GBU Trento

Tempo di lettura: 2 minuti
Praise

In recent months we’ve seen the group grow in incredible ways and we’re immensely grateful to God for this. Especially now, quite a few students who are still searching for the Lord have been taking part in our meetings, and what is even more encouraging has been seeing their hearts rejoicing at what they’ve been learning from His Word.
We’ve managed to have dinner together on many occasions before doing the study, and this has created a wonderful atmosphere of friendship amongst us. Often everyone feels able to share prayer requests and we’re able to take time to pray
together.
In January we also went into the Faculty to talk to the students we met and the Lord
enabled us to share the Gospel in our conversations.
We also needed to find a new coordinator for the new academic year, but even in this instance the Lord knew how to exceed every expectation and we are grateful for how He has provided for this too.
We are therefore immensely grateful to God, as His leading was very evident. We started out with nothing at the start of October, and what we’re now seeing is without a doubt the fruit of His grace which has made everything happen.

Prayer

Our prayers are certainly for these young students who are still getting to know the Lord, that Christ’s message that they’re hearing in the Bible studies would really produce fruit in their hearts, in the ways He desires.
We are currently facing a few logistical challenges, especially in terms of choosing which day to meet and being able to meet in person, so we’re praying for wisdom to make choices that would glorify God more, even if these put us out of our comfort zone.
We feel the need to be increasingly guided in our Bible study to prevent us falling into purely intellectual discussions about what we’re reading. We want primarily to be talking about faith lived out.

GBU Trento

Tempo di lettura: 2 minuti
Praise

We continue to give thanks to God for how He provided when, humanly speaking, the outlook was very bleak. When we started out online last March, we had nothing to work with, yet God provided the support with His Word from brothers and sisters in Christ and a fresh, new participant. This year we’ve relived the very same experience; wanting to interrupt the online format, we no longer had a way to involve external help. However, wonderfully, God allowed an interested new student to come to Trento, and that was how we managed to start
up weekly meetings in person.
For now, three of us are meeting up (and God-willing, that will hopefully soon become four). Out of these, there’s a young chap in particular, who is still getting to know God, whose growth over the weeks has been far beyond what you could have humanly imagined. We’ve seen him speak of God’s truth with an open heart, full of the Holy Spirit.
We’ve also seen a beautiful atmosphere of collaboration with a current ministry in a local church working with international students. On many occasions God has used this network of contacts to bring new people into the various activities.

Prayer

We are of course praying that God would speak to this young man’s heart as He chooses, urging him to get to know Him fully.
The group is still forming and of course starting up from nothing has its difficulties. We are increasingly aware of depending on God wholely for everything He’s wanting to do through the GBU.
We really would like to reach still more students at the University. Over the past weeks we have put up flyers on campus and we’re praying they would also be a means to spread the GBU voice and make ourselves known.
Over the next few weeks, we’d like to go into the Faculty to talk to the students we meet, share the Gospel and leave them invitations to the GBU meetings. Pray God would direct all aspects of this and bring people to Him in whatever way He chooses.
We’re praying God keep revealing to us more and more how fundamental humility is in serving Him. We really need to feel we will never get there and we mustn’t ever get stuck in a fixed routine, rather always keep our eyes fixed on who He is and what He is calling us to this day.