Italy Gospel Trips

 

Since the first gospel trip (TR1), started in early December 2025, until now, at the close of the last gospel trip (OL2), it has been evident that the Lord is moving in our move! There has been a “wheel within the wheel,” and many seeds have been sown in the places these teams have visited (map shows all the cities where teams visited). Our expectation is that surely the Lord will keep operating in people’s hearts so that the seeds will grow and develop, giving Him the way to raise up groups of seekers and lovers in these places. OL2 is the last gospel trip. But He is not ending His moving in Italy; He is continuing to move. For this, may we remain one with Him in our praying, giving, and going. For the “going,” a letter with instructions to register for follow-up shepherding trips is available here.

Prayer Burdens for the Lord's Work in Italy

Milan 

 

Highlights from the Gospel Team

1) Milan
Days 1-3: We enjoyed our first Lord’s table meeting in Milan, joining the local saints along with the saints from the previous gospel trip. We were able to overlap and fellowship with the OL1 Milan group, and we were encouraged by their overflow. Hearing the testimonies from the OL1 Milan and Naples teams encouraged the OL2 team to continue to advance in Milan.

 

Day 4: We started our coordination with prayer, and we were filled in spirit when singing hymn #200. We corporately prayed that we would be in the “shining light with pleasant rays [that] increases all the way.”

 

In reading The World Situation and the Direction of the Lord’s Move, we were reminded that the carrying out of His economy corresponds with the world situation. How desperate the Lord is to gain Europe at this time.

 

After our fellowship we all went out to the Politecnico di Milano-Bovisa campus for our gospel outreach.

 

We spoke to quite a number of students who were open to conversations and who willingly gave us their contact details:

 

An exchange student from India has been meeting with the saints for 6 months and is moving back to India this weekend, but she said that she was interested in getting baptized.

Students were open to come to our gospel meeting this week: we met one student on campus whom we had met on the previous gospel trip, and we met another student, an exchange student from Georgia who studies design, who wants to know the Bible more. Both said that they were open to come for our gospel time this week.

 

Two received the Lord: An American-Jewish-Italian student from Boca Raton who has been in Milan for 5 years, and a local Italian student who got tears in her eyes after receiving the Lord!

 

In the evening we went to the homes of the saints. In one of the home meetings we read through the Life Study of Galatians, Message 37, in Italian with other Italian saints who joined via Zoom.

 

Day 5: Some of the brothers had two appointments, while other saints went to Bicocca University in the afternoon. We had several positive connections.

 

Day 6: Daniel 11:32: “The people who know their God will show strength and take action.” To take action means to do something noble and worthy which may be considered as an achievement. Especially in these days in the Lord’s recovery, we need to be those who show strength and take action.

 

After coordination in the morning, we went to Politecnico di Milano-Bovisa campus. This is the last week of final exams, so not as many students were present on campus. Most students we met on campus were studying for their exams, and some were quite stressed as they were studying at the last minute before entering the exam hall. We were able to pray with some students for their exams.

 

We met a graduate student originally from India. He is curious about Christianity and asked us about a seminar or workshop. We got his contact information and were able to get an appointment with him the following day.

 

Day 7: We enjoyed hymn #770, praying that out of our innermost beings would flow rivers of living water. We prayed to be channels of living water to the students at the universities. We also continued reading The World Situation and the Direction of the Lord’s Move and fellowshipped that the reason we are here on this gospel trip is to contact people to preach the high gospel, teach the deeper truths, and testify the Christian experience.

 

In the afternoon we went to Bicocca University for our gospel outreach. Because the weather was rainy, we all went inside the buildings to contact people.

 

An exchange student who is spending one year in Milan has started to read the Recovery Version with two brothers here in Milan. May the Lord gain him as a functioning member.

We had our fourth appointment with a Bicocca University student whom we have been laboring on since OL1. She says that she is looking for faith. We read through chapter 1 of Basic Elements of the Christian Life. She is interested in continuing her contact with the saints.

 

We had our first appointment with the Polytecnico student whom we met yesterday, and we shared the meaning of our human life, why we were created, what sin is, and how to be saved. He is curious about what it means to be a Christian. We invited him to the home meeting on Friday.

 

On Thursday evening several Chinese-speaking saints opened their home for dinner and blending. The neighbor of one of the sisters joined us for our meeting, and we preached the gospel to her.

Day 1: We began the day with fellowship and an OL2 orientation in Milan. A local brother who traveled from Turin very early in the morning joined us. We were richly filled and energized by hymn #267: “Fill me with Thy gracious Spirit.” Following this we pray-read Matthew 22:2 and 14, and we realized that our participation in the gospel of the kingdom is a preparation for the wedding feast. The Turin team consists of 10 saints from Spain, France, Malaysia, Korea, and Australia. Today was a day of travel, fellowship, prayer, and mutual opening so that we might be blended together as one.

 

Day 2: We gathered with the Turin saints for the Lord’s Day meeting. This strengthened our realization that the Lord desires to raise up a golden lampstand in Turin. Two local families and two sisters were present. One sister travels an hour and half by train every week to attend the meeting. Although many saints are considered as part of Turin, most do not reside within the city proper; rather, many are scattered around the nearby cities, which requires them to travel up to an hour by car and longer by public transport to meet with the saints in Turin. In our afternoon coordination we considered how to reach these dear saints for shepherding.

 

From the past gospel trips there were 24 positive new ones who continue to meet for further fellowship over coffee and/or meals. The burden of OL2 Turin has been to continue the shepherding of these positive new ones. We feel to spend time with the saints who have a connection with these new ones with a view to continuing the burden of having face-to-face fellowship with them.

 

One local sister has been living and working in the outskirts of Turin for the past 5 years and has faithfully traveled to the meetings as often as she could. Although the Lord has provided her a job that freed her on Lord’s Day mornings to meet with the saints, she has a heart to move to live closer to the saints within Turin.

 

Day 3: In the morning, after our fellowship, we scouted out two locations as potential places for gospel preaching: Politecnico University di Torino (about 38,000 students), and Porta Susa (a main hub for public transportation by train with much public and student traffic).

Today we had two appointments: one was a follow-up from a previous gospel trip, who is open to have lunch together to meet more saints; the other was a local couple at their hair salon.

 

We were joined by two members who arrived from Spain. We concluded the day over dinner and fellowship with one another. One of us spoke to the waiter, and he opened up about his history and circumstances that have caused him to seek for God. He is eager to have further appointments and to meet with others.

 

Day 4: We enjoyed the matter of God’s need for a dwelling place on earth for His rest and satisfaction, so that He can be expressed in Turin. This is accomplished by God’s speaking in His translated, interpreted, and understood Word through our speaking forth the word, the gospel. Then we went out to preach the gospel in front of Politecnico University di Torino.

We held a few good conversations with people of various backgrounds. We had lunch with a new one and invited him to have further fellowship. Two sisters visited a young woman in her home, and two brothers met a new one for coffee.

 

We visited an older sister who has two daughters and has a home near Turin. She occasionally meets and enjoys fellowship and asks questions regarding the church. She is open to reading the Word together one on one.

 

We met a young man who was impressed with the Bible and the consistency of the Bible. He wanted to know our names, and he is very happy to be able to meet more believers like us!

We met a young Peruvian with Italian lineage who speaks five languages. He met the saints during TR4. He was shocked and impressed to know that the Bible is a romance, and we enjoyed Song of Songs chapter 1, which depicts Christ as the Husband to the church, His wife. He is starting to see the significance. He is happy to continue reading as a group. When his father picked him up, the father was happy to receive a Spanish Bible.

 

Day 5: Our morning coordination was a time of being filled in spirit (hymns #595, #267), with specific prayers for new ones we had met yesterday and a preparation for the many God-prepared appointments this afternoon.

We had 5 afternoon appointments:

 

A Portuguese-speaking brother (a professional football player who is awaiting his delayed “permesso”—an Italian requirement to stay in Italy) stated, “I’m not sure why the Lord has brought me here.” He came over to have lunch at our Airbnb, during which we enjoyed sweet mutual fellowship as he opened about some of his personal situations. We read together with mutual sharing the entire chapter of John 12, emphasizing glorification (John 12:23-24). We concluded with prayer. His prayers were precious: he thanked the Lord for the process he is in and for the fact that we can have God’s image and likeness. He would like to meet any time.

A Chinese first-semester master’s student at Politecnico University brought his friend (also a student) to meet with two brothers for lunch. He was happy to meet us, and he gave us a tour of the university. We talked about how man was brought into being and that man was created by God. His friend is full of religious concepts. Our new one asked a precious question: “How can man not be fallen?” We then helped him to see that man can be forgiven by God through the blood of Jesus Christ, who reconciled us with God and made all things right with God. He seemed happy to be with us and will probably meet us again.

 

A local Italian who lives and works in Turin, previously contacted from TR4, describes herself as being a Buddhist but is 20% open to accepting other things. We told her that what she is looking for is ultimately to find God within our spirit. We shared some of our testimonies with her, and she seemed to be looking for something to fill her inner being. Right after we parted ways, she sent us a text saying she wants to meet with us again.

 

A Peruvian who came to study and work in Milan was contacted during TR3 and has maintained regular phone appointments with two sisters. She has a Catholic background and is beginning to know the Bible more. She was baptized three weeks ago and was very thankful and happy to have more sisters visit her in person.

 

We met a waiter at a restaurant in Turin who was a physician from Cuba. With his background as a physician, we showed him from the Bible the three parts of man and the eternity in man’s heart that is sensed in the human spirit and that can be filled only by God’s eternal life. He received our speaking and took moments of time to digest and understand what he was hearing. We led him to call on the name of the Lord! He is open and happy and would like further contact.

 

We concluded the day by visiting a family who lives south of Torino. We enjoyed the fellowship of the divine life in the enjoyment of the preparation of the bride. During this time we shared our testimonies, and a sister shared that she turned to the Lord’s recovery when she was sick of empty religion and was captured by the living expression of God’s love through the saints. They have faithfully continued in the church life but also feel that there is the need for migrations for the strengthening and raising up of a lampstand in Turin.

 

Day 6: We began this morning with hymn #255, realizing that we need His healing by means of His accomplished righteousness through the cross that we might become the righteousness of God (2 Cor. 5:21) in our preaching the gospel (Rom. 1:16-17).

 

Day 7: In our morning time together we sang “Freed from self and Adam’s nature” (#840) and “O Christ He is the Fountain” (#206), while we thanked the Lord for what He had done in these past weeks.

 

We had our final team lunch together and had fellowship among the team members. We shared our testimonies, and we mutually opened to one another’s present situation. Our dear Lord Jesus causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love!

 

We had one afternoon appointment, and in the evening the team separated into two parts to have dinners with two families. These times were full of shepherding and mutual enjoyment in the household of God.

Giving

Saints who are burdened to give for the Bible distribution and other expenses can give through LME by following instructions at lordsmove.org/offerings.html. Designate offerings for “Gospel Move in Italy.”

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