This beautiful young family represents the hope and the challenges of foreign mission work. They packed up the family and their possessions and moved from Ohio to Roma, Italy. Their little boy, Remi, was an infant. Leo was born in Italy as was Stella who was only 3 weeks old when we took this photo.
For a good part of the last 19 months they were confined to their apartment--only able to walk the dog outside. Imagine what that might have been like with two young energetic boys.
In the midst of COVID and normal life challenges they are still engaged in Christian ministry. Here's an example. The day it was posted, we ran across it on a telephone pole just outside the huge University, La Sapienza, in which no one but staff and students are currently allowed. The handbill is advertising a free "Guide to your new University Life". The Agape Italia staff are creative, hard working, and persistent.
The Italians are a hard group to whom to minister. Please lift them up--and this family is just the represent of almost a dozen more.
Pray.
Great family.
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