"What have the Romans ever done for us?"

Last night we had our small group meeting. No bible study last night, but just a social dinner and prayer time. Steve had the idea last week to choose a country and then prepare food from that country and then pray for that country too. Quite a neat idea.

We'd settled on Italy so someone made pizza, someone made canneloni, someone else risotto. I knocked up an authentic Italian peach and almond tart (at least the Beeb Good Food website said it was Italian) and someone else made pannecotta.

It turns out that Steve and Lisa in the group know a couple of missionary couples in Italy so then we prayed for country as a whole (briefed by details from CMS and Operation World) before praying for the missionary couples. It's great to be able to support them in prayer. I hope Steve and Lisa will tell them we were praying for them. We know ourselves (from when we were involved with Kiwis for Christ at St Helen's, and also from us being over here) how encouraging it is to know people are praying for you.