GBU Udine

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GBU Udine is in need of prayer! At the last meeting there were only two of us students there, one of whom was the coordinator. We are sadly struggling to get other students involved. Moreover, the referring staff member to lives 300 km away…

Pray that the Lord would raise up student believers who want to be involved and want to consolidate the group, so that it can grow and be a witness in the University. Pray also that a coordinator for next year would be found.

GBU Castelfranco

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Praise

We’re grateful to God for the possibility of meeting online weekly to read the Word of God and for being able to have a space to meet in person once a month, offered by a family.

Prayer
  • We’ve felt there has been less participation and involvement in the group in recent times. We’re asking for prayer that, despite all our personal commitments, we will continue to be a group, greatly enthusiastic about wanting to share the Word of God with others and that we’d always be purposeful about reaching more and more people.
  • Please pray that we coordinators would be wise in suggesting the right passages to study with our group, and that we’d be dedicated about being involved in this ministry, despite our personal commitments.
  • Soon, we’d like to arrange a meeting with a missionary and pastor who can share with us their testimony of missionary life. We’d like prayer that God would guide us in arranging this event and that it would spur us all on to share the Gospel more actively.
  • We’d like prayer to get new students from the Castelfranco Conservatory involved. The group is currently made up predominately of students from other universities.

GBU Rome

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One reason to give thanks is certainly starting up activities again this new semester, which began with a conference given by Susanne Waldner, in which how to manage stress and anxiety was discussed.

We said goodbye to some of the international students, but we also welcomed in new students at the Sapienza and at Tor Vergata. Therefore, meetings in the faculties are therefore proceeding well attended and with invaluable times of discussion and reflection. We have just finished a series of studies on the book of Jonah, with which we began the semester.

On the 2nd and 3rd April, we put on The Mark Drama, the whole of Mark’s Gospel portrayed in 90 minutes. We thank the Lord that this project came to fruition, and we’re continuing to pray for all those who were involved or took part in it.

GBU Turin

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  • We give thanks for the conference which we held on 14 March, called “Study, memory and focus”, at which 250 students were able to take part, especially non-believers. We’re praying that those who showed an interest would take part in our meetings.
  • Another reason for giving thanks concerns the believer students who were involved in the various GBU activities and who helped out with preparing them.
  • We’d like prayer that the new people we were able to talk to about Jesus and also what He has done for them would come back to the meetings and perhaps start on a journey with us.
  • A final prayer request is especially that the student believers would have a heart for inviting their friends to take part in GBU activities, whatever event is being organised, from more informal evenings through to Bible studies. The aim in any case is that they would get to know Jesus.

GBU Florence

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Praise
  • We thank God for the outreach week when we shared the Gospel through art with the themes of justice, peace, hope and joy. It was a blessing having lots of people from our group involved in the project. We also thank the Lord for the students who were interested in talking about it with us!
  • We thank God that there was at least one new person at every meeting. He answered the prayers we prayed at the beginning of the year abundantly!
  • We thank God for the series of Bible studies entitled, “The righteous one for the unrighteous”. In these weeks leading up to Easter we studied the arrest, sentencing and death of Jesus according to the Gospel of Luke.
Prayer
  • Let’s pray for the students we met during the outreach week.
  • Let’s pray that the seeds planted would grow and they’d get to know Jesus.
  • Let’s pray we would find the most effective way of inviting the students reached in the outreach week to events and Bible studies. Despite wonderful conversations had sharing the Gospel, few of these students have stayed in touch with us, believers or not.
  • Let’s pray the the Lord would give us wisdom as we search for a coordinator for next year.

GBU Urbino

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As GBU Urbino we can say that the group has formed and over time is getting larger and stronger, for this we can only be grateful to God. At the beginning of March we spent a beautiful weekend together with GBU Siena and the Uniperugino people for a Winter Camp in Gubbio, it was two days full of fellowship.

Then the students from Perugia came to visit us the following week with a group of Americans and with them we evangelized many students in Fortezza, it was encouraging to know that so many care about the city of Urbino which, though small, is so much in need of knowing God; we pray that in the future we can open a church and that the witness can grow.

Our meetings have continued and lately we have been dealing with the theme of friendship: we read together the bond of deep affection between Ruth and Naomi, her mother-in-law; in 1 Samuel, the friendship between David and Jonathan. It was good to see how we can reflect and take inspiration for everyday life even from Old Testament stories; sometimes we think that only in the New Testament there are teachings more relevant to us, instead it was good to learn, from more “distant” stories, how love and affection can be demonstrated. In addition to this we shared our experiences and how we would like to improve our friendship relationships, giving each other advice.

We plan in May to have an event, indeed, the first event with the new GBU group with the help of GBU Siena and the guys from Perugia, we pray that with this special meeting we can reach the students and make ourselves known more!