Marty and Gloria in Rome

Springtime 2014
On April 1
st
we moved into Rome. We
are thankful for rent prices that have
come down as the economic crisis
continues. This is still a bit more out of
our budget but we are closer to the
church meeting place and many
members. However, Gloria misses the
small town we used to live. We mostly
use public transport and our car on
Sundays or when need to pick up our
teams.



We continue to see God working in
peoples lives as we try to lead and
guide them. Please pray for Erik
who has been recently come to
Christ and Dario who has walked
with the Lord many years. The
challenges always whatever stage of
life!

Erik (the one on the left)

SMALL GROUP
KOINONIA


Mothers Day! We are able to bless the
mothers with special program, delicious
lunch and roses of appreciation and
finishing the day with a costume
party.

Baby Showers are event we can use for
outreach. Pray for Carla, a young mother
whom recently came to Christ. Pray for
more social events opportunities like this!


Twice a month we continue with small group time to discuss about the
message as we focus on teaching.

The subjects since the beginning of the year is Stewardship and now The
Family. It was the best the church can do, to divide us in small groups
getting to know each other better a member shared. Pray for deep
relationships to develop.

Winter Retreat Discovering your spiritual gifts - Retreats help us have a more focused
teaching time to develop disciples and spend quality time, although not all the
congregation could go but 17 of us made it. Pray for those that still undecided to join the
church as members or not.

In late May our friends from Breccia di
Roma church welcomed Tim Keller. He
spent an intense day speaking in various
meetings and to many Pastors, also well
over 200 students and for the public
holding a press conference on his newly
published book The Reason for God
which now joins The Prodigal God all
translated into Italian.

We often visit members like
Sandra who live in a vacant
building occupation. Sandra
is a single mom, has an
autistic 8 years old child and
health problems. Pray that
she can find more hours to
work for her vitamins and
medication.



Gabi and Tom got engaged on June 1
st
, they are
planning for a wedding in early May 2015. Elliot of
course is growing and adores Tom.
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Tel. 352-243-2030

Banzhaf/Italy project in the memo



SUMMER 2014

Summer has started in Rome, which means kids are out of school and many Italians families
leave Rome because of the summer heat and many things will slow down. For the
congregation this means that members also will be traveling alone with the families they work
with, thus leaving the congregation with not many attendees. Traveling with the families mean
that they can earn extra money. We have spent two summers here and going into our third
one, where we did a lot of personal evangelism, home visitation and summer picnics, outings
etc. June and July will be like previous years, but we hope to travel later.

North and South America Trip Most of you enjoy spending time with your children and
grandchildren. We have not been able to have that experience for the past 3 years. Our
daughter, Gabi, has a 3 year old son that doesnt remember us as his grandparents. We would
love to be able to afford a trip back home. We are so appreciative of your financial support for
our ministry that we hesitate to ask for any additional help. Nevertheless, if the Lord leads
you to make an air miles or an air ticket to/from Cleveland-Orlando donation for our travel, we
would be forever grateful. We have been invited to attend and share on a missions conference
in Peru and Ecuador in August and September, so if our trip to the USA comes through will
like to go to share the Roma Project

Do PRAY for Gods direction