Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you day was blessed. I had a good day on campus. Hira prayed with me to receive Jesus. Also David a Latino guy took the student edition of The Case for a Creator saying, “I’m kinda confused about religion at the moment. I want to believe there is a God. I might just stick with Roman Catholic that’s what I am.” I encouraged him to ask God for Faith since it was a gift. I also bumped into Justin again who I’ve been praying for since last year and who took Pocket Prayers from my last I saw him after he said he’d enjoyed The Case for a Creator. He is moving in faith no longer believing only in scientific materialism and I gave him two Rose Publications, “100 Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus” and “Why Trust the Bible”. We talked about world events and faith for about 35 minutes today. His brother was at the concert in Las Vegas where nearly 60 were killed, but his brother escaped unharmed. He seems to be very interested in the Truth and brought to a conclusion through the Holy Spirit I hope this will lead to saving faith. So I will continue to pray for him. I told him I had been praying for him since we first spoke and he said he thought, “That’s what got me here.”

Hira was sitting at a counter high table overlooking the MAC lounge. A pretty girl with a tiny diamond in her right nostril, she looked like and was from India in heritage. But she had obviously grown up here from her conversational use. She had fair skin wavy hair, a black and white knit sweater on. She loved Castles and wanted to go to see them in Ireland. She’d sung in a lot of Cathedrals when she was in a Choir. I asked her why God should let her into Heaven and she said thinking at first, “Hmm that’s a great question. Because I’m a good person I guess. We all make mistakes but I’ve tried to learn from them.” Her family was interested in other religions and she seemed like she might have been raised religious as they as a family had visited Churches and Mosques but mentioned going to Temple first. She said they had about 3 Bibles at home. She thought she’d have a 70% chance of going to Heaven. She seemed to enjoy listening to the Gospel and said she would want to be forgiven for her sins when I finished. So I asked if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. She said she did. So I said if she would want to trust in that God could live inside her and would forgive her by prayer and I talked her through the prayer in the booklet. I offered to her and she prayed to receive Jesus. I explained Christianity was living inside out asking for the Spirit to transform her. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “By the Spirit in the Front” explaining that also giving her a Bible Study. I told her I would keep her in my prayers until a year from Spring. She had to head to class but I hope I’ll get to see her again and possibly give her more materials if I am the person God wants to use in that way. She thanked me and we both headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you walked with the Lord by the Spirit.  I had a slow day trying to find people to talk for the last hour or so towards the end but the last person I spoke with Liam prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Liam was sitting on the bench of NW corner lounge of the BIC on the ground floor facing the hall. I had just been tied up in a conversation with an older Chinese christian student for 20 minutes or so that kind of seemed to drag on and was headed out for the locker where I stowed my coat. I passed him as I turned the corner, stopped and went back and tried one more request. Liam said he would do a student survey. He wore a red flannel jacket and straight leg jeans had a days growth of beard, shorter hair. Not as tall as me and friendly. He was just waiting for class to begin. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven and he said, “I tried my best.” He had gone to the Lutheran church but stopped going sometime in High School. He thought he had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked if he knew what the big thing was that Jesus had done to take away his sins he said, “Yeah.” So I’m not sure what he thought i that moment but when people answer vaguely like that I don’t press them. I feel like they sometimes think they ought to know and I don’t want to corner them. It is also possible they misunderstood the question. But I know the Holy Spirit will convict them if they are truly led to Him. I went on to explain the Gospel and he didn’t give any clues as to if he was accepting it. But he listened closely and tracked with everything and I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven and he took the booklet from me and looked at the circles for a moment and seemed to be reading about a life centered on Christ. And then looked at me and said he would want to be forgiven. So I said he’d probably known the story a bit from growing up with it but if he would want to place his trust in what Christ had done there was a prayer he could pray. I talked through it saying he could pray it silently and God would hear his thoughts. I paused and it was almost like he was thinking still and said, “Do what…pray?” I said if he wanted to and he said, “Yeah.” He prayed to receive Jesus then and I told him he could keep the booklet and explained the fruit of the Spirit and living Inside out. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one writing his name inside and the date he’d been forgiven. I gave him a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do and I wrote “By the Spirit” in the front. He got up to leave and shook my hand and said, “Thanks for everything.” I said sure I’d keep him in my prayers and see him in Heaven.

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. I had a good day on campus and David [or Dawit as I think he later said his name was in Eritrea] prayed with me to receive Jesus as his savior.  I’ll be going out to teach the students the Good News of Jesus and His sacrificial love for us later today and I’d be grateful for your prayers.

He was sitting in a ground floor lounge on the North side of the BIC. He was wearing Jeans and a jacket and killing time before class. He had a thin build like me and was as dark as I am pale this time of year. He had kind of a rough afro. Nice and friendly his accent was a bit heavy. I was not sure how well he could understand, so I spoke steadily. It turned out that like many where English as a second language speakers he could understand what was spoken better than he could speak it. He seemed to have all the right answers. When I asked him one thing he wanted to do before he died he said, “Serve God.” And as to what he would say to God to get into heaven he did not think long and said, “Because I already accept God, I believe in Jesus, I hope He will let me into Heaven.” “100%” was his response as to the likelihood he would get into heaven. This almost lead to the rookie mistake of assuming he was a Christian breezing through a bit of the booklet and hitting the road with friendly greetings with another believer. But I’ve learned since the first couple years of contact evangelism. Even when people would get the answers wrong and or say they had believe in Jesus I take the opportunity to go through the Gospel with people, I know from experience some realize what I was talking about later after God’s Spirit percolates it in them for a while (when I speak with them after some time has passed). But in David’s case I thought I would just teach him a bit and let him hear the verses in English so he could communicate them, I thought he was redeemed. So though it was close to class time I went pretty slow and he took it all in. But pretty quickly I realized he did not understand the Gospel. I asked what was the big thing Jesus had done to take away his sin and he did not know at all. So I explained the atonement to him and he stopped me just before I could illustrate Christ’s imputed righteousness and said he only had a minute to get to class. So I stopped using illustrations and said it was not enough to believe in Jesus and that He would kindly let him into Heaven, he had to believe Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead and trust in that, this is what it meant to receive Him reading him John 1:12. Then I explained he could be saved by faith, reading Ephesians 2:8.9. He kept listening and said in explanation for why he had not understood and trusted in the Gospel, “I do not read my Bible. I go to church every week but I do not read my Bible.” I said if he wanted to trust in Christ there was a prayer he could pray and I read it through with him explaining as I went. “This is good!” he said as I finished. “Do you want to make this your prayer as you were reading it through with me?””Yes,” he replied. “Amen?” I asked. “Amen!” he replied confidently and with visible joy. It was great. I hurriedly gave him a Bible study and 20 Things God Can’t Do and the booklet I had used some of the verses from. I explained everything God asked him to do He gave him the power to do “By the Spirit” writing that in the front saying, “If God asks you to forgive ask Him for a forgiving spirit, if He asked you to trust Him so He can Guide you ask for more trust.” He smiled and shook his head standing to leave. I had just written his name and the date and “Forgiven” in the front. He very happily thanked me I said he could email me he said OK ran off to his class. I thanked God then that I had decided to go through the Gospel with him and not just leave him a booklet.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and yesterday for evangelism and today if you have a moment. God lead me to another who needed to hear.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day waking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Richard and Sal each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Richard was sitting just inside the corner lounge in what is effectively the NW corner of the BIC building on what is the ground floor on the North (the south side goes another floor down). He looked like James Franco with dark brown hair swept back, kind of classic features. He said he wanted to have kids, which is always a good sign a guy will be sympathetic to the Gospel. He wore a light colored zippered neck pull over fleece and tan colored skinny leg pants. Not a very big guy. He said he went to church maybe once a month and “All the holidays”. When I asked him what he would say to God if He asked why He should let him into Heaven he paused for a moment thinking like the question kind of threw him and said, “I mean… I’ve always tried to live my life according to God’s will so…” He thought he had a 70-80 % chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with him saying God loved him and wanted to transfuse His Spirit into Him but had to take away his sin first, I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sin. “Breaking the bread?” He guessed. So I explained a symbolic view of the mass, saying that he could use that time to be grateful. I said that represented what Jesus had done and began to explain Jesus had died for him and His righteousness could be a gift of God to him when he was adopted. He wanted to be forgiven and believed so I said he could trust in what Christ had done and pray. I asked if he wanted to do that and he shook his head (yes) with a frank look I handed him the prayer and he prayed to receive Christ. I gave him a Bible study and 20 Things God Can’t Do and explained all the power he needed to live the Christian life was had by the Holy Spirit living in him. I wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front of the book and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” under it. I explained that if he was trusting in Christ’s righteousness to be his the likelihood he would go to heaven was 100%. He gave me his email to send him some stuff and brightly said, “Alright, thank you,” shaking my hand. I told him I would be praying for him and he thanked me again and I headed off.

Sal was sitting in the hall of the science building facing the North waiting for class to start. He wore jeans and black rubber one strap sandals with black socks and a white nylon pullover hooded jacket. He had sandy blonde swept back hair and a couple days growth of beard, kind of an old school wrestler look to his features, tough looking. But that wasn’t him at all he had a folksy voice and used some of the “country” verbiage. He wanted to buy his mom a house. When I asked him why God should let him into Heaven he said “I don’t know… I was a good person… I don’t know.” He said he’d never gone to church at all but had gone to a youth group once a week, “mostly for the games”. I asked him how likely it was he was going to Heaven and he said, “100% doesn’t everyone that believes in God go to Heaven?” “It depends what you believe about God.” I pointed out, saying the Bible says demons believed and they tremble and they are not going to Heaven. That gave him something to think about for a moment. He was smart and half a step ahead of my explanations processing the conclusion early after that as I began to go through the Gospel. He didn’t remember anything about the forgiveness of sins so I bean to explain the atonement and he said, “Oh is this the blood of Jesus thing?” I said it was and explained how, after dying for his sins, Christ’s blood became a power in the world that cleansed him from his sin and then that Jesus had earned the righteousness of God and it could be given to him. I finished and explained the option of being forgiven by trusting in Jesus or believing something else. He did not take it as a question so I asked if he thought he believed that Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead, he hesitated kind of discovering that he did believe that and then saying he did. I asked if he would want to trust in that he could pray, and walked him through a prayer. He said he felt it wouldn’t be authentic since they were not his words so I suggested he could take the ideas and pray them in his own words and he said, “I don’t really know how to pray, do I just think it?” I said that would work. He accepted that and read and then closed his eyes and prayed a couple times. I gave him a Bible showing him the “Where to Turn” section which he liked, saying, “I never saw a Bible like that.” I wrote his name on the presentation page and the date and “forgiven” beneath it. I explained walking in the Spirit to him gave him a Bible study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power” in the front. He gave me his email to get some more verses and I began to get up to leave and he said “Thank you bob I appreciate it.” shaking my hand. I told him I’d pray for him and see him in Heaven and he said. “Alright have a good day” I said, “Thanks you too. I walked out of sight and wrote down a couple notes and then remembered what he’d said about not really knowing how to pray and walked back to give him Pocket Prayers by Lucado. He flipped through it right away and thanked me and I said, “Sure.” And I headed back down the hall.

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 blessed and you are getting hunkered down for the colder weather unless it is always warm by you and then you are remembering us and our cold feet in prayer. I had a good day on campus and Destini prayed with me to receive Jesus.

She was sitting by the doors exiting the south side of the BIC building wearing a hooded sweatshirt and jeans looking at her computer, her brown hair was pulled straight back into a pony tail. She has a sweet kind round face, cute kid. She said she’d do a student survey. When I asked her if she died what she would say to God to get into Heaven she gave a bit of an expression of surprise and said, “I don’t know what I’d say, I don’t really know if I’m deserving… It’s up to him so, yeah.” She thought she had a 40% chance of going to Heaven. She’d gone to Catholic Church every week when she was younger and some kind of youth group each Wednesday. She listened closely to the Gospel and when I asked her if she’d want to be forgiven she said, “I’ve always kind of been on the fence.” She believed Jesus was God and had died for her sins she said but she had doubts. I told her faith was a gift from God showing her the verse again and said she could ask for more faith from God. We talked more about faith for a bit and I walked her through the prayer and talked about how God would give her the strength to live the Christian life. Asking her if it was the desire of her heart, she said it was. So I said she could pray it silently in her heart so only God would hear and He would forgive her and live inside her. “So what do you think, wanna do it?” “Yeah,” she said and laughed and took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I explained living by the Spirit’s power where God gives her all the strength she needs to live the Christian life living “Inside Out” and told her a story I made up to illustrate it about selling fire alarms. I gave her a Bible Study and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do and write her name and the date and “Forgiven” under it. I explained anything the book suggested she needed to do she could simply ask God to help her to do, if it said God would give her guidance if she’d only trust Him, but she thought, “Great but I am having a hard time trusting him.” She could simply ask God to give her more trust. She took a Bible study too. She had her own Bible so I showed her the 100 Bible verses good to know in the back of the book saying she could look them up in her own version if she wanted. Then I gave her Bible Promises for You and she really likes that saying “This will really be good thanks.” “God bless you Destini,” I said getting up to leave. “Thank you so much,” she replied happily.

I also had a long talk for about an hour with a girl, Sydney, who was 6 feet tall and played softball. Pretty girl with dark hair wearing a pullover jacket and leggings. She’d said she was not sure there was a God and was not religious at all and had never been to Church. I answered a lot of questions for her and refereed her to a book for Alfa females and gave her a Rose Pamphlet “100 prophecies fulfilled by Jesus”.  I left her on good terms and I believe God had gotten her thinking. She’d had some real struggles and had experienced some unkindness for Christians. So I’ll be praying for her.

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 with good things from the Lord of Hosts. I had a great day on campus and Conner and Alexus each prayed with me to receive Jesus. Also, Cole said he would pray later so I am hopeful he will.

Conner was sitting at a table in the big lounge where we have Bible study. He had on an Illini hoodie with a big “I” on the front and blue jeans, he had a close trimmed beard and mustache. His thick brown hair was parted at the side and combed back in a sweep.  Block features good looking kid. He wanted to know how long it would take to do a survey and he wasn’t sure he’d have the time but I said, “How about the short version?” and he agreed. The main question is “Say you are walking down the road and get hit by a bus, you stand before God and he asks, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He wasn’t sure at all but thought the church had said it was about, “The good that you do.” So I began to explain the gospel to him and then bounced into the booklet so he’d be able to see some of the verses. i explained to all to him and he said, “I went to Catholic school for 4 years and no one ever explained this to me [clearly] this was good.” He wanted to be forgiven then and so I said he could pray to receive God’s forgiveness and talked him through the prayer. He wanted to trust in Jesus. So when I suggested he could pray he did. He gratefully kept the booklet and I explained living “inside out” with God first transforming us on the inside. I had already given him a symbolic view of the mass saying he could use the time to tell god thanks that Jesus had died for him and so he was forgiven. It had taken longer than I thought and I apologized but he said he’d did have to leave as soon as he thought. He’d gotten a text while we were talking I guess it was to that effect. I gave him a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power” in the front his name and the date he was forgiven. “One of the questions I did not ask you on the survey was “What is the likelihood you will go to Heaven when you die?” “Well now I’d say it’s 100%,” he replied with a grin. I agreed that was true since he was trusting in the righteousness of Jesus. He asked what the main differences were between Catholic and protestant. I said the primary difference was basically that the sacraments act on you to give you power from God. But that I would say even if that were true it is still the Holy Spirit that is at work. So I would say the Spirit works without the sacraments and they would probably say He works through them and it is the way you request the aid of God. I said I did not think the Bible really taught that, “But it is an interpretation.” he suggested. I agreed. I said that the Catholic Church just like all other Christian churches would teach that only God can forgive sin. So when you confess to a priest he is saying God has forgiven your sins and that is only true because Jesus died for you. That seemed to make sense to him. I realize there are other differences in the Roman Church but he asked me for the main one and my experience in talking to kids on campus is many of the teachings of the church they simply do not agree with and many priests do not teach them anymore. He gave me his email and said, “Thanks man.” “I’ll see you in Heaven” I said shaking his hand. “I’ll see you there.” he said smiling and I was off.

Alexus was sitting on the floor under the elevator by the bookstore behind some book bag cubies. She was a pretty black girl with a button nose and thin lips her hair pulled back and into something of a bun. She was wearing a pink jean jacket and blue jeans tucked into her boots. I asked her if she wanted to do a student survey and she said, “I already did that.” so i asked her if they’d asked the question I asked Conner [above]. They hadn’t and so I asked what she would say but she wasn’t sure what to say to God. I walked her through some leading questions but she didn’t land on the truth. I said, “Would you like to know what the Bible says about how to go to Heaven?” “You can tell me sure,” she replied saying she went to church. As I went thrugh the Gospel she could not remember how God had taken away her sins. I thought it might be how I was asking the question so I tried some leading questions but they didn’t trigger the right answer. I continued with the Gospel and it seemed to come back to her somewhat. When I asked her if she’d want to be forgiven with God inside her or thought something else she said, “I’d wanna be forgiven with God inside.” I said I thought she’d probably known the story but did she think she’d been trusting in Jesus. “I knew I was supposed to trust in Jesus, I knew but I’m not sure…”  I explained there was a prayer she could pray if she thought she had not trusted in Christ and she was anxious to pray it after I explained it and did. She was grateful to be able to keep the booklet too and gave me her e-mail. I gave her a Bible study and 20 Thins God Can’t Do and explained living by the Spirit’s power Writing that in the front along with her name and the Date. I told her I would pray for her each night and I got up to leave and she said, “Thank you.” “God bless you,” I replied. “God bless you too,” she said. And I headed up the stairs.

Cole was sitting at a table in the hall leading into the SRC. He had a few minutes. I got through the Gospel with him and he said he believed but I think he wanted to think it through and be alone. He had very short hair on the sides and the mop on top was dyed blonde. He said both his parents had been raised catholic but hadn’t done much more than take them to Church and make them aware of Christianity. He wasn’t sure why but said if he had a family he would want to raise them going to church. He really liked that idea and said it all seemed true to him. “It resonates with you,” I suggested and he agreed. He asked what I thought he should do. I said he should pray to receive Christ and begin going to a church and look for a wife there. “Do you think I could find someone and change them telling them what i believed?” he asked. I said it was a bad idea to marry someone with the idea he could change them and that never worked but God could change them and he could pray for that before he married someone. I encouraged him to pray to receive Jesus again and I gave him a Bible Study and 20 Tings God Can’t Do saying that each of the reading were short and he could get his feet wet. I gave him my contact info and asked him to text me and I would pray for him. He took it but was late for something and had to head out. So I’ll keep him in my prayers for a while and hope to hear from him.

A Jewish guy Eric with a sharp features and a winter cap pulled down low to his eyes was not interested in the booklet but when I offered him  the Rose pamphlet “100 prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus” he said, ‘Yeah, let’s do that.” He took a Bible study about Jesus claims to be God by appealing to the Old Testament. The Old Testament connections appealed to him as a Jewish person. So he’s another to pray for this year.

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 you had a blessed week and the world is still up and running around you. We met with a student today giving some guidance. Yesterday’s Evangelism at school was great and Olivia prayed to receive Jesus.

Olivia was sitting on a cushioned bench in the hall of the science building waiting for her class to begin just down the hall. She had a small sweet face and a charming African accent, tall girl. I didn’t have a chance to ask her her country of birth. Her hair was up in multiple tight thin braids, she wore brown slacks and a Jacket. She was sure she was going to Heaven and when I asked her what she would say to God if He asked her why He should let her in she said, “Because I’ve helped a lot of people. I’ve forgiven people who are not supposed to be forgiven”. She listened to the Gospel then and knew Jesus had died for her sins. I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven and she did when I asked her if she was trusting in Christ she said, “To be honest up until now I was hoping I was good enough and that would get me into Heaven.” Then she said, “I don’t want to cut you off but I am late for my class.” I said “Ok well if you want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there is a prayer you could pray and I read the first line and she began reading it with me so I stopped and let her continue on her own, praying, and she finished, smiling a big smile at the end and hurriedly getting up. I wrote “inside out” and told her she needed to trust in God for anything he asked her to do. I quickly said, “Let me give you a book.” as she stood up to leave taking the booklet from me. I wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do and quickly handed it to her. “I’m sorry I made you late,” I said. “It’s OK it’s only 3 minutes, It’s right here.” and she ran a few steps and entered the room. But I’ll probably bump into her again waiting for her 2 O’clock class to begin in the hall there and can give her some more stuff.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you day was blessed in the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Sherin, and Axel prayed with me to receive Christ, and Mike prayed rededicating his life to Christ.

Sherin was sitting in the Cafeteria against the windows. Her family is from India and she went to a Gospel church. She had a broad muliti-colored stripped sweater on and tan slacks. Her hair was shoulder length and she had full facial features and braces on her teeth. When I asked her one thing she’d do before she died she said she’d pray, misunderstanding the bucket list question. When I asked her what she would say to get into Heaven she said, “I would maybe talk to God and ask if I did all the good deeds that I should do.” She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. She listened closely to the Gospel reading each of the verses as I quoted them to her, she was very attentive. When I asked her what Jesus had done to forgive her sins she could not think of anything. So I continued on to explain that Christ had died and rose from the dead and His righteousness was to her credit if God adopted her.  I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven pointing at two circles the one on the left with God outside her life and the one on the right with Christ’s Spirit living inside her on the throne of her life she said, “The one on the right.” So I said that if she wanted to trust in what Jesus had done there was a prayer she could pray and I walked her through it saying, “It seems like you haven’t put this together before and she shook her head so I said she could pray silently trusting in Jesus and be forgiven, “You wanna do it?” I asked. “Yeah” she replied and prayed to receive Christ. I gave her the Book 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote her name in the front and the date she had been forgiven and “By the Spirit’s power, explaining the Christian life living inside out. I also gave her a Bible study and told her I would pray for her, and that if she trusted in Christ’s righteousness to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. “God bless you,” I said getting up to leave. She thanked me and I headed out towards the foyer.

Mike was sitting in the MAC arts building waiting to buy some tickets at the ticket window. He was a good looking art student wearing a tan jacket with a days’ growth of neatly trimmed beard and sandy hair. When I asked him what he would say to God to enter into Heaven he said, “You shouldn’t” I probed a bit as to why and he said, “Just based on myself, I know I’m not good enough to.” I went through the Gospel and he knew it and wanted to be forgiven but seemed to hesitate so I asked a bit and he said he’d prayed a prayer like that before but failed to live up to it. I asked if based on his response of being good enough to go to Heaven he had really understood the prayer he’d prayed. He gave me a look like I had a point.  I explained that God was faithful even when we were not and though he had sinned he could confess and begin again and God would forgive him.. I said the worst thing I could hear from my dad growing up was that he was disappointed in me. I’d rather he’d of hit me. He never did though I was spanked when little) but God does not say that, He knows the future and has a plan to work our failures into good. I said sometimes if we are stuck in our sin failing and repeating it, it is good to find a friend who would pray for us. I asked if he’d like to pray and rededicating himself to God and begin again asking for God’s help. He decided to pray. I promised to pray for him each night through this spring and one year after and he was grateful and thanked me. I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and I wrote his name in the front and the date writing “forgiven” under it and then added “x 2” and he smiled a bit sniffling gratefully. I also gave him a Bible study on forgiveness thanked me and I headed out.

Caitlin bumped into me in the hall (tall blonde girl) walking beside me toward the PE building, she’d prayed with me to receive Jesus earlier in the year. She said things were going good but mentioned, “The things you gave me, I don’t have them anymore, I set them down and I think they got thrown out.” I asked if she would like another copy and she said she would so I gave her a copy of the booklet and the Bile study and then the book 20 Things God Can’t Do asking if that was the one and she said it was and thanked me. I reminded her about living by the Spirit and asking for God’s strength to do everything he asked her to do.

I found Axel on the third floor of the BIC building. He looked like a regular guy, brown hair combed back wavy on top, black framed glasses wearing a black coat and jeans. He was really friendly and upbeat. Raised Catholic he went to church kind of sporadically with his parents but always on the holidays. When I asked what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “Hmm, that’s a good question, let’s see…” Thinking a bit he continued, “I should be let into Heaven because throughout my life I’ve gone out of my way to help others.” He thought he had about an 80% chance of going to Heaven. He listened thoughtfully to the Gospel and said “Right” here and there and affirmed things through out. He knew Jesus had become the sacrifice for our sins. He wanted to be forgiven but had not been trusting in Christ for forgiveness so I said he could pray and receive that forgiveness and talked him through the prayer asking if he’d like to pray silently and he said “Yeah!” enthusiastically and prayed to receive Christ. He had a Bible from “Sunday School” and so I asked if he’d like a prayer book and one on specific Bible verses and he said he really would so I gave him the books, Pocket Prayers and Bible Promises for You writing his mane and the date he’d been forgiven in the front. “Perfect,” he said. I gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and he gave me his email to send him some stuff. I also explained that if he trusted in the righteousness of Christ to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. “Have a good one,” I said getting up to leave. “Yeah you to. Thank you.” he said sincerely.

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. I had a good day on campus though no one came to Christ. Jojo a big guy with glasses and curly topped hair looked Black and Filipino who wanted to believe the Gospel but struggled to believe the Bible. I gave him a copy of the rose publication “Why Trust the Bible” I said maybe if it helped I’d see him in heaven. If he saw me there he’d say he’d tell people, “This is the guy who gave me my ticket”.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Trust-Bible-pamphlet-Answers/dp/1596361395/ref=sr_1_80?ie=UTF8&qid=1509421537&sr=8-80&keywords=rose+publishing

A pretty black girl had her straight hair pulled up and back and half round glasses. Her name was Pashun (passion) and she began to cry when I explained God had forgiven her. She already had been trusting in Christ but thought that her recent moral failures meant God would not forgive her any longer. “If you keep doing the same thing He gives up on you,” she said. I explained that the Bible says, “Though we are faithless he is faithful.” and “No one can separate us from the Love of God”. I gave her a Rose Pamphlet “Bible Promises for Hope and Courage” as she wiped the tears away and a Bible study on forgiveness and the book Pocket Prayers. I was really great to help her understand her security in Christ and that she was sealed by the Spirit.  It was a good day and I got some good seeds planted too.

https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Promises-Rose-Publishing/dp/1596360747/ref=sr_1_75?ie=UTF8&qid=1509418564&sr=8-75&keywords=rose+publishing

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and Evangelism today, though no one directly trusted Christ for the first time 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. A girl named Honey prayed to receive Jesus today. I’m not sure if it is a nick name or her folks actually named her “Honey”. I did not have a lot of time with her as she was checking her phone about to walk out the doors when I came across her. She was sitting in the small lounge down the hall from where we have Bible Study. She appeared to be Filipino and had long straight hair down past her shoulders parted in the middle, cute girl, petite. She wore a black coat and gray leggings and had 3/4 circle glasses that flatten somewhat at the top that continually slipped down her button nose as we spoke. I asked her if she would like to do a student survey and she said “What’s it about?” “It’s questions about what you think about God.” She seemed uncertain so I said, “It’s questions like, say you are 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?” She said she wasn’t sure. “Well would you like to know what the Bible says about how you get to Heaven or not so much?” She said, “OK”. “Do you want to take a survey or just know what the Bible says?” I asked sitting next to her and telling her my name. “Just the Bible.” she replied. So I began to show her verses some of which were the booklet and to go through the Gospel. I asked her how God took away her sins and she said she did not know. She also said she went to church it turned out to be Roman Catholic. I then explained that God became a man, Jesus and he had died for her sins. Then I explained Imputation to her with an illustration about extra credit in class she was caught up in listening to and quoted Isaiah 61:10 and Romans 13:14. “So you don’t go to Heaven because you’re good but because Jesus is good. Like if you marry a millionaire ya got a million bucks or if you get adopted into a billionaire’s family you get to live int the mansion and drive the cars.” I said God adopts her and makes her his child and gives her his stuff, “the righteousness of God.” “I like that,” she replied. I explained she had to receive Jesus by trusting in Him and what he had done on the cross. I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven trusting in Jesus with God living inside her or thought something else and she wanted to be forgiven. “Well it doesn’t seem like you had ever put all this together before?” “Right.” she replied. So I explained if she wanted to trust in Jesus to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray silently in her heart. She agreed and took the booklet and I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” “Can I keep this at the end?” she asked of the booklet and I said, “Sure.” She prayed then to receive Jesus and I explained the life in Christ living by the Spirit. I gave her the book, 20 Things God Can’t Do writing her name and the date she had been forgiven and a bible study to read. I gave her a symbolic view of the mass saying when that time came in the service the little wafer was symbolic of Jesus body and the wine was symbolic of His blood so it is remembering Jesus died for her and so her sins were forgiven.” Oh!” she said having never put that together before. “So when you take it you can just tell God ‘thank you’.” She gave me her email to send her some more stuff. “Thank you, Bob,” she said shaking my hand. I said, “You’re welcome, if I don’t see you around again I’ll see you in Heaven. And she smiled happily.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God blessed and I got some other good seeds planted too.

In Him,

Bob