GBU Messina

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We thank God at GBU Messina that new people have joined the group, since we’re continuing to hold regular weekly meetings and we’ve also decided to add in a new type of activity (meetings where we approach a specific topic to help us with our personal growth and as Christian students) and everyone has found them really engaging.

Please pray we’d gain the support of a local church. We’re also thinking of arranging an outreach activity at the University, so we’re asking for prayer for that, especially that everything goes according to God’s plan.

GBU Piacenza

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We started off the new academic year with a Welcome Day at GBU Piacenza, with our staff worker, at the polytechnic satellite.

It was a day when we were able to talk to lots of students, particularly international and GBU ones, and making the excuse of having a snack together, we left some tracts.
Sadly, the students we talked with weren’t then interested in the GBU, but they’re following us on Instagram, so maybe we’ll be able to invite them again in the future.

We’re continuing to pray to God that we’d make the most of the opportunities He gives us and that He’d make us get to know the ones who are seeking Him.

In the meantime, we’ve started studying the Gospel of Mark which has been a great encouragement for our little group!
Please pray for us, for the end of this first semester and for the students and friends we’ll be talking with!

GBU Padua

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Praise

We thank God that many people contacted us over the summer to say they were interested in GBU activities.

After a long period of not knowing how to proceed, we have even found a suitable solution for where to hold our meetings sheltered from the winter cold, and let’s hope this will help make everything more effective.

Prayer

Despite so many people having contacted us, there are sadly often very few of us at the events, and we’ve had to postpone meetings several times.

We’d like to get to know one another better to form a more united group in terms of friendships. Pray we will have opportunities to spend time together as friends.

There aren’t currently any non-believing students coming along to our meetings. We would really like to organise more outreach events to reach others.

GBU Bergamo

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GBU Bergamo has only been in existence for a month but there are already over 18 members, 15 -16 a meeting. In addition to being a huge responsibility and great honour, it’s also a huge commitment. We meet weekly on a Tuesday, and this week we held our fourth Bible study together.

Pray, because we’ve got a lot of international students, that the Lord would give us wisdom to know how to connect with them.

Pray we’d find a permanent venue in which to hold our meetings, it could be a lecture theatre or a bar.

Pray about the fact that we only have one group coordinator in GBU Bergamo, Samuele, who’s being helped by a coordinator from Milan, that the Lord would give us the necessary strength to continue.

GBU Chieti-Pescara

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We thank God that:

  • He’s allowed us to start up meetings regularly.
  • The group is growing.
  • A girl has come back to find us.

Since the coffee shop where we used to meet has closed, we used a University lecture theatre at Pescara last week. We’re praying God would allow us to keep visiting the satellite in order to form good relationships with students.

GBU Pisa

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Praise
  • We are profoundly grateful to the Lord for the encouraging answers to prayer and the blessings He continues to pour out on us.
  • Thank God, our activities and programmes are going well without any particular difficulties.
  • We are grateful to the Lord for how relationships in the group are strengthening and deepening, giving us increasingly more opportunities to spend time together as friends.
  • We thank the Lord for answering our prayer about a new member of staff.
  • We praise God for the two non-believers who in particular have been participating in our meetings.
Prayer
  • Pray God would unite the group, making us grow, not just in number but especially in His Word. That He would bless the coming meetings, allowing opportunities to get to know one another better and strengthening our ties.
  • We’re asking God to increase our non-believing student contacts, through friendships and events taking place at the University.

GBU Cosenza

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We want to give thanks for how the Lord has led us as a group up until now.

Along this journey, we’ve been privileged to experience His power, grace and above all His faithfulness. Every step of the way accomplished has been a tangible sign of His presence among us, and we’re grateful for how he has sustained and encouraged us through challenges and opportunities.

We’re asking you to join us in prayer, so that the Lord would continue to work in our hearts, granting constancy, unity and discernment.

We’re praying it will be He who guides each of our ventures and every future outreach event, so that we can be tools in His hands, for His glory and the advancement of His Kingdom.

GBU Trieste

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Praise
  • GBU Trieste has started meeting again on a weekly basis this year.
  • We’d like to thank God for allowing us to have a lecture theatre to meet in, keeping in the warm and sheltered from the Bora wind.
  • We’d also like to thank Him that the Welcome Day has been a vehicle for allowing us to talk to lots of university students and bringing some people to the Bible studies.
Prayer
  • We’d like to ask for prayer for two students we’ve been having very interesting dialogue with, who have been asking very deep, genuine questions about faith and Jesus. Pray that God would really touch their hearts and that they’d recognise the miracle  of what Christ did for us.
  • As the group coordinators have to leave us soon, we’re also asking that God will put the desire in the hearts of the believers in the group to carry on this work and give them wisdom, so that new students would be able to get to know Christ and the hope there is in Him.
  • Finally, we’d like to pray that God will use us to spread the Gospel, keeping us humble and creating opportunities for dialogue with the University students.

GBU Rome

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Praise
  • During October and up until now, we have done inductive Bible studies on Ephesians 1, and we’re moving on to 1 Corinthians 15 in the main universities.
  • We have arranged evening events for the international students, World Student Day, training and we have started a prayer project.
  • In Roma Tre there’s a group that has restarted at the main site with new students and one-on-one outreach, which continues in the faculty of Education.
  • There are also new student freshers at the Sapienza, both international, Erasmus and others.
  • We are continuing to do Bible studies at Tor Vergata and outreach outings within the faculty.
Prayer
  • One of the main challenges is finding a time when everyone can meet and participate regularly.
  • Moreover, we’re going to be holding other events (in particular one on Art and the Gospel on 25 November) and we will be dedicating whole days to going to speak to students. Please pray the Lord would show us the best way of approaching people and what to say to them, like inviting them to an event and how we can prepare physically and spiritually.
  • That we ourselves would be courageous and would encourage others.

GBU Bologna

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GBU Bologna kicked off in October with a series of studies called Get to Know God. We have focused on the character of God in these first meetings, through reading various different passages.

Our next topic will instead be on the Life of Jesus. With Christmas nearly upon us, we’ll again run through the coming of our Saviour and end the series with a Christmas party, where we’ll spend time with other students. It will mainly be aimed at non-believers. What we want to do is create a welcoming atmosphere, where we can remember Christmas by reading from Luke, chapter 2 where it tells of the birth of Jesus over tea and biscuits, and Christmas games, etc. We want to end the party by introducing the GBU and inviting students to get to know God.

Please pray we’d find a room to hold the party in (we sadly don’t have a venue available). Pray we’d let as many people as possible know about the event. Pray that students would get involved and that many of them would come to know Jesus.