GBU Bologna

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Our semester began in January with a series of dinners and discussions where we compared Jesus’ message to the truths that various fields of our culture offer. We continued with these evenings up until the weekend of 1-4 March, which we spent in Marradi with the Florence and Pisa GBU groups for the Winter Camp.

Praise
  • We thank the Lord for the new students who are attending the group.
  • The opportunity to spend this weekend talking about Jesus with our friends from Florence and Pisa. He is better than any high priest and the only way for us to have access to God.
Prayer
  • Let’s pray that new students come to our meetings
  • For the two evenings of events we’ll be holding in April and May.

GBU Bologna

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GBU Bologna started up this year with a series of studies on the outrageous statements made by Jesus and with surveys conducted in the faculty. Various students joined us, many of whom are at Bologna on the Erasmus exchange programme. At the end of November, we’ll be doing a week of events.

Praise
  • Students who’ve recently joined us
  • The good outcome of the survey
Prayer
  • November’s events
  • An established prayer meeting for the group

GBU Bologna

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We must thank God for how He’s been regularly speaking to us in our weekly Bible studies, and particularly in some monthly training meetings specifically for us believers, during which we’ve been closely studying the series, “Two ways to live”, analysing each of the six steps they’re made up of, paying particular attention to the evangelistic implications. This is also one of the reasons why we’ve started doing surveys among the university students again, asking about their religious background and current position, attempting to introduce them to Jesus in the way most suited to their situation.

We’re starting to prepare for a production of The Mark Drama in May, and we’re still in need of a few actors.

Not least among the reasons for praise is the cohesiveness forming among the students in the group which includes two non-believers who have now become regular attendees.

Let’s pray God keeps us firm in the truth of His Word, and that He opens the eyes of the non-believers who are spending time with us (whether or not they are still resolutely atheist or in some way interested in knowing more about Jesus and the Gospel).

Among our coordinators, one has already graduated and the others should finish in November: let’s pray that each of them is led by God in the choices they make for the next year.

Finally, let’s pray that we can reach the number of actors needed for The Mark Drama, and that this will be a great occasion for proclaiming the Gospel to as many people as possible.

GBU Bologna

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As always happens, our group this year is somewhat different from the one last year – a lot of the students who were with us are not in Bologna any more, but at the same time others have taken their place! There has also been a change in the co-ordinators, because from there being just one (me, Gianluca) there are now four of us (Giorgio, Giulio and Sefora), which allows us to divide up the tasks more easily and also the commitments. We also have a new staff member who is available for us all the time, Carol. All this is certainly a gift from God!

We have a non-believing girl with us, who joined at the end of last semester as a result of the surveys conducted among the university students which we carry out at various times each year. God is drawing her to His Word, and we pray He will reveal Himself to her personally and that she will put her faith in Jesus!

We are also holding two evangelistic events, one on 7 and another on 10 November, in a bar on the university campus- the talks will be conducted by one staff member and one student, and they too need prayer, but in the meantime we are pleased that we found these resources from within our local group without having to ask for help from outside.

However, we who are flagging, are in all things entrusting the life of our GBU group to Him who is stronger than we are (Luke 3: 16), and we are sure that everything will go even better than we expected, because God is good and he gave us the most precious gift he could in his son, Jesus Christ.

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Praise:

  • The Wintercamp this year in Marradi, in the province of Florence, was an amazing experience for strengthening friendships and meeting new people
  • A number of non-Christians have been coming to our bible studies in the canteen since the beginning of the year, sometimes participating more than Christian students!

Prayer:

  • To see non-Christians change their stance: that we’d see the fruit of the gospel!
  • For three weeks in May we will have a series of evangelistic studies, ‘Knowing Jesus’. Pray that these would fulfil their objective!
  • That God would guide us in doing some public events, a missions weeks or something similar, that we’d reach lots of students that we haven’t yet met.

GBU Bologna

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Praise:

  • for the italian and international students that attend the group activities this year. Many are new and some will only be in Italy for a short time, but we are thankful to the Lord for allowing us to meet them and share the gospel with them.

Prayer:

  • for their lives and spiritual growth.
  • for the next event we have planned with GBU Florence: the Wintercamp, on Feb 25-27. It will be a time to hang out together, make friends and read the Bible together.

Carol Rocha

Carol is from Brazil, but her heart is here in Italy.

She was part of GBU in Brazil while studying Philosophy at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. In 2010, she spent 10 months in Rome as part of her placement abroad, and there she served the local GBU and met Stefano. After going back to Brazil for a period of time, she returned to Italy to marry Stefano and study for her Masters degree in Philosophy at the University of Bologna, the city where she now lives.

After having graduated and attended the GBU in Bologna, Carol began serving GBU as a member of Staff in Training in 2015. She attends Nuova Vita Evangelical Church and is involved in its local ministry. Carol is enthusiastic about the way God has called her to share the Gospel among students and she loves the university environment. She is passionate about art and philosophy, and enjoys watching good movies.

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Elisabetta Inglessi Brown

Chris (English) and Elisabetta (Italian, from Trieste) have been serving GBU since December 2009. Between the both of them, they have attended universities in Cambridge, London, Goteborg (Sweden) and Belfast and are now very happy to be here in Italy in the same context, doing the most important thing one could ever do in a university: share the gospel of Jesus. They got married in 2002 and have two lovely children: Shona (2008) and Pietro (2010).

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Chris Brown

Chris (English) and Elisabetta (Italian, from Trieste) have been serving GBU since December 2009. Between the both of them, they have attended universities in Cambridge, London, Goteborg (Sweden) and Belfast and are now very happy to be here in Italy in the same context, doing the most important thing one could ever do in a university: share the gospel of Jesus. They got married in 2002 and have two lovely children: Shona (2008) and Pietro (2010).