On our first day in Florence we walked around the city. It is a beautiful, medieval city. We went into the cathedral, saw the statue of David and the Ponte Vecchio.
We are staying with Giuseppe and Claudia in a lovely apartment about 25 minutes from the centre of Florence in a place called Prato. They are a lovely couple. Our contact with them is through Thomas Hansen. They met at Bible College in Denmark.
Last night we had a nice meal together with Giuseppe, Claudia and Claudia’s sister Julia. The three of them have started an interdenominational ministry to singles. They explained that with the close family units in Italy often single people can be left out of community life. We had a long talk about church life and culture in Italy. There seems to be a real challenge with the church to break from tradition, and to move to an empowerment model of church leadership. We had a long talk about concepts of grace, postmodern worship services and effective preaching and discipleship with emerging generations.
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