Evening service @ Kesgrave Baptist Church

Great time of fellowship yesterday with our new friends from Kesgrave Baptist Church!

Thankful for their warm welcome and their prayers for the Lord’s work in Budrio!

Sunday Afternoon Service @ Pakenham Christian Fellowship

Tomorrow afternoon Stefano will be with our friends from Pakenham Christian Fellowship for their Afternoon Service.

Stefano will preach from Matthew 11:16-30 - To what shall we compare this generation?

It will be a privilege to share God's Word with these dear friends and Gospel partners!

Sunday Morning Service @ Westgate Chapel - Bury St. Edmunds

Tomorrow Stefano will join our friends from Westgate Chapel in Bury St. Edmunds, for their morning service.

During the service he'll share about the Lord's Work in Budrio, thanking this church for their precious Gospel partnership during last May flood in our region.

It will be great to renew our fellowship with this church!

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 1:13-18

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 1:13-18 - Guard the Good Deposit! 

To guard the Good Deposit of the Gospel is both to defend it and to share it, and we must not think that we have to do this in our own strength, but only by the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, because, as John Stott wrote: "in entrusting the deposit to our hands, God has not taken his own hands off it. He is himself its final guardian, and he will preserve the truth which he has committed to the church"!

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

2023 EMF Regional Conference: Bridging the Gap

Tomorrow Stefano will join the 2023 EMF Regional Conference, at WelwynEvangelical Church, UK.

The theme of the conference is Bridging the Gap: Connecting with people for the Gospel. The aim is to address the need to connect with our communities, in order to be able to share the Gospel with them – something that many Christians (and churches) find increasingly difficult, especially as the society in which we live gets farther and farther away from any kind of Christian influence. How can we connect with non-Christians without compromising our commitment to faithful Christian discipleship?

There’ll be a video input from Glen Scrivener, director of the SpeakLife ministry, who will talk about the Challenge of Bridging the Gap.

Then José Moreno Berrocal will speak about connecting with people in Spain, and Stefano about connecting with people in Italy.

At the end there’ll be a panel discussion led by EMF’s Field DirectorAndrew Birch where we’ll engage with what can we learn from Jesus himself and what are the biblical principles which can guide our actions in connecting with people for the Gospel!

 

Watch an excerpt from the video:

“We go to the little, the least, the last, and the lost.” Glen Scrivener 

IDOP 2023 - International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

Tomorrow afternoon we'll join the IDOP 2023 - International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church promoted the WEA - World Evangelical Alliance.

Together with the churches from the Bologna area, we'll intercede for Israel and Gaza, for Qatar, for China and Myanmar and other countries where to follow Jesus costs more!

“If one member suffers, we all suffer together; if one member is honoured, all rejoice together.” 1 Corinthians 12:26

Sunday Service: Pastoral Epistles - 2Timothy 1:6-12

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 1:1-5- Fan into flame the gift of God, because you know whom you have believed! 

Nowhere does Paul tell us that our faith grows in proportion to our efforts, but he does tell us that the reason he is not ashamed of Christ or the Gospel of Christ, is because he knows in whom he has believed, so his, and our faith, grows in proportion to our knowledge of Christ! "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."." Romans 1:16-17

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. We'll start Unit 7: "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 1:1-5

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 with our series on the Pastoral Epistles. With Stefano we'll engage with 2 Timothy 1:1-5- A sincere faith in the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus! 

Paul shows us the greatness of God's love that fulfils the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus, reminding us that in Christ, God has only children and not grandchildren, yet our personal salvation by grace, takes place in a context of God's people, we are saved into God's family and Jesus' missional church! "...Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord." 2 Timothy 1:2

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: Visiting Preacher - Marco Martella

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 Marco Martella, Pastor of the Acts29 church plant Nuova Vita DownTown in Bologna, will preach on "This is what it means to be a Gospel-centred church" from Acts 2:37-47. 

 

A Gospel-centred church, is a church which manifests the beauty and glory of the Kingdom of God, which proclaims the Good News of the Gospel in words and deeds, and which brings the joy of Christ into the lives of many!

 

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 - Budrio Home Family Group

Tomorrow evening we'll have our Home Family Group in Budrio, hosted by the Savino'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.