Bimonthly Report
(Jul-Aug 2025)

Dear Saints,

Greetings from the saints in Vicenza! We thank the Lord for His rich dispensing, by which the saints are going on strongly. The church continues to meet regularly for the prayer meeting, the life-study meeting, and the Lord’s table meeting, with an average of 25 saints attending (including via Zoom). We are caring for the children and young people, while also shepherding gospel friends, contacts, dormant ones, and new ones.

Our gospel distribution at the city center continues as we seek to reach the locals and find the seeking ones. Some of our young people also joined the European Young People’s Conference and Family Camp in Poland, where one of our young brothers was baptized. Recently, we began the video training from the Summer Semi-annual Training on the subject “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3),” and the saints have been richly supplied by the ministry and the Lord’s timely speaking. We have also been refreshed through the blending and fellowship with visiting saints from other churches.

Regarding the campus work at the University of Padova: during the summer break, the university has been closed (except for libraries and study areas), and most students have returned to their hometowns. Nevertheless, a few students who live nearby have continued to meet with us, enjoying fellowship and the sharing of the Word. We have been covering topics related to salvation and biblical examples, and some students have shown curiosity about the church. We are also going on with the Bible and gospel distribution in the campus with the hopes of gaining more seeking students.

Looking ahead to the new semester, we hope to gather the students again in an apartment rented by the saints, which will give us more opportunities to spend time together and make good use of the church’s resources. We are also grateful that new incoming students from other churches will be joining us, strengthening the local saints and helping in the gaining of more students.

The saints are also continually visiting those in nearby cities such as Rovereto, Dolomiti, Mantova, Rimini, San Marino, Morciano, Pesaro, Ferrara, Bologna, and Trieste. The saints in these places are pursuing the ministry together with us, entering into the vision of the Body of Christ and the Lord’s recovery. There has been a good increase among them, as they invite friends and contacts to the meetings.

In addition, the saints have begun initial fellowship and preparations related to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, which will touch these cities. The response from the local saints has been positive—they are encouraged to function and to participate in this work.

May the Lord continue to gain more ground in Italy as a preparation for His return.

Lord, for Your testimony, release what is in Your heart! Praise You, Lord!

Your fellow members in the Body,

The Church in Vicenza

Prayer Burdens:

1. The Church in Vicenza:

   1. For the strengthening of the Lord’s testimony in Vicenza and the increase of the church, by the spread of the gospel through the distribution of the gospel tracts and Bibles, and caring of the warm doors, contacts, and new ones

   2. For the recovery of the dormant ones, the caring of the children and the young people, for the perfecting of the saints unto the building up of His Body in function and mutuality, and for the proper shepherding of the sick ones in the church

   3. For an adequate meeting place in Vicenza where the saints can hold the meetings

2. The University of Padova:

   1. For the gaining of precious vessels in the University of Padova through the gospel and Bible distribution, and through the campus meetings, as well as the baptism of the seeking ones

   2. For the incoming students from the saints' family and from other churches,  and for the Lord to thrust out more workers for the harvest in the campus

   3. For an adequate meeting place to contain the students and the meetings

   4. For the Lord to gain fully some of these students and obtain their consecration by going to the Full-time training

3. For the strengthening and increase of the saints in the nearby cities in view of raising up the Lord's testimony in these cities

4. For the upcoming International Winter Olympics to be held in Italy:

   1. That the Lord would prepare the hearts of many, especially Italians, to receive the high gospel though the distribution of the Bibles and gospel tracts, and to be open to further contact and shepherding;

   2. That the Word and the ministry spread throughout Italy;

   3. That the Lord would use this opportunity for the increase of His Body and His testimony in Italy, especially in the cities where there are existing saints

5. For the migration project in Italy that the Lord of the harvest would thrust many workers to His field, and that the Lord would exercise His sovereignty with the processing of documents and meeting the needs of the saints

Related links:

Invitation for the Winter Olympics Gospel Trip 2026, Italy here.

Information about the campus work at the University of Padova here.