Tomorrow we'll have a special New Year's Eve Family Time hosted by Justin & Carli for a traditional New Year bring & share dinner.
At 11.30pm we'll join Budrio community
for the traditional bonfire by the Christmas tree in the main square.
At midnight we'll celebrate the arrival of 2020 with panettone and spumante & mulled wine.
This is a great opportunity to celebrate with our community and to strengthen many relationships and friendships!
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 20:18-26 - The fear of God creates a life of trust in Him.
Together we'll see see the beauty of Jesus: "since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." Hebrews 10:19-22
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.
Today we completed our Christmas & Boxing Day outreach in Budrio.
We've been at the
Elderly Citizens Center where Jenny shared the history of Boxing Day and the
beautiful biblical value of gratitude and to value those who work for the good
of the community.
With Santa we sang some carols and
we made small chocolate boxes, to say
THANK YOU!
Stefano gave a Talk from John 3:16 pointing out to God's greatest
gift in Jesus!
We had a special Cracking Christmas Party for our MySpace after-school club for teenagers and we were encouraged that some of the parents came along too!
We played
lots of fun & interactive games like: Mr Bean Crackers, Christmas
Crackers, Snowball & Spoon Relay Race, Christmas Task List, On the Edge,
The Right Left Nativity & Boxing Day Thank You!
Stefano gave a Talk point out
that Jesus is more than "the reason for the season", because the season belongs to Jesus,
but the
reason is us!
On Sunday the 22nd we organized a special Christmas Family Service and we were so encouraged that 3 families from the MySpace teenagers work came along!
Franco, one of our church-members, dressed up as Santa explaining kids how the
tradition of giving gifts is a reminder of
The Gift that God had wrapped in His Son
delivered for us to deliver us from our sin!
Stefano
preached from Acts 20:32-35 and John 3:16-21, pointing out how living the
Gospel, means to experience the counter-cultural joy of giving, yet only God is
the perfect giver who give us himself in Jesus: the real gift of Christmas!
On Christmas & Boxing Day, as a church
family we shared the beautiful biblical value of gratitude and to value
those who work for the good of the community, giving a simple box of chocolates
to the volunteers of the Civil Protection, to the Firemen, to the Armed Forces,
to the Emergency Department, to the City Police, to thank them for their
service throughout the year for our community and for working during the Christmas holidays! What a
beautiful way to translate the true meaning of Christmas into practice, with
the gift that God made of his Son, who became man to give himself on the cross,
giving us peace with God and the new life of His resurrection!
In the mornings of the 25th and the 26th of December, we'll be in various places in Budrio for our Christmas Outreach focused on a Boxing Day theme.
As a church family we want to share the beautiful biblical value of gratitude and to value those who work for the good of the community, giving a simple box of chocolates to the volunteers of the Civil Protection, to the Firemen, to the Armed Forces, to the Emergency Deparment, to the Municipal Police, to thank them for their service throughout the year for our community and for working on Christmas day!
What a beautiful way to translate the true meaning of Christmas into practice, with the gift that God made of his Son, who became man to give himself on the cross, giving us peace with God and the new life of His resurrection!
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Tomorrow we'll have a special Christmas 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.
At 10.00 we'll start our service, little ones and grown ups together. We've invited many friends and families from the MySpace Club for teenagers. Stefano will preach from Acts 20:32-36 and John 3:16-21, where we'll see how living the Gospel, means to experience the counter-cultural joy of giving, yet only God is the perfect giver who give us himself in Jesus: the real gift of Christmas! We'll conclude the service with a family time, enjoying together some gingerbread biscuits.
We'll interact with the Porterbrook module: Gospel Change. With Stefano we'll engage with Unit 2.Gospel change and repentance.
The goal of the Christian life is to be conformed to the likeness of
Christ (Romans 8:29). Together we'll learn how to apply the Gospel to our everyday life. We'll find out how
change takes place as God’s truth is applied to the heart, and also how
to effectively minster the Gospel to those around us.
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.
A Cracking Christmas, Mr Bean Crackers, Christmas Crackers, Snowball & Spoon Relay Race, Christmas Task List, On the Edge, The Right Left Nativity, The Reason for the Season, Boxing Day Thank You,
which will serve
as illustrations to Stefano's Talkfrom John 3:16 where
we'll see that Jesus is not reason for the season, the season belongs to Jesus, but the reason is us!
