Kirbys in Catania

Yesterday started off with a break-in at the church, and ended with a baptism. Alan and I walked into the church building yesterday morning to find furniture moved around, a broken window, and glass on the floor.  Luckily for us, Stephano was already there.  Apparently a man broke into the church by lifting up the blinds, and forcing open one of the doors.  However, a cop was nearby and saw him breaking in, and quickly picked him up and took him to the police station.  Thankfully, nothing was stolen or damaged other than the window. We had a good lesson with one of our students, a girl from church (Giorgia) brought her friend from school to have an English lesson (this was her first time), and then we got a phone call from a person who wants to start classes this week.  So it was an eventful first half of the day, and we have some new students (yay!).  Alan and I had granita and brioche with Giorgia and her friend Francesca.  Then we hiked it back up Via Etnea to our house. In th

I apologize for how far behind I am on this blog.  This is my attempt to catch everyone up to what we are doing here in Italy lately. The day after we came back from our camp trip to Albania, Alan and I packed up again and returned to Florence for a week of Convegno.  The first half of the week (Aug 18-21) was a youth convegno.  We had so many kids there! We were expecting somewhere around 25 since that's all that registered, but we had somewhere around 45 teenagers and young adults come to the Bible School for the youth convegno. It was an amazing experience.  Though we were in the kitchen a lot preparing their meals or busy preparing other activities for them, we enjoyed the time we got to spend with the youth.  Alan and I were burnt out with photography that week, so we took hardly any photos.  I will be stealing some photos from my fellow Avanti Workers for this blog (thanks guys!). puppet show The theme for the youth convegno was "Like Children" and came fro