Friday, 5 May 2017

Sport Outreach & FoodBank Collection!

Tomorrow we'll have an intense day of reaching out & serving our community in Budrio!

In the morning we'll be @ Budrio High-School with 2 classes.







We'll run a Rugby Clinic with Scottish former Rugby Player Colin White, who played for Scotland Sevens when they defeated South Africa at Murrayfield. Colin will share with high-school kids his passion for Rugby, but above all, his passion for Jesus!


Tomorrow we'll also be involved from 7am to 8pm in helping at the 4th food-bank collection for the needy families in Budrio organised by the town-hall in partnership with all the local associations.

We are very excited that many friends we are getting to know in Budrio, have happily accepted to join us in this service for our community!

Join us in praying that we'll be able to be a blessing for our community and to live and share the Gospel!

Thursday, 4 May 2017

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Freedom!



Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
the My Space Club 4 Teens
we offer during the 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: Freedom!
We'll play lots of fun games like:
Cheesepufs' Challenge, DodgeMud, 
Free the bear, Worse/Worser/Worserer, Braveheart & Freedom, The Great Escape, Let go/Let GOD, For Freedom, which will serve as illustrations to Stefano's Talk from John 8:30-36 where we'll discover that only in Jesus we know the truth that set us free!

School Outreach - Soccer & Basketball


Tomorrow we'll spend the whole morning @
Budrio Middle School for a day of Sport and Outreach with Soccer & Basketball!




From 8.00 to 10.00 am we'll have a Soccer clinic with Salvatore Mundula. Salvatore is a professional Soccer referee and an intern @ Nuova Vita Church in Bologna.


Then from 10.00 to 12.00 am we'll have a Basketball Clinic run by the Christian basketballer Rae Lin D'Alie.

Finally from 12.00 am to 2.00 pm,
Salvatore will run another Soccer Clinic.

Pray with us for Salvatore & Rae Lin, so that while playing soccer & basket with kids, will be able to share their faith and joy in the Lord!

Wednesday, 3 May 2017

AppGenesis - Mid-Week Bible Study - Genesis 24-25

Tomorrow evening we'll continue with
AppGenesis (Applying Genesis), 
our series of Mid-Week Bible Studies in which we'll keep interacting & applying what we're learning through the preaching in our Sunday Morning services.

Stefano will lead this time where as 
church-family we'll engage with what 
we are studying from the book of 
Genesis chapters 24-25!

Saturday, 29 April 2017

Reformation Past & Present - Connect Gospel Churches Together @ Forlì

On Monday we'll spend the whole Bank Holiday day in Forlì where the local church, has organised a Get Together Day for nearby churches!

4 local churches will come for this day of fellowship and envisioning for a Gospel partnership.

Stan Goertzen, pastor of Forlì church, will give a talk on:
Reformation Past & Present.
Stan will explain the story of Fanino Fanini,
an Italian evangelical martyr during the Reformation time,
who was ready to give up his life for the sake of the Lord and of
true Gospel proclamation!
Then we'll have a time to share stories from our churches
and how we still live the values of Reformation today!

There will be a bring & share fellowship lunch followed by a time led by Justin & Carli, where we'll get to know each other time by playing some games and have fun together.

Pray for this day and that more Gospel Partnerships
will be established in Italy.

Sunday Service: Genesis 25

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 10.30 we'll start our service continuing our series on the book of Genesis.
With Stefano we'll engage with
Genesis chapter 25:  
God's Sovereignty & human Responsibility?
We'll be exposed to the beauty of Christ, the founder and perfecter of our faith!








Giovanni & Maura will lead our children's programme based on The Gospel Project, in which week by week kids engage
with the same passages from Genesis and families will have activities to keep interacting with God's Word during the week!

Friday, 28 April 2017

Porterbrook - Campus Bologna - Module: Culture

Tomorrow from 3.30pm to 7.00 pm in Nuova Vita Church
we'll continue the 2016-2017 Academic Year of
Porterbrook - Campus Bologna.




Stefano will teach the module Culture.
In this session, students will interact with these units:

4. Life Styles
5. Defining products
6. Film: Juno



Understanding culture is a complex task.
Christians have to find points of connection and difference with their cultural context to present the gospel clearly. This course helps with that task but goes further to show us how to do that creatively. This course will stretch you to think biblically and creatively about popular culture. It provides you with a theological tool kit to engage with film, music and computer games.

Thursday, 27 April 2017

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Who am I? PART #2



Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
the My Space Club 4 Teens
we offer during the 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: Who am I? PART #2
We'll play lots of fun games like:
Human noughts and crosses, Big Bag Fashion, Truth or cauliflower, Same but different, Teeny Tiny Tug war, Inkblot, Difference spotting, Paying attention, Separation anxiety, Who are you?, which will serve as illustrations to Justin's Talk from Romans 15:7 to discover that the Lord sees us as we really are, yet He still loves us and calls us to imitate Him!

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Prayer & Envisioning Meeting


Tomorrow evening we'll have our mid-week prayer & envisioning meeting in our home.


Our desire is to build up our church to have a passion for our community with a global vision for the work of the Lord!

Marco and Jenny will share about YfC Conference we've been in Naples and the prayer points we received from the work in Italy, eastern Europe and north Africa!

Friday, 21 April 2017

Sunday Service: Genesis 24

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






For a one-off time we'll meet at Budrio Library,
where we run our MySpace Club for teens every Friday.


At 10.30 we'll start our service continuing our series on the book of Genesis.
With Justin we'll engage with Genesis chapter 24: How can we know God's will?
We'll be exposed to the beauty of Christ,
the only one who can be at the centre on our lives and identity!







Nazario & Maria will lead our children's programme based on
The Gospel Project, in which week by week kids engage
with the same passages from Genesis and families will have activities to keep interacting with God's Word during the week!

YfC Italia 10th Anniversary Conference

Tomorrow we'll be at the Youth for Christ Italia Conference to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of our presence in Italy.

The conference will be in Naples as the official launch of the new YfC work there.

From Saturday to Monday there will be many seminars and workshops on:
Entering in a teen's brain, Parenting a teen, How does it look like a youth leader?, Preaching & Teaching God's Word, Ministering to teens in the church, 
Philosophies of ministry to reach the youth of our towns, 
Engaging with under-age asylum seekers.

Stefano will teach in two of these seminars.
We are also really excited to have with us Marco,
the guy we recently baptised, who regularly helps at our
MySpace Club for teens in Budrio!


Thursday, 20 April 2017

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Who am I?



Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
the My Space Club 4 Teens
we offer during the 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: Who am I?
We'll play lots of fun games like: Jolly Jousting, The Artist, Visual Food, Look at the Appearance Vs Look at the heart, StickMan, Guess Who?, Who am I?, Mirror Reading, which will serve as illustrations to Stefano's Talk from 1 Samuel 16:7 to discover that the Lord sees us as we really are, yet He still loves us and redeems us!

Wednesday, 19 April 2017

AppGenesis - Mid-Week Bible Study - Genesis 22-23

Tomorrow evening we'll continue with
AppGenesis (Applying Genesis), 
our series of Mid-Week Bible Studies in which we'll keep interacting & applying what we're learning through the preaching in our Sunday Morning services.

Stefano will lead this time where as 
church-family we'll engage with what 
we are studying from the book of 
Genesis chapters 22-23!

Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Budrio 2017 summer camps for kids

Tomorrow in Budrio's auditorium, there will be the annual meeting organized by the town-hall, for parents of primary+middle school kids, to present all the summer activities available in Budrio.

We'll be there to present the English Sport Camp Exch@nge organized in partnership between our church and Youth for Christ Italy.

When last year there were about 80 parents at this meeting!
Pray with us for this opportunity the Lord is keep opening in Budrio to serve our community and proclaim the Gospel to young people!

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Easter time in Budrio!

This year for Good Friday,
we'll have a special outreach evening
@ Justin & Carli's home.
We'll watch the 2016 movie Risen,
which portrays the search of a Roman soldier of Jesus' body after His Resurrection.
There will be a time for questions,
followed by a prayer time!

On Sunday we'll have a Family Service
with special activities for kids and families
to learn together about the great event of
Jesus Resurrection and the new life and peace we can enjoy in Him!
After there will be a fellowship lunch where we'll celebrate the Lord's Supper!

Saturday, 8 April 2017

Christianity Explored @ Le Torri Lounge

Tomorrow afternoon we'll have our monthly
Christianity Explored Course,
for every age-group!

Christianity Explored is a great way to give people space and time to think about the big questions of life.

We run these public meetings hosted by the Café of the theatre we use for our Sunday meetings as church!

Tomorrow with Stefano we'll engage with Mark 12:1-11  
Jesus' Resurrection!

Over 10 sessions in Mark's Gospel, we'll find out about the life and the teachings of the person at the heart of the Christian faith - Jesus Christ.

Sunday Service: Genesis 22-23

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 10.30 we'll start our service continuing our series on the book of Genesis.
With Stefano we'll engage with Genesis chapters 22-23: Is God really worth of our trust and love?
We'll be exposed to the beauty of Christ,
the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, who is truly Risen, giving us His justice, His life and His peace!







Nino & Jenny will lead our children's programme based on
The Gospel Project, in which week by week kids engage
with the same passages from Genesis and families will have activities to keep interacting with God's Word during the week!

Friday, 7 April 2017

Porterbrook - Campus Bologna - Module: Culture

Tomorrow from 3.30pm to 7.00 pm in Nuova Vita Church
we'll continue the 2016-2017 Academic Year of
Porterbrook - Campus Bologna.




Stefano will teach the module Culture.
In this session, students will interact with these units:

1. Christ & culture
2. A Biblical history of culture
3. Recent cultural changes



Understanding culture is a complex task.
Christians have to find points of connection and difference with their cultural context to present the gospel clearly. This course helps with that task but goes further to show us how to do that creatively. This course will stretch you to think biblically and creatively about popular culture. It provides you with a theological tool kit to engage with film, music and computer games.