GBU Parma

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We’re located in a small town at the bottom of the Paduan plain, hidden under pillowy fog.

The GBU was officially founded in Parma this year, even though a small group had already formed last year to reflect together once a month.

Praise

We recognise God’s work in having united us, in having sown and watered the desire in our hearts to be a light in our university.

As of today, the GBU is meeting twice a month with a dozen young adults to study the book of Ecclesiastes, and once a month we’re working on sharing the Gospel with students.

Prayer

Let’s pray for Friday 26 November, the day when we’re going to go into the faculty to talk to the students about Jesus;

let’s pray for our first event in December, that it would be fruitful;

let’s pray for the group, that we would be united and collaborative

GBU Bari

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GBU Bari would like to praise the Lord for how He’s led us and blessed us at this time.
In line with university lectures, GBU Bari started weekly meetings again on 20 October.

Praise
  • We thank God that after a year of meeting online, we’ve been able to meet in person again to spend some time studying and sharing the Word;
  • We thank the Lord for the new comers in the group, and for the new friendship connections being formed;
  • Moreover, we want to thank the Lord for having made the GBU tract distribution possible in some of the Bari Polytechnic halls, thereby making new contacts.
Prayer
  • that the group would become more united and want more and more to spread the Gospel “from student to student”;
  • for the distribution of tracts, which we’re planning to do in the university as well as in the Polytechnic, so that an increasing number of people will be able to get to know the Gospel.

GBU Messina

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We’re really grateful to God for how He’s leading this group! We were raring to go at the start of the year, wanting to do so much and with a great desire in our hearts! Bit by bit the group has been growing and becoming increasingly stronger. Our prayers have been answered!

We’ve decided to do an event with aperitifs and a different theme every month! Last month we did one with typical dishes from America! This month we did a Spanish theme, and so forth… We thought it would be a good way and good approach to get our colleagues to know about the GBU.

In addition to this, we continue our Bible study meetings every week, and thank God because they always refine us a lot.

What we want to do is talk to others about Jesus, get our friends and colleagues to know Him. That’s why we’re asking for prayer that our faith and courage to talk about Jesus would be greater and stronger than any more of fear or shyness! God can use all of us, all we need is a willing and longing heart to serve and follow Him!

God bless us

GBU Milan Bicocca University

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How the Bicocca group started was rather unusual and rash, from the moment when all three of us were new at being GBU coordinators and none of us studied at the University of Bicocca.

Nonetheless, we were very keen from the start to get help, learn, get involved and although what we really wanted was to form new GBU groups at the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Bergamo, we cared about working from inside a pre-existing GBU group and not letting the living testimony in Bicocca burn out. We saw the Lord’s hand in this calling through the staff workers and the work with other GBU Milan groups.

We decided to alternate our weekly Bible studies between online meetings and meetings in person until the end of this first term.

As follows, we’re asking you to pray for:

  • students to be more involved in the meetings in person. In fact, we often find ourselves clutching onto our virtual meeting devices.
  • coordinators and group members themselves to be strongly united in purpose.
  • getting to know new students with whom we can form deep connections and have time to talk to about Jesus in the right way, in a way which would arouse their curiosity and their interest in being involved in the GBU.

GBU Modena

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At GBU Modena we’ve decided to start meeting in person, carrying on from the Gospel of John again, thus looking at the Acts of the Apostles this year.

We started a few weeks ago. Nonetheless we immediately came up against a problem of rather sparse numbers of people. Sadly, some who came regularly last year have finished their courses while others aren’t able to be there regularly. Aside from this last hassle, we’ve still managed to hold the first meetings normally and we thank God for that.

Another thing to be grateful for is in reference to the invitation given to us by GBU Bologna, where on 3 November, we went to the University of Bologna territory to repeat the “survey” experience we’d already carried out at the Rome training. It was definitely an opportunity for us to question ourselves but also for the students there who were able to lesser or greater extent to hear about the GBU and the person of Jesus Christ. We want to repeat the experience of 24 November, and at GBU Modena we’re asking for prayer that it would yet again be a positive time and the Gospel would be spread.

We’re also asking for prayer that God would not only allow us to carry on meeting in person, but also enable new people to be added to the group and join us regularly.

Finally, we’re planning an outreach-style evening which will likely take place on 13 December, where we want to show the short film, “Altro Mare”, [“Other Sea”] which was shown in the training session, perhaps inviting along a member of the film production team to share their experience. With this in mind, we’re asking for prayer for good organisation of the evening and also that we would be able to use it to talk about Jesus to those who do not yet know Him fully.