La Piazza Press

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 Christians.  Would you be willing to share in that vision?  If so, please click the Subscribe button above to receive our monthly newsletter.  For more information, you can visit our website at www.littlesitaly.com

Ministry Highlights - June 6, 2008

Over the last few months we have shared with you many parts of our ministry...the English as a Second Language School, the spring and summer evangelistic street ministries, the Bible school, Saints Bible Institute, the church plant, and our many outreach events.  This month we wanted to share with you are job responsibilities.

After almost a year now, our areas of responsibility have evolved and become more clear and distinct.  For many years Saints Equipped to Evangelize has been a small ministry and historically many tasks were done on an as needed basis, thus the lines of responsibility were often blurred. This was a positive thing, because if something needed to be done, everyone was willing help get the job done.  Now that our ministry is expanding and the Lord continues to increase our numbers, we have needed to refocus all of our efforts and redefine areas of responsibility.  This is especially true as our director Sam Spatola and his wife Chris must transition back to the U.S. due to some serious family medical issues.

Currently, Tom's responsibilities include much of the communication with the Bradenton office, fielding and replying to SEE emails and phone calls, maintaining the new staff hiring process, field accounting, reviewing and searching out new relationships for Saints Equipped to Evangelize and Saints Bible Institute, supporting and assisting the SBI staff as needed, and working along side the visiting evangelisms teams.  What Tom believes the Lord has called him to do, is to assist the staff and short term evangelism teams by doing the little things that allows the SEE team to do the big things.  

Maureen's responsibilities include heading up the ABC Language School, ministering to the ESL instructors, scheduling classes, writing curriculum, meeting with students to share the gospel, teaching ESL, and coordinating ESL outreach events. In addition to this, she is currently in the process of translating into Italian a woman's Bible study, "Apples of Gold".   

Personal Highlights

Maureen returned to the U.S. May 7th.  She has been spending some quality time with our children, grandchildren, and her mother.  She also did a presentation of our ministry to two elementary schools...one in Pennsylvania and one in Florida.  Tom has been busy in Italy helping ramp up for our first-ever Summer semester at S.B.I.  Seven students arrived from Liberty University and began class on June 2.

June Schedule

Maureen returns to Italy on June 20th just in time for the SEE staff meeting and to greet our first summer mission team from McGregor Baptist Church.  In the meantime, she is completing her annual doctor visits and working on ESL curriculum.  Tom continues his administrative duties and is anxiously awaiting Maureen's return.

Support Update

We are at 80% of our monthly support.  Our short fall is $972.  Please pray that the Lord will continue to 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 a part 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

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