Getting started

After making it to Milan, Pastor Jim picked us up at the train station and he and his wife Lynda have been taking good care of us. He is the pastor of the Milan Bible Church, which we got to visit on Sunday. The church building is shared: in the morning there is an Italian service, and then in the evening a service in English for the many immigrants and university students and for those just passing through. The people were very welcoming and it was great to get to experience both services. The feeling of them is very relaxed, with lots of time for sharing and prayer, and less focus on time altogether, along with good biblical teaching. We both really enjoyed that. We look forward to being a part of the church for a couple months.

We have also started to get settled in to where we will be staying, a house of a missionary family who is back in the States for the summer. It is a very nice house and quite big, and we share it with the one inhabitant left behind, Honey the bunny rabbit.

We have already enjoyed some delicious Italian food, thanks to Lynda. Some highlights have been real fresh mozzarella (it is so much better here!), of course some wonderful pasta, melon and prosciutto (kind of like ham), and gelato.

Thank you for your prayers! Ciao!