Incredible Praise Report

Did I not say it was time for Italy? Actually God told me it was time and He was not speaking in the distant future, He was speaking NOW. When we think of the incredible amount of work and engineering and connections that it took for this week to occur, were floored. We had a group from Iceland, Switzerland and the USA who have all been in Redding at the School of the Supernatural for the past 2 years and Josh Albillo who is actually on staff from Redding with us.

We set up as many meetings as were possible for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which isn’t easy now because it is July, very hot over 94-104 with humidity of 80% so it is beach and mountain time for the Italians. 5 meetings full to overflowing and all wanting to hear something from the Lord. All in waiting expectations for the things the Lord wants to do in this Nation. People who have prayed for unity within the body and for the glory to fall in this Nation. For miracles, signs and wonders to come once again to rest on this Nation. The Lord confirmed time and time again His great love for them, promises that were in their heart were spoken out for all to hear, healing’s, forgiveness, and the sweet sweet presence of the Lord all around us. We broke out in praise and worship & dance.
Many asked us how this all came to be and the bottom line is obedience. The Lord urged us to come back to California, we thought for one thing but a California connection we made while in Israel in 2008 (again we went in obedience) contacted us a few days after we arrived and felt they were to invite us and pay for a conference for us to attend which connected us to Don Pirozok & his awesome wife Cheryl from Spokane Washington who was having some training seminars around the Bay Area, Sacramento and South bay, and in that we met Rosario (thank you oh mighty woman of God for your obedience) who put us in touch with this group who have felt a calling for Italy. From 2008 to 2010 the Lord was weaving His plan specifically for us here in Italy.
Last year we went to Switzerland to meet up with our friends Giancarlo & Katherine from the UK to come and be part of a seminar (we need experience in ministry) and there we met David & Isabella who connected us before we came to California with a group from Germany who also have a heart for Italy and a call for this Nation. When we came back in January we went back to this group in Germany for a conference with Emerson & Ana Mendez Ferrel, (who by the way is Italian, with family from Florence, yes born in Mexico but Italian, wow) and there we met up again with David & Isabella who told us about some missionaries they met from Italy.

Mark & Thomas


I contacted them, Marc & Denine King about 2 weeks before the group was to arrive here to minister to us and he brought down his family and his cell group of pretty much all new young on fire converts. It was awesome as the group from Redding pulled them into ministry and allowing them to ministry and move in the gifting’s that the Lord has on them all. We are family, we are to be a place safe to train the next generation in the moving’s and gifting of the Lord. If we don’t let them practice and use what they have, church they won’t just be ready when they are older. They have to get behind the wheel and be allowed to try and drive with someone who loves them and can watch over them as they perfect hearing the voice of the Lord amen.

I know it is lots of names of people you know and don’t know but my letter is to encourage you to “GO FOR IT”. When you feel that jump in your Spirit, don’t just say, “oh it’s my flesh”, “oh that couldn’t be God”, “I can’t do that”; “It’s such short notice, I need time to think about it and pray”, just GO FOR IT. Yes some things you need to pray about, obvious, however had Moses told everyone to sit down and pray about touching the rod to the water well, we wouldn’t be even having this discussion would we, they would all be dead. You have to trust and believe the Lord is ever active and present in your life moving you on and forward in His will for you and others. He is not just some passive bystander in your life just waiting for an opportunity to intervene, but ever active in your life at all times.

satan doesn’t have all power over you and your life, you are the children of the Living God, the God who raised Jesus from the dead and that same Spirit lives in you. We are His holy ones and we are consumed by Him. What we saw happen this weekend took nothing more then our obedience and faith that the Lord was in control and we were following Him no matter how weird it seemed or how spontaneous and last minute or irresponsible it seemed, our Spirit testified it was right while all our natural man screamed (and satan), we were blowing it.

We will never ever be the same, and those who came will never be the same. We are going forward more and more in love with the Lord and with each other. We were set freer and we are going out to set others in the world free. We are walking in His given authority to set the captives free, open blind eyes, raise the dead and proclaim that He is Risen, He is alive and He is the King over the whole earth and Father God loves them so much and Holy Spirit will equip them to live a live full of His glory until He arrives to gather us.

Just “GO FOR IT”.


Thank you and double portion to you Thomas & Maria, Josh, Solveig, Oskvear, Natalie & Catherine & Team Asti. Marc you rock as an interpretor & Denine you are awesome.

Grazie Jami, Ps. Alessandro & Katia, Marco & Chrissie, Guido & Lorraine, Ps. Marco & Nunzia per aprire la vostra stanze, chiesa, casa per noi. Ancora Signore, siamo pronti.......

June 2010

Where has the time gone, 6 months into the year and wow what a great start it has been? So much has happened. Well lets just start with March 28^th, when we started our first ever 24/7 in the Florence area. This isn’t just a few days or a whole month as others have done in the past here around Italy, but a whole year. We gathered in the Nuova Mercato in Florence with about 10 or so churches with different denominations represented.

We currently have a little over 280 people praying around the clock for the glory of the Lord to fall upon us here in Italy. It’s really pretty exciting to be able to be in on the beginning of new things and reaping fruit from areas that others have toiled for years to bring about.

Stephen & Ros are now hoping along with Ps. Giovanni Targetti to spread this to Perugia, Bologna etc. We can be found on Facebook as Preghiera Continua or at the new blog site me and & Guido put together to add new ways to extend our prayer project at www.preghieracontinua.blogspot.com .

What is really neat about all this are the testimonies. Many people took 1 hour and have reported that once they started they were praying even longer and with ease and some have even taken a second time slot. When it is the Lord it is easy. We are starting to see more of a hunger for prayer that even includes the young who in our church have been taking the midnight to 3 shifts.

At the end of April a group from YWAM Hawaii came over to the church in Empoli to the church in Empoli and did some all night prayer & worship meetings. We went on the 12th for about 6 hours of prayer & worship. How awesome it is to worship in your own language and they incorporated it with Italian worship as well.

We volunteered to drive them 1200 km. to Herrnhut Germany. They rented 2 vans which me and Guido drove up & back. It was the cheapest form of transportation. They were like 13 people total, 1 in a wheelchair & 1 small toddler and tons of back packs, instruments, stroller, car seat, etc. Europe is not cheap for this many people taking a train or a plane. 1 way rental had a 1000 drop off fee so that is why we offered. Left on a Thursday at 4:30pm, arrived Herrnhut, yes that is the famous 100 year prayer place of Count Zinzendorf & the Moravians, and now a YWAM base sits in the village.

I even saw my first deer ever in Europe after 12 years. Not like the deer we seen in California in the first few days grazing along the freeway in Pleasanton. Go figure. Arrived at 5:30am, got everyone into their different sleeping quarters (3 places) our awesome American hosts treated us to some incredible pastries from a family bakery that was opened in like in 1841 and Paul gave Guido a message and poured us into bed by 7am.

Our hosts were Jean & Paul Wemmer of Washington State and Paul who was born in Germany but after the war went to the USA, just recently translated from the old German language 2 books on the life of Count Zinzendorf, 1 that was written 100 years after and the other 200 years after he died. He gave us a copy which I have read and if anyone is interested you can contact them at Paul14120@gmail.com apparently he is giving them away and what an awesome book it is. Anyhow we were then up by noon for some awesome Germany hamburgers (round like baseballs), potato salad and the best bread and deserts ever and back on the road by about 3:00, and made it until just inside the Italian boarder at 1:00am Saturday morning and we had to pull over & sleep. We woke up about 3:00 and arrived home 6:00am, to bed, up by 10 to return the vans.

Yes we are crazy but we will do just about anything for the body of Christ. We didn’t get to site see but as usual the Lord had some divine connections and I’m sure you’ll be hearing more about those in the months and years to come amen.

Now the next day Sunday May 23^rd and stemming from this 24/7 prayer came the Global Day of Prayer where incredibly we had our first ever (as in historically ever) meeting in the Florence area under the tent www.cristoelarisposta.it . From this was also a simultaneous meeting of about 8 churches in the Prato region with 5 of those being Italian, 1 Chinese, 1 Nigerian and groups of Africans from the Ivory coast, Pakistani’s and various other ethnic groups together crying out to the Lord. Again Prato is the first for Global Day of Prayer on this scale. We danced, we sang, we prayed in unity with the rest of the world.

For us it truly was a joy to see something that started back in 2005 helping Ps. Montecchi In Milan to get the info out, fast forward 5 years later and seeing large groups coming together to cry out and seek the Lord’s face together.

Italians pray, don’t get me wrong, they have been praying for years for their country, but there is something very powerful and dynamic when the body of Christ gets together corporately and does it. There is power in the unity of the body and that is what we are rejoicing in at this time for we know as we do this, repenting, crying out and seeking the face of the Lord that He is going to hear us and heal this land amen.

On May 26^th we met with Stephen & Ros and a group of people they gathered together to introduce the Alpha course. Guido actually prepared a very nice dinner before hand and a gentleman from England came over, actually he was here on vacation and Stephen & Ros appropriated some of his time to impart into Italy, just like us, your here to visit and we use you for building up the kingdom, not a bad exchange really, pasta for ministry work, ha ha. He was glad to tell this group of various people about the program, how it is used specially among the Catholics in England and how even some churches in the past have used it here. We shall see as this looks like a great tool, thank you Keith Hazell for the suggestion from like 3 years back. Finally we have the resources to begin.

Praise Reports

Many of you know about our battle with the pension board here in Italy, and the new battle that ensued when we got back in January regarding our employee. It seems like another agency (there are 2 different government pension boards here) got involved, made one phone call and now has written us a letter that should release us from that issue and may actually cause the original to crumble as well. Now our original case has been sent to yet another person who told us he can not understand how our case was sent to collections when it hasn’t even come back from review. Hmmm I wonder how that happened. He said it is impossible to send them to collections without final review from Rome and yet it was. In fact they put a lien against the motorcycle last month so we could not drive them. We decided to transfer them out of our name into a Non Profit Ministry here just so we could continue to have a something to drive. They can’t out right take the bike, however if we get stopped on a random street check there is a €500-2500 fine and the police take the bike, so we sprung for the €60 euros & transferred them for now. All in all I have faith that the Lord will bring this to a favorable end, we just have to let patience work its way in us through the process amen. Now I know why everyone has everything in their grandma’s or children’s name, its crazy how one mistake on someone else’s part can take years to unravel.

July 8^th is our 6^th year anniversary living in Italy. WOW, we can’t believe everything that the Lord is and has been doing. No clue when were coming back, but we know that we are where were suppose to be for this moment. Also in July a group from Redding is coming to minister in some of the local churches. Please keep that in prayer that they will be led of the Lord to give to the Italians exactly what the Lord wants for this time and hour and that the Italians will have open hearts to hear what the Lord is trying to say to them. This contact was made while in California with Rosario (thanks bunches) who introduced me to Catherine who just graduated from the Ministry school in Redding along with her parents Thomas & Maria Stankiewicz. They had been prior 10 years in Reykjavik Iceland as church planters and feel that they have a call for Italy. They are bringing with them a team from Bethel including Josh Albillio and all who have a heart specifically for Italy. Amen, Lord send the workers for the harvest. So we are very very excited for the contact and their heart of teaching the Fathers Love, which has been our theme for many years since our time in Toronto. We currently have them set up for 4 churches in 3 days and hope that we can squeeze in another 2 to fill up their 5 days with us.

Jami & Chloe are currently back with us. Here engagement is over after 5 years, so please keep her and Chloe in prayer and that she will see this as God’s hand to draw her back to him in a mighty and powerful way. It is really hard to be young these days and it is even harder to be young and Christian in this country. There are not many youth groups like in the USA or programs in our area. Our youth at the church now have just come into their own in the last few years after Jami left and are really about 5 years younger then her so it wasn’t really her crowd and there is not many young mothers in this country either. Her work is going well and Chloe is excelling in school. She just finished 1^st grade and already reads and writes in cursive. She usually had 1 or 2 hours of homework a day after being there 8 hours and even has homework for the summer. It is rough but she is smart as a whip and it keeps her very stimulated and she is the type of child who needs this. I’m impressed but now she is loosing the English so guess what I’m doing this summer? You got it “Hooked on Phonics”. It will be easy, she is a great student and I’m not bias.

As four our finances we truly are learning the way of faith more and more. On paper we are coming up about short about €100 euro a month and yet our debt is not increasing so I’m not sure how that is working out. Money in vs. money out is for sure short but there is always enough so we just believe that it will continue. Of course all extra’s no longer exist for us, only necessities and we are alternating utility bills for payment, but I hear many Italians saying the same so we are not alone. Guido still has not found work and not for a lack of trying. He gets discouraged at times because he certainly is qualified, but the age thing is a factor when it comes to employers paying the contributions. He is only going to be 50 in November but here it is a death sentence for work. I continue to work on-line with Kaylyn in California and that has really blessed me and given me something to do.

Thank you specially Don and Faith you have really been the major contributors to us since we got back and for it not been this way, we really could not have stayed. Thank you Bernabe family for your faithful sowing into our ministry for the past 4 years or so. Thank you Land & Sea for not forgetting about us. Thank you to all you anonymous givers who give to us through New Life Christian Church, truly it is a work that could not be done without your support. Europe is expensive. A recent trip we made to Germany for some ministry contacts for the future (not Herrnhut) cost us €300 for gas, tolls & car. We have had to turn down invites because we simply don’t have the finances to say yes. When invited we usually minister even though we are not the speakers so we are not reimbursed for these things and many times the smaller places give offerings which generally cover what you spent, but we don’t have it to even get there. Maybe it is a lack of faith and we have lost the will to go out for fear of not being able to replace it if we missed God, or wisdom however we are in a learning curve so please please pray for us to really hear the Lord clearly and to be obedient even if it means going to the train station with no money in hand believing a ticket will be there if He says go, amen.

For His Glory Alone

Guido & Joyce Bassi

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Wjust a few days or a whole month as others have done in the past here around Italy, but a whole year.

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Hello Again,

Well I had such a great response with the last praise report I thought I would share this one. We've actually been keeping it under raps for the last 3 weeks, but now that we have a testimony I thought it was time. March 28th a young man named Lorenzo came up for prayer, and when I saw him coming, I really felt he needed to be anointed with oil. Well the Pastor prayed for him for a long time and than the young man went back and sat and I turned to Guido and said we really need to anoint him with oil. So Guido & I along with our friends Emily & Erik from the States who came to visit us went to pray for him. He has lymphoma and had just found out 3 days before (on his 21'st birthday). We'll we anointed him and laid hands on him and there was such burning in our hands. 3 times my hand on his back seized up and 3 times I shook my hand off. At one point Guido turned to Emily and said "I think you have something for him, do you?". She said, well I kinda felt like the Lord wanted me to punch him. We told Lorenzo what she felt the Lord told her to do and he said ok. We of course thought she was going to give him this little symbolic punch but she just popped him really hard right in the center of his chest. We were all kind of like shocked, she really punched him. She said that after she did she saw something explode inside him in that area and things falling off of him.

This young man could barely stand up, he was swaying all over the place and after about 20 minutes we stopped praying for him. He said he felt his whole body on fire and he was actually sweating. When his sister came up after wards she told us that they found it in his chest, in the exact spot Emily punched. We were all after wards laughing about her punching him and she said she had never ever punched anyone so she didn't even know how to gauge how hard or soft it would be. We told her husband that he better watch out. Anyhow later that night Lorenzo brought us to Florence for the start of the 24/7 Prayer in Italy and we learned a little bit more about this incredible young man. He has only been saved a very short time, in fact his sister & brother-in-law are very strong Christians (14 yrs older than him) and they brought him to England where he went to Hillsong and received the Lord. In October he was baptized, we were there at the time but I didn't remember him in particularly. He however had not yet been filled with the Holy Spirit, so we told him that we would have him and his lovely girlfriend over for lunch in the near future and pray with them. Thought it might be too dangerous while driving on the rode, and we got home very late after the very fantastic meeting in Florence.

So today they came over for lunch and he shared that when he found out he had cancer, that he had the incurable Hodgekins type, they told him basically he was going to die, however after he received prayer he went back for more tests and now they tell him he not only has a different form of lymphoma but one of the most curable ones. Praise the Lord. No it isn't a total healing as of yet, however he feels very secure in what the Lord is doing in his life. He is very on fire and we were so incredible blessed to pray with both of them to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit. We loaded them up with worship music and a book on the Holy Spirit.

On another note they also took the prayer time on our list from 3-4 am and were a little worried about whether they could wake up and pray and maybe an hour would be too long, but in fact they said it was super easy. We had the same experience taking the 1-2am and in fact our first night we felt such a presence of the Lord starting around the time our group went on it's shift for prayer at 4pm that when we arrived at our time to pray, we both felt such a presence of the Holy Spirit we prayed a little longer and the time just flew by. When we got up to go to bed, Guido told me to look back into the room, it actually looked foggy, but I thought it might be the candles we burn, but Guido's said it wasn't possible because we burn them every night and it doesn't get cloudy? This past week the same thing happened minus the fog and we actually prayed for 2 hours and it was effortless. We believe and this it what we shared with them, that it is a result of corporate prayer, praying in the spirit of Unity and it just being God's timing for our nation and He is enabling us to pray and cry out. When the Lord calls for a work, He also equips us, we just need be obedient.

That's it, we're so excited, we had to call Emily and tell her were going to start sending people to her house for a good punching who need healing, ha ha. Can we start the church of the punch. It's probably better than spitting in the mud or laying on top of them, imagine what people would say. Ok all jokes aside. The Lord is awesome and so good and we are so excited to be a part of something so much bigger than we could have ever hoped for or imagined. What a blessing and an honor to pray for people and to see the Lord working and moving and changing lives. Thank you so very much for praying for us and sharing with us in the fruits of this labor.

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that regarding the giant bill from the Pension Board that we got we we returned to Italy, we went to talk with them and they said there was nothing we could do, we had to repay for our employee even though we had already paid it to another agency. They said they would not get that other agency to pay it but it was our responsibility to get the money back. So from there we went to Florence to request that they return the 4000,00 euro so we could pay the correct Agency and the man informed us that under the law we had in fact paid the correct agency and that they would not give us the money back and asked for the phone number of the person in charge of the file at the other Government agency.

Ok I thought go ahead and call, nothing will happen, but he called her right there while were were in the office and told her that they were outside of the law and were not entitled to any monies and that according to a law from 2005 they were to suspend all the collections for this amount and after dropping several names (nobody we know) the woman from the other Agency agreed and said that all collections would be stopped. Wow we fight with them for months and months and in 3 minutes this man brought to an end 1 battle but with this battle and the law from 2005 we should be able with the documentation he will be sending us to completely close out the other battle regarding our personal pension and the 28,000 euro they say we owe.

So just wanted all of you who have been praying for this to know that a small victory was won, but we believe it will be the catalyst to win the war

Guess who we saw today?

Today we went to San Gimignano with some friends and as we were meandering through the shops we stopped to wait for our friends when a very nice looking man starts coming towards me and my brain in the matter of seconds is processing that I know this person and how attractive they are even though they are kind of scruffy and as that thought is passing out of my brain as I'm on to a new thoughts about being in this beautiful city I realize this person is looking me straight in the eyes as he passes me, literally shoulder to shoulder and that he seems to have a look like "does she recognize me or is she going to talk to me" and it hits me when I really see the eyes, and I turn around to Guido and say, wow that guy looks just like George Clooney. than our whole group turns to look at him and he has now stopped and turned back to face us as he seems to be waiting for someone and I look and he seems way to tanned, and now I'm looking at another lady who seemed to be looking at him, but wasn't and I turned back to keep walking and my friend says "That is totally George Clooney", and I think now they are just making fun of me and than I hear Guido yell " Hey George" really loud and I'm like totally mortified that Guido is calling to a guy who looks like George. Than Guido say's yeah it was George Clooney, now I really think these guys are just pulling my leg, but Guido say's "no really". Apparently George was going into a store, when he hears Guido call his name and he stops pops his head out and smiles and waves. Now if it wasn't George, it was a really good look alike who is very use to responding to his name when called.

March 2010

Well we have been back just over a month and of course right back into a legal battle. Within 2 days of our return, another letter from the Government arrived stating that we owe another 4000 for our employee. Please pray as it seems that we bought a red car but the Pension Board (there are 2 in Italy) wants to make it blue (allegorically speaking since it was a gym we opened and they say we opened a rehab center) so they can collect money we do not owe them. If we are proven to be correct that the car was in fact really red, they will write a letter which we must present to a judge (at our own expense) and than we will be released from this now 42,000 + interest & fines debt ($57,000). Please pray for us to have strength & wisdom to proceed, as this is so time consuming, expensive and frustrating and which keeps trying to pull us from our true call of the lost and broken in the land, not erroneous debts that some government office decides to invent.

On that news however our time in the United States was very fruitful and we returned totally encouraged and recharged for the tasks that the Lord has called us to. We would like to thank all of you who put into our lives emotional, physically, spiritually and financially during our stay.ng our ysically, spiritually and financially the harvest because it is ready but there is no place to put them or enough What we came to the USA to do turned out to be totally different than what the Lord did. As usual He had His way and changed our lives in ways we could have never imagined and we came away so much more equipped for the tasks at hand. We met so many new people and ministries and were so totally blessed by them.

We spoke at Land & Sea Missions in Vallejo just before we returned to Italy and were totally blown away by their love, encouragement and generosity. Even had 1 brother write us an encouraging word and sing over us, WOW. We even picked up a few intercessors. In fact the Lord has made it very clear that we need people who will commit to intercede specifically for us while we are here so if you feel you are one of these people, please email us ASAP so we can start to send you specific prayer needs amen.

As usual it is always nice to return to our Church at New Life and see old friends and to make new ones and to keep the fires of friendship alive, encouraging one another and sharing in the daily challenges and visions to which the Lord is inviting us into amen. We were also very blessed to be grafted into another family of believers in Modesto at Destiny Church with Ps. Hank & Linda. It was such a blessing to see so many people moving forward with the Lord and pressing into the things He wants to do in this hour.

One common thread that we kept hearing from people from the many churches we visited was that many of them have had calls in their lives in regards to Europe or even Italy specifically. This was pretty amazing as we see that over the past 20 years or so, the focus of the universal Body of Christ has been the 10/40 window and ironically those nations which the Body has been sowing into are now sending missionaries into Europe. Wow the Lord has a plan and He is now calling those who have had a call to Europe from 20/30 years ago. God’s timing is so amazing.

Another great link for us was the ministry of Don & Cheryl Pirozok from Spokane Washington who is in the Bay Area/Valley/Sac., hooking people up, teaching, training, equipping, releasing people into their destinies regarding California and the role it has for the USA & the Nations. From that initial meeting came so many other divine appointments of people who have direct links/calls/hearts to Italy. The Lord told us this time that He was going to put together a team and it wouldn’t be long and boy he wasn’t kidding.

Upon our return we were introduced to Joan & Marco Caiani from the New York area that has been in Florence for the past 3 years and Stephen & Rose Critchlow from UK who have been here 3 months just down the road about 20 minutes in Prato. These are people the Lord has sent here for a specific work in Italy. In fact Stephen & Rose came to help set up 24/7 prayer and have begun to network from out of the Florence area with many different denominations to pray for Italy for one year starting March 24^th, 2010-2011. Just so you know this has never happened here in Italy before that we are aware of crossing so many denominational boundaries and with such earnest for “Such a Time as This” moment. Obviously there has been 24 hour prayer as the convents and monasteries are full of little prayer warriors dedicated to prayer, however this is a prayer movement that includes EVERYONE to pray for this nation.

Stephen & Rose will be at Ps. Marco’s church in Monsummano (the church we attend) presenting this challenge on Sunday and hopefully we can fill our day (Wednesday/Thursday 4 pm to 4 am (or 7am to 7pm California time). Guido & I in faith took this shift in hopes of filling our 12 blocks of 1 hour with at least 10 other people, if not me and Guido will be praying a long time on Wednesday/Thursday. In fact if any of you would like to commit with us to pray for Italy on these times, please email us back ASAP. Just a foot note, 24/7 prayer in the UK will on March 26^th start a 6 month prayer vigil for Europe and their theme is “It is Time for Europe”. How true this call is for this day and this hour as that is exactly what the Lord told me last year at the beginning and continues to ring in my ear.

We have heard that there will be a few teams coming from Redding into Italy in the months to follow and we are so excited about that and possibly being able to hook them up with churches & Pastors that we have meet over the years. Can you believe it will be 6 years in July that we have been here and we have made a great little network among the believers here in Italy & Europe? It is by no accident that the Lord is beginning to send teams now. He has been making a way and it is time.

We went this weekend and checked in on our little gal Laura in Rome and although she is doing better, she is still in need of a full deliverance/healing. We were able to meet her grandparents and found that grandma is a Charismatic Christian, amen. The Lord is doing a great work in this family and we absolutely believe that Laura will be healed 110% amen. Fabio came by the day we returned home from the States and since he was baptized and continues in the faith has seen him healed to about 90% and that is without medication, amen.

We leave Saturday for Germany to hook up with an awesome group in Konstance and to finally meet Ana Mendez Ferrel & her husband Emerson and strategize & pray for the area of Germany and Italy. The Lord is giving strategic plans for taking these Nations back for His glory and we feel so blessed to be a part of what the Lord is doing here. There is such anticipation among the believers that we sensed happening before we left but upon returning seems to have blossomed into great expectation, joy and hopefulness that we had not seen before. It truly is a great time to be alive in Christ amen.

We are enclosing a little map of Italy that shows the regions and the number of Evangelical churches per capita in each. I don’t believe this chart represents the many Catholic Churches which labor among the communities. For example our city has 25,000 people in it and as far as we know there is only 1 Evangelical church and it is Nigerian, English speaking and 4 Catholic (non-Charismatic) and I think 1 Mormon. Not good for 25,000 people. Please pray that the Lord will send workers into the harvest because it is ready but there is no place to put them or enough people to care for them.

As far as finances, we are still looking for work, however as there is a crisis in the USA so the crisis is here and jobs are very scarce Guido is still trying to get unemployment in the intirm and reimbursed by Workers Comp for his hands. Rome wasn’t built in a day, is a phrase we are all too aware of as everything takes so long to accomplish here and yet the bills continue to roll in. We want to thank those of you who have poured into us financially for the work here in Italy as it helps us to get to the places we need to be. Please remember we aren’t on a vacation here and although at times seems glamorous, it is work and comes at great cost to us emotionally, but to obey is better than sacrifice and so we press on knowing that we are not running our race in vain. To all of you who share in this sacrifice at whatever level, you too will reap our rewards at the end of time when we stand before our Lord in Glory amen and He shows us what those sacrifices reaped in terms of the lives redeemed unto Him amen.

On a very personal note, our time back so far has been marked with incredible personal struggle as it took nearly a month to recoup from the time difference. Long cold days of rain, wind and snow have added to the sense of despair amidst the extreme joy of having had our Grand daughter Chloe for most of this time while Jami moved into a new place. Mixed with all the excitement of what the Lord is doing the task of trying to make ends meet and get a vehicle as we find a motorcycle very limiting in the winter months for movement. The attack has been heavy and the emotions all over the chart from one extreme to the other and yet peace and we can feel when people are praying for us as we are blasted by waves of His Glory. Tears and laughter has been our cup upon return and yet peace has reigned.

All our love

For His Glory Alone

Joyce & Guido Bassi

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Castro Valley, CA 94546 (write on your check “For Italy”)

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Preghiera 24/7

Cari Fratelli: PER FAVOR GUARDA IL FILM SOTTO

Questa sono le nostre amiche Stephen & Sue Critchlow dall'inghilterra che ora abitano a Prato. Dio le ha mandate qui con un grande progetto per l'Italia.
Siamo molto contenti perché abbiamo visto come questo tipo di programma di preghiera funziona in altri paesi per la restaurazione e guarigione della terra e del popolo. Crediamo che sia giunto il tempo per Dio, Gesù & lo Spirito Santo di portare un fiume di risveglio e un fuoco di rinascita.

" 2 Cronache 7:14 Se il Mio popolo, sul quale è invocato il mio nome, si umilia, prega, cerca la mia faccia e torna indietro dalle sue vie malvagie, io ascolterò dal cielo, perdonerò il suo peccato e guarirò il suo paese."

Ora se tutti si aggiungono in preghiera, altri pregheranno per questo progetto. Abbiamo bisogno disperatamente del Signore in questo tempo affinché la sua faccia brilli sopra di noi e possiamo essere una luce per questa nazione. . Per favore passate questa e-mail a tutti fratelli in Italia o ai fratelli che hanno una cuore per Italia.”

Per la Gloria di Dio

Final Days

Only 12 more days and were back to Italy. Being here these past several months has been such a wonderful time of reconnecting with the body, meeting and making new friends and being refreshed and recharged for the tasks at hand that we feel the Lord is calling us into. We spent Christmas with our boys and my parents in La Quinta and though it was short it was we believe a time of reconnection and healing.

We were blessed to go along in a group with Pastor Dennis to Pastor Lhong Phon of the Vietnamese Church in Fremont where we went to pray for a group of new believers to receive the Holy Spirit and saw a whole family come to the Lord Jesus. Wow. Our time here has been full of divine appointments like Cheryl & Don Pirozok of New Generation Ministries out of Seattle who has blessed our life beyond the ability to write it all. Let's just say we will never ever be the same. Their meeting has opened the door to many more meetings with people who have such a heart for Italy and who consequently have such a heart for California and seeing her move into her destiny and fulfill her calling and mandate from the Lord to be a light to this nation. Don't count her out, pray for California and ask God to have mercy on her. Remember "If my people who are called by my name will turn & repent, I will heal the land". It is our job as the Christians to call out for the Lord, not the unsaved and lost of California.

The names, faces and the events surrounding those divine encounters are too many to share on this blog but you know who you are and we have been so blessed by your entrance into our lives. 2010 is going to be a year that rocks and the Lord is going to do things we have been waiting for and dreaming that He would do in the areas we have been seeking Him for. Last year the Lord told me it was time, and it was the theme throughout everywhere we turned, on sermons, songs, billboards, other ministries and I kept saying "time for what Lord". Well it is pretty obvious now that it was a time of preparation. I keep hearing the Lord say to us now that It is time to begin. We are so excited as we really believe we have come into a time with new boldness, purpose and power to share the gospel, set the captives free, love on people, it has been a privilege beyond words already and we are only in January.

Thank you all so very much for your prayers, support and friendship. We look forward to another great and awesome year in our Lord together.