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La Piazza Press is our monthly
newsletter that we use to keep everyone informed of
our progress as
missionaries with Saint's Equipped to Evangelize in
San Lorenzo, Italy. Our vision is to see the
piazzas (town squares) filled with evangelical
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Ministry Highlights
- January 9, 2008
Happy New Year everyone!
We hope you all had a blessed Christmas! We have been
in Florida for the last several weeks with our family.
What a wonderful blessing to be home for Christmas! We
are now on our way back home to Italy and our ministry.
Tom has been carrying out his administrative duties via the
internet all month in Florida. Two of our ESL instructors remained in Italy for Christmas
and have been carry out the ESL ministry in Maureen's absents. Becky and Bess have been meeting with several ESL students
and have been able to share the gospel with several of them.
Please continue to pray for Elena, Lilliana, Luciano, and Santina who
continue to ask good questions and seem open to the
gospel.
Personal Highlights
We traveled the state
of Florida this last month visiting family and
friends. We also spent time fund raising for
our ministry in Italy. Our first stop was
the Italian Consulate in Miami where, praise the Lord,
we were granted our Italian Visas. This means
we are no longer illegal aliens. What a
blessing! We then visited our sending church,
McGregor Baptist, in Ft. Myers. While there,
we had a picnic with all of our prayer and financial
supporters from McGregor. What a great time we
had celebrating what God has done in all of our
lives this last year. (Maureen made biscotti.
See her recipe below.)
Our children and
grandchildren came from Pennsylvania to visit us.
We spent a few days with them in St. Petersburg
Beach and at Disney World. We also took our
grandsons to the Holy Land Experience in Orlando.
We were overjoyed to hear our grandsons excitement
over seeing the Jerusalem exhibit. They are
learning so much about Jesus and the Bible from
their Christian school and East Swamp Church in
Pennsylvania. We thank all of you who have
been apart of their spiritual growth and development
as we are away serving in Italy.
Cranberry-Pistachio Biscotti Recipe
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1/4 cup
light olive oil
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3/4 cup
white sugar
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2
teaspoons vanilla extract
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1/2
teaspoon almond extract
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2 eggs
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1 3/4 cups
all-purpose flour
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1/4
teaspoon salt
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1 teaspoon
baking powder
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1/2 cup
dried cranberries
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1 1/2 cups
pistachio nuts
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Preheat
the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees
C).
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In a large
bowl, mix together oil and sugar until
well blended. Mix in the vanilla and
almond extracts, then beat in the eggs.
Combine flour, salt, and baking powder;
gradually stir into egg mixture. Mix in
cranberries and nuts by hand.
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Divide
dough in half. Form two logs (12x2
inches) on a cookie sheet that has been
lined with parchment paper. Dough may be
sticky; wet hands with cool water to
handle dough more easily.
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Bake for
35 minutes in the preheated oven, or
until logs are light brown. Remove from
oven, and set aside to cool for 10
minutes. Reduce oven heat to 275 degrees
F (135 degrees C).
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Cut logs
on diagonal into 3/4 inch thick slices.
Lay on sides on parchment covered cookie
sheet. Bake approximately 8 to 10
minutes, or until dry; cool.
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January
Schedule
We return to Italy and
resume our ministry. Tom is busy preparing to
receive a spring mission team from Corban Collage in
March. We are also gearing up for Saints Bible Institute's
winter semester. S.B.I. will have 23 students
this semester which begins the end of this month.
Maureen will have two new English as a Second
Language instructors this
semester bringing our total number of instructors to
six. She will be holding a training meeting
for them later this month and then began the
registration process. Classes begin the
beginning of February. Please pray for the
Lord to send us students that will be open to the
gospel.
Support Update
While we our home we
received several special one time financial gifts.
This really helps a lot with our monthly short
fall of $1,442. Please pray that the Lord would
provide additional monthly supporters. Italy
needs the Good News! We are hard
pressed to do all that the ministry requires without
full support.
To become apart of our financial support
team, make your check payable to Saints Equipped to
Evangelize. Put our names on the memo line and
indicate whether it is a special or monthly gift.
All contributions are tax deductible. Mail your check to:
S.E.E. - P.O. Box
587
- Bradenton, FL - 34206-0587
Praises and
Prayers
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Praises |
Prayers
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Several ESL
students are showing interest in the gospel. |
Salvation of
Eleana, Lilliana, Luciano, and Santina. |
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We have six ESL instructors coming to teach winter
semester. |
God would
continue to raise up monthly supporters. |
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We received
our Italian Visas. |
Our witness to
the Italians; that our Lord would open up
many doors and hearts would be open to the
gospel. |
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