Scandicci Evangelica

Today we resumed a few of our classes that were put on hold due to Mission Impossible week. For our Italian class, we went to the Saturday Market in Scandicci and had to order something (that we were assigned) completely in Italian. It was a fun experiencing making our way through the market and seeing how many people buy their normal weekly groceries and stuff.

The afternoon was mainly dominated by this festival hosted by the evangelical churches in Scandicci. There was games, music, a movie, drama skits, and all sorts of cool stuff. Our group sang about 10 songs for everyone, and everyone really seemed to enjoy it.

Later, I was looking at a stand of engraved wood with bible verses with David Woodroof, the director of the Avanti Italia program who was translating some stuff for me. At one point in translating the bible verses, the man who made them brought over a young boy and told him to tell David his story about his conversation. Apparently this 10 year old boy used to be a beggar on the streets and he was a pest to everybody, he got beat up, yelled at, cried at night, and had terrible nightmares. Then this man found him and brought him into his home. About a month later the kid had another nightmare, and the man told him not to cry and told him that there is someone who loves him and is building a home for him for eternity. They prayed together and talked about Jesus, and the boy was led to know Christ.

I dont know if he was baptized, or how much he truly understands about the message of Christ, but it really touched me that a kid who was born into being a beggar is being exposed to the gospel and being led towards Christ.

Afterwards, I bought the following verse:

"Io so che il mio redentore vive." -Giobbe 19:25
"I know that my redeemer lives." -Job 19:25

Ti voglio bene,
Taylor