Sicily - what happened.
Got there mid afternoon after a few hours delay in Rome. One hour wait in airoprt and then another couple on the plane as the air conditioning was broken. I slept through that to wake to a mini riot going on with passengers shouting abuse at the staff and I realised it was probably about 35 degrees inside the plane and everybody was a bit stressed, children were screaming everywhere and there was no respite from the heat.
Anyway eventually we got off (with the noticeable point that no stewards came offering food and drink - in fact didn't see anybody till we landed!) We got picked up at Catania airport with Filippo (Cinzia's dad) and went straight to Marco's parents house for a 3 course lunch after which I crashed on a sofa shattered. Post dose we had a chat to Filippo telling him our thoughts for Sicily - sharing everything we believed to be from God including a picture and word that Mike Breen had had for us at the TOM (The Order of Mission - in links section) weekend a few weeks previously.
Filippo, along with another 3 guys, look after some property and land that their church had bought a long time ago. On that land their church is plus another couple of houses. The land size is about 6000 square metres. We were basically going to Sicily to see whether God would give us one of those houses - very cheeky I know. Filippo is the pastor of the church.
Andrea and I had seen this property back in our short trip in April and the first thing I had noticed about it was that it had a pizza oven. This was something that had been in my heart as something I would love to have. I hadn't actually prayed specifically for a pizza oven but every now and again our dad seems to give us the desires of our heart. My other desire had been to have land to work on and fruit trees. All were here.I had also seen myself working the land with Jesus in a vision (though I semed to be doing the working) and in the vision He and I were just chatting like mates - this is the only piture/vision I have ever had of Jesus where He isn't in the "God" role. I shared all this with Andrea and Cinzia back in April and had a sneaky suspicion this was where God wanted us.
So we chatted to Filippo and it soon became clear to us that he too believed that all of the stuff we were blurting out - all the way to prophetic words on Marco and Cinzia from years ago - was truly from God. He and his wife Adele had been praying for a couple to go and live on this land (known as the centro) and help the church there. This wasn't quite what we were saying but it seemed to Filippo that it was close enough. A good start though there were the other guys to chat to too.
Post this we shared all this stuff with Marco's mum and she told me about a visitor a coupe of months prior - a prophetic lady from a church in California. This lady visited the centro and seeing the pizza oven said that the whole base was to be a place of something new and exciting coming soon and would be a massive blessing to the church (as in the wider church). How amazing is that yummy pizza.
That evening we borrowed a scooter and I sat behind Marco for an hour and a half to go to see a friend of his Massimo and his wife Samantha. We git there about 11pm and crashed out spending sunday day with them in the sea and chatting. (Photos above)
Sunday evening was church at the centro followed by a meeting with all of the guys who had a say in the centro - Filippo, Alberto, Darius and Ricardo. Marco shared the stuff leading to the calling to Sicily and I shared about the centro. The way Sicilians go on it sounds like they are having a mad fight when they are just saying "Good morning" and finding it hard to keep up with the accent I feared that we had got it all wrong and that we hadn't heard it correcly regarding the location. I prayed hard and was sure that God was saying this was the place. Afetr about an hour Alberto (wise man with a lot of say, almost as much as Filipo) told us that a year ago he had heard God telling him that the centro would become a place for a new thing and that it was timne for the "youngsters" to do something (in Italian terms youngsters could be anybody up to those in their 50's!). So it was settled God has given us the house. We will be accountable to the order of Mission and will have Adele and Filippo as wise local heads. The property all belongs to the centro and we respect that but we do not fall under their direct authority - meaning that we are free to do stuff that would otherwise need to go through them - Praise God. Exactly what we knew was what we needed to do the work there. (pix above)
Monday was a chilled day before heading back to Rome to see our beautiful wives :-).
Got there mid afternoon after a few hours delay in Rome. One hour wait in airoprt and then another couple on the plane as the air conditioning was broken. I slept through that to wake to a mini riot going on with passengers shouting abuse at the staff and I realised it was probably about 35 degrees inside the plane and everybody was a bit stressed, children were screaming everywhere and there was no respite from the heat.
Anyway eventually we got off (with the noticeable point that no stewards came offering food and drink - in fact didn't see anybody till we landed!) We got picked up at Catania airport with Filippo (Cinzia's dad) and went straight to Marco's parents house for a 3 course lunch after which I crashed on a sofa shattered. Post dose we had a chat to Filippo telling him our thoughts for Sicily - sharing everything we believed to be from God including a picture and word that Mike Breen had had for us at the TOM (The Order of Mission - in links section) weekend a few weeks previously.
Filippo, along with another 3 guys, look after some property and land that their church had bought a long time ago. On that land their church is plus another couple of houses. The land size is about 6000 square metres. We were basically going to Sicily to see whether God would give us one of those houses - very cheeky I know. Filippo is the pastor of the church.
Andrea and I had seen this property back in our short trip in April and the first thing I had noticed about it was that it had a pizza oven. This was something that had been in my heart as something I would love to have. I hadn't actually prayed specifically for a pizza oven but every now and again our dad seems to give us the desires of our heart. My other desire had been to have land to work on and fruit trees. All were here.I had also seen myself working the land with Jesus in a vision (though I semed to be doing the working) and in the vision He and I were just chatting like mates - this is the only piture/vision I have ever had of Jesus where He isn't in the "God" role. I shared all this with Andrea and Cinzia back in April and had a sneaky suspicion this was where God wanted us.
So we chatted to Filippo and it soon became clear to us that he too believed that all of the stuff we were blurting out - all the way to prophetic words on Marco and Cinzia from years ago - was truly from God. He and his wife Adele had been praying for a couple to go and live on this land (known as the centro) and help the church there. This wasn't quite what we were saying but it seemed to Filippo that it was close enough. A good start though there were the other guys to chat to too.
Post this we shared all this stuff with Marco's mum and she told me about a visitor a coupe of months prior - a prophetic lady from a church in California. This lady visited the centro and seeing the pizza oven said that the whole base was to be a place of something new and exciting coming soon and would be a massive blessing to the church (as in the wider church). How amazing is that yummy pizza.
That evening we borrowed a scooter and I sat behind Marco for an hour and a half to go to see a friend of his Massimo and his wife Samantha. We git there about 11pm and crashed out spending sunday day with them in the sea and chatting. (Photos above)
Sunday evening was church at the centro followed by a meeting with all of the guys who had a say in the centro - Filippo, Alberto, Darius and Ricardo. Marco shared the stuff leading to the calling to Sicily and I shared about the centro. The way Sicilians go on it sounds like they are having a mad fight when they are just saying "Good morning" and finding it hard to keep up with the accent I feared that we had got it all wrong and that we hadn't heard it correcly regarding the location. I prayed hard and was sure that God was saying this was the place. Afetr about an hour Alberto (wise man with a lot of say, almost as much as Filipo) told us that a year ago he had heard God telling him that the centro would become a place for a new thing and that it was timne for the "youngsters" to do something (in Italian terms youngsters could be anybody up to those in their 50's!). So it was settled God has given us the house. We will be accountable to the order of Mission and will have Adele and Filippo as wise local heads. The property all belongs to the centro and we respect that but we do not fall under their direct authority - meaning that we are free to do stuff that would otherwise need to go through them - Praise God. Exactly what we knew was what we needed to do the work there. (pix above)
Monday was a chilled day before heading back to Rome to see our beautiful wives :-).
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