Thanks for taking the time to read and pray. I am really being sustained by the Lord in what I feel may be the busiest I've been since living in Italy. God is good.
WORK UPDATE
Getting used to my long hours and enjoying it--miracle of miracles. I've also picked up tutoring an ex-student Thursdays after work. It is a lot, but they seem important opportunities. Still wanting time to invest in colleagues, new and old.
CHURCH UPDATE
I've been able to spend some good time with the young girls in the church. They seem hungry for more relationship and I feel I have so little time to offer. We also desperately need help with Sunday School. We are paying off a last bit of debt that remained from the old church building tomorrow, praise God. We are encouraged by growing faith and praying for physical healing of many: Simona, Thereasa, Giulia, Stefano's mom....
SCHIAVITU MAI PIU
We finished a "successful" campaign, thank the Lord. We had a great showing Saturday for the documentary, and really good responses. We are excited to see what we can do in the new year and are praying for direction with our street work. Please pray in particular for D---a girl I really connect with on the street. Pray for her deliverance. For more workers on our team. Italian and Romanian would be ideal. By the way, we have not seen the girl Maeva that Tania met again, but we have discovered the strip-club in Frascati where she works. We are praying about what to do.
PERSONAL
It's been great having my cousin. He seems curious about the Gospel. We are off to Puglia this weekend to visit where my great-grandfather was born and I am really excited to re-connect with the friends I made there last time. I don't know what God has in store. I made the mistake of writing one girl to invite the group to dinner while we were there. She responded, "You are OUR guests. We invite you." Of course. The intense southern hospitality. Who was I to invite them in their own town??
Tania and I also have a young American woman staying with us in an urgent situation at the moment for we don't know exactly how long. Please pray we can handle this situation wisely and encourage her in the Lord with the little time we are home.
Other prayer requests for Fation, Roberto, Livia, Olga, Simone, Raffa...remain the same. They need to surrender to Jesus!
