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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Dinner & Prayer - Mezzolara Home Family Group

Tomorrow evening we'll have our Home Family Group in Mezzolara, hosted by the Cutuli's.

We'll dine together sharing the many good foods brought by everyone and we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper, with a missionale family prayer time involving little ones and grown ups together.

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 2:14-19

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 2:14-19 - The Lord knows his workers: approved and satisfied!

Just as Paul in prison is certain that the Gospel of Truth is not bound, he is certain that the church will not be destroyed, because the foundation of Christ is solid! Just as Paul is certain that God knows who are his, he is certain that the Gospel is to be proclaimed to all!

"...You are God's building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 3:9-11