English Sport Camp Exch@nge 2014 Budrio - Let's start!

This afternoon the team from Bethel Church in Houston (Texas) will land in Bologna's Airport to help us for the Exch@nge Camp for teens organized in partnership by
Youth for Christ Italia and our church-plant Impatto A Budrio.

The team is made by 4 leaders: 
Meagan, Erica, Michael and Rodney

And 9 teens:

Rebecca, Sarah, Stephen, Philip, Parker, Jesse, John, Spencer and Daniel.

They all come from Bethel Church in Houston which is one of the supporting church of our friends Jesse & Tricia Marcos, the leaders of Campus Crusade Bologna.

On Monday we'll start our first Exch@nge camp in Budrio. 

We have now 21 Italian teens booked, and thanks to the generosity of our friends from the UK we were able to offer the camp to 5 boys from a "safe home" (2 of them are Muslims), 1 girl signalled us by the social services and other teens whose families couldn't afford it.

On Monday we'll play Sharks & Minnows, Frisbee, Basketball, Aerobics, Volleyball, some silly games and water games.

Following a clip from the movie Gravity Stefano will give the first talk on Luke 12:13-21 challenging kids to think about how do we see the self sufficiency of the foolish man?

In the afternoon Jenny will lead the English class with another clip from Gravity and a lesson on Space Vocabulary. We'll also watch a clip from Glee on Defying Gravity!

Please join us in prayer for protection during the games and wisdom during the talk.

May the Lord use every moment of this camp to talk to the hearts of these kids!

Exch@nge 2014 training session

Tomorrow afternoon in Forte Torre Church,
we'll have a training session for the American and Italian volunteers helping
at the YfC Exch@nge Summer Camps organized in partnership with 5 local churches in the Bologna Area with teams from College Church in Wheaton (Chicago) and Bethel Church in Houston (Texas).

This year we'll organize 3 camps:
Bologna East: with the College Church team in partnership with Nuova Vita and
San Lazzaro churches.
Bologna West: with the College Church team in partnership with Forte Torre and Nuova Speranza churches.
Budrio: with the Bethel Church team in partnership with Impatto A Budrio church-plant.

Tomorrow afternoon Stefano will give a talk to help American volunteers to understand Italian culture and missional needs.

Ester, national director of YfC,
Mark, leader of the Bologna East Camp and
Susan, leader of the Bologna West Camp,
will then give a series of talks on the theme of the camps,
on reaching out Italian teens and on sharing their faith in Jesus with a "peer to peer" approach.

This year the theme for the camp will be the movie Gravity in the light of a series of talks from the Gospel of Luke.

"Gravity centers around two characters and their fight for survival when disaster strikes. Matt Kowlasky (George Clooney) is a confident, buoyant veteran astronaut, accompanied by Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a pensive medical engineer on her first mission in space.
In one of the most poignant scenes of the film, Dr. Stone expresses her sadness and fear in the looming face of death. "No one will mourn for me. No one will pray for my soul. Will you mourn for me? Will you pray for me? I mean I'd pray for myself, but I've never prayed—nobody ever taught me how."

The film itself doesn't definitively answer the questions it provokes, but it probes some of our deepest ones and points in a general way to the varied mythologies of death and rebirth.
As believers we can appreciate the aesthetic qualities of this film... with the confidence that myth became historical fact in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and true rebirth is found in union with him."
From No One Will Pray for My Soul: ‘Gravity’ Reviewed, The Gospel Coalition.

Porterbrook Campus Bologna - End of Year Joint Service

Tomorrow morning at 10.30am
in Nuova Vita church, we'll have
the Porterbrook Campus Bologna -
End of Year Joint Service.

Five local churches will join together:
Forte Torre, Nuova Vita, San Lazzaro,
Nuova Speranza, Impatto A Budrio.

Gianpaolo Aranzulla, pastor of Forte Torre church and tutor of Porterbrook Campus Bologna, will preach on 'Fellowship in mission'.
The goal is to highlight how inter-church fellowship takes regular place along the New Testament. 
The vision is to connect the path of our individual churches underlining what is the theological framework in which we live our common training through the Porterbrook course and our common evangelistic commitments like the Exch@nge summer camps.

Porterbrook - Campus Bologna exam session

Tomorrow from 8.30am to 12.30 pm
we'll have the exam session for students of foundation and advanced years of
Porterbrook - Campus Bologna.

This meeting will be held in
Nuova Vita Church and we expect about
15 students for the foundation year and
15 for the advanced year.


The Foundation Year 1 students will present their assignments for the modules:
Gospel Living, The Bible in Missional Perspective, Gospel Community and Evangelism.

The Advanced Year 2 students will present their assignments for the modules:
Union with Christ, The Holy Spirit and Pastoral Care part one.

Pastors Fraternal

This afternoon, as Impatto A Budrio church-plant, we'will participate at a Pastors' Fraternal of the Bologna Area held in San Lazzaro Church.

We'll have a time of sharing about our churches' lives, encouragements and challenges.
Then we'll have a time of prayer one for another and for our churches.

These are the pastors from the churches we cooperate both in evangelistic events and in the training programme of Porterbrook.

Sunday Service in Chiesa Evangelica di Ravenna

Tomorrow morning we'll be with our friends                             from the Chiesa Evangelica di Ravenna

an Independent Baptist Church in Ravenna,

a very nice and historical town by the Adriatic Sea.

Stefano will preach from Ephesians 1:1-23.
 

To introduce this sermon we'll interact with the question: what did spur you to pray and for what did you pray the last time you prayed suddenly and spontaneously?

  

These will then be the three main points:

1. A prayer to know the person of Christ.

2. A prayer to know the work of Christ.

3. A prayer to know the power of Christ.

"I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him"

Ephesians 1:16-17 (ESV)

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