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Post by Italia Bellisima on Aug 20, 2008 11:56:55 GMT -5
What are the stories in Italy?
Are there any friends or exes on these boards?
There are more friends now in Italy than a few years bacK.
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Post by dragonfly on Aug 21, 2008 16:00:31 GMT -5
My spouse is from Italy. I remember the shocked expression when I first took him to a gospel meeting. He was raised typically Catholic.
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Post by CherieKropp on Aug 29, 2008 7:21:52 GMT -5
Here is what I have on the subject:
WHEN THE GOSPEL CAME TO ITALY
(Summarized from Letters written by Virginia Micheletti, a Sister Worker)
One of the first workers to go to Italy after World War II ended was Alexander (also known as Sandy) Scott, who was from Scotland. Virgil Simpson, from America, was also in Italy at that time. The FIRST Italians to profess lived in a town called Picciano, not far from Pescara. There were eight people there who accepted God’s Truth and Way.
At that time, there was no Italian convention in Italy. The friends at Petacciato (a town inland from Pescara about 15 miles) told the workers they would like to have an Italian convention. Some of the friends had been to a convention in Switzerland, but someone had to interpret what was said in meetings to them, because the conventions in Switzerland were and still are spoken in either German or French. As a rule, the Swiss can speak German, French and English. A small part of Switzerland has Italian as its main language, and there is a Sunday A.M. meeting there.
The workers got busy and made a few ticks; bought some pots and pans and a stove; and made some seats. A 40’ x 20’ tent was brought from U.S.A., and they held the FIRST Italian convention. Counting children and neighbors, there were around 30 who attended, and some decided. Convention continued to be held there in Picciano for 44 years, until the place became too crowded for the 400 plus who attended. Then some friends bought land farther South and built a large home with help from some Americans, Canadians, and Swiss, and convention is still being held there.
In 1948, Sandy Scott and Reg Beer had a mission in a mountain village in Northern Italy called Carema, where several women decided. The brother workers thought it would be best if some sister workers were to teach the ladies in this town and help get them established. So Edna Parnell from Alberta, Canada and Virginia Micheletti went to preach in Italy for the first time. Virginia and her mother had been to Italy in 1948 to visit her mother’s people who lived in Northern Italy near the Swiss border, not far out of Turin. (Virginia started in the work in 1934.) The women in Carema found two rooms where the two sister workers could live and hold gospel meetings, even though their Italian wasn’t much at that time.
A convention was established in Carema, Italy, and it is still held there; 200 or more attend. The daughter of one of the Carema ladies and her husband own the convention place. They have a three-story house. Convention meetings are on the ground floor and their living quarters are above this. At convention time, places for sleeping are found in the village. The convention place is located on a busy road that leads to the mountains where many people from the cities go for vacations, so the heavy traffic made it too noisy to use a tent for meetings.
For the convention in Italy, there are always Swiss workers, and some Italian workers go to the conventions in Switzerland. Graham Snow (from new Zealand) is the overseer of both countries, and he stays in Switzerland most of the time. On the (2003) staff in Italy, there are three brother workers, one English and two Italians. George Moog, from England, came to Italy in 1950 and is now 88 (in 2000). He is not too well and stays in England most of the time. Virginia is not far behind him, at 86 (in 2000). At the Italy conventions in the South, some 470 come, and in the North some 200 attend. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SWITZERLAND
I don’t know when the first workers went to Switzerland or who they were. Graham Snow is over both Italy and Switzerland (2003).
A small part of Switzerland has Italian as its main language, and there is a Sunday A.M. meeting there. Some Swiss workers always attend the convention in Italy, and some Italian workers go to the Switzerland conventions. In 2003, there were three conventions held in Switzerland.
Switzerland is divided in four parts, as far as languages are concerned. To have a good job, the Swiss need to learn 2 or more of the Italian, German and French languages, plus English. One-half of Switzerland (the Northern half) has German for their main language and their two conventions are spoken in German. One-fourth (the Southwestern section) uses French as their main language. One-eighth (next to the French part) uses Italian for their main language; and the other one-eighth (the farthest Southeast section, called Ticino) speaks a language all their own, (Romansch) and no one has ever responded to the gospel there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SANDY SCOTT: Sandy Scott wrote 17 of the hymns in Hymns Old & New, 1987 Edition. He was born in Scotland. In 1933, Sandy Scott and Otto Kemich were the first workers to go to Spain.
Some say that Sandy Scott married Eva in order to get the proper visas to travel and preach in Italy; i.e. that it was a marriage on paper only. Eva is from Iowa, and was a good deal younger than Sandy. According to the hymn author booklet, Sandy was born in Scotland, lived from 1886-1968, and is buried near Chelan, WA. He went into the work in 1909 and labored in Scotland, USA, Italy, Spain and Canada. Eva Scott was on the Iowa workers list in 2001.
View Photo of Sandy & Eva Scott on TTT in Married Workers in Photo Gallery 17 HYMNS WRITTEN BY SANDY SCOTT (1886 – 1968) IN 1987 HYMNS OLD & NEW
52. The King Of Kings By Sandy Scott 56. God’s Heavenly Kingdom By Sandy Scott 57. Teach Me Submission By Sandy Scott 81. Footprints Of My Saviour By Sandy Scott 110. Afar From God By Sandy Scott 159. O Weary Soul By Sandy Scott 164. Only One Step By Sandy Scott 172. Apart With Thee By Sandy Scott 291. The Heart Of My Saviour By Sandy Scott 297. The Waves Rolled High By Sandy Scott 302. Dear Saviour, Lead Me By Sandy Scott 335. No East Or West By Sandy Scott 343. Never Let Your Courage Falter By Sandy Scott 344. Leave Me Not Alone By Sandy Scott 398. Christ Is Coming By Sandy Scott 406. Forget Them Not By Sandy Scott 410. Called Home To Rest By Sandy Scott
From Review of Hymns (1951 Edition): Sandy Scott has also written a number of hymns besides those in the book. We are indebted to him for the following: Nos. 68, 73, 101, 127, 167, 188, 242, 245, 304, 323, 327, 335. No. 245 has been sometimes mistaken for similar hymn by John Oxen.
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Post by melissa on Aug 29, 2008 14:36:42 GMT -5
David Butterworth from England has been over the work in Italy since the old worker, Sam Dawson died around 1990 or soon after.
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Post by CherieKropp on Sept 8, 2008 6:20:53 GMT -5
Does anyone know the year Sandy Scott first went to Italy?? TTT has the Italy History above on line now. www.tellingthetruth.info/history_pioneering/italy.phpAnd is in the process of adding other Western European country stories to it. In particular, I'm looking for information about Switzerland. I understand George and Lottie Wix, Eddie Schaer and Katie Hay were the first workers to go there after WW1, in the early 1920's. Anyone have any notes by them? Thanx
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