{"id":2377,"date":"2017-10-12T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gbu.it\/gbu-student-leaders-training\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:29:53","slug":"gbu-student-leaders-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gbu.it\/en\/gbu-student-leaders-training\/","title":{"rendered":"GBU Student Leaders Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s just a weekend…<\/h3>\n

If someone told me that in three days, God would answer so many questions and make me understand so much about my life, I wouldn\u2019t have believed it. When I was encouraged to do the GBU Training Weekend, with the aim of becoming a coordinator, I already had the answer.<\/p>\n

For almost any GBU event or activity, my head has had a plethora of excuses: “I’m too busy \/ I have to study \/ I have to do exams \/ I have to graduate \/ spend money \/ polish silverware \/ take my goldfish for a walk …!” As with any event, my head made this ‘useful’ list for me and the decision was obvious …<\/p>\n

But thanks to God, he had a different answer in mind. As my head was saying “No,” before I knew it, I had already accepted the proposal and I had the strength (which until a few seconds before I thought I didn\u2019t have), to make me want to begin this new experience right away.<\/p>\n

God has plans bigger than I can have for me and GBU Training has given me the ability to understand it more and accept it. I was a little worried and wondered why I was there. Why me?! During these years within GBU, I have met so many coordinators and staff members and I admired their preparation, their seriousness and their organization … Why did God call me to do this?<\/p>\n

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Now choose life<\/p><\/div>\n

At GBU Training, I have been given the opportunity to meet people from all over the world, with different ways of doing things, different characters and thoughts, but with the same motivation: to know and to be used by God.<\/p>\n

As the feeling of how I could do this got stronger, I was also faced with the beautiful and delicate question – Who are you in God? Not according to yourself, not according to others, but according to God! I am His daughter; we are His children. God had spoken to me: each one of us was created in a different way, but in His image. Each of us has a function and a value that brings light to God’s service. We must leave room for God’s vision, not for our own. We need to understand who we are, not by ourselves but through God.<\/p>\n

I still had a question, an uncertainty, and that is why I was very happy that the Bible study we looked at in Deuteronomy 27 \u2013 30 covered this. I asked God that his will be done in my life, but would I be willing to accept it? To obey him? What would I receive in return?<\/p>\n

I have seen how God is committed and engaging with me every day, how He blesses me and makes my life great. That is why I have decided to commit myself totally to God so that I can admire His beauty in the awareness that I cannot change by myself, but with the certainty that the Lord is at my side and will help me, as he did with his people .<\/p>\n

In this new academic year, I made my choice: To share Jesus from student to student!<\/p>\n

Manuela Buffa<\/em>
\n(GBU Bologna)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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