a very nice
and historical town by the Adriatic Sea.
Stefano will preach from Colossians 1:3-20:
"A prayer to be fully pleasing to Christ"
engaging with these headings:
1. A prayer to be fully pleasing to Christ
2. A prayer to be strengthened in Christ
Tomorrow morning we'll continue our
summer house meetings with
our Sunday service.
Stefano will lead this Family Time focused on God's Word.
We'll continue our series on Acts engaging with Acts 28
"What does it
mean to be encouraged and participate in the Gospel?"
Our desire is to grow in the unity we have in
Christ and in 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 for our church family, local and wide, and for our community, local and worldwide.
Tomorrow morning as Impatto A Budrio
we'll all be with our friends from Nuova Vita church, one of the two churches we are partnering with for our church-plant.
Nuova Vita is also part of that group of like-minded churches we are networking with in order to reach out the Bologna Area.
Stefano will preach from Colossians 1:3-20:
"A prayer to be fully pleasing to Christ"
engaging with these headings:
1. A prayer to be fully pleasing to Christ
2. A prayer to be strengthened in Christ
Tomorrow morning we'll continue our
summer house meetings with
our Sunday service.
Stefano will lead this Family Time focused on God's Word.
We'll continue our series on Acts engaging with Acts 27
"How living in God's Sovereignty challenges us
to live a life serving our community?"
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 for our church family, local and wide, and for our community, local and worldwide.
After the service we'll enjoy a
fellowship lunch in our courtyard
with a traditional Italian barbecue!
During this time we'll rejoice in our union with Christ, celebrating the Lord's Supper.
Tomorrow
evening we'll have our home-group mid-week Bible Study in Budrio. We'll
continue to interact together with Unit 6: Holiness - its nature 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.
After we'll continue our fellowship enjoying
a good ice-cream together!
Tomorrow morning we'll continue our
summer house meetings with
our Sunday service.
Stefano will lead this Family Time focused on God's Word.
We'll continue our series on Acts engaging with Acts 26
"A certain hope and a reasonable faith!".
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 for our church family, local and wide, and for our community, local and worldwide.
Together we'll pray for the follow-ups of the Exch@nge Camp and for the Camp in Sicily led by Jonathan & Annette!
Apologies for writing so late about the last few days of the Exch@nge Camp, but we've been busy!
On Saturday we had a great Service Project painting the athletes' entrance of Budrio's Sport Centre.
We were encouraged to see many kids from the camp who came to work alongside the Houston team and the men from our church!
Local authorities have been very pleased by the work done and really appreciated the serving attitude we expressed.
On Sunday we held a family service and more than 70 came along, including kids and their families.
Jonathan preached a challenging sermon from John 8:36 and Giulio the major came to thank our church for our presence in the Budrio community!
On Monday we had to say goodbye to dear Lily who helped in so many ways at the Camp.
With the Houston team we had a day to switch off enjoying Venice.
Then on Tuesday early morning the team flew back to the States!
We really feel so blessed by the Gospel partnership we enjoyed with all the Italian, British and American friends that share our vision to reach out Budrio and this community!
This is the great video of the 2015 Exch@nge Camp Budrio!
Today we're having a great 5th day at the Exch@nge Camp in Budrio.
There are mixed feelings as it's also the last proper day of the camp.
Elia started the day with a very good talk from John 19:28-37 and the theme was the Death of Death in the Death of Christ.
Kids have been challenged to think about how do we
know Jesus’ death is no accident and not the end and how His resurrection impacts our everyday life!
Later kids had the choice to play basketball with Mary or volleyball with Sarah!
We ended our English classes with a great lesson on Texan life!
Today we're having another great day at the Exch@nge Camp in Budrio!
This morning Michael gave a great Talk
from John 14:1-11 challenging kids to
engage with Jesus' statement that He is
the Way, the Truth and the Life!
After we had a true cultural exch@nge when Carli and Elizabeth coached the Soccer group.
Above all, Italian kids loved to play soccer Vs. Americans and finally, after they've been beaten in baseball, lacrosse and American football, they had the chance to win!!!
The other group enjoyed a relaxed time of Arts&Crafts with Lily making bracelets.
This group was very popular because they had the air conditioned :-)
Today we had a great 3rd day at the Exch@nge Camp in Budrio!
Nunzio gave a great talk form John 3:1-18.
He has been very good in engaging kids with Nicodemus' story. We were challenged to think at what does it mean to have faith in Jesus and the reality of new life in Him.
We talk about the reality of Judgement and how Jesus is the only answer to our future.
After we had a great day at Budrio's swimming pool. We had lots and lots of fun, especially in one of the hottest days of this wonderful summer.
We were very encouraged by so many Gospel conversations that happened during this "relaxed time" by the pool.
We also bumped into a few local friends and it was good to engage with them too!
We closed the day with our daily English class and kids had lots of fun engaging with a clip from The Giver movie in which Jonas fells in love for Fiona.
So the theme was Love & Music and we had plenty of cheesy love songs which made all the girls happy!
Today we had a very special second day the Exch@nge Camp.
In the morning some of the American and Italian kids were involved in participating to an activity with the Parkinson's disease group.
Nathan challenged kids from John 1:43-51to see Jesus' uniqueness in his knowledge
of our real needs.
Great first day at the Exch@nge Camp 2015 in Budrio.
We have 28 kids at the camp aged from 11 to 18 years-old!
This morning we started with Stefano our series of talks on the Gospel of John engaging with John 20:24-32. We challenged kids to see Jesus' uniqueness and what does it mean to think He's our God and Lord!
Today we had very special sport activities.
We hosted the Lacross team from Tuscany and a Taekwondo team from Budrio.
It's great to keep building up relationships with our community even through the local Exch@nge Camp!
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 am we'll enjoy our time as a church family
with a coffee & fellowship together.
At 10.30 am we'll start with a prayer time for the coming Exch@nge Camp for local teenagers in Budrio.
After the morning service, we'll all have a church pic-nic in the local park, enjoying the Italian summer. At 4pm we'll meet again for the training session for the American, British and Italian leaders & staff. We'll give an overview of Italian Culture and spiritual environment and we'll present the ministries of Acts29 and Youth for Christ Italy. Then we'll engage on the practicalities of running an outreach camp in Italy and in the Budrio context. We'll close with a prayer time for the 26 local kids who booked for the camp and the 25 staff involved in running the various parts and activities for the camp!
Tomorrow afternoon we'll continue our
Tomorrow morning we'll be with our friends from the Chiesa Evangelica di Ravenna
Tomorrow morning as Impatto A Budrio
After we'll continue our fellowship enjoying
In the evening we had a tasty Texan BBQ on the balcony of
Today we had a great 3rd day at the Exch@nge Camp in Budrio!
Great first day at the Exch@nge Camp 2015 in Budrio.
Today we had very special sport activities.
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At 10.30 am we'll start with a prayer time for the coming Exch@nge Camp for local teenagers in Budrio.
