Joomla! site syndication http://www.goancona.com Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:29:28 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.goancona.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.goancona.com Joomla! site syndication http://www.goancona.com/content/view/37/29/ Summer is a very strange, and sometimes discouraging time in the life of our church. Many Italians take fairly long vacations out of town during the summer, especially during the month of August. The city is hot and humid, and most are at the beach trying to stay cool. And unfortunately attending a Celebration Service in a hot, third story meeting room isn't high on the list of priorities.So rather than fighting culture and stubbornly having our Celebration at 11 AM on Sunday, we've decided to go with the flow. Our service is moved to Sunday evening, and will be combined with our weekly Life Group meeting. We'll have one less event each week, and will be able to devote more time to be with people. We're going to encourage everyone to come as they are, in their beach clothes if they want to, and enjoy a relaxed time together.We're really excited about the little adjustment for our church, and hope that by adjusting our schedule to the culture's (rather than the other way around) the summer months could even be a time of growth. Current Events - Current Events Tue, 06 May 2008 13:51:30 +0100 http://www.goancona.com/content/view/36/29/ At least once a year, sometimes twice depending on how many team members are in Ancona at the time, our team has a planning retreat. Sometimes in our homes, other times away from the city, we get together to dream and plan and pray and try and find God's path for us and for the church. There's lots of evaluating and lots of vision casting. We eat together, we sharpen and challenge each other, and sometimes we play silly games.We recently finished up our 2008 planning retreat. Out of these retreats comes a pretty important document called the FMP - Field Ministry Plan. This document sums up everything we do in the broadest of brush strokes. It doesn't list every detail or day-to-day task. We want it to be short enough that we read it often, which makes it easy to evaluate and see if we're still headed in the right direction.As with any plan, everything is subject to change if we sense God moving in a different direction.Please feel free to look our FMP over (images/stories/Field_Ministry_Plan_2008.pdf). We hope it gives you a glimpse of ministry in Ancona. Current Events - Current Events Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:20:05 +0100