Forgiveness (week 8)

Hello everyone;

My name is Giulianno and I am Brazilian. I'm 24 and I am a student with my wife Rebeca. We have lived in Italy for more than two years, and our first contact with YWAM happened in November of 2008 at a meeting of YWAM Italy here in Pescara, where we met Beto and Raquel Tavares, who began to talk about this Discipleship school. They made us think a lot, but it was a distant idea, almost "impossible" for us. Not for God. After a year and a half he called us back in Pescara, but now as students of the DTS!

Last week our topic was "Forgiveness", and Raquel was our speaker. This issue is important both for us as individuals and for us as a group. I began to understand more deeply how forgiveness is important for a healthy Christian life and how there are different steps and people to forgive, such as ourselves, God, our parents, etc. ...Despite how difficult and painful this step is, forgiveness is a commandment: We often do not want to do, but you must make a choice, and the choice of forgiveness is what brings freedom and healing to our hearts.

These last two weeks have been special for the sun that has finally started to show up, and the effects of this is already quite evident on our skin, we're all a bit tanned thanks to our afternoon outings to the beach :)

Next week there will be a Brazilian teacher, who will teach "relationship", we are all looking forward to it, because it is one of the last teachings before our outreach, and that this subject is a key for us as a group but also for our outreach in Ireland.

Last Sunday we went to a small church in San Salvo, we spent the whole day with them, even though it was a small community I was very blessed by them. In the morning we went to the park in the village for a time of praise and evangelism that it was just great, we had lunch with the church, and in the evening we led praise and worship. It was great to see the initiative of the church in reaching their village for Christ and I believe the Lord will honour them in this.

This is it for now,
Giulianno