GBU Turin

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Praise God for His faithfulness and for how things are constantly moving forward. The group is continuing to grow and new students are wanting to know more about the GBU as a result of the Mark Drama from a few days ago (20-21 March) and join in the Bible discussions! We’re really grateful to God for these two Mark Drama days and for how He has guided everything.

A while ago we organized two special meetings on the subject “Sex and God”. The evenings were interesting, enjoyable and a good number of people turned up, both “regulars” and not.

We have recently changed venues for our Bible discussions, so that we can accommodate everyone.

Conference “Sex and God”

Lastly, the non-Christians who are attending make up around 1/3 of us. This makes us very happy, but the problem remains that there aren’t many Christians willing to help out, particularly not in discipling them. As there aren’t many of us doing this, it’s not easy to “manage” everything and we could do with more support.

Praise:

  • For all the young people who are continuing to attend as well as the “newcomers”.
  • God’s faithfulness and goodness.
  • The opportunity to involve new people and make Jesus known.

Prayer:

  • More Christian students are needed to help the group and sustain the “growth” of the non-Christians. Pray that they will understand that helping out in the GBU and discipling the new ones doesn’t need to be burdensome but enjoyable and something pleasurable.
  • That this new meeting venue for the Bible discussions would allow everyone to get to know one another, as there are new students, and help the group work together more and be more united.

GBU Firenze

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Praise:

  • For the start of the second part of the GBU year, beginning with the meetings in March, we were able to meet in a hall just for us, having enough time to hold Bible studies and organise the year’s events.
  • Praise God that He is working in the University of Florence! We’ve seen two more non-Christian girls turn up to the Bible studies for the first time!
  • Thank the Lord for support on behalf of the local churches, both in organising events and for praying in favour of God’s work at the university.

Prayer:

  • For the upcoming GBU events, that they’ll be an opportunity to invite friends along and proclaim the Gospel.
  • For non-believers that attended the previous small groups, that they’d keep coming to the bible studies, but more importantly that the Lord would speak to their hearts.
  • For each of the Christian members in the group, that they’d be strengthened and encouraged by the work of the Holy Spirit, that they’d receive wisdom and understanding for sharing Jesus student to student, wanting to obey the Lord more and more.

GBU Cosenza

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Praise:

  • Thank God for the GBU meetings in Cosenza. A believer has been added to the group who wasn’t able to come along last year. In addition, a young male student has been coming along sometimes, invited by two GBU members. That God would lead us in everything.

Prayer:

  • We’d like prayer for the group to grow spiritually and in number.
  • Let’s also pray for the whole university that many of those whose curiosity was aroused by the articles “against us” published last week, might come to the meetings and experience Christ’s love.

GBU Bologna

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We must thank God for how He’s been regularly speaking to us in our weekly Bible studies, and particularly in some monthly training meetings specifically for us believers, during which we’ve been closely studying the series, “Two ways to live”, analysing each of the six steps they’re made up of, paying particular attention to the evangelistic implications. This is also one of the reasons why we’ve started doing surveys among the university students again, asking about their religious background and current position, attempting to introduce them to Jesus in the way most suited to their situation.

We’re starting to prepare for a production of The Mark Drama in May, and we’re still in need of a few actors.

Not least among the reasons for praise is the cohesiveness forming among the students in the group which includes two non-believers who have now become regular attendees.

Let’s pray God keeps us firm in the truth of His Word, and that He opens the eyes of the non-believers who are spending time with us (whether or not they are still resolutely atheist or in some way interested in knowing more about Jesus and the Gospel).

Among our coordinators, one has already graduated and the others should finish in November: let’s pray that each of them is led by God in the choices they make for the next year.

Finally, let’s pray that we can reach the number of actors needed for The Mark Drama, and that this will be a great occasion for proclaiming the Gospel to as many people as possible.

GBU Napoli

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This year we celebrated Christmas also on 25 January: this meant we got double the number of presents!! Aside from this, it was an event which lots of non-believers attended and to whom we wanted to relay that Christianity is not only linked to particular moments of the year when we go to church with our family and then go home to gorge ourselves on food.

Praise:

  • Over the following months we have arranged another two mission events (a film discussion forum about the film “The Invention of Lying” and an aperitopic). At the latter event specifically, we were honoured and delighted to collaborate with a group of young OM missionaries who shared their experience of faith on board their ship, Logos Hope which has reached over 150 countries in the whole world.
  • Another praise point is the conversion of an atheist young man who was reached by one of our female coordinators in the Faculty of Mathematics.

Prayer:

  • We have only just recently restarted the Bible studies in the various university locations and we still need God to push students to read the Word.
  • We will shortly start organising a mission week at the beginning of May. Pray that God will give us all the resources we need and prepare the hearts of the students.