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Manuel Ardolino

Manuel was born in 1999 in Rome. He came to know Christ as Savior and Lord at the age of 14, even though he was born and raised in an evangelical family.
He comes into contact with GBU in 2018 working as a GBU coordinator in the Tor Vergata University of Rome.
In 2020, he decided to abandon his studies in Civil Engineering to begin his studies at the Italian Evangelical Biblical Institute (IBEI), earning a Bachelor’s degree in Theology with a focus on Biblical Languages in 2023. His heart has always been sensitive to Mission, joyfully welcoming the opportunity to serve among university students, especially internationals in Rome.
He serves in the “Alpha Omega Christian Church” as the teenagers’ leader.
He loves reading, music, MARVEL superheroes, movies and TV series.

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GBU Rome

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Tor Vergata
  • We thank God for a good start back again. There are some new young believers who take part in our meetings, but more importantly, some non believers have started taking part! Some came along to events organised last year, others have always been invited to the Bible studies and this year they decided to come and have attended them regularly!
  • Pray that compromises would be found over when to hold the studies and that God would cause us to expand on the campus.
Roma Tre
  • This year the Roma Tre group kicked off again with a whole new group of students! In fact there wasn’t a group at the this university last year.
  • Pray that it would continue to grow in numbers and that our young adults would have the courage to speak to their friends about Jesus so that they can invite them to the meetings.
La Sapienza
  • The year started really well! At the first meeting we held of all the universities, there were 4 Colombian Erasmus student guests, and some of them still attend the Bible studies. We thank God that the weekly meetings have been well attended and that there has been a good rapport among us in the group. We had the World Student Day evening where we were very encouraged by seeing the broader view of universities in the world.
  • In November we’ll have a “My Hope” evening, where we’ll watch the film with Billy Graham, “The Cross” together and we’ll invite our friends.
  • Around mid December the GBU group in Rome will also put on The Mark Drama after a gap of some years! Pray the event will glorify God, lots of university friends will come and the whole organisation will go well.
  • In March we’re doing an outreach week, and this isn’t easy when the campuses are so large and so distant from one another. Pray that new people would be reached over these days.

GBU Tor Vergata

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Praise:

  • We thank the Lord for the beginning of this new year!! We have started reading the Gospel of Matthew.
  • We are really grateful to God for the new Christian students who came to the first meeting and are keen to return. This is a great encouragement to us! We actually thought there would just be a few of us to start with, but instead there were already a good number of us at the first meeting.
  • We thank the Lord for Gillian who has joined the staff at GBU Rome this year, and for Fjori who is undergoing staff training.
  • We also give thanks for two non-believing girls who have been coming since the first meeting.

Prayer:

  • Our prayer this year is that all group members can feel involved in the various activities! That the Lord would give our co-ordinators wisdom in making everyone feel part of the group!
  • That the Word of the Lord would be alive and effective in our lives. That the Lord would speak into our hearts, both to us believers and to our non-believing friends, each according to their needs.

GBU Roma Tor Vergata

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Praise:

  • We want to thank God for how our meetings have started again! We’re continuing to read from John’s gospel.
  • We thank God for Samanta, a student who is really open to the gospel!! Please pray for her too!!

Prayer:

  • MEETINGS COMING UP IN MAY: We have decided to do four studies as part of a theme: the four types of love, as described by C.S. Lewis. During these four meetings in May, we will read some passages from the Bible, chosen by us, along with parts of Lewis’ book.
  • On 3rd May, we will be spending the day doing various surveys around the university and publicising our May meetings!! Please pray that we’d have good conversations and that the Lord would use these meetings for his glory.
  • The upcoming summer exam period. Please also pray for those working on their dissertations. Many students are close to graduating, pray that the Lord would sustain them.
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Gillian Law

Gillian is from Australia but she grew up in Asia (Nepal and India). She has been living in Italy since 2014.

Growing up in a Christian family, she always knew that Jesus died and resurrected to save her from her sins. At the age of 10, she realized that Christianity wasn’t just a mere family tradition but a personal relationship with God open to anyone.

She graduated in Physiotherapy and Theology. During her university life in Australia, she attended AFES (the Australian GBU) and, before coming to Italy, she was working for an evangelical church in the University of Armidale in Australia.

She loves history, science, sport and being outdoors and is pleased with the opportunity to serve GBU while sharing the world’s most beautiful message: the work of Jesus has reconciled the world to God!