land.

"And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself."
Luke 24:27 (ESV)