Italian Sub

Nothing like touring an Italian sub on a saturday afternoon in Italy. It was pretty awesome. A friend from church who works at the base took us for a tour.

Sunday Lunch

Giuseppe, Chiara, Me, Giuseppe(back), Giacomo(wt.shirt) , Luigi(red shirt) and Amanda


Our crowd of friends from across the street at Bar Roma (a restaurant & cafe). One of them went to church with us and then everyone came over for lunch when we got back to Pisa. They made all of the food. We had a traditional pasta one of the boy's mom made, fresh pasta made by another guy's grandma, bruschetta made by one of the guys,meat sauce made by Chiara, and I made brownie sundaes. We had a great time putting everything together and setting up a huge lunch for 7. I have never eaten so much food in my life. It was a 3 hour lunch then we walked through town as it was the monthly
market Sunday. I seriously could not eat for a day after. These people have become our good friends in Pisa. We have met most of their parents and families. Pray for natural and open spiritual conversations. Pray for multiple opportunities to share the love of Christ not just through our actions but also with words.

Vision Casting

It has taken 2 weeks of messages and cancellations to pull of this dinner to meet with the Christian students who understand what vision is and have a heart to reach others. People began to arrive at 7:30 p.m. but in usual Italian style weren't all here until 8:30 maybe 9 p.m. We prepared a huge meal of pasta, pancetta(bacon), piselli(peas) and panna(cream). We sat down over a meal and began to speak about the different ministries we are involved in. Our goal for this night was to help the students understand the vision and goals of Agape Italia and to discuss how we could work together to reach the students of Pisa. Our vision for Agape is not to replace the 2 other ministries here but rather to work together and help one another become better at what we do. We long to see the most students reached for Christ and this will only happen if we are united. We need the help of the other groups as we are outsiders and they need us because of the training we bring. They were all very excited and eager to give ideas on how we can be more culturally relevant and creative in reaching Pisa students. I pray that the vision to create spiritual multipliers will be grasped over time. We desire that students with the message of Christ that God has entrusted to them will in turn entrust the same message to others who will in turn entrust it to other faithful men. It was a very exciting and encouraging night to see these students take some ownership of the ministry. It was after midnight when we all headed home.