GBU Florence
The year started off fantastically. The group is tight knit and we’re grateful to God that new believer students are there, attending regularly and assisting with the prayer.
New students, who are curious about the Gospel have also been coming along to the Bible studies, joining in and asking questions.
God really is guiding every detail and we’re seeing his plans go ahead in a truly wonderful way. The local GBU staff member has been in touch with some of the city’s churches and has introduced the GBU to the church leaders, who seem keen to help us and collaborate with us in a practical way as well as through prayer.
On 12/11 we showed Giosuè Petrone’s film, “Imperdonabile” [Unforgiveable]. We organised the evening in conjunction with two other associations in a bookshop cafe in town. The outreach event was patronised by the town council of Florence and was attended by the Councillor for Education.
We’re asking for prayer for the 20 or so new people among whom there were several who asked the director some very deep questions. Let’s pray that the Lord causes them to ponder the amazing truth of forgiveness, so they want to go deeper with that Bible topic and come to believe in Jesus and receive forgiveness for their sins. We’re also asking for specific prayers for:
- The series of Bible studies on forgiveness that we’re doing in the GBU
- Those currently in positions of power within the city who know about the GBU in the university
- The PSI, the Academic Association of Psychology, one of the two associations involved in putting on this outreach event
- The association, Agape Italia, who asked for our collaboration in organising the evening
- The people who work in the bookshop cafe, who attended the event and were very moved
A final request is that the group members would pray continuously and would have wisdom to know how to welcome and involve all the international students well.
