Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day walking in the Lord’s peace. I had a good day on campus though I somehow wrote and then forgot to send my Going Out email. Natalie and Stephanie each prayed with me to receive Christ today. Their stories are below if you have time. Please pray they grow in their faith.

Natalie was sitting in the cafeteria half way through a double patty hamburger, which she did not look big enough to eat given her slight frame. She wore black leggings and a black nylon shirt with kind of a mesh pattern in the long sleeves. She was pretty, with an oval face long eyelashes and a pretty white smile. if I had to guess I’d say she was Japanese in heritage but I didn’t ask. She had a very tiny gold cross on a thin chain around her neck. She had a small nose a small “cupid’s bow” upper lip that went up on the ends like if you pushed up the center of a curly bracket, the bottom lip barely visible. I don’t remember seeing a mouth like that before so if I see her again it might help to remember the image. It becomes difficult to remember faces. Until I had to look hard at faces doing evangelism I don’t think the shape of someone’s mouth occurred to me much before. She wanted to visit some bioluminescent beaches. I looked them up when I got home and they look pretty cool. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I think that Heaven… I feel like there’s a right answer to this in a way. I think I would say I live in my truth,” she replied. “The Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free,” I replied. “Oh,” she said as if she hadn’t heard that. (I quoted the verse before it to her later John 8:31,32.) She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I asked if she went to church and she said she’d gone to a Christian Church, it seemed more often when growing up. I began to go through the Gospel with her explaining that knowing God was that He lived inside her and He had to take away her sins to do it. She knew when I asked then that Jesus had died to take away her sins. I explained the blood of Jesus to cleanse her and pay God back for the life we have taken we owe Him for. I explained the righteousness of God Christ earned to her credit when God adopted her and that she needed to receive Christ by faith. Believing that Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. This faith saved her. I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins & explained a couple other possibilities in Islam with a different God or the Buddha. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins and add this to your truth?” I asked. “I mean I would want to be forgiven and have life in Christ,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. I asked then if it expressed the desire of her heart. She nodded it did. So I said if she wanted then she could pray it silently, I wouldn’t hear her but God would and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. She thought for just a moment and then making up her mind said firmly, “Yes.” I said OK and handed her the booklet and she prayed to receive Christ. When she finished I said she could keep the booklet and told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until the end of Spring and one year after asking her to be blessed. I began explaining the life in Christ praying and such. She had a Bible. I said that the Christian life was lived, “By the Spirit’s Power” He gave us all the strength we needed to live life. “First you ask God to change you on the inside then you become a good woman and do good things on the outside.” I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet explaining Strobel’s story and a Bible study on the claims of Christ to be the God of the Old Testament. I explained some of how science was now realizing evolution was not true as an example of other apologetics that was out there. “Sorry I think I made your hamburger cold,” I said. “I’m gonna eat it anyway,” she replied with a smile. “Well, thank you for this,” she said as I got up to go. I said “Your welcome,” and “God bless you.” “Thank you,” she said again. “Have a nice day,” she said kindly and I headed off.

Stephanie was sitting on a couch on just the other side of a high-backed couch near the payment windows at school screening her (and I) from the windows as I sat on the other side of her. She was a Latina with fair skin and a small nose in a round face with a bit of a chin beneath it. Her hair was behind her head in a long ponytail.  Her face scrunched up into a cute smile when something struck her as funny. She was above average in stature and wore purple flared leggings and a black sweatshirt. She said she drove an hour to school each day. She was friendly and sincere. She thought she’d like to go skydiving. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and were asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I don’t know if I deserve forgive…,” she trailed off seriously. “I don’t know if I was meant to be. I want to go if He wants. I’ve done a lot of sins. I’m not sure to be honest.” She thought she had about a 75% chance of going to Heaven when she died. She went to a Roman Catholic Church. The first one she’d gone to had closed and combined with another, she’d tried that one but now went to a third one. I began to go through the Gospel with her saying eternal life was God living inside her. And she knew Jesus had died to take away our sins so the Holy Spirit could live in her. I explained how the blood of Jesus cleansed us from all sin and was how God got paid with the life in Christ’s blood. I said this was the symbolism in the mass. The wine was symbolic of His blood and the bread of His body and it’s reminding you Jesus died for you and so your sins are forgiven. “Have you heard of the word Eucharist?” I asked. She said “Yes.” “The word Eucharist means ‘Thanksgiving’” I said. “It does?” she said surprised. I said it did in Greek, suggesting in taking it you are being thankful. I went on to explain the righteousness of God Christ earned that God gave her when He adopted her. I said 500 people saw him rise at one time along with the apostles.  “So that’s Christianity when you think about it. God loves you, He want to know and live inside you, but he can’t because of sin. So Jesus pays for your sin. So the Bible says God demonstrates his love for us, while we were still sinners Christ died for us. So how do you hook up with everything God did for you, you believe it or receive it,” I said. Then I explained that and that her good stuff could not fix her bad stuff. She was really engaged all through. I asked if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven,” she replied. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked through the prayer with her and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. “It does,” she replied. I said she could pray it silently and God would hear her and asked if she would want to do that. ‘Yeah,” she said and took the booklet with the prayer in it and prayed to receive Jesus. I told her then I would pray a Bible verse for her each day ‘til Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. I said the likelihood she would now be forgiven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I explained by a story that it matters who dies the work saying that because Jesus does the work it’s worth an infinite amount. I went through the Christian life living By the Spirit’s Power asking for God’s help in everything and asking God to transform her “Inside Out”, then she would become a good person and do good things. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and said she could find more of Strobel’s stuff on line if she liked it to listen while she drove to school. I also gave her a Bible Study and explained it a bit. “Nice to meet you I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said getting up to go. “Be careful driving,” I said. “Thank you so much, nice to meet you. Be safe,” she said. And I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry of evangelism God truly blessed today.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with good works God prepared for you to walk in. I had a good day on campus and Tim heard the Gospel and wanted to be forgiven saying he would pray later as he was late for class. So I’ll pray for him hoping he will truly receive the Lord. And Rachel prayed with me to receive Jesus. Their stories are below if you have time. Please pray they grow in their faith.

I felt a nudge when I first got to school to go up to the third floor of the BIC so I locked my coat and headed up. Tim was sitting on the outside bench of a glassed-in lounge half of the way down the hall on the south side of the building. All I could see of his hair was a couple thick stiff braids poking out of either side of his black hoodie he had pulled pull up. He wore black sweats for pants.  His face was down but he looked like another guy who I had talked to this year. I went inside the lounge but no one wanted to talk so coming out I asked him just to be sure. He thought we might have talked before but didn’t remember anything and I knew when he told me his name and got a good look at his face I was thinking of someone else. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven, “I don’t know,” he replied. “I’m a sinner and I don’t deserve to go to Heaven.” I asked how likely it was he would go to Heaven if God just had mercy on him. “I feel like I got faith and hope, I still got a shot,” he replied. He knew Jesus had died on the cross to take away the sins of the world. I went through the Gospel and he seemed to believe as when I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven he said he did and he said the prayer expressed the desire of his heart. But then he said he would pray later. It turned out he was already late for class. “Thank you I ‘preciate it,” he said. I said I’d pray for him if he somehow let me know he’d prayed so maybe I’ll run into him again. “Thank you Bro, stay blessed,” he said standing to go and he hurried off.

Rachel was sitting on a bench in a connecting hall outside the dental office where they teach students to do cleanings. She had what looked like a long shag hair cut that was died a deeper blonde. She had a black motorcycle helmet on the bench next to her and had ridden a 200cc to school, I think she said it was a Kawasaki. She asked if I had a bike for some reason and I told her what I road and owned. She wore a black hoodie with white lettering of some kind on it I couldn’t make out well. Her jeans were faded light blue. She was pretty had a perfect mouth and high cheek-bones, dark eyeliner around her eyes. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked why should I let you into Heaven. “That’s a hard question,” she said, thinking a minute. “I don’t know how to answer that. She thought she had a 75% chance of going to Heaven and seemed like a caring person. I asked her if she ever went to Church. She said she went with her mom and told me what road it was on. I began to go through the Gospel with her and told her God loved her and wanted to live inside her but to do that He had to take away her sins. I asked, “So what is the thing God does to take away your sins with Jesus.” “I don’t know,” she said without thinking in the least like the concept didn’t trigger a thought in anyway at all. So I just went into the Gospel explained the blood of Christ filled with life that paid for the things she owed God for wrecking His stuff. His righteousness was to her credit when He adopted her and made her His child. All this was hers when she received Jesus. So if someone asked why God should let her into Heaven she’d say “Because Jesus died for me.” I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done, then he would live in her by His Spirit and take her to Heaven when she died or thought something else? I explained a bit of Islam and the Buddha saying again, “So would you want to be forgiven?” “Yeah,” she said. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart. “Um hum,” she said. I said she could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear but God would, “Wanna do that?” I asked. She nodded in response and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. “Your sins are forgiven,” I said brightly when she’d finished. She grinned in response. “Now if you go down you’ll go up,” I said referring to riding her motorcycle as we’d talked about the dangers of it. She had a Bible her aunt gave her whom she said “Worked at a Church.” Apparently her aunt had gotten it from there. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and forgiven!” in the front and she expressed that she liked it and said, “Thank you,” as I handed it to her. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet, which she also liked and a Bible Study explaining that when Jesus walked on water He was claiming to be the God of the Old Testament. “I feel like when you explain it that way it makes a lot of sense,” she said taking the Bible Study. I said that was the Holy Spirit in both of us helping her understand and also God had given me some things to say that sound good. That seemed to make sense. I explained the Christian life living By the Spirit’s Power “Inside Out”. I said God could help her even on her Bike and help make us better at things. I’d told her that I prayed when I first started out on a ride.  I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day through Spring and the next Year after asking God to bless her. She was thankful and I got up to go. She asked me where the bathroom was to I told her, it made me wonder if she was a student or just meeting some friends. I bumped into her as she cut across the lounge from the bathroom a little later and told her I had forgotten to tell her the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the righteousness and blood of Jesus was 100%. “Thank you,” she said and we parted ways.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed with all good things from above. I had a good week earlier at school Afonso, Anzhelo, Jack*, Jackson* each either prayed to receive Christ or confessed their faith and on campus Thursday and Yaireli [ur el ee] and Jay each prayed with me to receive Jesus. Their stories are below if you want to spend the time please pray they grow in their faith. I had a long talk through tears with Esther who had some struggles with her faith (lost friends she could not reach, one died in suicide) and her Pentecostal denomination, which she feared the rejection of her family were she to leave it. Please pray her faith grows stronger. Jackson committed to believing on Christ Wednesday but had to run to class so I hope to run into him again, his father had just started taking the family back to Church. He had straight dishwater blonde hair was tall and thin and had pointed features and a wide smile, wearing a Glenbard West Hilltoppers green zip neck fleece sitting in the MAC.

Yaireli was sitting on a bench outside a bit of a corner computer lounge that’s now on the NW corner of the 1^st floor of the BIC. She’s a short slight Latina with a cute chipmunk face and shoulder length dark brown hair. She was wearing a Dark blue Winnie the Pooh sweatshirt and black sweats. She was a meek, friendly kid. She said she wanted to travel. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Umm,” she said thinking a bit, “To be honest I don’t know.” I asked her if she went to Church and she said her church was Catholic. I asked what she thought they would say would get someone into Heaven. “Be more respectful and caring for others not committing crimes, respect everyone,” she replied. She thought she had about a 75% chance of going to Heaven. I went on to read her the verse that said knowing God was eternal life and that God wanted to know and live inside her [John 17:3]. But because he could not be in the same place as sin He had to take away her sin then she’d be perfect and holy and God could live inside her. I asked how God took away her sins. I think she used the word “reverence “and added you had to “show Him you loved Him”. I said something like, “Well this is how the mechanism works and began to explain how the blood of Jesus cleansed her from all sin and was a payment to God. “True, true,” she said in response. some things coming back to her possibly. I explained this was the symbolism behind the mass or the Eucharist and that that word meant “thanksgiving”. So when she took it she should just say thank you as it was reminding her Jesus died for her.  I explained the righteousness of God, Christ earned for us, that was to her credit when God adopted her as His Child. I explained that we had to receive this by faith believing, “Jesus is God He died for your sins and rose from the Dead.” I explained that this faith saved her and her good stuff could not fix her bad stuff. I asked then if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. Then He would live inside her, giving her strength and take her to Heaven when she died or did she think something else.  “That one,” she said pointing to the circle with Christ inside her on the throne of her life. So I said that if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart, she thought it did so I asked if she would like to pray it silently and she said, “Yeah.” I handed her the booklet and she prayed then to receive Christ. I explained the Christian life to her then reading the Bible (which she had) and prayer and I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. I explained now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus and His blood the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I told her I would pray a prayer for her each day “from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless you.” I told her I was sorry I kept her so long since it was oblivious she had to go. “No it’s OK, “she replied. “Have a good one,” I said. “OK. By bye,” she said sweetly and hurried off.

Jay was sitting under the stairs near the entrance to the bookstore. He was a small Filipino guy and he had a smallish handsome face with a thin mustache like Michael Jordan puts out there. He had on a light grey puffy coat and jeans. He said he went to a Roman Catholic Church on Sundays. He said he wanted to own a 2025 Nissan GTR NISMO so I looked it up “The pricing begins at $120,990 for the base Premium model and extends to $220,990 for the top-tier NISMO model.” So I hope that works out for him.  I told him my dream car when I was young was a 67 Corvette. (It’s a pretty bad look for an evangelist to drive a sports car that would set you back a hundred grand however so I long ago decided I’ll wait and just drive what God loans you in Heaven. It might be a chariot but I have always liked horses.) I asked him what he would say to God if he died and was asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” His hand went up and covered his mouth his eyes widened a bit. He began to think. “I don’t know he said after a bit. I asked him the likelihood he would get into Heaven. I’ve not done anything that bad-bad.” He replied. “I always help people. If I see a homeless person on the road I buy them food.” I said that it was best to buy people food because you don’t know them and they might abuse drugs or alcohol. He agreed. “So you are hopeful,” I said and he said “Yeah.” I began to explain the Gospel to him that God loved him and wanted to know and live inside him. As I explained the Blood of Christ cleansing us from all sin it seemed pretty novel but he took it all in sincerely. I explained that this was how God was paid and so he was just to forgive us [1John 1:9] because there was a payment. I explained the Eucharist as symbolic of this and that he should just say thanks in taking it. Jesus had earned God’s righteousness and it was too his credit when God adopted him. “So that’s Christianity. God loves you, he wants to know and live inside you, but he can’t because of sin. So the Bible says ‘God demonstrates His love for us, while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.’” I said he had to believe, Jesus is God, died for his sins and rose from the dead. If he trusted in this work of Christ for him he had faith and faith saved him. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus. Then God could live inside him and give him strength, take him to Heaven when he died. Or did he think something else and I gave him a few sentences on the false religions of Islam and the Buddha. “So would you like to be forgiven trusting in Jesus?” I asked again. “Yup,” he said. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it asking if it expressed the desire of his heart and he nodded. I asked if he would want to pray it silently and he nodded. Then he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to him also, living “By the Spirit’s Power” “Inside Out” and said everything in Christianity was “Just Ask” God wanted to help him and guide him. I told him the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I gave him Bible Promises for You and also wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside and he thanked me as I gave it to him. I wrote his name in The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until the end of Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. I explained the Bible study a bit and he laughed at the tale I told of the disciples in Matt. 14:26 “It is a ghost!”. I asked if he had any questions. He said he didn’t think so. “Well I’ll see you in Heaven, it’s cool to meet you,” I said. “Yes Sir! Thank you!” he replied and I headed up the stairs.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism this past week if you had a chance God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob

Third Watch Ministries, NFP                                                           Bob & Ellen Bollow

P.O. Box 1283                                                                                             April 3, 2025

Wheaton, IL 60187  

“There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,

The holy dwelling places of the Most High.” Psalms 46:4

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your “Winter into Spring” has been a blessed one and you are walking by the Spirit in faith not by sight. We are walking this way and asking God for more faith. Hey it’s a gift—you can get more of it. I think many people would at least say we have seen success in ministry in the goal of seeing people pray to receive Christ, 141 this school year. I clicked on the “Look Inside” button in a success book recently at Thrift Books. The Success Principles by Jack Canfield provided the following quote: “If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results you produce, the quality of your relationships, the state of your health and physical fitness, your income, your debts, your feelings — everything!”  Of course it depends on what you mean by success. But I realized reading this idea would bring disaster to the Christian life, which is about walking by the Spirit’s power. I explain to the students who have prayed to receive Christ that the Christian life is “Inside Out, not Outside In.” First we ask God to transform us, then we do good things. We are not transformed or saved or sanctified by the good things we do by our own strength. After all, our enterprises often seem doomed to woe even when blessed; the more happy the marriage the more sad the death of one spouse in old age. The happier the Story the more sad the ending, unless you stop it in the middle. Ellen and I have watched movies that ended in disappointment. Fortunately they are fiction. So if I don’t like the story ending I say to Ellen, “I’m just going to pretend they were happy, got married and had wonderful children so I can think happy thoughts before bed.” Most movies are forgettable anyway of course. We occasionally watch one again when we realize we forgot how it ended. But in real life such pretending is not possible. And we know Jesus said in John 16:33 “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” I catch myself pressing a bit sometimes when sharing the Gospel. Then I silently pray and ask God to work in their heart and continue waiting on Him for the outcome as I recite the verses from His word. Psalm 127:1 tells us, “Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes in vain.” God has sealed us with His Spirit in Ephesians 1:13, but we are to go on walking in the Spirit (Galatians. 5:25).

Everything we have in life is from our gracious God. Though I earnestly want students to trust in Christ, I’m not trying to talk them into a life in Christ. I am hoping to put my “best foot forward” by God’s power. And then I pray for them, knowing only the Holy Spirit can bring sanctification. I think I am good at talking to students about the things of God. But in 1Cor. 1:5 I read that, “in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge.” Everything we are in life came to us by the nature God gave us and renewed in us and by the events He engineered to shape us. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Eph. 2:10). God has blessed us and it is made possible by your prayers and gifts.

When the covid scare had Illinois shut down in 2021, we decided to go to Florida and talk to students on the beaches that were open. Ellen worked from the condo we were blessed with in the second part of the week (on the cheap from a kind lady we met.) Panama City Beach was taking a hiatus from spring break partiers then by outlawing drinking on the beach. (They have changed the laws back now, for money.) There was not a fraction of the number of people to talk to that I expected. Worse still, on my first day the first 30 people I spoke with said “no thanks.” Then I came across a nice older couple. The wife wrote Christian books the husband proudly informed me. I told them what I was up to and they asked how it was going. I said, “No one has talked to me so far.” They asked how many I had asked. I’d been counting and said more than thirty and, if I’m remembering right, I told them they made 33. “Oh we’ll pray for you,” they promised. After that, 31 people came to Christ in a week of days (given some were lost to rain) and God let me know it was not about me. So below are the students who have prayed with me to receive Jesus this school year so far. Thanks for your help, truly. “This is the way” as The Mandalorian often says. In the words of Paul, “For who regards you as superior? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?” (1Cor. 4:7) So as Will said on TV in The Guns of Will Sonnett “No brag just fact.”

I went through the Gospel with a girl Anna this year and have seen her and talked with her since. She’s never prayed the prayer in the booklet. But she said her mom read through it along with all the other verses I wrote in it and she prayed the prayer to receive Jesus. So there is a River the Streams of which make glad the city of God. Some people just have to step near enough to hear the rush across the rocks. When He calls, they’ll jump in.

Here are the students who have prayed this school year. (An * means they said they would pray later.)

David, Jonah, Skylar, Rosslyn, Phil, John, Erick, Lilly, Erick, Matt, Sergio, Jaydi, Brandon, Adrian, Lauren, Camille, Ella, Madi, AJ, Charles, Jomally, Ellie, Madison, Odalys, Jess*, Rebecca, India, Jorie, Markail, Monse, Ethan, Kevin, Kai, Alijana, Michael, Adam, Rita, Arielle, Samantha, Michael, Josh, Reanne, Danielle, Marisa, Tamara, Annette, Ellis, Savannah, Lena, Joseph, Kaycee, Alexa, Malcolm, Daniel, Abbie, Ozzy, Michael, John, Roger, Connor, Q, Brandon, John, J, Diego, Damo, Roy, Victor, Daniel, KD, Charlie, John, Areli, Tamryn, Pablo, Mari, Julianna, Alijah, Cam, Keith, Matthew, Julia, Jessica, Panos, Dailen, Max, Jon, Moe, Salvador, Keri, Yace [ya say], Gianna, Jude, Donte, Jack, Dajah, Aly, Yvonne*, Kiyla, Ian, Gabe, Cory, Nyla, Anthony, Ryan, James, Melody, Quami, Shaun, Zach, Stepan, Alenka, Thomas, Mercy, Emily, Sam, Brendan, Kevin, Jayda, Elizabeth, Jeremiah, Ashley, Joe, Drew, Jess, Natalie, Josh, Julyssa, Joseph, James, Daniel, Kyran, Matthew, Steve*, Shay, Jabari, Jorge, Kejsi [KC}, Jose, Brandon, Kaitlyn, Ivy, Vanna, Princess

Thank you for your faithful prayers & support.

In Him,

bob.thirdwatch@sbcglobal.net

www.thethirdwatch.org

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord in the light of His word. I had a good day on campus and Anzhelo (angelo from Bulgaria) prayed to receive Jesus and Jack confessed Christ. Their stories are below if you have some time. Please pray they grow in faith.

Anzhelo was sitting in the cafeteria with a pizza in front of him. He said he was born in Bulgaria. His parents used google translate on his name for an English spelling, (a Bulgarian equivalent of Angelo) and thus the unique spelling. He was very slight in build and short. He had the classic Clark Kent hair swept up and a cleft chin, slightly pocked face. He looked like the stereotype of a dockworker but was far too small to fit the bill. He had on sky blue t-shirt with darker lettering I never made out and ringed sleeves. I never saw his pants. He said he was from an Orthodox Church background but had not been regularly attending Church as he used too. He only knew Bulgarian people in the Church, which spoke Bulgarian and he was bilingual.  I asked him what he would say to God if he died and was asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Not too sure,” he replied. “ ‘Cause like I can’t really say ‘this is why’. At the same time you’re your own cover of your own book and you read into it. I’m biased of my own self.” I asked what the likelihood was he would get into Heaven. Again he said, “Not too sure… Under 50%. [But] If I get my act together, if I ask for forgiveness well enough, just get it together, than 50%.” I explained that God wanted to know and live inside him but had to first take away his sins. I asked how God did that and he knew that Jesus had died for him. I went on to explain the cleansing power of Christ’s blood and that in it was life, so that it paid God back for the life we had in some measure ruined by our sins. We owed God a perfect life and Jesus completed a payment to God for what we owed Him. I explained Jesus earned the righteousness of God, which was to our credit when God adopted us. “So you don’t go to Heaven because you’re good but because Jesus is good and you’re connected to Him.” I said all God had done was ours when we receive Jesus by faith. Explaining our efforts to be good notwithstanding we could not be perfect. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus then He would live inside him and give him strength and take him to Heaven when he died. Or did he think something else, explaining a bit of Islam’s god and the Buddha. “The first one,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said it did so I asked if he would want to pray it silently and he said, “Yeah.” He took the booklet then and prayed to receive Jesus. He had a Bulgarian Bible at home and access to an English one on his phone. I explained the likelihood he would not go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of God in Christ to save him. I explained that everything in the Christian Life was “By the Spirit’s power”. Christianity was inside out not outside in, we ask God to transform us on the inside, He makes us good men and then we do good things by His power on the outside. I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I also gave him a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him there was some good stuff about Easter inside. He thanked me. I told him I would pray for him through the Spring and one year after each day. “It was really nice to meet you,” I said. “Really nice to meet you too,” he replied “Thank you.” And I headed out.

I bumped into Jack in the southeast corner lounge on the BIC on the second floor. He had on a washed-out red hoodie and grey sweats.  He had a mop of curly, sandy hair and rosy cheeks and freckles. He had a handshake like a wrestler and a medium build. He said he already was in a one-on-one Bible study and I asked, “with who?” and he said the guy’s name. I didn’t know the guy. He could not answer the question of why God should let him into Heaven. I asked if he wanted to hear the Bible verses that answered the question but he somehow thought I’d asked if he had a Bible and showed me the app on his phone. I explained a bit more offering him a booklet. He was open so I began explaining it at the beginning I asked way through what Jesus had done to remove his sins. “He forgives you?” I explained that he did and then showed him how. In the end he said he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. I showed him the prayer then and he was like “OK.” He took the booklet and I said, “If I asked you now to you believe Jesus is God died for your sins and rose from the dead would you say you did?” He nodded. “And do you put your trust in that to be forgiven?” He nodded again so I said, “Would you say I do?” “I do,” he said. So then I said, “Well the Bible says if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, meaning He’s God and believe in your heart He rose from the dead, meaning He had to die for your sins to rise again, you’ll be saved.” I said he had said it to me he just needed to say it to God. He asked me about the Church that meets on campus and I said I had not heard anything bad about it but I said he should just be on the alert with anyone who was saying you had to come to their Church or were trying to control his life. His life as a Christian was between him and God. “Thank you,” he said. “Thanks for the talk.”  “Thanks for your time,” I replied. And I headed out.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

In Him,
Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Alfonso prayed with me to receive Christ. Everyone else I spoke with claimed Christ after hearing the Gospel. Initially they didn’t articulate faith alone in Christ or were not sure but the confessed Christ in the end. Alfonso story is below if you have time to spend. Please take a moment and pray he grows in faith.

I was walking around school and came down the stairs to the ground floor of the north side of the BIC building. Initially I began to walk to the PE building but I felt a nudge to go down the tunnel to the MAC arts building instead. I went to the big lounge and found no one to talk. I headed down by Einstein Bagels and Alfonso sat at one of the counter height tables against the glass wall looking out to the small amphitheater where they have outside concerts. He agreed to do a survey. He had a narrow long oval face, was pretty fair skinned for a Latino guy, his ears stuck out a bit. He had a mop of dark hair, the sides were shaved in a fade over his ears and wore a dark grey hoodie, light grey pants and grey tennis shoes. He wanted to be in a movie. He had a bit of an accent. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. “I do things every day to be better than yesterday—every day is a gift. I heard it said you may be the only Bible someone reads, so you should treat people with kindness and respect,” he replied. I agreed saying that if everyone did that the world would be way better. He thought he had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus’ sacrifice had taken away the sins of the world. He listened attentively to the Gospel and smiled here and there not saying anything verbally after saying he knew Jesus had died. I explained that the Blood of Jesus because he was the source of all life cleansed us and paid in His life’s blood for what we had done. When we sinned against someone we took some of his or her life (which really belonged to God). So Jesus blood paid God back for all the imperfect things we had done. Jesus earned God’s righteousness, we don’t go to Heaven because we are good but because Jesus is good and we are connected to Him. God’s righteousness became credit to us when were adopted by God. He made us His children. I explained this was the symbolism in the mass, the Wafer symbolic of His Body and the Wine symbolic of His blood. The Greek word “Eucharist” means “thanksgiving” so when you take it you should just say thank you as it is telling you Jesus died for you and so you are forgiven. Then all God had done was his receiving Christ by faith. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else using the circles in the booklet. He pointed to the circle with Christ Jesus living in you on the throne of your life and said, “That one.” So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked through it and asked reading, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart.” He nodded. I said if he wanted he could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked and he nodded and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained to him then the Christian life, praying and reading the Bible saying to read John, asking for forgiveness and asking for the Spirit’s power to transform him. He had a Bible and I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front. I gave him a Bible study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him there was some stuff in it about Easter. I explained some more about what God had done. He was grateful. I said I would see him in Heaven and he said, “OK. thank you!” And I headed out. Later he passed me in the hall with a big smile and I said, “See ya around.” He relied with, “See ya around.” And headed down the hall happy.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your weekend has been bless so far walking by faith. God blessed last week where Kaitlyn, Ivy, Vanna each prayed to receive Jesus. Vanna emailed me after saying, “This is Vanna from yesterday morning. I believe it was God’s intention for me to hear from you that day so I prayed about you. Thank you for your guidance, it helped me more than you know. And thank you for the books, I have started looking into them and I will be reading them every night.” 

I also a good day on campus on Thursday and Princess prayed to receive Jesus. Her story is below if you have the time. Please pray these grow in their faith.

Princess was sitting in a chair that is by itself facing the construction that is now a wall of drywall blocking renovations to the SSC lounge. She had on a trucker’s ball cap tilted back on her head a bit with straight bangs and straight black hair down past her shoulders. She was a fair skinned African American. She was slight in build wearing a grey sweatshirt with some printing on it I never had the angle to read. She had a pretty face with a triangle nose and sharp jawline with a bright smile.  She looked 20 years old. I found out she was a mother in her answer to the question: What’s one thing you’d like to do before you die? “Something to do with my children, leave them a lot of wealth. But not just money.” I agreed saying wealth in terms of money can badly screw people up. She agreed. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked: “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Ooo, Oo,” she replied thinking about it. “I’m not, ha ha… that’s terrible,” she said then continued after some thought. “Because I was trying to know more about Him that’s the Honest to God truth.” She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her saying God loved her and had created her and wanted her to believe in Him. Eternal life was knowing God—that He would live inside her. But everyone is sinful so like a blood transfusion first God had to make her His “type” taking her sins away. I asked her what God did with Jesus to take away her sins. “Isn’t it something with the water?” she asked.  I said, “That’s part of the symbolism it works like this,” I went on to explain that Jesus died for her and His blood cleansed her from all sin and was a payment to God for what we owe Him.  “Hmm,” she replied understanding the atonement for the first time. I explained the righteousness of God earned by Christ, which was to her credit by God adopting her as His child. She needed to receive Jesus, to believe Jesus was God, died for her sins and rose from the dead. This happened by grace through faith. I turned to the page with 2 circles one was being forgiven with the Holy Spirit living inside her to give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died. The other was God living outside her like the god of Islam. “So would you want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus or do you think something else?” I asked. “Definitely forgiven,” she said pointing to the circle with Christ inside her life. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it and read, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” She said it did and I said she could pray it silently and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I began to go through the Christian life with her. She said she had been meaning to get a Bible so I gave her one that had a couple Bible reading plans and maps and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I told her that everything in the Christian life was “By the Spirit’s Power” and He would give her all the strength she needed just by asking. Christianity is “Inside Out not outside in, first we are transformed on the inside and then do good things on the outside.” I explained that as soon as she asked God to forgive her trusting in Jesus God lived in her and would then take her to Heaven. “You know what this is like, say you have a friend back in High School and you just hang around with him all year then one day he says to you, ‘So we are going to prom,’ You’d say, ‘Maybe as soon as you ask.’” She laughed and agreed. “Pretty girls like to be asked and God is like that, I explained, you have to ask Him to forgive you trusting in Jesus.” “I have some questions,” she said. “Ok shoot,” I said. Are there many different versions of the Bible?” I said there were and each was trying to use words that are either closest to the original language or help communicate the idea better. I explained the NKJV I gave her and that it was updated. The KJV was originally based on Tyndale’s translation, which they burned him at the stake for writing. It might be a bit harder to understand but she could go to Biblegateway.com and look at other versions if the language was hard to follow. I told her I would give her Bible Promises for You and it was the New International Version and the verses in it might be easier. Then she asked, “What do you think about people saying they Manifest?” I said as best I understood it people that claim that believe they can make demands of God or of the universe, often for wealth, “Like we said before wealth might destroy them.” I explained she would really not want God to give everything she asked for because He is much wiser and knows what will happen better than we do. He might not want to give you something because something bad will happen if He does. You might want a job but driving there will get you in an accident where you kill 4 children, so He does not give it to you. “Think about your own children,” I said. “Say one of them watched a YouTube where a guy was cutting down trees with a chainsaw and they ask you if they can have a chain saw so you say, ‘Fine I’ll save up and get you one.’ You wouldn’t say that because they might cut off their foot with a chainsaw. Sometimes we don’t know it but we are asking God for a chainsaw we can’t handle.” She accepted that. Then she said someone had told her that slave owners made the slaves Christians so that they would accept slavery. I explained that the opposite was often true. Paul encouraged people to be free if they could in the Bible. I explained what slavery had been in the U.S.. After the first few decades here where white Europeans were made slaves, all slavery here was black people who were kidnapped from Africa. They were either kidnapped by Arab slavers from their tribe or another tribe raided them and enslaved them. They were brought to the coast and sold to white people (usually) who brought them here.  But everyone was kidnapped at first or born to people who were kidnapped here. The Bible teaches that kidnapping was punishable by death so no one had the right from the Bible to hold on to kidnapped people. Also in the Old Testament you could only be enslaved in Israel for 7 years then the law required you be made free unless you did not want to be and that slavery was part of the welfare system for women. I explained many states did not allow people to free their slaves even if they inherited them and did not want them. There were too many black people and not enough work for them if all were made free at once and they would starve. It wasn’t like you could just go get a job at a 7.11 selling slushies. Everyone in the south mostly worked on farms.  Some could not fend for themselves. But some people found a way to free their slaves. George Washington took some of his slaves out of Virginia where he lived (where they could not legally be free) to Washington DC where they could be freed. When he left after his time as president was over he freed them and they stayed there. She liked that story. I told her some unpleasant things about Lincoln too that are good to know, in case someone brought that up. I explained, people were sometime enslaved by the Romans for committing crimes. Paul encouraged people to try to become free but some could not but probably the majority of slaves in Paul’s time were not black people either. So the Bible did not support slavery like we had here where black people were kidnapped. The truth is many slave owners refused to teach their slaves to read knowing if they read the Bible for themselves they would want freedom. People telling her the opposite of that were trying to make other people distrust the Bible. “They also try to say it is a white religion but the first guy to bring the Gospel to Africa was the Ethiopian Eunuch (which I defined) who worked for the Queen of Ethiopia. He was told the Gospel by Phillip who was a Jew from the Middle East who walked around in the sun all day so he was dark. So he wasn’t a white guy, “He looked a lot more like you than me,” I said. The paintings of Jesus that make Him look white in the Middle Ages were painted by people in Europe. The Jews they knew were most often converts to Judaism not from the Middle East so they looked European unlike Jesus,” I explained. I also gave her a copy of The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study on the ways Jesus claims to be God. I told her now the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100% and that as so as she asked for forgiveness the Holy Spirit entered her and sealed her; God would always be with her. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day through Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. She said she would pray for me too. “Thank you so much,” she said as I was getting up to go. “Your welcome God bless you,” I replied. “God bless you as well, have a good one,” she replied and I headed off. After walking down the hall it dawned on me I did not know her kids’ names. I went back and asked if she could tell me them so I could pray for them too. She said, “Raquel, Ioshe (with a y sound not i) and Austin,” she thanked me again and I blessed her again and headed off.

So Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you have a chance, God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed yesterday and is today walking with the Lord and in the light of His word. I had a good day on campus Tuesday and Vanna prayed to receive Jesus. Her story is below if you have the time to spend. Please pray she grows in her faith.

Vanna was sitting on a seat on the NE corner of the second floor BIC building. The classroom door was open just past us so I kept my voice down as we talked. She was wearing a grey V-neck top that did not meet the waste of her black pants. She had long straight brown hair with Latina coloring and a full mouth. Her hair was parted down the middle. She was pretty with rounded features. I asked her if she wanted to do a student survey. “Maybe,” she replied.  “Well,” I said “the big question is: You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus, so you’re dead. And you stand before God and He asks, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I don’t know,” she replied. “Well, would you like to know what the Bible says is the answer to that question or not so much? I could show you the verses?” I asked. “OK,” she replied. So I sat beside her and got her name, I found out she went to a Catholic Church. And said, “This might sound familiar to you,” then began to explain the Gospel.  I said as I always do that knowing God is eternal life and this means He lives inside you. God has to make you His type so He takes away your sin so like a blood transfusion He can put the Holy Spirit in you and give you life. “God can’t be in the same place as sin. So what’s the big thing God does with Jesus that takes away your sin?” I asked. “He forgives you?” She said. I said He did and “this is how it works.” I showed her that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin and there is life in Jesus’ blood. When He pours out His blood that pays God back for all we owe Him for harming His stuff. Then the credit from Jesus’ life, He earns the righteousness of God perfectly fulfilling the Old Testament Law, is credited to you when God adopts you. I said this was symbolized in the Mass or the Eucharist, the wafer is Jesus body and the wine is His blood. It’s reminding you Jesus died for you. “So when you take it you should just say thank You. The Greek word for Eucharist means thanksgiving.” “Oh,” she replied. So then all God has done is yours when you receive Christ. If you believe Jesus is God, died for your sins and rose from the dead. Not that you just know the story but that you place your trust in that to be forgiven. Then if someone asked, “Why should God let you into Heaven?” You’d say, “Because Jesus died for me.” That would mean you had faith in Jesus. By grace you are saved through faith. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. Then His Spirit would live inside her to give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died. “Or do you think something else,” I asked giving her the cliff notes version of an Islamic God and of the Buddha. “That one,” she said pointing to the first option I had offered. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and reading it to her I asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. She nodded it did. So I said she could pray it silently, I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Yeah,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus. When she finished I explained the Christian life to her living “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out”. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and forgiven on the inside. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling her a bit of Strobel’s story and saying there were some things in it about Easter. I gave her a Bible study explaining different ways Jesus claimed to be the God of the Old Testament. I used the example of Jesus walking on the water compared to Job 9:8 “He alone has spread out the heavens and marches on the waves of the sea.” She did not understand the analogy. I used an illustration of Michael Jordan jumping for a dunk off the free throw line in a pickup game and someone seeing it and for the first time realizing it was MJ. Because he did something only MJ could do. She got it then.  I told her I would pray a Bible verse or part of one each day for her each day asking God to bless her from now until Spring and one year after. “I don’t know if I’ll see you again but I’ll be praying for you,” I said. “Well I wait here every day,” she replied. I said “OK,” and “I’ll see you in Heaven,” getting up to go. “OK I’ll see you. Thank you so much, have a nice day,” she replied. “OK,” I said and headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism this week. I’ll be back at it tomorrow on campus tomorrow Lord willing post kitchen sink plumbing project which went well.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day has been filled with love and the truth. I had a good day on campus and Kaitlyn and Ivy prayed to receive Jesus today. I held a Bible study also so that was good.  These young women’s stories are below if you have some time. Please pray they grow in their faith.

 Kaitlyn was sitting alone at the far end of the cafeteria at a table. She had on a grey, knit, long sleeve, V-neck top that did not meet the waste of her black pants. She had a few gold chains around her neck and a very pretty small face with a pointed chin and full lips. Her coloring looked Latina and she had straight dark hair past her shoulders. It was parted in the middle. She was soft spoken and when I asked her what she wanted to do before she died. She said, “Have a family.” That’s usually a “tell” someone will trust in Christ as their savior. I asked what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Humm,” she mused briefly and then said, “Because I tried my best while I was on earth.” She thought she had an 80% chance of going to Heaven and corrected it to 75%. She had gone to a Baptist church but not as much lately. I explained that “Eternal life is just knowing God because you know you got the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit,” She nodded. “The Holy Spirit lives inside you. So if you know God that way it’s kind of like you are the Energizer Bunny and God is the batteries, you keep going and going and when you die it’s like you don’t die, because God’s inside.” Saying the problem was that God could not be in the same place as sin. I asked What God did to take away her sin so He could live inside her and she knew Jesus had died. I went on to explain that the sacrifice of Jesus had cleansed her and paid for her sins and that Jesus earned the righteousness of God. God gave her this righteousness to her credit when He adopted her. To have all that God offered her she had to receive Jesus; to believe He was God and died for her sins and rose from the dead. Not just that she knew the story but that she trusted in what Jesus had done to be forgiven. If someone asked why she’d be let into Heaven then she would say, “Because Jesus died for me.” That would mean she had faith in Jesus. And by grace she was saved by faith. I asked if she’d want to be forgiven or thought something else. “Forgiven,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and after reading it I asked if it was the desire of her heart. She said it was. I asked if she’d want to pray it silently to know she was forgiven and she said, “Sure.” And taking the booklet she prayed to receive Jesus. I told her then the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the Blood and righteousness of Jesus. I explained, “living the Christian life By the Spirit’s Power Inside Out” I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible Promises for You which she liked. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet saying there were some things on Easter in it. I also gave her a Bible study on ways Jesus claims to be the God of the Old Testament. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day through Spring and one year after and she thanked me and I was off.

 Ivy was sitting at the long set of tables by the stairs on the ground floor of the PE lounge. She had an insulated puffy vest on and had a thick brown ponytail pulled out the back of a white golf hat. Her long-sleeved work out shirt had green sleeves. She had a wide cute face and was on the golf team. She planned to go to Judson College next year. She said her family was really Catholic. She had gone to Catholic school beginning part way through grade school and though high school. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into heaven she said, “Probably…” and then though and said, “That’s hard. I’ve been very Catholic all of my life… It’s hard because… I don’t know.” “That’s fine,” I said. I asked her what the likelihood was she would go to Heaven when she died. “70%” she replied. She listened to the Gospel as I began to tell her God wanted to live inside her with His Holy Spirit. I asked what God had done to take away her sin so He could. She tried a theological word and dismissed it as wrong and then said, “Reconciliation.” I said that was right but what had Jesus done to reconcile her to God. She didn’t know. So I began to explain how Jesus’ blood had cleansed her and paid for her sins quoting Bible verses to her. I explained the righteousness of God and God adopting her making her Child and I said it was like the mass. “The Eucharist,” she put in. I said right and that the wafer was Jesus body and the wine his blood and it was reminding her He had died for her so she was forgiven so when she took it she could just say, “Thank You.” It’s hard to know what you are supposed to do right then,” I said and she agreed. I said that she needed to receive Jesus by faith and grace by faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else and then asked to clarify, “When you are asking for forgiveness for your sins have you been thinking you hoped you would be good enough or were you thinking, ‘I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me?’” “When I ask for forgiveness I feel like He is not going to forgive me because He knows I’m just going to do it again.” I said “Jesus talked about that to Peter.” She said she remembered Peter had said three times he had never been with Jesus. I said that was right and Jesus forgave him but before Jesus died Peter came to him and asked how many times he had to forgive someone. Jesus said, “70 times 7.” I pointed out that was more times than she had done anything and God would always forgive her. She went on to say that sometimes she felt dark forces pushing on her and she asked Jesus to take them away. I said everyone gets strange thoughts in their head, like a voice telling you to jump off a bridge or something. “It’s been a long time since I walked over a bridge but hey,” she agreed.  I said when I get them I ask God to, “take the thoughts of Satan out of my heart.” “That’s a good idea,” she said. I said the thing that she needed was to ask God to live inside her and be forgiven. “The Bible says, ‘Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world.’” I said if she wanted to she could pray the prayer quietly and know she was forgiven. “OK, Thanks,” she replied and I said something like it’s right there having handed her the booklet and she prayed silently to receive Christ. When she finished she said, “OK.” I went through the Christian life with her and explained everything was “By the Spirit’s Power Inside Out” I explained that God would help her in everything she was trying to do in life, “Just Ask.” He could help her play golf. I gave her a copy of Bible Promises for You and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!’ in the front. I said that before she had her parent’s faith and she thought so too. I told her that now the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I explained that when she went to confession the priest did not forgive her sins but was telling her as Gods rep that God forgave her sin. (The doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church teaches only God can forgive sins.) I compared the priest to an insurance agent when you buy insurance for your car. When you wreck your car it isn’t the agent that pays it’s the company that pays. The priest can tell you that you are forgiven because he knows God paid for your sins. I also gave her a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I said I would pray for her each day asking God to bless her from now until next year in the Spring. She said, “Thanks,” as I got up to go and I said, “I’ll see you in Heaven.” And she replied with a happy laugh.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance God truly blessed.

 In Him,

Bob