GBU Padua

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Praise

We thank God that many people contacted us over the summer to say they were interested in GBU activities.

After a long period of not knowing how to proceed, we have even found a suitable solution for where to hold our meetings sheltered from the winter cold, and let’s hope this will help make everything more effective.

Prayer

Despite so many people having contacted us, there are sadly often very few of us at the events, and we’ve had to postpone meetings several times.

We’d like to get to know one another better to form a more united group in terms of friendships. Pray we will have opportunities to spend time together as friends.

There aren’t currently any non-believing students coming along to our meetings. We would really like to organise more outreach events to reach others.

GBU Padua

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Praise

In October we started up again, needing to reform a group from virtually nothing, however, we are very grateful for how God enabled us to start up our Bible studies and prayer meetings. A few days ago we were able to present the GBU to other students at the University of Padua. God gave us two new students to welcome and talk to about what the GBU does. We’re very encouraged because God is providing a network of contacts for us through whom we can reach new people.
The students in our group are very motivated to share the Gospel with others and are rejoicing at the doors God is opening for them.

Prayer

At the moment the group is made up entirely of students who already know God. We are praying to be able to reach other students and be able to start up conversations where the Gospel is shared.
We’re putting up posters on University notice boards and we’re trying to update our Instagram page with short videos, where we introduce the GBU and talk about our experiences with it. We’d also like to meet students one-on-one to talk to them. Let’s pray God would use these methods to bring people close to Him.
We need great wisdom as group coordinators to know which steps to take in the coming weeks and for which initiatives to undertake to best glorify God. As we’re continually evolving as a group, we evaluate the choices we make from time to time.

GBU Padua

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In the GBU of Padua there are only three of us at the moment and we meet every week for Bible study.

We still haven’t found a suitable time for all those who have expressed an interest because we all have different schedules.

Our prayer request would be to find a suitable time for everyone so we can all meet together and make our group grow.

GBU Padua

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We thank the Lord for how this new academic year began, with the Lord giving us a lot of new participants, enough to have to arrange two weekly Bible studies this semester!

Pray for our friends who don’t yet know Jesus and pray that as a result of the evangelising training we received, we will be prepared to explain the reason for the hope and faith we have.

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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).