Rome (NEV), October 18, 2020 – The activities of the itinerant ministry with the Baptist pastor Lidia Maggi are resuming. The pastor writes on her Facebook page “It is with a little emotion that, after difficult months, I publish the agenda of the events. How many missed, canceled, postponed meetings… Life has undergone changes. We walk with less safe steps. Any scheduled event can be skipped due to health restrictions. Yet we dare to try again”.
The itinerant ministry, Pastor Maggi explains to the NEV Agency, represents “the possibility of bringing the Bible to people who would not easily meet it, of taking the Bible out of the usual contexts, in festivals, in libraries, in parishes, among people who do not go to church”.
It is an anthropological approach, according to the pastor, for whom the Bible is “a word for today, because it speaks to our lives, with meaningful storytellings, which enlighten and reflect us”.
“It’s like after an illness: the body will never be the same again – writes Lidia Maggi on her Facebook page, where she presents the October calendar -. Healing does not mean returning to the past life, but adapting to the transformation. The journey resumes, with a less rapid pace, with some more burdens. Hope is well rooted in the crisis, it makes us see the glimpse of the future in the darkness of the present. We walk, step by step, with so many uncertainties but we are walking… it’s no small thing!”.
The itinerant ministry was established during the Assembly of the Baptist Evangelical Christian Union of Italy (UCEBI), in 2018. The president Giovanni Arcidiacono describes it as follows: “It is an absolute novelty. We are open to recognizing the gifts that the Spirit awakens within the churches. We recognized the music ministry and today we are called to recognize this new itinerant ministry […] which should act as an instance, at national level, that collects spiritual needs that do not cross the churches but are outside them, a demand for spirituality, but also for knowledge of the historical Baptist presence in Italy”.
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