GBU Catania

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Thanks to God, we have had a fantastic kick off this year. Our enthusiasm to want to glorify God in this work, be light for Him at the universities and tools used by Him to save many souls is palpable!!!

Praise:

  • We thank and praise God that I have seen His hand at work in establishing this group from virtually nothing, which is now taking shape more and more, and becoming increasingly integrated.
  • We thank and praise God because each one of us personally acknowledges a desire to fulfil the Great Commission at the universities, making disciples of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and especially wanting to pass on the good news of Jesus from student to student!
  • Finally, we thank God for having put us together in this GBU group, giving us the honour of being able to honour Him through His Gospel message.

Prayer

  • For greater unity in the group.
  • For God’s support in starting to include alongside the inductive Bible study, activities and events too.
  • That the GBU will really catch on and spread throughout the whole of Catania.
  • And lastly, that God would give me (I am speaking in the first person here, as group co-ordinator) more and more humility and wisdom to be able to coordinate the group in the best way, to also direct and motivate it with a passion for this evangelistic task, knowing that everything is done in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Marco

GBU Siena

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Praise:

  • Activities starting up – GBU Siena is here again this year!
  • Lots of student believers arriving in Siena, especially international ones.
  • The group’s enthusiasm – old and new members right from the start have set about proclaiming the Gospel.

Prayer:

  • That the Gospel will be proclaimed unequivocally at the various events and studies, and that hearts will be ready to listen.
  • For the lives of those students who already have faith, that they will stand firm in it, witnessing the Truth through their conduct.
  • That the initial enthusiasm can remain such over the coming months.
  • For fellowship among the GBU students.

GBU Bari

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We are GBU Bari, we like to call ourselves GBU@BARI 3.2.
Why have we chosen that number? We are the third GBU group to be set up in this city… and this is the second year this group has been around.
Last year there were 2-3 of us, but this year there seem to be a lot more of us, praise God!

Praise:

  • We praise God for the number of additional students this year, we have grown from 3 to 7 now… and I hope still more will join.

Prayer:

  • That each of these members will feel in their hearts how important it is to serve the Lord as a student.
  • That we will get going with our meetings as needs to be done, and especially that we will find a day that suits everyone.
  • That we manage to distribute the New Testaments with the Gideons (an organisation that distributes New Testaments in schools, universities and hospitals). The date for this is due to be set in November.

GBU Firenze

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Praise:

  • We thank God for having not neglected to support us last year and for how He attended to us, providing care from the staff and churches we belong to. Not just spiritual aid, but practical aid too!
  • We are thankful for the new freshers who became involved in the group straightaway and love to share the person of Jesus in the university.

Prayer:

  • That God will make it possible for us to organise a mission week this year. That He will provide the venues and funds for us to achieve this.
  • For the inductive studies in the faculties, that they will incentivise people to invite along non-believing friends.
  • For us, the co-ordinators, for our spiritual growth and as a witness in the group.

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 Catanzaro

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GBU Catanzaro has not yet started up this year, but we will do shortly.
Please can you pray for this new year, that the work of the GBU will be ever more present in the university and will have new ventures.
Last year we did not see many non-believers coming to the GBU and our prayer this year is that many more people will come to know Christ, our desire is to work to that end.

GBU Milano

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Praise:

  • We thank God for the first event (treasure hunt) where we also had new non-believers who came back for the Bible study.
  • We are planning a lot of activities and are very keen.
  • There are two of us women co-ordinators this year. We thank God for the collaboration.

Prayer:

  • We are trying to become an association which will be recognised within the university. Pray there will not be any glitches.
  • For the non-believer contacts we meet up with regularly and for those who we scarcely see that we would establish stable contact with them.
  • For us as believers in the group that we will not lose the enthusiasm we had in the first year and that we will grow spiritually.

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.

GBU Napoli

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We thank God for the start of this academic year and for being able to see His hand in all things.
We already have five study groups up and running (with the aim of evangelising) in four different centres of the universities in Naples.
Pray that lots of young people, Christian and non- would participate.

We are preparing a Mission Week from 7 to 11 November.

GBU Torino

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We thank God for His faithfulness and for how things are moving more and more. As we are growing, we would like to form another group and we are praying that this news will be received positively and with certainty.

A while back we organised an Open Mic. The evening was very entertaining and enjoyable and a lot of people came along, both “attenders” and non-. One girl, who came along to the evening, then turned up at a Bible discussion and has continued to come along. She lives with one of our female co-ordinators, Andrea Carolina. She shared great news with us, because that very evening when she arrived back at home, she was able to talk about Jesus to her again. She has also agreed to do a Seekers’ Bible Study and we are overjoyed about this!!! Wonderful!

Finally, roughly a third of the people coming along are non-Christians. As I already mentioned previously, we are very happy about this, but the problem is there are not many Christians willing to help us disciple them. As there are not many of us doing this, is it not easy to run everything and we need more support.

Praise:

  • For all the young people who are still coming along.
  • God’s faithfulness and goodness.
  • The possibility of involving new people and introducing them to Jesus.

Prayer

  • We need more student believers who are willing to help out with the group and support the “growth” of the non-Christians. Pray they will understand that helping in the GBU and discipleship of the new ones does not have to be a burden but something enjoyable and pleasurable.
  • That forming a new group would be received positively and will give space to new people coming along to get to know Jesus.
  • Again in regard to forming a new group – we must make rather important decisions. Pray God would give us wisdom to make the right choices.