My Space outreach club for teens - last meeting!

Tomorrow afternoon we'll have the last
MySpace club for teens in Budrio.

We'll have a relaxed time together,
enjoying a nice Ice-cream @
the best Gelateria in Budrio!

We pray for these kids we got to know during the year and that we'll be able to strengthening our friendship with them @ the Exch@nge Summer Camp!

Mid-week Bible Study - Gospel Change

Mid-week Bible Study - Gospel Change

Pubblicato da Stefano Mariotti

Tomorrow evening we'll have our home-group mid-week Bible Study in Budrio.
We'll interact together with Unit 5:

The means of grace - the bible, prayer and community 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.
It teaches Christians to connect the truth about God with our 'Monday-morning struggles'.
We will 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.

Porterbrook Campus Bologna - Planning meeting & Pastors' Fraternal

Tomorrow Stefano will meet
with Gianluca & Mark co-pastors
of Nuova Vita Church and Gianpaolo pastor
of Forte Torre Church to pray for the students
of the Percorsi Campus Bologna.

We'll have a feedback meeting for this academic year and we'll plan for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Later we'll attend the Bologna Pastors' Fraternal where we'll have time to share and pray for each others and our for churches. We'll also plan some common outreach events, joined services and a vision to develop a "Metropolitan Church" in Bologna.



We are moving forward with the idea to adopt the
confessional statement and theological vision for ministry of The Gospel Coalition as defining documents for our network of churches in training and working together.

Sunday afternoon service in Budrio - Acts 21:1-26

Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
our Sunday afternoon service as
Impatto A Budrio church-plant.







Stefano will lead this Family Time focused on God's Word.
We'll continue our series on Acts engaging with Acts 21:1-26
"A missional interdependency & unity in the body of Christ".



Our desire is to grow in our comprehension of
the unity we have in Christ and our vision for reaching out the community of Budrio with a sense of the global reality of God's Kingdom.



We'll have a time of vision and prayer followed by a family bring&share meal together.


We'll also celebrate the Lord's Supper
to enjoy our unity in Christ while proclaiming His resurrection and life!

Sunday Service in Chiesa Evangelica Montespertoli

On Sunday morning Stefano will be with
our friends from the Chiesa Evangelica in Montespertoli a lovely Brethren Chapel by
the Christian Centre of Poggio Ubertini
in the beautiful hills surrounding Florence.

Stefano will preach from Colossians 1:3-20
engaging with these headings:
1. A prayer to be fully pleasing to Christ
2. A prayer to be strengthened in Christ

YfC course for youth-workers & training for Camp Staff

Tomorrow from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm,
we'll have in Florence the YfC
Course for Youth-Workers hosted by
the Chiesa Cristiana Biblica.

Liz (YfC staff in Tuscany) & Stefano,
will lead the final series of seminars on
Practical ministering to teenagers.


Tomorrow we'll interact on how to have a ministry towards
young people solidly grounded in the Word of God.

Liz will lead the first seminar engaging students
with some practical teaching skills on
how to plan and run a Rock Solid Bible Study and
how to plan and run a My Space Club.

Stefano will lead two seminars in the morning
and one in the afternoon.
With the first seminar: Mobilize & Creativity,
we'll challenge students to prepare a series of Bible studies for a summer camp like Exch@nge that will use a movie
to engage teens coming from non-Christian background.
We'll use as example the old movie Juno, which is full of themes that will challenge the teens world-view.

The second morning seminar will deal firstly with one to one discipleship.
We'll be challenged by God's example in Ezekiel 34:15-16 to see the individual sheep in the flock.

Secondly we'll engage with prayer and how to develop a biblical prayer life
for youth leaders that embody and encourage a prayer life for teenagers!

In the afternoon seminar,
Stefano will explore
the topic of partnership
firstly in exploring how
to start a school ministry and how to prepare
schools programmes.

Secondly we'll see how to engage with local social workers
and foster homes for teenagers run by social services.


After we'll have Licia Saillen,
a Christian educationalist and family counsellor,
who will lead first a seminar for Youth Leaders engaging with
the topic of sexuality and pornography.

Later Licia will lead a seminar for parents
engaging with the topic of how to talk with teenage children
about sexuality from a Christian perspective.

In the evening Stefano will have
a work-supper with the Campo Sport Staff on "hot themes" in engaging with today's teens!

Blessed days @ Budrio

On Saturday we had another great day with The Cage at the High-School in Budrio.
In the afternoon we had the tournament in the square of the theatre we rent for our services, sponsored by the manager of the Café we use for our MySpace Club.
More than 60 local kids and young adults came for the event and listened very carefully when we gave two Gospel talks!

On Sunday morning we had a very encouraging service and our new Dutch friends took part in it.

Harm, the YfC leader, shared that their project to come to Italy to help, started when as a team they realised how it's true that
'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

We also experienced this joy in making a special collection for the Nepali church and population after the earthquake.
Later we had a fellowship lunch at the park.

In the afternoon we had the last tournament at a local park in Budrio.It was great to see kids already waiting for us.

Nino from our church gave a talk to challenge kids about what really matters in life and how in Jesus we can be fully ourselves and in relation with God.
Stefano asked to a kid from Muslim background, who came to our camp and every afternoon to the Cage, to say what
we do differently at the Exch@nge Camp,
and he answered: "We read the Gospel"!

In these days we were able to engage with more than 350 local kids, and as a church-plant we experienced in a small measure the incredible blessings of being part of Jesus' beloved bride.
Pray with us that the Lord will use every single Gospel word that those kids, their teachers, those parents and young adults who came, to call them to salvation!

Video about these days in Budrio!

Sunday Service - Acts 20 & last afternoon of The Cage outreach

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





 At 10.00 am we'll enjoy our time as a church family with a lovely breakfast together at the Cafè of Budrio's Sport Centre where this Sunday we'll have our service.

At 10.30 am we'll continue with Stefano
our series on the Book of Acts.



Tomorrow we'll engage with Acts 20 and
together we'll see the
Centrality and Identification of the Gospel.

Tomorrow, we'll continue to follow the pattern of Acts 1:8, so we'll start our service with a time of prayer characterized by thanksgiving and casting a vision for God's work in our community and globally.

We'll pray for these days of outreach with The Cage, for the friendships have been made and above all that the Lord will bless the Gospel messages that have been shared.

We'll pray for "our neighbour",

and specifically for the ministry of our friends from YfC Netherlands and their work with the Youth Centres The Mall.

We'll also pray for "the end of the earth",

this month we'll intercede for the population of Nepal.

We'll pray for those who have lost relatives and friends and for the Nepalese church 

in its living and witnessing the Gospel 

in such hard times.

We'll make a special collection for Nepal through the Italian Evangelical Alliance.

After the service we'll have a pic-nic fellowship lunch in the local park. During this time we'll also share the Lord's supper.

At 3pm we'll have the last The Cage tournament 

in Budrio's park.

Join us in praying for this outreach 

and Gospel conversation we had in these days!

The Cage outreach - day 3

This morning we had a fantastic day with the YfC The Cage soccer outreach at the High-School in Budrio.











We had 8 classes so in total we were able to interact and giving Gospel talks to more that 230 kids!!!

The team from YfC Netherlands has been very good in playing and engaging with younger kids, many of whom were from Muslim background!

Join us in praying for the Lord's work in their lives!!!



Tomorrow morning we'll be back at the High-School in Budrio with 2 classes of about 20 students aged 15 to 16 years-old.

In the afternoon we'll be in the square of the Theatre
we rent for our services.

The manager of the Café we use for our MySpace Kids Club decided to sponsor the afternoon while we'll interact with the wider community and his clients, so please pray with us that the Lord will guide this time and work in the hearts of people!

The Cage outreach - day 2

This morning we had a great start with the YfC The Cage soccer outreach at the High-School in Budrio. 

The team from YfC Netherlands has been very good in interacting with Italian kids, not only in teaching them a nice Dutch fair play while playing football and spikeball, but especially in sharing how Jesus challenged and transformed their lives, and how this present generation can live for Christ!

Tomorrow morning we'll be at the Middle-School in Budrio with 5 classes of about 25 students aged 11 to 14 years-old.

In the afternoon we'll be at a local park interacting with the wider community, 

so please pray with us that many will come to learn to be real athletes for Christ!

This is the video of this morning!!!

The Cage outreach - day 1

Tomorrow we'll start 4 days of outreach
in Budrio with YfC The Cage
soccer ministry and the help of a team
from YfC Netherlands.

We are really excited because for
the first time we organise this project
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
and the local social services.
We are even sponsored by the Cafè Lounge where we have the MySpace club for teens.

Tomorrow we'll spend the whole morning at the local High School with 4 classes.
The Dutch team will have the opportunity to share their testimonies to about 80 pupils aged 14-18 years-old.

On Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon we'll have programs in the local parks.
Join us in praying that the Lord will prepare the ground and bless the seeding so that He will reap an harvest in Budrio!

Sunday morning service in Budrio - Acts 18:23-19:41

Tomorrow we'll have
our Sunday morning service as
Impatto A Budrio church-plant.







Jonathan will lead this Family Time focused on God's Word.
We'll continue our series on the Book of Acts interacting with
Acts 18:23-19:41 "A Gospel engagement for the community".

After the service we'll join the community of Budrio for lunch @ the BBQ for Schools,
to raise funds for the local primary and middle schools.

In the afternoon we'll live the springtime festival of Budrio Primaveranda.
There will be an exposition of the Ocarina,
a traditional terracotta flute resembling a small goose, followed by little concerts
around the town centre.