August is waning and school is underway here in South Carolina, but the Italians are enjoying their month of summer fun — did you know most Italians take the entire month of August off?! They deserve it from what I could see. Children go to school Monday-Saturday (I can just hear my children groaning) and the adults work long days and many weekends. A refreshing month off is probably entirely necessary in order to keep the Italian national health care system from crashing.
Among the Italians that work very hard during the year are Aldo, Mariela and Rebecca Cerasino (ACCI missionaries in Italy). Aldo and Mariela have both been working full-time, while at the same time pastoring a rather successful church in Parma. Arriving home after 6:30 most evenings and working weekends hasn’t kept them from preaching, sharing and opening their home to over 200 Latinos and Italians.
The August break brought them to the USA this year and we were blessed to have them drop into our neighborhood! Besides the all-important excursion to “Five Guys”, we also took them out to Lake Wylie for some tubing and met with them about a Mission Training school that they are planning to open in Italy with another ACCI missionary couple, Francesco and Alessia Abortivi. We are extremely excited about this vision to see Italian nationals bring encouragment and equipping to the Italian evangelical church and to people arriving as missionaries to Italy and going out from there to other nations. We hope to partner with this project in the future as they seek to raise funds and get this off the ground. Let us know if you are interested in providing scholarships or one-time gifts to see this vision become a reality.
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