Team from Coventry

From the 18th to the 26th of this past month we had the joy to have again Anne Findley with Gareth Irvine who had led for the second time a team from their “FORM ”. They were all young guys between twenty and twenty-five years old and all of them have worked hard to collect the money to come here and serve God together in Catania. We really appreciated their desire to serve along with us in the work we do through Jesus Generation to God’s glory.

With the guys from Coventry there was Jenny Campbell a lady we met the first time in Sheffield and who is part of the Mission Order as Marco and I. She has a very strong prophetic gift and she helped us to better understand this ministry and the gift of prophecy, teaching our core group on Thursday night and on Sunday at the church meeting as well.

Even though this kind of teaching was pretty new for many of the people in church, I believe it was for most of them a blessing.

We started the week-end with the most beautiful of the projects, our monthly 24 h prayer, which begun on Friday night and finished on Saturday night before our meeting with the youth. As always in that occasion God encouraged and blessed us trough His presence and some specific words which we communicated to everybody during the meeting. The guys of the team encouraged and supported Marco and some other youth while they were going out on the piazza to meet the young people who every afternoon hang out there. While they were talking to a little guy, they felt God pushed them to tell this guy the story of Zaccheo, which left him very touched and he asked what could he do to become a friend of Jesus!!!!

Then on Sunday we had two different meetings as many of you will already know, beside the traditional service, we have now another one for the young people who are starting to become very hungry for God’s presence. We asked Gareth to share with us on the freedom in worship, which many times Italian people have observed in the lives of those young “English” friends….. it was great, God’s presence ministered to all of us, and at the end of the service (almost 11,00pm )we took the guys to have something to eat outside.
Monday and Thursday had been days for practical jobs, for the collection of the food for the families in needs, and for some city sights, and because was holiday on Wednesday we decided to go to some friends of ours (Katy & Martino)who have come just recently in Sicily from U.S.A to start to work in a little village in Trapani. It is a beautiful place but very different from Florida, and they feel a little isolated, so we went there to have some rest and fun with the team but also to refresh and encourage them.

They really appreciated our presence and the beauty of those place just ministered to our soul, infact we have decided to take there the core team on the next holiday (the second of June) to have a time of rest and retreat, pleas pray it will be an opportunity for all of us to be refreshed and recharged from our Lord, and that He will unify us even more than we are now.
The team left from there to Palermo airport on Thursday, while Marco and I stayed for another night ready to start another week on the work our Lord has entrusted us with. Please continue on praying for us:
For our vision of the property;
For a help on the worship group and for a new sound system;
For our finances;
For the desire to go to the States.
Thank you all for your support and prayers, may our dear Lord infinitely abound you all with His love and blessing.