GBU Bologna

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Praise

We give thanks for having managed to find a time that suits many of the students better and we’re therefore doing two small groups every week. Furthermore, we as group coordinators, for the moment there’s just us, are starting to visit the faculties on a weekly basis, in an attempt to fully live out the experience of sharing Jesus among the students!

Prayer

We’re therefore asking for prayer for this reason too, that those students who are now coming along regularly would also join these weekly outings and would bring more students to Christ and to the GBU. We’re also asking for prayer for all the students in the group, that they’d also feel able to share their burdens and prayer requests.

GBU Trento

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Praise

In recent months we’ve seen the group grow in incredible ways and we’re immensely grateful to God for this. Especially now, quite a few students who are still searching for the Lord have been taking part in our meetings, and what is even more encouraging has been seeing their hearts rejoicing at what they’ve been learning from His Word.
We’ve managed to have dinner together on many occasions before doing the study, and this has created a wonderful atmosphere of friendship amongst us. Often everyone feels able to share prayer requests and we’re able to take time to pray
together.
In January we also went into the Faculty to talk to the students we met and the Lord
enabled us to share the Gospel in our conversations.
We also needed to find a new coordinator for the new academic year, but even in this instance the Lord knew how to exceed every expectation and we are grateful for how He has provided for this too.
We are therefore immensely grateful to God, as His leading was very evident. We started out with nothing at the start of October, and what we’re now seeing is without a doubt the fruit of His grace which has made everything happen.

Prayer

Our prayers are certainly for these young students who are still getting to know the Lord, that Christ’s message that they’re hearing in the Bible studies would really produce fruit in their hearts, in the ways He desires.
We are currently facing a few logistical challenges, especially in terms of choosing which day to meet and being able to meet in person, so we’re praying for wisdom to make choices that would glorify God more, even if these put us out of our comfort zone.
We feel the need to be increasingly guided in our Bible study to prevent us falling into purely intellectual discussions about what we’re reading. We want primarily to be talking about faith lived out.

GBU Parma

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Praise

We want to thank God that this year we’ve had more contact with students and and a number of new people have joined in the Bible studies.
We held a film night in March, and we were able to talk about Jesus with friends and housemates.

Prayer

We’d like prayer for our future meetings. We’d like to organise a couple of events in May. Moreover, from April onwards, we’re going back to doing outreach in the University and we’re also asking for prayer with this, that the students would be keen to know about the message of salvation.

GBU Siena

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Praise
  • We thank God for guiding and leading us through all the activities we’ve had over the last four months.
    The Winter camp, organized in conjunction with GBU Urbino, was a beautiful time of refreshing, even as we looked at the Gospel as the power of God for salvation, for transformation, and for unification to those that believe.
  • We thank God for the unity and camaraderie we’ve seen in the group, having all hands on deck in every event we had. Our second iteration of the art event was also quite a success.
  • For the non-believers who have maintained a line of curiosity and consistency to learn more about who Jesus is. We are grateful for the friendships within the group, and the openness to accommodate new people.
Prayer
  • That we, individually, may continue to grow in the knowledge and love of God, being rooted and grounded in Him.
  • We pray for the 3 days of events we’ll be having in mid-April. We pray for boldness as we reach out to more students.

GBU Pisa

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GBU Pisa is up and running again! Following some years after Covid, we’re happy and grateful to God for being able to share with you the joy of seeing the local group start meeting up again.

Almost all the students are in their first year and some of them had been to Revive, thanks to which they’d got in touch with local staff in Pisa. A young, enthusiastic group, keen to be together, it has already organised some Bible studies a a café in town and it looks like they’re wanting to to carry on doing so regularly.

Let’s pray that some of them would want to become group coordinators. Perhaps the
Festa GBU itself might be an opportunity for great encouragement and growth! Let’s hope someone from Pisa takes part!

GBU Modena

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In Modena, the GBU tried to start meeting up again despite the months of not doing so, but after a meeting in February, we had to suspend this temporarily due to our various commitments as coordinators. We then started up GBU meetings again at the end of March.

We’re continuing to use a themed approach, in fact, we’ve thought we’d start with the topic “Jesus’ miracles”, to highlight more clearly what He did and why, but above all who He is.

We therefore want to thank God for being able to start up activities in person again, after pausing for a while, and for the good atmosphere seen in the group.
We’re praying we’re able to keep up meeting regularly at this time, and we’re praying that after us, other coordinators would be raised up wanting to lead GBU Modena. We’re also praying about organising a flyer distribution / outreach event which we’re planning to do in the coming months.

GBU Messina

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Praise
  • We thank God for having sustained us in the first part of this year, for all the meetings and events.
  • We thank God that new Christian young adults have joined the group.
  • We thank God that we wanted to keep up our meeting together during the exam period too, so that we could encourage and pray for one another.
  • We thank God that various non-believer young adults have joined in our meetings and events.
  • We thank God for the young adults who are getting to know Jesus as a direct result of the GBU and that they are regularly taking part in meetings.
Prayer
  • We’re asking God to fill our hearts with the desire to talk about Him within the University.
  • We’d like prayer for the Easter event and for the coming months’ meetings.
  • We’d like prayer for the young adults getting to know Jesus, that they’d accept Him into their lives.

GBU Naples

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Praise
  • At GBU Naples, we’d like to thank and praise the Lord for how He sustained us and supplied every need in the event week we held recently.
    We were very enthusiastic about this, and the entire group wanted to be involved, unified in purpose and hospitable towards the young adults who had arrived from America. We’d like to give thanks both for them being there, and for their involvement with the surveys.
  • We also thank God for the students we interacted with who then took part in the events. Even though there were few of them, we thank God for reaching them.
Prayer
  • for the American students we collaborated with
  • for the students who showed an interest
  • for this semester’s Bible studies
  • that the group would grow

GBU Venice

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We give thanks for the fantastic collaboration with GBU Castelfranco, which has also been a support to GBU Venice.

Venice does not currently have a coordinator, as the one in charge is working on her dissertation and has gone back to live in her home town, far away from Venice. The group (consisting of two other people) was already having trouble forming last year. The mix of study caught up with work meant it has not ever been possible to arrange a meeting. Let’s pray the Lord would bring believing people to Him who are able to take on the role of coordinators for next year, and that there would be a new start for Venice, with students open to hearing the Word of the Lord.

GBU Milan

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  • We are thinking of organising a conference on Anxiety (this is due to the news of a girl at the Milan University, Lulm, who committed suicide). We haven’t yet thought about when to do this, but we’d like prayer that we’d not only choose the best day for everyone, but also the most suitable speaker. We’re praying this would be an opportunity to bring new hope to those in search of truth.
  • We’d like as many people as possible to be free, have the money, the desire and enthusiasm to attend the Festa GBU. If the Lord graces us with seeing non-believers at the Festa, so much the better.
  • We’re asking for wisdom in how to best organise ourselves when deciding which days to do the Bible study, to then be able to book all the teaching rooms in advance, month by month. Some of us also have work, the youth group and driving lessons to manage in addition to our University and personal commitments. We’d like prayer to be able to fulfil all our duties, that the Lord wouldn’t let these things take over.
  • We’re asking the Lord that our break times and rest times would truly restore our whole beings. The Lord has made us zealous and diligent, not lazy. We are grateful for this, but we’re seeking times to recharge. May the Lord bless both our time of work and study and everything to do with being productive, as well as our times of rest.
  • We’re asking that the Lord would cultivate an attitude of gratitude in us and an acknowledgement for all He has given us, is giving us and will give us.
  • We’re asking for maturity to improve our capacity to communicate with one another and not pay back evil. God give us patience, mercy, grace and the strength to speak the truth to our neighbour.