GBU Trieste

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We are Chiara and Gabriel, the coordinators of GBU Trieste.
To date, God has worked wonderfully in this town. After years of inertia, we’re starting our GBU activities up again in our University from zero with a group of around 15 believers. As the group began, many of the members thanked God for this, because they really felt the need to. We’ve already managed to hold 2
meetings, and we’re thanking God for how He is taking control of each thing.

We’d also like to ask for this fervour not to disipate and that we’d be more and more united among ourselves, such that the love among us is part of our witness in the University environment.

We’d also like pray that the Lord would open doors for the non-believer students and that they too would be involved in our meetings and be saved if this is in God’s plans.

Some while back we sent off all the documentation for the application for GBU Trieste to become a University Association, and God allowed this to happen, for this we’d like to thank Him. Shortly, the documents will also come out for requesting a set room in the University where we can meet. We really hope that these requests would also be followed through.

We thank you dearly for all the work you’re doing and thank you for helping us complete our mission.

GBU Venice

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GBU Venice is in a phase of a new beginning, to the extent that those from previous years have graduated and no longer live in Venice. Our objective is to meet in person, but currently there are only two of us.

Praise
  • We thank the Lord for the collaboration with GBU Castelfranco who we meet up with in person once a month and with whom a wonderful atmosphere of brotherly/sisterly love has been established.
  • We thank the Lord for being able to run an event on 3 December with Chris and Lizzie Brown, where there will be a retreat in Mestre with all GBU groups from the three regions around Venice.
Prayer

Our prayer is that the Lord would open the hearts of the students in Venice, that the posters on the notice boards or on Instagram arouse interest in people, and that friends and acquaintances are interested in joining in. Overall, we’re asking for wisdom in discerning the way of the Lord, being attentive to his voice and not being demoralised by circumstances.

GBU Messina

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GBU Messina would like to thank God for how He’s led us over these years and how He’ll continue to do so.

Praise
  • We thank God for the new young adults who have started coming along to our GBU group, two of whom are getting to know Jesus precisely in this way.
  • We thank God for this first month of meetings, for reading the second letter to Timothy and for being able to meet both in Church and in a café near the University.
Prayer
  • We’re asking for prayer that all the young adults in our group would have a personal
    encounter with Jesus.
  • We’re praying that each young adult believer in the group would become more aware of their calling to bring the Gospel to the University.
  • We’re asking for prayer for the meetings and events happening over the next few months and to be able to be more present right inside the University, becoming an association.

GBU Siena

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Praise
  • We thank God for having seen the power of his Word, being able to speak through it both to believers and non-believers.
  • We thank God for the opportunity we’ve had to share the Gospel through the meetups and events that we hosted in October. We thank God for the wisdom and enthusiasm that everyone showed.
  • We thank God for the friendships and the unity wrought within the group. Truly God has been in the midst of all our conversations, as we’ve seen a positive response to the Bible study series we’ve done so far.
Prayer
  • We ask that we may continue to be receptive to His voice and His will, to understand what and how He would like to reveal Himself unto us. Wisdom in choosing the scriptures to study within the limited amount of time we have; that it may be in line with what He wants to communicate unto us.
  • For the organization of our winter camp in March, that we&#39;ll be guided by God in all the details and that many people from both our group and Urbino&#39;s will come along and be blessed by hearing about Jesus
  • A further strengthening of the networks, unity and friendships within the group
  • A wider reach toward the students at our university

GBU Florence

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Praise
  • We thank God for our official listing among the Student Associations at Florence Univeristy of Studies, following our request. We had set this objective for three years ahead, but it was achieved much sooner, thanks to the Lord. We have a God who can do infinitely more than what we think!
  • We thank the Lord for having always brought new people to our weekly meetings, both believers and non-.
  • We thank God for our first event of the Autumn semester, the GBU Restart. These were two days full of studying, fellowship with believers, new friends and the presence of God’s Spirit.
Prayer
  • We’re asking the Lord to help us with the difficulty of finding a time and place so that everyone can come along. We’re praying that God transform us into an ever-more united group, despite the practical difficulties.
  • Pray that those present at the events would also come to the Bible studies.
  • Pray that God would reawaken the hearts of the non-believers, especially those in the University of Florence.

GBU Naples

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Praise

We’d like to praise the Lord because although we’ve only just started up the Bible study again, we’re seeing as a group how interesting the book of Ecclesiates is. We’re also grateful for how welcoming the group has been to a new boy among us.

Prayer
  • that we would reach other faculties, situated in other parts of the city.
  • for the upcoming events we’re planning to run.
  • for the outreach we’re arranging, that the Lord would touch the hearts of other non-believer students.

GBU Rome

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This week, in collaboration with the Gideons, we distributed copies of the New Testament and Psalms in the Roma Tre University. Pray for all these people reached, that the Lord would touch their hearts and new students would join the GBU meetings. We also give thanks for how the Lord worked on past occasions of New Testament distributions.

We’re also grateful for all the students who took part this year, new and old alike, because more and more of them are wanting to be actively involved in sharing the Gospel.

We’re praying for and giving thanks for a student at Tor Vergata University who, precisely following a New Testament distribution last May, has begun coming along continually to the GBU studies and always bringing his friends with him.

GBU Milan

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Hi, in GBU Milan we are experiencing a new group asset, as the various local groups are working together with more exchanges and meetings all together.

We thank God for allowing us to renew our association in Bicocca, and for a first meeting comprising numerous people.

We also thankful that God gave us the opportunity to witness to Him, by means of a personalised stand at the State University Open Day. We also say thanks to God
for all the other activities we’re carried out, including surveys, prayer meetings and various trips out.

Finally, we’d like you to help us pray for the other activities we’re planning to run:

  • The evangelistic Christmas event
  • The tourist outing on 4 December (with the intention of creating greater ties among us and inviting along new people)
  • greater ability to know how to nurture the friendships in the group

GBU Turin

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Praise
  • That we started the year enthusiastically, in person;
  • For “seeker” students, who are getting close to God through the various activities and
    through the socials;
  • For the student believers who continue to collaborate with the GBU with hearts for God.
Prayer
  • Pray for unity and growth in the group, that this would be the result of the students’ personal growth;
  • Pray for the committee, the GBU steering group, that we would grow as a team and work well this year, glorifying Jesus;
  • Pray for the new people we’re meeting, that the Lord would speak through us and our
    activities into their hearts, leading them to Him.

GBU Turin International

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Praise

We had a joint evangelisitc event with the Italian speaking GBU on Thursday the 24th and over 100 students from the university came along! Many wanted to have follow up conversations and learn more as well.

Prayer

The international GBU is moving to a building which is currently under renovations. Pray that everything will be working for when we start up GBU in there next week!

Prayer for our Christmas event on the 13th of december, that the students will feel loved and will be able to hear and understand the Christmas story!