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Hello Pastor Brad,
I am taking the liberty to write to you with a personal letter, as I asked on whatsapp, before we meet again in Texas.
First of all thank you for your service to the Lord in Italy and for your approach. Also your message was a real inspiration for all of us.
First of all thank you for your service to the Lord in Italy and for your approach. Also your message was a real inspiration for all of us.
At the age of 20 (on January 20th, 1994), the Lord saved me from much immorality, drugs, violence, loneliness, and many other struggles I had.
As soon as February, a missionary team of about 70 missionaries came who pitched their tents and campers right by my parents house where I was staying.
After a period of a couple of months spent with them, and about a year and half playing keyboard in our local church, in January 1996 I joined the ministry Christ is the Answer for good. I spent a total of three years there. Going from North to South, working with churches and sharing the Good News for the streets of Italy through all kinds of skits, dramas and outreach activities. Music, puppets, distribution of reading material, testimonies, one on one, everyday, morning and evening. Every night attending our tent meeting with both, church people and unsaved people coming by the thousands under the tent meeting.
Everyday prayer meetings, but also a lot of chores were part of our daily routine. Day/evening/night guard, cooking, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, driving/washing vans and campers and, of course, pitching tents and moving every two or three months.
During those years in the ministry I have witnessed about the Lord of glory to countless people, and God has done many miracles, saving the lives of people from the darkness, drug-addicts, prostitutes, and all kinds of people that you might meet in the streets came to Jesus, or were touched by the daily ministry of Christ is the Answer.
Through this ministry I have learned lots of outreach activities, to play musical instruments, be a sound guy, lead people to churches and events, and most of all to learn how to live in community, which is the hardest part.
During my time in the tent ministry, I heard about a revival that had occurred in Pensacola, Fl, and of a Bible School that was founded in that context. At the end of 1998 I left Christ is the Answer to prepare to fly to the United States for the first time.
It was January 1999 that I first visited the blessed nation of the United States of America. In August of that year I attended my first semester at school, and have enjoyed the every night revival meetings at church. The Revival had started in 1995, and there reports that roughly four million people have visited the revival in about five years period.
A time that has impacted me through the school and the church, and through the activities we had. I met wonderful people that were a great example for me. I also met a great leadership through which I have learned a lot of things and that today is still active part of my life. During those school year I also volunteered for Teen Challenge rehabilitation center of Pensacola for over one year. I was involved in leading sessions of preaching, teaching and counseling. Few years ago I was in Pensacola, and I met a guy who called my (difficult to pronounce) name, he asked me if I remembered him, but I was not sure because at church there were thousands of people every night. Then he told me that I was one of the teachers at Teen Challenge that help him out of drugs, and now he was running three Teen Challenge centers, “you do not know the impact you had in my life,” he said. I was astonished that such a testimony was added to the countless ones I had witnessed in my life. The Lord is Good and to Him all the glory
A time that has impacted me through the school and the church, and through the activities we had. I met wonderful people that were a great example for me. I also met a great leadership through which I have learned a lot of things and that today is still active part of my life. During those school year I also volunteered for Teen Challenge rehabilitation center of Pensacola for over one year. I was involved in leading sessions of preaching, teaching and counseling. Few years ago I was in Pensacola, and I met a guy who called my (difficult to pronounce) name, he asked me if I remembered him, but I was not sure because at church there were thousands of people every night. Then he told me that I was one of the teachers at Teen Challenge that help him out of drugs, and now he was running three Teen Challenge centers, “you do not know the impact you had in my life,” he said. I was astonished that such a testimony was added to the countless ones I had witnessed in my life. The Lord is Good and to Him all the glory
It was during those days that I met my wife Kathy. She was a student of the school of ministry and had a missionary heart. In fact she had gone on mission trips to Guatemala and twice to Italy with the school of ministry. As a matter of fact, the school of ministry was oriented to reach the world very much so. Today, out of that school of ministry there are hundreds of missionaries serving in many parts of the world and in the US.
After a time itinerating all over the United States, we left to go to Italy, and after three attempts, we finally settled in November of 2004 renting an apartment in a town of about 60.000 people called Avellino. After spending 8 years financially unstable, and only serving churches and preaching all over the churches,
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