Last day in Venice.

June 6:

Let me start with this: We could not have had a better last service! We sang at the Nazarene Church in Florence that Daniel Fink pastors. It was a very emotional service. The congregation was so excited for us to be there and they were so appreciative. The most moving part for me was when their praise team came up and led us all in Prince of Peace and Shout to the Lord. Even though we were all singing in our native language it is was amazing to worship with them and know that we were all praising God with the same words. This service was by far the best. Afterwards we had lunch with the teens. It was good to be able to sit down and talk to some of them (most knew some broken English). After lunch about ten of us stayed and played football with the teens before we went to the Spanish service. I only took 3 years of Spanish in high school so I was able to understand the songs that we were singing (because we had the words in front of us) but during the sermon I found it hard to keep up with what was being said. For dinner we all went to a local pizzeria and Daniel Fink’s sons (two of the teens that I had gotten to know) came along. It was really fun to eat dinner with them and just talk about our lives and differences between Italy and the U.S. I would say, for me that today was one of the best days of the trip. Our service went really well and I feel like I started to build a relationship with some of the teens. I should probably get to bed soon, we have an early wakeup call tomorrow so we can have as much time in Rome as possible.

This is Dorian (one of the teens that I really got to know today).