Tuesday 30 April 2019

Labour Day PicNic & Prayer Time


Tomorrow we'll have a church picnic @ Budrio's park on Labour day. We'll have a time of prayer to intercede for our schools and workplaces, where God has placed us to live the Gospel of Christ as salt and light!

Saturday 27 April 2019

Uncover Luke 4 older teens - Evidence C: A tale of two sons

Tomorrow afternoon we'll have our Uncover Club,
a programme 4 older teens to engage with Luke's Gospel!

Uncover - See for Yourself!, is an interactive Bible Study for Young Adults created by UCCF to engage with Luke's Gospel, which was written as an investigation into the life and purpose of Jesus Christ. Uncover will help us to investigate Jesus’ claims and experience the life he offers.

Tomorrow with Colin & Ester, we'll engage with 
Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 and we'll see that Jesus tells us a
story where the rebel son comes home and the moral religious son stays outside. Which one are you?


Sunday Service: Exodus 12:43-13:10

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







Tomorrow we'll meet at the Music Hall in Budrio's Library.

At 10.00 we'll start our service with our series on The Book of Exodus.
With Stefano we'll engage with  
Exodus 12:43-13:10 - A redeemed people from every nation!
Together we'll see see the beauty of Jesus, since "we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers." Romans 8:28-29




Matteo & Jenny will lead our children's
programme based on The Gospel Project for kids,
in which week by week kids engage with the same
Bible passage and families will have activities
to keep interacting with God's Word during the week.

Friday 26 April 2019

Theology for Breakfast with Porterbrook!

Tomorrow we'll continue
with our meeting:  
Theology for Breakfast!

Following Luther's Table Talks example, we'll meet from 9am to 11am @ Central Café
in Mezzolara where, while enjoying a breakfast with capuccino & croissant or
bread + butter + jam,
we'll engage with God's Word discovering the beauty of theology in our everyday life!

We'll interact with the Porterbrook module:
The Bible in Missional Perspective.
With Stefano we'll engage with Unit 8.
Our Solution Purchased (the cross)
 
Together we'll walk through the Bible as the story of God's mission to redeem the world through his Son. We’ll find out why the church is so central to mission, and how to see everyday life through the Gospel lens.

Thursday 25 April 2019

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Festival!



Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
our My Space Club 4 Teens
for this school-year.
We organize this club for local kids,
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
as part of their after-school programme.

In this way we have a fantastic room
with a courtyard in Budrio Library
and the social workers are sending
some of the kids they follow.
As part of our club, we also offer help
with their English home-works.





     

Together we'll engage with the YfC Rock Solid material,
interacting with the theme: Festival!

We'll play lots of fun games like:  
Rock Solid Festival!, Bag & Race, 
Pump It Up, Dream Festival, Paper Heads, Laughter, Joy & Celebration, Festival Prep, The Nitty Gritty, Bunting Prayer, 
Spread The Festival Spirit, Hopes & Fears, Celebrate, which will serve as illustrations
to Justin's Talk from Romans 14:17, where we'll see that the kingdom of God
is not a matter of eating and drinking
but of righteousness and peace and joy
in the Holy Spirit!

Saturday 20 April 2019

Easter Family Service

Tomorrow at 10.00 we'll have our
Easter Family 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.



Justin will preach from Luke 23:33-47:  
A sacrifice - our salvation proclaimed!

As church family, little ones and grown ups,
we'll be exposed together to the amazing news of Jesus' Resurrection!
We'll do an activity together to remember how
from Passover to Easter,
the Resurrection is still a good news is for us today!

We'll conclude with the celebration of the  
Lord's Supper,
engaging with 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Thursday 18 April 2019

Good Friday - Family Time

This year for Good Friday,
we'll have a special Family Time.
We'll watch the 2018 movie
Paul, Apostle of Christ,
which portrays the story of Paul,
who was known as a ruthless persecutor of Christians prior to his conversion.

Thursday 11 April 2019

2nd The Gospel Coalition Italy National Conference - 12-14/04/2019

Tomorrow our church will participate to the  
2nd TGC Italy National Conference.


The main speaker will be
D.A. Carson, one of the founding members of the
TGC international.

Carson will teach about  
Christ in the Psalms
from Psalm 2, 40, 73, 110.

The council members of the TGCItaly will lead and speak a two workshops:

Jonathan and GianLuca will engage with:  
Creating a Gospel-centred culture in a church-plant and in an existing church.

Mark and Stefano will engage with: Gospel living in a city and in a rural context.

 

Tuesday 9 April 2019

AppExodus - Mid-Week Bible Study - Exodus 12

Tomorrow evening we'll have our
AppExodus (Applying Exodus), 
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.
Justin will lead this time where as 
church-family we'll engage with what 
we are studying from Exodus 12!

Saturday 6 April 2019

Christianity Explored - The World We All Want!

Tomorrow afternoon we'll continue with our Christianity Explored Bible Study,
for every age-group!
We have now a regular group of students,
so after having completed our studies on
the Gospel of Mark and Luke,
we engage with The World We All Want course to discover together the big message of the whole Bible.
We run these public meetings @ the Café of the theatre we use for our Sunday meetings!
The World We All Want presents the gospel through the Bible story. It presents the biblical worldview that people need if they are to understand the work of Christ.
Often presentations of the gospel are individualistic, focusing on an individual's relationship with God. It then becomes difficult to teach people about the church except in functional terms or terms than contradict the message of grace. The focus of the Bible, however, is on God's plan to create a people who are his people.


Tomorrow with Stefano
we'll continue with Session Two:
Jesus shows us God's new world -
Mark chapters 4-5 and 8.

The course begins by engaging with people's desire for a better world, showing how God promises such a world in the Bible and how Jesus gave us a glimpse of that world. This provides a natural point of contact with people; a common aspiration.
It establishes at the beginning of the course a reason why the Bible story is so important. As the course develops, however,
it makes it clear that this world cannot be human-centred,
it must be God-centred.

Sunday Service: Exodus 12:37-42

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 we'll start our service with our series on The Book of Exodus.
With Justin we'll engage with  
Exodus 12:37-42: 
Israel's Redemption & us!
Together we'll see see the beauty of Jesus,
"For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
1 Corinthians 5:7-8




Nino & Tiziana will lead our children's programme
based on The Gospel Project for kids,
in which week by week kids engage with the same
Bible passage and families will have activities
to keep interacting with God's Word during the week.

Thursday 4 April 2019

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Plot Twist 3: Death and Resurrection!



Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
our My Space Club 4 Teens
for this school-year.
We organize this club for local kids,
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
as part of their after-school programme.

In this way we have a fantastic room
with a courtyard in Budrio Library
and the social workers are sending
some of the kids they follow.
As part of our club, we also offer help
with their English home-works.





     

Together we'll engage with the YfC Rock Solid material,
interacting with the theme: Plot Twist 3: 
Death and Resurrection!
We'll play lots of fun games like:  
The Return of The Plot Twist, Plot Twist: Would you rather..., The Ultimate Warrior, The Ultimate Rescuer, The Police, Jesus/Sin/You, Back to Life, The Biggest Plot Twist Ever, The Twist, which will serve as illustrations to Stefano's Talk. 
Plot Twist is a 3 part series that gives an overview of the gospel story, pointing to the Easter story. The last session in the series looks at the story of Jesus himself - why he lived and how he died and rose again... and what that means for us. It also looks at how this is a pivotal part in the gospel, but how the gospel is still playing out today

Wednesday 3 April 2019

Mid-week prayer meeting

Tomorrow evening we'll have our mid-week prayer meeting with our church family.

Justin will lead this time where we'll engage with 1 John 1:8-10 and the prayer of confession!

We'll also have a time to thank the Lord 
for how he is building our church family, opening doors for the Gospel in our community, and for his global work!