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Urgent prayer for this week

Posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2015 by Jonathan

@whitmansprayer: Please Pray for us! Tomorrow until Thursday I lead worship at a conference in Malta, but all four of us are sick with flu! Today the deacons were announced officially! Share!BufferFacebookTwitterWhatsappEmail

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We have deacons

Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2015 by Jonathan

Yesterday the church voted almost unanimously for Jeremy, Giovanni, and Nicola to be our first deacons. It’s unsettling to delegate more responsibility away from the missionaries, but we all agree that we could not have chosen three better men for … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow we are making history at the Centro Evangelico Battista!

Posted on Friday, January 30th, 2015 by Jonathan

  Tomorrow is an important date for the life of the Centro Evangelico Battista: we are approving three men as the first deacons of our church. Please pray that God will lead clearly! Pray for their training. Pray for their … Continue reading →

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Starting the year with a bang!

Posted on Sunday, January 25th, 2015 by Jonathan

  Happy New Year!! In Italy the New Year celebration is a big deal.  It is traditional to have a succulent meal with multiple appetizers, at least two kinds of pasta, two side dishes (one being lentils cooked with sausage), … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on Wednesday, December 24th, 2014 by Jonathan

  Merry Christmas from the Whitmans! Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, … Continue reading →

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