Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you were blessed today with good and perfect gifts from above. I had some good conversations on campus and Ryan a guy I had gone through the Gospel with before prayed to receive Christ with me today, understanding a bit better the Christian life. Please pray he grows in his life in the Lord.

Ryan reminded me we’d talked before. He had a brown curly mop hair of hair, not long though and a square jaw. He had a black polo shirt on and black jeans. He was sitting on a bench in the empty hallway as class had just started up on the 3^rd floor of the BIC on the North side. He said I had explained everything really well the last time and he’d been to church a few times but he really had a hard time getting into it. I asked if he had, “…prayed the prayer in that little booklet I gave you?” He said he hadn’t and so I began to explain living the Christian life to him again as he said he wasn’t really connecting with God. When I last asked what he would say to God to get into Heaven I think he’d just said, “I don’t know.” I asked if he had ever asked God to forgive him trusting in what Jesus had done for him on the cross. He said he had asked for forgiveness before. I took out the little booklet. I made it more clear, asking if when he asked for forgiveness he had been trusting that Jesus had died for him and that made it possible for God to forgive him. He said he hadn’t thought about it that way. I said if he wanted to place his trust in Jesus to forgive his sins and His sacrifice on the cross then he could be cleansed and the Holy Spirit could live inside him. Then the Spirit could give him the power to live the Christian life, so knowing he hadn’t prayed with me to receive Christ I encouraged him to do that realizing it was something different than he had done before. He decided to do it and prayed to receive Jesus. We talked more about how at the Church he went to a few times they wanted people to lift up their hands when they were singing and for everyone to hold hands when they prayed. He said he didn’t like to do that. I said there were entire denominations of people that did not want to do that either and there was nothing wrong with wanting to sit and sing and participate that way. I said the Old Presbyterians were called the “Frozen Chosen” because they wanted to chill out at church and I was sure God was fine with that. I said he was pretty young to have taken a long road trip with a friend. But when you drive with some guys for 6 or 8 hours you are not necessarily talking the whole time but you are with each other and you feel together and that’s cool. I said that is in some measure what Paul means when He says to “Pray without Ceasing.” You posture does not matter or if you sit or stand God is just with you through the day and you don’t have to say anything to Him most of the time, but you sense He is with you. He understood that and I gave him Bible Promises for You saying he could turn a verse into a prayer. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” inside. I also gave him a Bible Study using a story he knew to talk about how Jesus claimed to be God. I explained that the Holy Spirit was with him even if that was not generating a feeling of some kind and he could ask for strength from him to accomplish whatever he thought God wanted him to do. I said the Holy Spirit would transform him on the inside and he would then do good things on the outside. We talked more about his future and college and he was grateful. I also gave him a copy of Pocket Prayers that takes a Bible verse and makes a prayer out of it for examples he could look at. I headed out saying I would keep him in my prayers each day and he thought that would be great.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. I had some good talks with Christian students too today.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your president’s day was blessed today and there was Grace and all good things to fill your heart. Sandra, Emily and Diego each prayed with me to receive Christ today. I slept poorly and was tanked when I got to school. But of course those things are no obstacle to God who is able to save with many or with few (1Sam. 14:6). Please pray they each grow in their faith. Their stories are below if you want to spend the time.

Sandra was sitting at the base of the stairs in front of the outside door by the Bookstore. She was willing to do a survey after I explained the idea. There’s students walking around doing surveys for Christian groups on campus that do not go through the Gospel, at first she thought she’d done it. She had a backpack on and a white hoodie. Her hair had lighter tints in it. She had on white wedge sole lace shoes and blue jeans. She was a reserved, introverted person by her own self-description and really never smiled a full smile as we talked but was focused. She said she wanted to visit Spain and had a Spanish last name but said she was Mexican. She spoke Spanish. She had a cute narrow face her coloring Latina, pretty mouth, thin, she was tall for the average Latina, at least that I come across at school.  She was sitting by the entrance to the fashion design department at school. I asked her what she would say to God if asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “This is hard,” she said after thinking for a moment. Trying to help I asked if she went to Church and what she thought they might teach you had to do to get into Heaven. “Following Jesus, practicing [that] and going to Church every Sunday.” She replied. I asked if she thought she did that and she nodded. I asked what she thought the likelihood she would go to Heaven was and she said 50%. I began to go through the Gospel with her explaining that God wanted to live inside her with His Holy Spirit but first had to make her His type by cleansing her of sin. “So what is the big thing Jesus does that takes away your sin?” I asked and added, “What does he do to take away the sins of the world?” She didn’t have any idea and by way of explanation she said, “Everything at church is in Spanish”. I suggested she mostly just listened and participated at Church with what was going on and she agreed. It did not seem she’d processed much there. So I suggested it would all make sense to her and explained that the Blood of Jesus cleansed her from sin, was God’s payment for her sin so she would not have to pay what she owed God that she could not pay. She paid close attention to everything I said. She listened as I explained Jesus righteousness was to her credit and that this was symbolized in the Mass, the wafer symbolic of Jesus body and the wine symbolic of His blood reminding her that Jesus died for her and so she was forgiven. So she should just say thank you. I said that if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead she believed on His name, “Not that you just know that story but that this is what you place your trust in as an adult to be forgiven so if someone would say to you, “Why should God let you into Heaven? You’d say “Because Jesus died for me.” I explained that was placing her faith in Jesus and faith saved her, which was from God. I asked if she wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else and she said, “Forgiven.” So I explained there was a prayer she could pray and walked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart and she nodded. I said she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven. She nodded again and prayed to receive Jesus. I told her then the likelihood she would go to Heaven trusting in Jesus righteousness was 100%. I began to explain the Christian life (Inside Out, by the Spirit’s Power) and asked her if she’d like her own Bible. She chose the large study Bible I had with devotionals in it and 99 doctrines and where you find them, cross references and maps and aids in the back. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thank you.” she said. I also gave her a Bible study on how Jesus claims to be God and Bible Promises for You and Strobel’s The Case for Christ Answer Booklet saying he also had YouTube videos she could watch. I’d given her a lot so I said, “Everything ok?” and she nodded. I said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day through spring and next year and she thanked me again. “I’ll see you around,” I said getting up to go. “You too,” she replied and I headed off up the stairs.

Emily was sitting in a set of padded chairs just around the corner from the staircases of the Student Services lounge. She was also Latina and went to a Spanish speaking Church. She wanted to travel to Spanish speaking countries. She had all her hair colored a light golden brown a pretty oval face and really long eyelashes, long fingernails. She wore greed leggings that flared out at the bottom and had a white hoodie on too and a “Bass Pro Shop” ball cap on with a fish in the logo. I asked her if she liked to fish, she flashed a big smile saying no and shaking her head. She was nice smiled a lot. I asked her what she would say to God and she said touching her cheek with a fingernail, “”Cause I’m not a bad person. I’ve never done any of that stuff. I feel like I deserve to go to Heaven.” She thought the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. It’s interesting that some people think they will go to Heaven for what they have not done. And effectively since things are so bad in society they’ve done good to resist the evil everyone else did. Others think they have been good. I went through the Gospel with her and she also could not tell me what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world. She listened to the Gospel and I explained how it reflected the symbolism in the Mass to her as well. When I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done to take away her sins or thought something else she said, “The first one.” So I said there was “a prayer she could pray to be forgiven, to receive God’s forgiveness and said she could pray it silently and after explaining it I asked if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded and I asked if she’d like to pray it silently she said, “Yeah.” She took the booklet then and prayed to receive Christ. I explained the Christian life to her by the Spirit’s power. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told her I would keep her in my prayers each day through a year from spring and she thanked me. We talked a bit more and I got up to go and said if I saw her I would give her a wave. “But I’ll be praying for you I promise.” “Thank you,” she said again sincerely and I headed off.

Diego was sitting in the cafeteria at a table. I was about finished for the day, but thought I would look for one more person to talk to before leaving. He had a grey t-shirt with some stick printing on it that looked like a floor plan for something and was wearing jeans. He had a squared jaw with a heavy day or 2 of beard and a mustache. Good looking guy his hair was like a cap, short on his head with one inch bangs. I asked him what he would say to God and he said, “Oh wow…” Then thinking more he said, “I guess the way I view people and life and the way I go about my life thinking of the person I should be or would try to be.” I asked him the likelihood he’d go to Heaven saying, “10% low %100 is for sure 50/50 you got a shot?” “I got a shot.” he said.  He listened attentively to the Gospel and also could not think of what Jesus did to take away the sins of the world. So I explained the Blood of Christ cleansing him of all sin and a payment for what we owed God, so God is just to forgive us.  I explained His righteousness and receiving Christ by faith. I asked if he would want to be forgiven or thought something else explaining what other religions say. “I would want to be forgiven with God inside, not the others.” He went on to say the other religions were not what he would choose because he wanted “God deep inside me.” “To be one with God.” I said in return. “Yeah,” he replied. I said that if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. Then God would live inside him. I talked him through the prayer and said he could pray it silently. “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do it?” “Yeah,” he replied and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained to him the likelihood he would now go to Heaven, trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness, was 100%. I have him a compact Bible I had left in my pack showing him the “Where to Turn section and the maps and study aids in it. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave him Bible Promises for You a Bible Study and The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. We talked sum more and it seemed like he wondered about how to pray. So I gave him the Book Pocket Prayers Lucado wrote using Bible verses and turning them into prayers and I told him I would keep him in my prayers each night until a year from spring. I got up to go and he was happy. “Thanks I appreciate you,” he said and we shook hands he had a good grip. I said “God bless you.” “Thank you I appreciate it,” he 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 today knowing the Lord’s eyes of protection are on you. Ahsi and Kristina each prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Please pray they are blessed in their faith trusting in Christ. Their stories are below if you have time. Thanks for your prayers.

Ahsi (ahh see) was sitting in the hall of the first floor of the Science building, the south east side. It seemed she was waiting for her class to begin sitting next to a Biology book the size of a phone book. She wore a winter cap and had a cute round face, chipmunk cheeks, and dark complexion. She seemed tall, though we remained seated she might have been as tall as me. She had an African English accent. She had tan pants on and a matching camel colored jacket. She seemed disciplined and said she was goal oriented. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “That’s easy, I’ve done the work. I try to share His word as much as I can. I go to Church and went to youth groups. I tell people about my faith.” She was 100% sure she would go to Heaven. I began to explain the Gospel and said God wanted to know her to live inside her but first He had to take away her sin. Like a blood transfusion where if you transfuse the wrong type of blood someone they would clot up and die. God wants to transfuse His life into you but first has to make you His type. So he purifies you cleanses you from sin. “So what’s the big thing that happens to take away all your sin?” She thought for a moment and was struggling to think of how that might have happened. Since she had appealed to religious works to save her I was not entirely surprised. I said,  “Well this is how it works” and I began to explain how Jesus had died for her and the Blood of Jesus cleansed her from sin and God got paid. I explained His righteousness could be to her credit. I explained that she needed to believe on the name of Jesus, His reputation, that’s He was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. Then I said this was only by faith. She had known John 3:16 (When you think about it the verse says God loved the world and so gave His Son, there are many things people say Jesus was given to the world for these days.) As I had begun that verse with her and some verses seemed like they might have been familiar, it also seemed she knew “By grace you are saved through faith, but she had not known faith in what). But it was obvious she had never trusted in Christ. So finishing I said it did not seem like she had put all this together before. The last question was would she want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done and have Him live inside her. She nodded and pointed to the circle with Christ inside. So I went through the prayer with her asking if it was the desire of her heart. She said it was so I said she could pray it right now silently and God would hear her and she would know she was forgiven. “Want to do that?” “Yeah,” she replied. I handed her the booklet and she prayed to receive Christ. “Thank you,” she said when I said she could keep the booklet. I explained the Christian life was Inside out when she would ask God to transform her on the inside and she would then become a good person who does good things. I explained that anything God was asking her to do He would give her the strength to do it by the Spirit’s power if she asked. I said now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. She had heard of the fruit of the Spirit. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!’ on the inside. I gave her a Bible study and The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet and explained Strobel could also be found on YouTube. I got up to go and said I would pray a Bible verse to bless her each day from now until spring and one year after. “Thank you,” she said again. “So nice to meet you,” I said. She thanked me again and I said I would see her in Heaven. “Thank you,” she said and I headed off.

Kristina was sitting on the 3^rd floor of the BIC in the lounge on the southeast corner that looks out toward the PE building. She had a pretty cute face and short dark brown chin length stick straight hair tucked behind her ears. She was average in stature. She had a really pretty warm smile. She wore blue years with tears in the knees and a grey old-school sweat shirt with some lettering on it. She was nice, shy. She wanted to travel. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. She said, “I don’t know I haven’t ever thought about that before.” I asked her if she ever went to Church. “I’m Orthodox. My parents are very religious; I go to church with them.” I said, “The last part of the survey was what you think about Christianity, it’s just some Bible verses so you say what you think.” I explained that Jesus blood cleansed her from her sin and that it was really how God gets paid. (Jesus parable in Matthew 18 there is a payment that is due to the Master.) Jesus tells us we are to be perfect in Matthew 5 and because we are not we are wrecking God’s stuff, hurting others and hurting ourselves and His creation. So we owe God something perfect to pay Him back for the damage we have done. But we aren’t perfect so we can’t pay so God pays Himself. When Jesus dies He pours out His blood, which because He is God is worth an infinite amount and it pays God back for all the imperfect things we have done that we owe God something perfect for. Jesus perfect life also earned the Righteousness of God and this is too our credit (Isa. 61:10 and Gal.  3:27) I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus and if she had ever asked for forgiveness trusting in what he had done for her. She explained that she did a lot of praying at Church as an act of faith. I said if she would like to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. “I would want that yes,” she replied. I asked if she would like to pray it silently. “Sure,” she replied. And she prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living by the Spirit’s power and trusting in His righteousness. I asked if she had a Bible, she said she had a family Bible her father made her read. So I said that she could read in the Book of John. I gave her Bible Promises for You and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible study on passages where Jesus claims to be God. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Book. “Thank you so much, this is really nice,” she said taking the materials. I got up to go saying I would see her in Heaven and then said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day through the Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. “Thank you so much Bob,” she replied and I headed out grateful.

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 you day was blessed with a sense of God’s love for you and you had good weather. It was over 50 here today so hey. I had a good day on campus and Adrienne and Kyle each prayed to receive Jesus today. Please pray they grow in their faith. Their stories are below if ya got some time.

Adrienne (Adrian) was sitting in one of the couch chairs by the student activities office. She was looking at her phone and said she’d do a survey. She was heavy set wearing multi colored plaid leggings and a white t-shirt.  African American, she had multi colored “cat’s eye” glasses on she had a round face, rounded features and her hair was long and pulled back behind her head teased out but not straightened. She said she had ADHD and seemed a bit unfocused. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked why should I let you into Heaven. “Because despite all my downsides I tried to be a good person.” She thought she had a 75% chance of going to Heaven. It seemed like she had been raised in Christianity and when I asked she knew Jesus had died on the cross to take away the sins of the world. As I went through each point of the Gospel I asked if she understood making sure I was drawing her back in, the phone never left her hand but she was not looking at it directly. I asked her after explaining that Jesus was a payment for her sins she needed to trust in by faith if she would want to be forgiven. “Forgiveness sounds good,” she replied. So I asked if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. “It’s what my Grandma taught me, I loved my grandma,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. “Sorry I missed that,” she said when I asked if it was the desire of her heart. I’d seemed to lose her to her phone for a moment and then she said she had ADHD. So I talked her through it again, she focused this next time and I asked if she would want to be forgiven praying it silently. “Yeah,” she decided and prayed to receive Christ. “I liked that prayer,” she said then. She did not have a Bible so I gave her one; she wanted the larger study Bible. I showed the page where 99 Doctrines are listed and where they appear in scripture. I explained what cross references were and how to use the notes in back. I gave her the Book Bible Promises for You. A friend came by then, Lazar, a everyman looking white guy with glasses so I got his name shook his hand, engaged with them both a bit and having told her I would pray for her I headed out. She’d had some interest in witchcraft so I’ll be praying that washes out.

I went through the Gospel with Phillip in the cafeteria who had a narrow mustache and a bit a beard along his jaw line. Good looking guy with sharp features and narrow line stripped shirt on and a pink ball cap with something that looked like a cloud on it. He said he was on the fence still trying to figure it all out but happily took The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and I headed off hoping a seed was planted.

Kyle looked Asian, wide nose, thin build, wore wire rimmed glasses with large roundish lenses. He was sitting in the second floor hallway waiting for his girlfriend to get out of class. He had a white hoodie pulled up over his head, and grey sweats on, fair skin. His shoulder length hair, was kind of wavy, not stick straight and he was fair skinned and might have been mixed race in ethnicity. He was an intelligent kid and had a lot of questions about life he asked me after he had prayed to receive Christ, about how I’d lived. When I asked him one thing he’d want to do before he died he said, “Watch my kid or kids grow up.” Having a family is usually a tell for a young guy that he will trust in Christ in my experience going through the Gospel with students. He said he was “Only 20,” and wasn’t sure if he’d have other stuff he’d want to do. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. “I’ve never been like a strong believer. I’m willing to try to work on my faith I guess. Yeah. I really wouldn’t know what to say.” I asked what the likelihood was he would get into Heaven and he said, “Maybe 75%”. He was raised by two Catholic parents; he said he went to church these days only on Holidays a few times each year. He listened as I began to go through the Gospel with him and knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. When I read the verse that said Jesus had been see by 500 people al at one time he said, “Wow,” not having heard that before. As I finished I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. “I would be forgiven,” he said. I said that if he’d want to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. After I went through it I asked if it was the desire of his heart, “Yeah” he replied. So I said he could pray it now and he shrugged and but then nodded and prayed to receive Christ. I asked him if he had a bible and he didn’t so I gave him one that had a “Where to Turn” section in back for questions and messianic passages Jesus had fulfilled. I put his name and the Date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave him a Bible study and Bible Promises for You. We talked a while since he had about 20 minutes until his girlfriend showed up, he was waiting for her class to end. He said something about being on the fence with his faith, meaning pursuing it. I said that now he’d trusted in Christ and that is an act of faith and he was just on the other side and he could ask God to guide and help him. I explained living inside out by the Spirit’s power and told him I would be praying for him. His Girlfriend Hannah showed up and he introduced me and I said hi to her and 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 week was blessed with rest and peace in the Spirit of the Lord. I had a good week on campus and Daniel and Evelyn each prayed to receive Jesus today and I ran into Abbey who was an atheist on Jan 26ths and she had received Jesus. Their stories are below. If you have a moment please pray for them I’m sure prayers for Abbey brought her in. The rest of this is a pretty long journal account of two days on campus but hey if ya got the time here it is.

I had long apologetic discussions on Wednesday. The first with Damian. He had the standard misinformation about the capacity to be good apart from God (you have to know and control the future to do the good and only God is all knowing and all powerful). He thought he was good and would be reincarnated into a better life. So then I demonstrated to him he had no way of knowing if what he considered his good actions ever resulted in good, on a long term basis. He also tried to say the Bible had been changed. But of course to say the Bible has been changed you would have to have the original to demonstrate the one you read now in English departs from it in more than just author’s voice of translation from Greek and Hebrew. Whenever a new fragment of the Bible is dug up it matches. If there is merely a word out of place we can compare it to the majority of other texts we have and see if it is in error. So we know the original. The other issue is the prophecy of Isaiah Jesus fulfills which once was said to be tampered with by Christians, because it was so convincing in so many passages to be predictive of Jesus life, death and resurrection. Then they found the Dead Sea Scrolls and the complete Book of Isaiah dating 100 years before Christ. It matches the one we have. I told him this and a lot of other stuff. I gave him “100 Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus” and another rose publication “Why trust the Bible” which I also later gave to “John” (his name is difficult so he has people call him John) an Islamic guy.

“John” attends the IV Bible study at their leader’s house. He was misinformed about everything so I just corrected him. He tried to maintain Jesus required a posture for prayer with your forehead on the ground, Jesus nor any New Testament writer ever requires a certain physical posture for prayer. I told him Paul says we are to pray without ceasing, always be in an attitude of prayer and so we can be praying in any way all through the day. At one point he said the Quran had never been changed. I said his tradition, not mine claimed it had been changed that the Caliph Uthman burned the alternate copies of the Quran he did not like, redacting them into one he did like:

https://whatsoeverthingsaretrue.org/2021/05/17/uthman-burned-the-quran-and-abu-bakr-burned-the-hadith-why/

He wanted to use Google on his phone so I said put in Uthman burned and Quran. He did and the story he seemed unaware of came up. I said my tradition did not endorse burning the Quran Islamic tradition did.  He had said he would convert to my religion if the Quran had been changed. I pointed out the Quran had obviously been changed as Uthman burned different Qurans making the one he wanted. He tried to back up the truck and that point saying we needed to respect each other. There had been no tension or loud voices or anything, I agreed. And I said, “This is America you can believe what you want here, it is a country created by Christians but if I went to your country and said the Quran was a false religion [as you are saying about Christianity] they would kill me.” He weakly tried to maintain that was not true but it is demonstrably true of course. We parted shaking hands and I said I’d talk with him again any time. I gave him the Rose publication then, “Why trust the Bible”.

Abbey was again sitting in the same lounge as before also, when she had said “I don’t think I believe in Him,” (when I talked with her for nearly an hour on the 26^th.)  Yesterday she told me, “I got saved a week ago” and that talking with me had softened her heart. She’d said she wanted something supernatural to happen to convince her. I felt like that had happened when I mentioned the “Great cloud of witnesses” viewing us from Heaven talking about her mother who had died and she said, “I just got chills when you said that.” I had asked her if she had ever asked God to show himself to her. She said that seemed like a pretty strange thing to do dismissing the idea but I explained that if there was a God it was a legitimate idea. A week ago she said she had asked God to show Himself to her in some way and then went to the mall and a Christian girl came up to her and began sharing a Bible verse and asked her to church. At the Church she went to the pastor told her all the things she had done and she accepted Christ and was baptized. I think this is sometimes called a word of knowledge. (I’ve not witnessed it.) She later confessed to the pastor some other bad things she had done. He then said he had known those things as well but because they were particularly bad he had not wanted to embarrass her publically. So she got her miraculous event. She said she realized for the last several years she had been under the influence of Satan. Her mother had fallen into a practice or abuse of some kind that had killed her. Abbey was no longer blaming God for letting her mom die as she had (this seemed to begin to be happening a bit on the 26^th as we parted when I gave her, The Case for Christianity Answer Book). She now saw that she had damaged others and herself, that sin destroyed her soul, and in a similar way her mom had been responsible for her own death. We talked some more and I gave her a Bible Promises for You book. I wrote her name and “forgiven!” in the front.  I had told her the Gospel as we talked but I went through it again in the little booklet to make sure she understood the doctrine of the imputed righteousness of Christ and to give her some more Bible verses. I also wanted her to think of the Christian life as one lived by the Spirit’s power and that the Spirit had sealed her based upon Eph. 1:13. I told her I had been praying for her and would now each day.

Daniel was a big dude over 6 foot and 5×5. He had a shortish blonde mop of hair atop squared off features and the birthmark freckle thing on his cheek some kids seem to have. He was at a table in a ground floor BIC building lounge on the North side. He wore black sweats and a blue-grey t-shirt. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and he said, “I did everything I was supposed to do.” He thought the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 90%. I went through the Gospel with him asking him what Jesus had done to take away his sins, then added, “The sins of the world?” giving him time to think. He thought a second and said, “He was a sacrifice.” I agreed and went through the blood and the righteousness of Christ that could be to his credit. He tracked with it all and I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins with God living inside him giving him strength. “Yeah,” he replied. So I said if he would want to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and asked if it was the desire of his heart after explaining it to him. He nodded. I said he could pray it silently right now, I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Would you want to do that?” I asked. He nodded again and took the booklet and I said just pretend I’m not even here. He finished and I explained living by the Spirit the symbolic view of the Mass. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the Righteousness of Jesus.  I gave him, Bible Promises for You and a Bible Study and The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I got up to go and said, “Thanks for your time.” “No problem,” he replied. “Have a good weekend,” I said. “You too.”

Evelyn was sitting on a set of couches they recently replaced down the halls of the Science buildings (in a typical failing of the bureaucracy they blocked most of the electrical outlets that were easily accessible with the old couches). She had a roundish cute face, almond eyes her hair was just past her chin and tucked behind her ears. Had the coloring of a Latina. Stopped working on her laptop to talk to me. I asked her what she would say to God if asked why should He let her into Heaven and she said, “I go to Church every Sunday with my Grandma.” It turned out she had also gone back to Mexico also and seen the way Catholicism was practiced there and it had left her with a few questions. She asked these as I went thought the Gospel in part asking how a straight Biblical narrative differed; I told her I had listened to priests who basically endorsed the Bible as I had explained it. I explained purgatory, and some different ideas that had come through Augustine, some involving infant baptism to take away the inherited sin guilt of Adam. If someone believe Adam’s guilt is inherited they take this idea from Augustine’s teaching the second half of his life. He believed all of mankind was present in Adam’s semen actually. We know this isn’t biologically true in our time but also that Augustine misread a Latin text of the Bible to arrive at that conclusion. The Roman Catholic Church teaches a child has the guilt of Adam and if it is not baptized way and the child dies, one would have to assume the child was lost. But the Bible teaches the sin guilt of your father is not passed to you in Ezek. 18:20 “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.” This is also stated in Deut. 24:16  “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.” I said the Orthodox Church, according to an Orthodox student I had recently talked to, teaches you inherit the consequences of Adams sin but not the guilt of it. “So you are in a sinful world and you will sin, it is inescapable.” But the inherited guilt of Adam is not held by all early Christian traditions. We talked about the priests function in confession in an analogy of an insurance salesman for your car insurance, when you wreck your car the salesman does not pay the company pays. Like the analogy the Catholic Church teaches only God can forgive your sin. So the priest is not forgiving your sin, he is telling you God forgives your sin and he can do that based on your confession (1John 1:9) and belief in Christ. We talked about the way Church History had some different opinions but that the basic message that Jesus was God and had died for her sins and rose from the dead remained unchanged. I continued through the Gospel with her explaining: God was paid by the blood of Christ and so it was Just for Him to forgive her. “Makes sense,” she replied. I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus. She said she would and I explained the prayer and she prayed to receive Christ. At one point she said, “Thanks this was very helpful. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I gave her a Bible Study and The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I explained living “Inside Out” by the power of the Holy Spirit; I told her I would be praying for her. “Now trusting in Righteousness of Jesus to be your righteousness the likelihood you would go to Heaven was 100%.” “Thank you,” she told me as I got up to go. “Thanks for talking with me, God bless you,” I replied. “God bless you too,” she said and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry this week if you had a chance, God truly blessed and 97 students have prayed to receive Chris this school, year after I told them the Gospel.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all god things from above. I had a good day on campus and Preston prayed with me to receive Christ. Another guy Gio was close who was 5×5, kind of looked like a mob hit man with glasses wearing a hoodie up over his head as we talked. Ha anyway he wanted to be forgiven but did not want to pray right then having said he was trying to atone for a sinful life. Please pray for these guys Preston’s story is below if you have time.

Preston was sitting at the long table they have that runs along the edge of the stairs in the PE lounge on the ground floor. He was the only one at the table when I began with him, one big black dude sat beside him later as we talked. The table has seats for at least a dozen. Preston looked like an everyman, pretty good looking guy, Italian maybe with his hear swept straight back he had on a white sweatshirt and had a day’s growth of beard that looked like it would not come in evenly yet.. He played football at school. He was the second guy that day who told he wanted to have a million dollars. I told him the way things were going that would not be much money before long and he laughed. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. “I would say I followed the way of your words in the Bible. I try to pour good into the world every day.” He was sure he was going to Heaven though he did not go to Church, he prayed. He’d gone to Church as a kid. I asked what Jesus had done to take away his sins but he just said, He forgives you and as I went through the Gospel it seemed reasonably novel to him. But he tracked with everything and tuned right in. He was friendly and seemed pretty up beat. As I finished telling him how Jesus had died for him he said “OK.” And I explained that God was paid for the imperfect things we’d done we owed God something perfect for. I explained that Jesus earned the righteousness of God (Isa 61:10 and Gal 3:27). “You don’t go to Heaven because you’re god you go to Heaven because Jesus is good and you’re connected to Him.” “So you can’t go straight to God you go through Jesus?” He asked. I explained the Trinity to him then saying Jesus is God. There were three persons. I said, “You’re kind of like trinity too, you have a body like Jesus, you’ve got emotions like the Holy Spirit, you’ve got a will or a mind that’s like the Father.” I explained that if some pretty girl said something crazy to him during the day he might have a hard time studying later that night. He Smiled and then agreed. So I said he was kind of like a dysfunctional trinity in as much as he could not tell his body to stop giving him a headache or something like that. “So God became a man in Jesus.” He said. I agreed. When I finished the Gospel I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins with God inside to help in everything or thought something else. “God inside,” he replied. So I said there was a prayer he could pray to be forgiven for his sins and I talked him through it. “OK,” he replied when I had finished so I said he could pray it right then silently. “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven,” and asked, “Wanna do it?” “Yeah definitely,” he replied and he prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life by the Spirit’s power asking for God’s help in everything. I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave him a Bible study and The case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I told him I’d pray a line from a verse in the Bible for him each day through Sprit and one year after and if I saw him around I’d give him a wave. “Perfect,” he said. I said I would see him in Heaven and he laughed happy as I shook his hand. “God bless you,” I said getting up to go and he thanked me 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 Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with all good things. I had a good day on campus and Melissa prayed to receive Jesus. I also went through the Gospel with Aisha. She took a copy of The Case for Christianity Answer Book and said she needed to think about it more. She was going through the Bible Thursday each week with her Egyptian Orthodox Uncle. She lived with him presently while going to school. Her dad was a black African Muslim and her mom (whom she mentioned was very light skinned) an Egyptian. Her parents had split and her mom was back in Egypt and her father up in Wisconsin. She had curly hair down to her shoulders and pretty sharp features and a gold ring in her left nostril. Please pray for these girls. I also bumped into Sam who told me last semester he would pray that night and it turned out he did and he said he was getting more into his faith. Melissa’s story is below if you have time.

I found Melissa in the cafeteria, having just finished eating a subway sandwich at the counter looking outside. She had dark hair she’d tinted with some highlights throughout, lighter hair framing her face almost gray in shade. She had pastel (pinkish) framed glasses that were round, a cute frank face with a pretty birthmark/freckle whatever you call it. She wore a brown rough fleece vest made to look like sheep skin and was otherwise dressed in black, looked really healthy and happy. She reached out and shook my hand telling me her name. She thought she’d like to travel to Jerusalem. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said, “I would say I would have to pass right away [I think she might have been thinking she’d go to purgatory]. I’ve done some things I need to reflect on. But I really haven’t done what would reflect me not going into Heaven.” She thought she had an 85% chance of going to Heaven when she died. I began to go through the Gospel and explained that God wanted to live inside her but would have to take away her sins first to purify her and I asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins. “You confess,” she said. I said that was true we confess our sins “but the standing doctrine of the Catholic Church is only God can forgive sins. So what happened so that God can forgive your sins?” She said well the priests were connected to God. I said that was true “they are God’s crew” but they know something that tells them you’re forgiven when you confess. I said the Bible says we are to live a perfect life, but we can’t (Matthew 5:48). But Jesus is perfect. I went on to explain how Jesus had died for her and that His blood cleansed us from all sins. That really God gets paid, that the infinitely valuable blood of Jesus (because He is God) pours out in His death and pays God back for all the imperfect things we did that we owe God something perfect for to pay Him back for wrecking His stuff. “Oh I’m learning so much,” she exclaimed. I said the priest knows God was paid for our sin and so being just He can forgive us. Jesus lives a perfect life for us and His righteousness is to our credit. I explained all God had done could be hers and God wanted to adopt her and give it to her if she believed on Him. In the end, suing the two circles in the booklet I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done and then have God live inside her. I explained a couple words about what Islam taught also and she cut me off and said, “This side!” pointing at the circle with Christ inside on the throne of her life. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and explained it. “I’m going to pray it every day,” she exclaimed. I said she did not have to but it would be a good prayer to ask for forgiveness with each day. If she wanted to she could pray the prayer right now, I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. She agreed and took the booklet and silently prayed to receive Christ. When she finished I said she could keep the booklet and she said, “Thank you.” I said now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. She did not have a Bible so I offered her a study Bible with cross-references and devotionals and notes in it. It lists 99 essential doctrines and where they were found in the Bible, has some maps and things in the back. She was really grateful to have it and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet that introduces the apologetics Strobel writes and a Bible Study and Bible Promises for You and she said, “This will be very useful.” I said I would be praying for her each day through spring and one year after. “Thank you sir,” she replied so realizing she’d forgot my name I gave it again and shook her hand and said if I saw her I’d wave. “See ya around,” she said, and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and 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 with all god things from above and you had some Joy walking with Jesus by the Spirit. I had a good day on campus and Taron and Shanice prayed with me to receive Christ. Please pray this couple grows in their faith in Christ. Their stories are below if you have a moment to read them. Thanks for your prayers.

Taron was sitting on the last chair in a row of sofa chairs with armrest tables built in. He was right around the corner from the hall that leads to the cafeteria. He wore a red and white hoodie and jeans. He had a rough top afro his hair shaved shorter on the sides, a hair cut I don’t remember seeing before this school year as much. He had a wider nose and classic black features. Good lookin’ guy he seemed like a genuinely warm person. I walked up asking if he wanted to do a survey. He kind of looked at me like he didn’t want to but he thought he should, like he was under some conviction. So I asked him the main question to see if he’d be interested: “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead and you stand before God and He says why should I let you into Heaven? What would you say?” Saying then, “So it’s basically the answer to that question, so do you wanna know, already know or you don’t care?” “Ok,” he replied and I asked if he wanted the answer or would do a survey. “I’ll do the survey,” he replied. I asked him eventually what he would say to God if asked, “Why should I let you into heaven?” “I feel like He should already know,” Taron answered. I asked, “What is it you think gets you into heaven?” He replied, “Get yourself into Heaven? You do good, be genuine.” He thought he had a 100% chance of going to Heaven. I asked, “You ever go to Church, like when you were a kid or something?” and he said he had when he was about 6 or 7 but “I pray a lot—often.”

His girlfriend, Shanice walked up then just as we were finishing the survey. She had a pretty oval face, petite facial features. Her hair was pulled up over the top of her head and came out like a fountain. Her body was proportioned in the idealized manner of the present times in the black community. He reached out to touch her hand acknowledging her, as she stood beside him, a bit past him, facing sort of down the hall away from us with the body language, I’m here time to go. So I gave up my seat and asked her to sit down, she resisted saying she could stand but I asked again and she agreed, seeing I was trying to be polite. I then was kneeing at the side of his chair on the other side where she’d stood asking for just a couple more minutes of their time. I slowly worked her into an illustration towards the end before getting her name. But I could tell she was listening so I tried to speak to both of them. And then she began to look at me as I spoke directly to her. Then I said to her, say you have a boy friend for about three weeks, before you guys were dating. You thought he was pretty cool but then you find out he was cheating on you and stealing your stuff. So you cut him loose and he comes around in about a week and says, ‘I know I did you wrong, I was even stealing your stuff and selling it for drugs, but I just want you to know I’m gonna be nice to my next 3 girl friends.’ You’d say, ‘That doesn’t help me at all.’” Because you can’t do good stuff over there to fix your bad stuff here. But some people think it works that way. But God says He has to turn your bad things into good things.” And then I quoted Romans 8:28 saying God controls the future and can make all things work together for good. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins. He said, “I would want to be forgiven.” So I said there was a prayer he could pray and I explained the prayer trying to include Shanice, having gotten her name. “Can I keep this?” he asked taking the booklet. I said he could but he could pray silently right now if he wanted and he would be forgiven and know he was going to Heaven. He took the booklet then and leaned toward her as if to ask her to read it with him and I said, “Would you like a booklet of your own? She said they could share but I gave her one and she finished praying a moment before him as they both then prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to them living by the Spirit’s power.  I said “Let me give you some books” and I wrote in each; of a couple of copies of Bible Promises for You  writing their name and the date and ‘forgiven.’ I gave them each a bible study saying they could do it together. I gave them each The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I explained I would pray for them a blessing from the Bible each day from now until Spring and then one year after asking God to blessed them and they really seemed to like that. I said I would see them in Heaven and they both returned a big smile. I thanked them for giving me their time and they said no problem and they headed around the corner toward the cafeteria as I headed off the other way down the hall. I realized later God’s perfect timing that Taron wanted to talk and Shanice was willing to let us finish but that she came just in time to hear the Gospel all the way through. God just worked the conversation out. Who knows if she would have been willing to listen otherwise, she held a very stern expression right up until the end. But they both prayed to receive the Lord so I hope they will now be led by the Spirit to a closer walk with Him.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a moment, God truly blessed. I had a long discussion with a young blonde bearded guy who was an orthodox Christian and we plan to talk more. He is focusing on Muslim apologetics and has had at least one on-line debate about 2500 people saw. He has my Email and was going to send me a paper and try to connect with his other friend.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a great day walking with Jesus. I had a good day today and Aaliyah and Sydney prayed to receive Jesus as their savior. I also went through the Gospel with one Muslim girl Faizah. Please pray the Gospel begins to affect Faizah and these other young women grow in their faith. Their stories are below if you have time to spend that way.

Aaliyah was sitting on the second floor overlooking the doorway by the bookstore. She was a pretty black student with high cheek bones, straight black hair past her shoulders. She had long eyelashes, her bangs on her forehead were 6, inch long, half circles taking up 2 inches on either side of her forehead. Looked to be in her early 20’s. She wore blue sweats her hoodie said GAP in white letters and she wore a cross around her neck. She had some large books open for study but was willing to do a survey. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” She repeated the question thinking and then said, “I don’t know. I feel like all my life I tried to live by the Bible and if I didn’t I would repent, so I would try.” She said she went to a couple different churches and a Christian school attached to one when she was younger. I asked her what the likelihood was she would get into Heaven and she said, “I think I got a shot.” I went through the Gospel with her and she knew Jesus had died to take away our sins. She listened to the Gospel and the blood and righteousness of God by faith and finally I said, “So would you like to be forgiven for your sins trusting in what Jesus has done or do you think something else?” “Be forgiven for my sins,” she said seriously. So I said there was a prayer she could pray to be forgiven and talked her through it. “It says here: Is this prayer the desire of your heart? So if it is you could pray it silently now. I wouldn’t hear but God would hear and then you would know you were forgiven and going to Heaven. Would you want to do that?” “Yeah,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living inside out by the Spirit’s power. “It says in James 4 ‘You do not have because you do not ask,’ so Just ask. God wants to help you and guide you and He will give you as much success as will not hurt you in life.” I gave her Bible Promises for You and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet and a Bible study. I told her I would be praying for her a line from Scripture each day through the spring and through next year. She liked that. She said then, “My new year’s resolution was to try to go to Church once a month and I think it was last weekend the pastor said what you said, ‘Just ask.’ I didn’t feel like it really applied to me because I pray (often). Then we went to sing at the end and there had been a song I was listening to (that week) that no one really listens to, and at the end of the service that was the song we sang and I felt like that was a sign. And then you came along to talk to me today.” I agreed that was God speaking to her and God had sent me to talk to her. I then said she should hold on to those things because sometimes we go through stretches when God is not giving us those kind of signs but He wants us to hold on by the Spirit’s power and rest in Him. We talked some more and I got up to leave and she said, “Thank you so much,” she said. “Thanks a lot for talking with me, God bless you.” “God bless you too,” she replied. And I headed off.

I was over in the MAC arts building later in the day. Sydney was sitting in a step down area by the student theatre door. There is one counter height table and a couple chairs there. She said she’d do a survey. She had a grey knit headband with a snowflake pattern on it covering her ears, straight light brown hair pulled behind her head, she wore baggy grey sweats and a black and white turtle neck with thin horizontal stripes. She had a pretty oval face, small nose, didn’t seem to be wearing makeup. She was filling out 3×5 cards studying for something. She was a musician. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. She said, “I try my best to bring Joy to those around me and live my life in a way that benefits me and also them—collective society, friends and family.” She thought she had a 98% chance of going to Heaven. She said she’d gone to a Baptist Church. When I asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sins she knew He had been a sacrifice. She listened closely to the Gospel and I explained that she would not go to Heaven because she was good but because Jesus was good and she was connected to Him and God adopted her into His family. I explained believing on Jesus, that He was God and had died for her sins, rose from the dead and that this was by faith. I offered her the 2 circles in the booklet asking if she would want to be forgiven with God living inside her trusting in Jesus or thought something else. “I’m this kind of person,” she said pointing to the circle with Jesus on the throne of her life. “I tell people God made everything even when they say God didn’t make a building or something like that that came from them, that it all came from Him.” I agreed using Bob Dylan saying if you sampled a line from one of his songs he would sue you. Everything is sourced from God. He makes you who you are in your mother’s womb so He gives you the gifts and talents to think up the things you create. She agreed. “Well,” I said, “this is asking if you would want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus and I walked her through the prayer saying it seems like it lines up with what you believe it’s just a bit more to the next thing trusting in Jesus. I asked if she would want to be forgiven then she could pray quietly right now, I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven and going to Heaven. “Yeah,” she said taking the booklet. “Out loud?” She asked. “No silently, it’s just between you and God it’s not my business.” She silently prayed then to receive the Lord and finishing handed the booklet back and seemed to be moved. I explained the Christian life to her living inside out saying she could ask for God’s guidance and even creative inspiration. She didn’t have a Bible so I gave her one, writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I showed her the, “Where to Turn” section and marked it with the ribbon and said there was a messianic passages section there too. I gave her Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet and a Bible study. I said I didn’t know if I would see her again but if I did I would give her a wave. “It was nice to meet you,” I said. It was nice to meet you too, thank you,” she replied. And I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for of 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 with life and peace and ya even managed to keep warm or got rained on in California. I heard Lake Shasta is filling back up. I had a good day on campus and Andrew prayed to receive Jesus. Please pray he grows in his faith his story is below if you have time.

Andrew was sitting at the counter in the seating area of the cafeteria and said he’d do a survey. He had sharp narrow face and features and shorter hair up and swept to the side. He looked a bit like Martin Landau from Mission Impossible on TV when I was a kid. Andrew’s hair was dishwater blonde and he had hazel eyes however so Landau could have been an uncle. He was dressed completely in black clothing a zipped up coat black pants. He had a slight build. He seemed to be a science guy studying physics (based on a guy who asked him to study as we began). But he was genuinely interested in the things of God. I asked him one thing he would want to do before he died and he said, amused, “Go to confession,” saying he had not been in a while. I asked what he would say to God if asked why should I let you into Heaven and he said, “I would say, hmmm” and took a while to think. “I was devout through all of my life.” Then thinking more he added, “You could also say, ‘I accepted You as my Lord and Savior.’” I asked him what the likelihood was he would go to Heaven when he died and he said, “Probably 50/50 it’s been a while since I went to confession.” I said, “The last part of this is what you think of Christianity in this booklet, you’ll probably agree with it I don’t know, 4 quick points say what you think.” He was very attentive as I went through the Bible verses I go through and being Roman Catholic might not have heard many of them before. He knew Jesus had died for his sins. He leaned in from his seat as I leaned in on the counter standing and listened, interested. I talked about the blood and righteousness of Christ and salvation by faith. When I asked him at the end if he would want to be forgiven for his sins and have God live inside him or if he thought something else he said, “Well I’m catholic.” Meaning he’d want to be forgiven. I know this is probably stuff you agree with but have you ever asked God to forgive you trusting in what Jesus had done for you, as an adult or have you kind of just been going through the motions or what they say to say and do at Church?” “Probably the latter,” he admitted. Well if you would want to be forgiven for your sins telling God that is where you place your faith there is a prayer you can pray. I walked him through it. “It says here is this prayer the desire of your heart?” I asked him if that was something he wanted to do if he hadn’t done it. He decided to place his trust in the Lord then and prayed. I explained living inside out by the power of the Spirit. I gave him The Case for Christianity Answer Booklet. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible promises for You and I gave him a Bible study. I asked if he had any questions and he said, “I feel like I would but I have class soon.” I gave him my contact number then and told him he could text me any question he might have or flag me down if he saw me. I got up to go and shook his hand; he had one of those great firm handshakes. “God bless you,” I said. “Thank you,” he replied and we each headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. There are not many students at school sitting around but God seems to be leading me to someone each day this semester.

In Him,

Bob