Third Watch Ministries, NFP                                                              Bob & Ellen Bollow

P.O. Box 1283                                                                                                   May 2026

Wheaton, IL 60187  

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your summer has begun with some joy as you take in the sun, plant some tomatoes (they’re pretty expensive these days so Ellen has some planted) and mow the yard. I got the deck sanded and stained and got some grass planted by the woodpile. I hung the birdfeeder from fishing line 25 feet down from the tree, but I gotta raise it since a chipmunk drained it in a day, jumping from a nearby bush. Sometimes the seeds are stolen. So hey, off to the best days you can get in Illinois, as half the year you are kinda chilly frankly. We had a good year on campus beginning last August and through the end of school this Spring which just ended. 151 students prayed to receive Christ this year after I told them the Gospel and I found out that 2 students from last year had prayed after I left them. So I have 153 students to pray for each day and a half dozen others I hope will trust in the Lord. The TPUSA group asked me to teach a Bible study for them. It fell apart second semester as all the students got jobs or had conflicts and no one has to set foot on campus to take a class now. But Ellen and I met with Andrew last week, who had tried to get it started, and bought him a root beer. He wanted to try to give it a go again in the fall. Ellen still keeps all the paperwork up to date for the NFP so we are still legit in the eyes of the state.

Evangelism had a few ups and downs this year where I had several days where I found no new person to go through the Gospel with on campus. Nearly all these days were late into second semester. So I still had new believers to chat up or others to say “hi” to. Though there’s a lot of remote learning on campus, I usually find someone to answer Bible questions with or encourage with prayer who I have met before each day. It’s kind of like being a kid sitting in the front seat of a rollercoaster. You may be in front, but the idea you are driving the car is an illusion. God prepared hearts to hear and often I would hear something like Isabelle told me, “My boyfriend and I have been wanting to get closer to God.” A couple students who prayed this year told me they had “Just bought a Bible.” They then prayed to receive Christ. God is preparing hearts to hear before I arrive. At least 4 different guys heard the Gospel and had to run for a ride or said they would think about it and when I found them again they had prayed to receive Christ. This was true of a couple guys before Christmas, Jesús and Alex. And a couple more after Christmas, Charles and David. Just as the Spirit of the Lord worked in Peter. He was changed from a man who fled and denied Christ, to a man on Pentecost who told the crowd they had crucified their Messiah. So in all our hearts the Holy Spirit is the great disciple-maker of mankind. Even after Jesus ascended into Heaven Mark 16:20 tells us, “And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them.”  Jesus works with me or the labor would be in vain. Psalm 127:1. Reading through the New Testament each year I always seem to be taught new things I had somehow missed before.

This week I went through the Gospel with Prit, a Pakistani guy born in the USA, who was on my deck selling access to the new fiber optic line. He asked me what I thought of Islam as we talked and I explained after reading the first 12 Surahs of the Quran I realized it was against Christians and Jews and I’m a Christian so there’s that. He agreed that was true. Then I explained that I liked the idea that God would preserve His Word and it could not be changed because I believe the Old and New Testament. I said we had the New Testament by 350 AD in Greek fragments from the Church Fathers or archeological finds. Mohamed told the Jews to settle their disputes by the Old Testament, said to read the “Injil”, but then the Quran says Jesus did not die. I explained that Jesus was a sacrifice and a just payment to God for what we had done. This idea was all through the New Testament and the Old so it could not be changed. It would change the entire book if Jesus did not die. I also explained that the Bible was in different countries all over the world, so you would have to go to all these countries to change it, which would not be possible. I said the Quran had many different copies in different Arab countries and he said he knew that was true. The Quran was either wrong that God’s word could not be changed or it was wrong that Jesus had not died. I said life in the West was based on this justice in the death of Jesus that paid God. I asked if he had stopped at a stop sign on the way here. He said he had and then joked saying “No I ran them all.” We both laughed and I said that if he had not waited his turn and struck a car turning in front of him and a camera was on the intersection, he would have to pay for the repairs to the other car. There was a just payment for the damage he had done. The West was based on this justice because of the just payment of Jesus dying. I pointed out that in an Islamic country like Indonesia they line up for the train at the crossing, but they began to line up not only on the left but also on the right. When the train passed by they face each other and every train that went by creates a traffic jam. There is no justice in these countries. Though being born here, Prit had grown up in Pakistan for a while after his father struggled to get work in the USA. He agreed the traffic there was crazy. I said it’s true our society is less just than it used to be. The courts are corrupt for example, and he agreed. But the thing this country was based on was that there is a just payment to God. There is not Justice in Muslim countries. God in the Quran is merciful but not just. “I did not know that,” he replied. Then we went back to talking about our Internet needs. But I did give him a copy of Dear Muslim Friend that I give out on campus. It fit perfectly in his back pocket. Maybe he took the book to be polite, or God will use the seed planted like He did this year on campus. This is the work of the Holy Spirit in hearts we often do not see the result of immediately.

These are who prayed with me to receive Christ (or soon after, an * means I was hopeful and decided to pray for them hoping I will see them in Heaven.) Please pray they grow in faith in Christ.

RJ, Wendy, Jimmy, Jesse, Jocelyn, Andrea, Kaleb, Gio, Lexi, JP, Michelle, Abby, Kylie, Tali, Brady, Matthew, Joey, Laly, Manuel, Johan, Lu, Alexa, Vell, Cooper, Leah, John, Tae, Ben, Marquese, Shawn, Emily, Jaylin, Tate, Teinua, Kaden, Jahmai, Luke, Prodigy, Antonio, Victoria, Daisha, Hubert, Lynette, Thalia, Damian, Jacki, Dayra, Q, Cynthia, Judith, Daniel, Chris, Dylan, Emmanuel, Zeke, Jamesha, Alex, Vincent, Jessica, Danny, Mimi, Naomi, Zianna, Khalel, Vinny, Eldon, Josh, Tyler, Chris, Tessa, Bobbi, Maryellen*, Londyn, Ethan, Justina, John, London, Jack, Griffin, Kris, Natalie*, Ashley, Ohanny, Jasa, Braiam, Connor*, Aaron, Jesús, Clarissa*, Connor, Amelia, Taylor, David, Zach, Colton, Tania, Ivan, Eva, Kassim, Ashley, Chris, Andrew, Maenota, Alex, Ella, Luis, Nick, Jonny, Thalia, Kinsley, India, Alfonso, Antonio, Precious, Carlos, Lalo, Natalie*, Tae, Bobby, Andrew, Javon, Gio, Myaa, Tyler, Xander, Charles, Jeremiah, Daniel, Anna, Nina, Valariia, Antanyia, Sophia, Cam, LaShawn, Oscar, D*, Ashton, Tyrell, Kevin, Ali, Evan, Caitlyn, Daniel, Michael, Sal, Isabella, Zaylen, Vincent, Arbor, Anthony, Josh, Shey, Alex, Angela, Patricio, Sofia, Dominik, Sophia, Q*

Thanks for your prayers & support.  Through them, God continues to make it possible to bring the Good News to students at College of DuPage, and whoever else He puts in our path.

In Him,

Bob & Ellen

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord in the light of His word. I had a good day on campus and a big African American guy, Q, had a mustache and a beard only under his chin with a rough afro committed to trusting in Christ. He was wearing dark blue baggy sweats. After going through the Gospel, when I offered him believing and having Christ live inside or outside his life he said, “Definitely that one,” pointing to the circle I’d described as Christ living in him saved by His blood. He said the prayer expressed the desire of his heart and so I said he could pray it silently and he said, “Thank you,” closed the booklet and joined some friends who had entered the PE lounge. So I’ll pray for him to truly believe on the Lord. Then later Sophia prayed to receive Christ. Her story is below if you have time. Please pray she is sanctified by the Holy Spirit’s power and Q truly trusts in Jesus.

 Sophia was sitting on a couch in front of the elevator in the MAC Arts building lounge on the ground floor. It’s rare someone is not sitting there when I go through the building but I hadn’t seen her before. So I asked if she’d do a student survey saying “It’s about what you think about God for a Bible study group.” She said, “OK. I have some time.” She had long brown hair past her elbows parted down the middle. She had the coloring of a Latina and was on the heavy side wearing a black V-neck long sleeve shirt and jeans. Her face was shaped like a strawberry and she had an interesting nose sort of pug-like, the sides like small shells. She was nice and said she wanted to have kids. I asked her, “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?” “Hmm,” she said thinking. “I tried to be a good servant and serve God… and serve the people. I’ve sinned, but I’ve repented. I’ve learned You’re above all. You’re the ultimate decider.” She thought she had a 50% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she started nodding agreeing with everything I said. The way I teach people the Gospel is novel in terms of illustration, they are illustrations I have made up they couldn’t have heard. So when it seems like a student is acting like they have heard it all before I’m a little afraid I’m being dismissed in pride but then I can’t tell if they are just agreeing in principle. So I just keep on with it hoping they will let me finish what I usually say in case they didn’t know; if they did not confess Christ to go to Heaven in their answer. I told her God wanted to live inside her but first had to take away her sin. So I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. She struggled for a minute. I prompted her with, “Think of the most obvious thing.” She finally said he died on the cross—relieved to have thought of it. So I explained how that worked. Then the sense of “I’ve heard all this before,” seemed to fall away and she listened. I explained that Jesus lived a perfect life she agreed she hadn’t lived and then was killed and His blood cleanses us from all sin. I explained how our sin was a debt of life we had taken. Because Jesus is the creator God His blood is filled with life and it pays God back for the life we owe. I explained the Jesus earned the righteousness of God; it was to our credit when God adopted us and made us His child. He rose from the dead she was saved receiving Christ, believing on His name. This was faith in Jesus and faith saved her. Her good stuff could not fix her bad stuff. I wasn’t sure if she would simply say that she’d known all this and hadn’t thought to say it, but when a student says that I say, ‘That’s great then this booklet is a way you could share your faith.’ I asked then if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. Then he would live inside her and give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died. Or did she think something else; telling her of a Muslim god and the Buddha. I then asked, when she asked for forgiveness for her sins if she thought she would be forgiven because she was trying to serve God and do good things. “Or did you think in your heart, ‘I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me?’ I know you knew the story but had you made the connection trusting in Jesus to be forgiven?” She said she had felt close to God but had become “Luke warm.” This had been for about a month. Then she felt bad about it and asked God to forgive her but she did not feel forgiven. “Then I read the scripture and I knew I had to believe I was forgiven [to be forgiven].” “Yes you have to believe but what you have to believe is that Jesus died for you and that paid for your sins and you are forgiven because of Jesus.” That seemed to click. I explained that then if she believed in Jesus the Spirit would live inside her and give her confidence she was forgiven [1John 3:24]. I said that if she had never said that to God that she wanted to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for her there was a prayer she could pray. I talked her through the prayer and read the line, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” Then I asked, “Would you say it does?” She said it did so I said she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven. She took the booklet and prayed slowly to receive Jesus. When she finished I said, “The likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus.” I said there was more about faith in the booklet and that faith wasn’t a feeling but a fact we could get a bad feeling from eating a bad pizza but we needed to trust in what God had said and ask the Spirit to confirm it in our hearts. I explained the Christian life, praying reading the Bible and obeying God, “But when you fail God forgives you right away because of Jesus. God’s not like a bad boyfriend who says, ‘Well we’ll see how you do.’” I explained living by the Spirit’s power, “Inside out” and encouraged her to pray for transformation on the inside. I told her I would pray a prayer for her using a Bible verse every day from for the next year asking God to bless her. I gave her Bible Promises for You and showed her how to turn a Bible verse into a prayer. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and said there might be some of the chapters to encourage her faith. It seemed she liked it. I also gave her a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and explained that. “Thank you so much,” she said. “Oh you’re welcome,” I replied. “Now you can have confidence you are forgiven trusting in Jesus.” “Thank you,” she said again. And I headed off.

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

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day has left you filled up to the fullness of God walking with Him in newness of life. I had a good day on campus. I had some good life/discipleship conversations with 2 different guys who prayed to receive Jesus earlier this year. Also Dominik prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Please pray he grows in the sanctification of the Holy Spirit. His responses are below.

 Dominik was sitting on a couch by the doors on the second floor of the Mac Arts building that empty out on to a patio that is a 15 yard walk outside to the nearest BIC building doors. He had a navy-blue bandana around his head and stick straight light brown hair coming down on either side of his ears the front went to his jaw line, grey eyes. The back, longer, fell into a faded red hoodie. He wore cargo pants in Camo pattern and high tops. He had a sharp pointed nose and a straight jaw line, was clean-shaven. He said he wanted to become a musician and when I asked what he played he said, “Guitar”. I asked him, “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?” He breathed out thinking and said, “That’s a good question.” He thought more and said, “I’d say I don’t know.” I asked if he went to Church and he said he did when he was younger. I began to go through the Gospel with him quoting Jesus as saying eternal life was knowing God. But sin kills you and God gives you life, so God can’t be in the same place as sin, so He takes away your sin.” I said it was like a blood transfusion where God has to make you His type. I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “He dies for us,” he replied. “Right on,” I said and I began to explain how it all worked. That Christ lived a perfect life was a sacrifice to God, His blood cleansed him and was filled with life and paid God back for all the life we owed. I couldn’t tell if what I said was tracking with him at all. Thinking later I remembered one of the words he used to describe himself was standoffish. I prayed silently as I talked saying all I have memorized this year to say. I said God adopted him into His family and gave him all I had explained, “The sacrifice for your sins the blood that cleanses you and the righteousness of God that surrounds you.” Christ rose from the dead. Jesus is the only way and he needed to receive Him; to believe and put his trust in that Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. That would mean he had faith in Jesus. Faith saved him. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus or do you think something else?” I asked saying the Spirit in him would give him strength for everything. “I’d be forgiven,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ Would you say it did?” “Yeah,” he replied. So I said he could pray it silently, “I wouldn’t hear but God would hear you and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” he said again. I handed him the booklet and he said, “Thank you,” and prayed to receive Jesus. As soon as he finished I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Christ. I went through the Christian life with him. He said he had a Bible on his phone so I encouraged him to read in John. I said the Christian life was living by the Spirit’s Power and the Holy Spirit could increase his creativity as a guitarist and help him in everything. Christianity was unlike other religions, it was “inside out”. First we are transformed on the inside them we do good things on the outside. He said he appreciated it. I gave him a copy of Bible Promises for You and showed him how to turn a Bible verse into a prayer. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I handed it to him and he said, “For me?” “Yeah,” I said. I also gave him Strobel’s The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and told him the story. I finally gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day for the next year asking God to bless him. “Thank you, I really appreciate this Bob. I’ve been wanting to look into this so this really helped me out,” he said. I said he was welcome and I’d be praying and I headed off.

 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 filled with newness of life. I had a blessed day on campus and Patricio and Sofia each prayed with me to receive Jesus. So that was great. Please pray they are sanctified by the Holy Spirit and will walk in the truth. Their responses are below if you want to spend the time.

Patricio was sitting on the third floor of the BIC in a lounge right before the short hall leading to the big SSC lounge. There’s just one bench where he sat across from the wall. He didn’t seem to be doing much but was dreading the Algebra class he was taking for a requirement. He had a slight stature and a caterpillar mustache broken in the middle. His hair was shaved short on the sides and he had Asian eyes and a small face without a very defined jaw line. His hair kind of mushroomed out on top in stick straight lines. He wore a dust blue hoodie and dark grey cargo pants. He said though he was born here he wanted to “return to Mexico” after he had made sure his parents were secure financially. They wanted to stay in the US. He said he already owned land in Chipas where his family was from. He later said he thought he might like to be a teacher and asked if I thought it was OK to change vocations. I told him many people do and it was said that only about 80% of American workers use their degree in their vocations. I asked him, “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?” “I wouldn’t say, I’d let Him decide. He is a just judge. I’d let Him decide if I’m good or bad—He is everything.” I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven when he died. He said he thought 40 or 50%. “What I’ve been taught is that if you break even one of the 10 commandments you are guilty of all of them,” he said. “That’s why I would say 40 or 50. I did try my best.” I agreed and said that the Bible said that very thing [James 2:10]. He wasn’t sure exactly how to determine his merit. It turned out he went to an Adventist Church. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died; when I asked what he had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. I said the Bible said “You are to be perfect as your Heavenly Father is Perfect.” We could not be so Jesus lived a perfect life for us. I told him that, by the Blood of Jesus on the cross he was cleansed from all sin. Jesus was the creator God and His blood was filled with life and paid God for the life we owed we had taken from others with our sin. Jesus earned the righteousness of God by His perfect obedience. “You don’t go to Heaven because you are good but because Jesus is good and you are connected to Him,” I explained. This righteousness was to our credit when God adopted us and gave us the sacrifice for our sins the blood that cleansed us and the righteousness of Christ that surrounds us. Jesus rose from the dead and is the only way to God. I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else, giving him a few lines about the god of Islam and the Buddha. “I would be forgiven,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of his heart and he said it did so I asked if he would want to pray it silently and know he was forgiven. “Sure,” he replied and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ.  He held on to the booklet then, kind of clutching it maybe subconsciously wanting to keep it. So I said he could and showed him some more things I wanted to tell him in it. I began to go through the Christian life with him then living by the Spirit’s power, Inside Out. He said he struggled at church saying his pastor seemed to go to different unrelated passages and he had a hard time following him and his stories. I said that the way I looked at it was that if someone was telling you the Bible it was God’s word. So He could tell you something in it He wanted you to hear. So I said he should pray and ask God to tell him what He wanted him to learn from the Bible when he was at a service in Church. He really liked that idea. I gave him Bible Promises for You and showed him how to turn a verse into a prayer. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. He was grateful and I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him for the next year asking God to bless him. He talked about creation and the day of rest and I said it was true that the Bible never said to turn the Sabbath day into Sunday. I said the Bible says that you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. “It does?” he said. I said it did and that Hebrews 4 says that Jesus is our Sabbath rest. Since we are the Temple and God lives inside us as Christians we should think of every day as resting in Jesus. “I’m not saying they are wrong at your Church but the Sabbath really is every day for Christians,” I explained. He thought that seemed right and on Saturday he stayed away for electronics and stuff and I agreed that seemed like a good idea to focus on the Lord. He said he like to listen to other people and their perspectives. I said that I had heard a pastor once say “Turn your critics into your teachers.’ “They might have something to say you need to hear,” I explained. He appreciated that and he shook my hand and I headed off.

Sofia was sitting in the hallway of the BIC on the ground floor on the south side in a row of chairs. She had brown hair parted down the middle and semi round clear frame glasses. She had a pointed chin a small face and was on the heavy side. She had a few bracelets on and nice nails and wore a V-neck pull over and jeans. She was friendly and wanted to travel to Greece. Seems a popular destination this year and I said others had said that and the Greek Isles seemed like it was me a nice place to visit. I asked her, “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?” “Um… I don’t know,” she replied. “I’d say… I’ve no clue.” “Do you ever go to Church?” I asked. “I go every week, I went yesterday,” she replied. ‘What do you think they would say is the way you get to Heaven?” I asked. She again said she didn’t know and that they just told stories from the Bible. “Well there are some good stories in there,” I replied. I began to go through the Gospel with her and asked her as I always do what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. She could not think of anything and apologized and I said no worries it might start to sound familiar. I explained everything I always do about the perfect life of Christ and his blood to cleanse her and be a payment for sin. I then said this was the symbolism behind the mass. The wine was symbolic of his blood and the wafer symbolic of his body. “So when you take it you should say, ‘Thank You’ as it is reminding you Jesus died for you and so you are forgiven.” She looked me in the eye then and said, “Thank you.” In a repeat after me way like I would let God know. I expanded Jesus earned the righteousness of God and it was to her credit. I told her she was adopted to become God’s child and he would give her the blessings of His family, as I’d told Patricio earlier, “God gives us the sacrifice for our sins the blood that cleansed us and the righteousness of Christ that surrounds us.” I read a verse on His resurrection. I said this was hers by faith and receiving Christ made her a child of God. Faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. “I would be forgiven,” she replied. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it also and asked her if it expressed the desire of her heart. “Yeah,” she replied. “You could pray it silently then, I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do that?” I asked. “Yeah she replied and she took the booklet and received Christ praying the prayer to accept forgiveness. When she finished I explained the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. “Thank you so much,” she replied. I explained the Christian life to her living by the Spirit’s power Inside Out. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and a copy of The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. She said, “Thank you so much,” again and I said, “Thanks for listening.” I said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day for the next year asking God to bless her. “Have a very nice day,” she said as I got up to go. “You too,” I replied and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope ya had a blessed day filled with all good things from the hand of the Lord. I had slow day on campus and only found one person to go through the Gospel with me. But that girl Angela prayed to receive Jesus. Her story is below if you have time. Please pray she is sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

 Angela was sitting at a table with a couple of medical books open with diagrams of human anatomy. She had long thin braids past her elbows coming out of tight elaborate patterns on the top of her head. African American she had a cute wide face with a pug nose; she was friendly wore a grey hoodie. She sat on the edge of the science buildings lounge on the second floor. They were having a faculty appreciation lunch below her. I asked if she would want to do a student survey for a Bible study group. “I think I already did it,” she replied. “Not with me,” I replied. “The big question is: ‘You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?’ So it’s really about the Bible verses that are the answer to that question. So would you like to hear the verses that answer it or not so much?” “OK,” she replied. So I kneeled at her table across from her, since the chairs all had her stuff on them. I took out the booklet and began to go through it saying all I usually say to tell students the Gospel. “Jesus said this,” I said reading John 17:3. “Eternal life is just knowing God because you got the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,” she nodded. “The holy Spirit lives inside you. So if God lives inside you and you know Him that way it’s like you’re the Energizer Bunny and God’s the batteries, you keep going and going and when you die it’s like you don’t die because God’s inside.” I said the God could not live in some people because of sin and asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “Well nothing comes to mind right now,” she replied after a moment of thought. “That’s OK this is how it works,” I replied. And I explained the perfect life of Jesus and His sacrifice where His blood cleansed her and was a payment for sin. His righteousness was to her credit. God adopted her and gave her all these things. Jesus rose from the dead and was the only way. She needed to receive Jesus; believe He was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. “So if someone would ask why should God let you into Heaven you’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me. I trust in that.’” I said that would mean she had faith in Jesus and faith saved her. She should do good things to please God but her good things would not fix her bad things. She smiled at the examples I gave and was tuned right in the entire time. After I had asked if she wanted to be forgiven trusting in Jesus, saying he would give her strength to live the Christian life and even for her studies at school, then take her to Heaven when she died, she said, “Um hum.” I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. “Um hum,” she replied again. So I said she could pray it silently, “I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and then you’d know you were forgiven trusting in Jesus, wanna do that?” “Um hum,” she said again and she prayed to receive Jesus. I went through the Christian life with her briefly. She had a Bible and I said everything was “By the Spirit’s Power.” I gave her Bible Promises for You and showed her how she could turn a verse into a prayer. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thank you,” she said, taking the booklet with a smile. I told her I would pray for her every day for a year and if I saw her again I would just wave. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling her a bit of Strobel’s story and a Bible study on the deity of Christ she liked. “Nice to meet you,” I said getting up to go. “Nice to me you as well,” she replied. “God bless your day.” “God bless your studies,” I replied and she said, “Thank you,” and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today. School has become pretty empty but the Lord guided me to one.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope ya had a great day and had joy and peace in believing and now abound in hope. I had a good day on campus and encouraged some Christians in the faith and Alex Prayed with me to receive Jesus. Please pray he grows in faith sanctified by the Spirit. His responses are below if you have time.

 Alex walked up and sat on a hall bench in the east science building on the second floor facing north. I had almost met him at the moment he sat down and he said he’d do a student survey. He had a few days growth of beard and wore black framed glasses his face was the shape of a melon with a modest nose and thin lips. He was a pretty tall guy maybe 6’2” and wore a long sleeve grey T-shirt and grey sweats and bright red shoes.  I asked him for three words to describe himself and with a heavy Latino accent and slightly broken English he said, “student in college, no money, made a promise to my parents,” the last of which I gathered was why he was in school. One thing he wanted to do before he died was, “keep promise, make my way, have a family and be together.” I asked him, “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?” “Umm, I made mistakes. If He can do… before I die, if He can… [I would] do better now, I’ll go to Heaven for now.” I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven when he died, “50/50 because I made mistakes [I could] do better,” he replied. I asked if he ever went to Church and he hesitated like he was thinking and I said, “Sometimes?” He said, “I go…”. “Once in a while,” I filled in and he nodded. He later said the last time he had been to Church was for his father’s funeral. “So a sad time,” I said and he nodded. I began to go through the Gospel and asked what the big thing was Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. He hesitated and said, “Yeah,” so I don’t think he knew. I began to explain that God became a man Jesus and lived a perfect life. So we were to supposed to live a perfect life. You had to be perfected to get into Heaven. He began nodding and so I explained that Jesus died and His blood cleansed us and paid for sin. He kept nodding so I just continued to explain at a regular pace with illustrations but without stopping about the righteousness of Christ. I said that God adopted him and gave him the blessings of His family, the sacrifice for his sins the blood that cleansed him and the righteousness of God that surrounded him. He needed to receive Christ; to believe, “Jesus was God died for your sins and rose from the dead. Not that you just knew the story but that that was what you put his trust in so that if someone said, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ You’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me, I trust in that.’ That would me you had faith in Jesus. Faith saves you.” I read Eph 2:8 and 9. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus then He would live inside him to give him strength and take him to Heaven when he died. Then I said Islam had a different God and a cast off line about the Buddha who was not looking for God. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins?” I asked again. “Yeah,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. “Yeah,” he said again. So I said he could pray it silently and God would hear. He took the booklet and prayed aloud to receive Jesus. I quickly went through the Christian life and asked if he had a Bible. His family had one and that was enough he thought. I explained then that he could live by the Spirit’s power. I said Christianity was inside out not outside in first we ask God to change us then we will do good things. I gave him the booklet. I said the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. He grabbed his backpack up to go to class so I quickly gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and said I would pray for him. He went into the classroom but I remained and wrote some stuff down. No one was in the room yet, I gathered by some conversation I overheard and he came back out, probably to go to the bathroom and walked past me and said, “God bless you.” “Thank you, I will pray for you each day for the next year. And he headed off.

 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 mercy peace and love from the Father. I had a good day on campus and Josh and Shey each prayed to receive Jesus. Please pray that they receive the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. Their stories are below if you have a moment.

 Josh was sitting in the MAC arts lounge on the second floor at a counter height table at the furthest end from the front door. He had on a black NIKE windbreaker with a Michael Jordan silhouette and sweats. He wore a nylon cap tight to his head. He had a black beard along his jaw line; it didn’t grow under his lip and fanned out at his chin. His thin mustache squeezed in under a modest nose and full lips. He had a warm smile with a gap between front teeth, above average looking guy, nice. He was upbeat and willing to talk. The survey questions had made him think and when I asked him, “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?”  He said with a big smile, “You’re putting me on the spot again….” He thought a moment more and said, “I guess I would say something like, “I don’t think I’m obligated to go here [I think meaning God was not obligated to let him into Heaven] because nobody is perfect or anything like that, maybe compared to other people… I haven’t don’t anything like the worst things.” He thought for a moment and said, “That’s kind of judgmental.” I agreed that when you say you are good you really mean compared to someone else. He agreed. I asked what he thought the likelihood was he would get into Heaven. “I guess I’d give myself 50/50,” he replied. I asked if he went to Church and he said he had and did sometimes and was baptized. I began to go through the Gospel with Him and asked him what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. He couldn’t think of anything at first but then it dawned on him and he said, “He died,” and I said, “Sorry too obvious.” He agreed and said he thought it might be a trick question. I began to go through the Gospel with him then explaining how the blood of Christ cleansed him and was a payment to God and I explained He earned God’s righteousness ad it was to our credit, “You don’t go to Heaven because you are perfect but because Jesus is perfect and you’re connect to Him. I explained that it mattered who did the work, when Jesus did the work it was perfect and used the fiction illustration I have explained before of my playing on a baseball team for a day and a real pro ball player getting a 100,000 just to play a half an inning and I just got a uniform. He liked it whenever I went into an illustration and was a bit more attentive. God adopted us and this had to be received by faith in the name of Jesus. So if someone would say to him, “Why should God let you into Heaven? You’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me’.” Faith saved him and his good stuff did not fix his bad stuff. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else giving him the quick version of Islam’s god and the Buddha. “So would you like to be forgiven trusting in Jesus? Then he would live inside you and give you strength take you to Heaven when you die?” “Yeah,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I explained it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said it did so 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. “Wanna do that?” “Yeah maybe,” he said. “I just said, “OK, go ahead.” I wished later I had asked him if he wanted to pray, again, because I never nudge people. But he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus.  Said then the likelihood he would not be forgiven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Christ was 100%. I explained the Christian life reading the Bible and praying and he had a Bible so I said you could start in the book of John. I said if he failed to obey God He would forgive him right away because of Jesus. I explained living, “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out” I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Kind of a commemorative book,” I said and he smiled. I showed him how he could turn a verse into a prayer. I gave him, The Case for Christ Answer Book and said there might be one of the short chapters listed in the beginning he’d like since most were only 2 pages. I also gave him a Bible Study on Jesus’ claims to be God. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day asking God to bless him from now until Spring and one year after. “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said getting up to go. We shook hands and he said, “Yeah. Thanks.” And I headed off.

 Shey was sitting outside the SSC lounge on a bench in the sun. She’d been sitting a bit as I’d seen her from inside and came back and thought I’d see if she would talk. She was a tall back woman. She looked to be in her late 20’s or so and had a long angular face and chin like Sandra Bullock. She wore large back frame glasses, the old vintage looking kind someone would wear in a black and white movie. Hers said MK (for Michael Kors?) on the side. She had a silver nose ring in her septum. She had long straightened hair past her shoulders that was kind of flyaway in the breeze as we sat in the sun. She had on a black T-shirt and light blue jeans and athletic shoes. She was kind and friendly. She said she was a mom. I asked her one thing she wanted to do before she died and she thought for a long while and said she wanted to finish reading the Bible. She had 2 kids a boy and a girl, Olivia and Deacon. I asked her, “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?” “Oh my gosh,” she said surprised. “After a minute she said, “If I’m going to be honest I’d probably question if I was worthy enough to be in Heaven.” I asked if she’d ever gone to church and she said she had when she was a kid but had been forced to go. “Bad taste?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said. “Not you,” I put in. She agreed. I began to go through the Gospel with her and when I asked she knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. I began to explain how that would work with the sacrifice of Jesus blood to cleanse her so God could live inside her and be a payment for sin, “Oh,” she said having understood it seemed for the first time. I explained that God’s righteousness, He earned by perfect obedience, was to her credit. God adopted her and she had to receive Christ by faith believing on His name. Faith saved her, her good stuff wouldn’t fix her bad stuff. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done. “Then He would live inside you and give you strength and take you to Heaven when you died, or do you think something else?” I gave her the CliffsNotes version of Islam and the Buddha and asked again “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins?” “I would want to be forgiven,” she said frankly. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. I talked her through it and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. She read it through silently and she said, “Yeah.” I said she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” she said again and she prayed then to receive Jesus. I told her then the likelihood she would be forgiven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I explained the Christian life to her. Praying and reading the Bible and recommended she begin reading in John. I said now that God would give her strength to live the Christian life “By the Spirit’s Power.” I said that the real difference between Christianity and other religions is in Christianity you ask Go to change you on the inside and then you become a good person and do good things on the outside. I told her I would keep her in my prayers and pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ. “Well thank you,” she said and shook my hand. “You’re welcome, I’ll see you in Heaven,” I replied. “Thank you, I’ll see you there,” she said and I headed off.

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

 In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good week walking with the Lord in the light of His word. I had a good week on campus and Zaylen, Vincent, Arbor and Anthony all prayed to receive Christ; Arbor and Anthony on Thursday. Their responses are below if you have some time you want to spend. Please pray all of these have the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.

 Arbor was sitting on the first row of seats as you enter the SSC lounge on the 3^rd floor from the east. I walked right past him at first.  His is head was down in his laptop from my angle and the top of his hair was kind of a mop of wavy curly dishwater blonde hair; I thought I had talked with him before. But I was unsure and walked back ready to apologize if he looked up and I recognized him. But he said he’d do a survey. He had a Michael Jordan mustache and a bit of a goatee barely coming in, blue-collar looking guy but not very big in stature. He wore a grey zip up hoodie and a white t-shirt and had grey sweats that matched. When I began and got his name he was finishing something on his laptop. He described himself as “energetic and ambitious” and couldn’t think of a third thing and didn’t seem that interested. He turned away from the computer and focused a bit more to answer the question, “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?” “All the good things that I’ve done in life to help out family and friends,” he replied. Jesus words in Luke 6:33 popped into my head “And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.” But hey your friends can be thankless jerks and your family could be ingrates as well; I just wrote it down. He thought he had a 95% chance of going to Heaven. I asked if he went to Church and he said he didn’t. Seems like many families didn’t return to church after Covid. Going was just a habit for many and the habit just stopped. But as I began to go through the Gospel verses he became focused and it seemed like God was at work. I said God wanted to live inside him and that was “eternal life.” I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “He was crucified,” he said not really struggling at all for an answer. He took in all the illustrations of the blood of Christ to cleanse him and be a payment for sin and was engaged. I explained Jesus was perfect. Jesus said we had to be perfect. So someone had to be perfected to enter the presence of God in Heaven.  And Jesus earned the righteousness of God in perfect obedience and fulfillment of the Old Testament law. “You don’t go to Heaven because you are perfect but because Jesus is perfect and you are connected to Him. Like if you marry a millionaire you got a million bucks or if you get adopted into a billionaire’s family you get to live in the mansion and drive the cars. So God adopts you into His family. He makes you His child and gives you the blessings of His family; He gives you the sacrifice for your sins the blood to cleanse you and the righteousness of God that surrounds you. So you got some place to go, Heaven, and something to wear when you get there, the robe of God’s righteousness,” I told him, as I always say. I said Christ rose from the dead reading the verses. And said Jesus was the only way. He needed to receive this by faith. Faith saved him. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in Jesus. I gave him other options Islam with a different god or the Buddha where the world was an illusion and after 100’s of thousands of births and deaths you entered the void. “So would you want to be forgiven for your sins?” I asked again. “Yeah,” he replied. So I said, “If you want to be forgiven there’s a prayer you can pray,” I talked through it and asked reading, “Does this prayer express the desire of you heart?” “Yeah,” he replied nodding. I 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?” I asked. “Sure,” he replied and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I began to go through the Christian life with him and asked if he had a Bible. He didn’t, “Would you like one?” I asked. “I’d like to get one,” he replied. “Would you want me to give you one or are you saying you want to get one?” I asked. “I’ll take one from you,” he said and I gave him a Bible and showed him the study helps and that it had a ribbon marker for John to start there. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I went back the card with the questionnaire on it and said, “The likelihood you will now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus is 100%.” I said I would pray a prayer for him each day from now until Spring asking God to bless him. I explained living “By the Spirit’s Power, Inside Out”. I gave him Bible Promises for You showing him how to turn a verse into a prayer and gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling him Strobel’s story also I gave him a Bible study on the deity of Christ. I went through the miracle of walking on the water and he was familiar with it showing a bit more that he’d been in Church at one time. “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said. He reached out and shook my hand and said sincerely, “I appreciate it.” I nodded and headed off.

Anthony was sitting at a counter height table not far from the bookstore in the hallway. I walked by him too as his head was down and I’d also thought I’d asked him to do a survey before. But passing him I got a different angle on his head and went back to ask. Probably 10 people have told me “No” for every one who would talk to me so it is a little hard to remember who refused already by the end of a year; I only have a moment to see a face. When Anthony looked up to answer I knew we’d never spoke. He looked like a well-groomed Latino businessman. He had a perfect caterpillar mustache that fit his eyebrows and black narrow rectangle glasses. He wasn’t a big guy and wore a black fleece that had a monogram that said “Hawaii” over the heart. He wore black sweats. He said he didn’t have much time before class but he would do a survey. The words he used to describe himself fit the look, “Nice, caring, responsible.” He said he wanted to go out of the country, travel. I asked him, “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?” “That’s a good question,” he replied and thought and said, “I guess I’d just, um, I tried to be the best I can, treat everyone respectfully.” I asked the likelihood he would go to Heaven when he died. “I guess it’s 50/50,” he replied. “I don’t know if I get to choose that, I just got to hope I guess.” He didn’t go to Church either. I began with verses from the Bible and asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. He thought a moment and could not think of anything. “It’ll come back to ya,” I said. I dove into the perfect life of Christ and the sacrifice of His blood and righteousness. He took it all in and I got to say everything I say concerning the Gospel and asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “I would like to be forgiven,” he said. So I said if he would want to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and explained it and asked, “Does this prayer express the desire of you heart?” reading the line from the booklet. “I’d say it does,” he replied. I said he could pray it silently and know he was forgiven, “Wanna do that?” “Sure,” he said. He took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I barely had time to explain the Christian life “By the Spirit’s Power Inside out”. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!’ in the front. I appreciate it,” he said taking it. I said I would pray a verse for him each day from now until Spring asking God to bless him. He realized he had like 5 minutes to get to class and threw his stuff I his backpack. I quickly gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and said it had some good arguments in it to strengthen his faith and gave him a Bible study. “I appreciated it,” he said again shaking my hand. I said I’d see him in heaven and he said something like, “I’ll see ya” and headed off. In the same direction as me him heading up the stairs to the science building bridge.

 So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and evangelism last week 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 who provides all your needs. I had a good day on campus and Vincent prayed to receive Jesus. A Latino guy Junior believed the Gospel was true hearing it the first time he actually said, “Wow!” a couple times. But he was unwilling to commit to Christ. He said, “This was really cool,” and was appreciative. But he took The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. He was short with a heavy beard and short bangs. Please pray Vincent is sanctified by the Spirit and Junior comes in. I also bumped into Sal who trusted in Christ last week. Some good things had been happening for him with his former girlfriend, Yolanda, that we’d both prayed for and he was walking in the Lord so that was great to hear.

 Vincent was sitting at the long set of tables near the stairs in the PE waiting for someone he was picking up. He had a thin mustache and a goatee and looked to be 50 years old. He wore a black fleece and sweats. He said he wasn’t a student and went to Willow Creek Church; he wasn’t interested in talking about the Gospel. He thought he was going to heaven because of the good things he had done in life. After I asked him if he wanted to hear the question he could ask around to tell people about Christ. He reluctantly agreed. I asked, “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?” He basically said he did good things. I asked if he would like to hear some Bible verses. He said they had Bibles at home; then said some weak things about why they were not read. So I kind of pushed on that a bit and said Christianity was like a Blood transfusion I have A+ Blood, if you fill me with B- blood I would clot up and die. So God wants to transfuse His life into you and fill you with the Holy Spirit, but first he has to make you His type so He has to take away his sins. I asked him what the big thing was Jesus had done back in History to take away his sins. He reiterated that he had done good works. I said that’s what you have done what does Jesus do to take away your sins? He didn’t know. I asked if I could show him some Bible verses and I somehow quickly slipped out a booklet and began explaining the verses. I explained that Jesus lived a perfect life and the Bible said, “You are to be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” [Matthew 5:48.] If he stood before God he’d have to admit he had not lived a perfect life. So I explained God could say, “Well everything here is perfect. “I’m perfect and it’s a perfect place; you don’t fit in here.” But if He said that we’d all go to Hell because nobody is perfect. But God could technically say that because Heaven isn’t just a place it’s the presence of God so you have to be perfected to enter in to it. So this is what God does.” I went on to explain Jesus lived a perfect life for us and the extra credit of that life is stored up like extra credit in a class. Then He went around telling people the truth. So they got ticked at Him and they killed Him. But that’s what Jesus wants; He wants to die. I explained Jesus 1 John 1:7, to cleanse; now God can live inside you. I told of the payment of His blood for what we owed and the Righteousness of God He earned by His perfect obedience and perfect fulfillment of the OT law. The righteousness of God for us was predicted in Isaiah 61:10 and fulfilled Galatians 3:27. “So you don’t go to Heaven because you are good, you go to Heaven because Jesus is good and you are connected to Him,” I said. I explained all this was ours as the blessing of God’s family through adoption. I said he had to receive it by faith. Not that He just knew the story but that that’s what he put his trust in so that if someone would say to him, “Why should God let you into Heaven?” he would say, “Because Jesus died for me.” This would mean he had faith in Jesus. Faith saved him. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else explaining the different God Islam had and the Buddha who was not looking for God. He said he would want to be forgiven. He signaled those waiting for him now that he’d be with them shorty and they went over by the door. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I read it with explanation and he said, “Right.” I said he could pray it silently. “Oh yeah,” he said and took the booklet and read it again and said OK and prayed. “Thank you, I really appreciate it,” he said and shook my hand. I explained living, “By the Spirit’s power Inside Out”. I said let me give you a Book. I gave him Bible Promises for You suggesting he could read a verse each day. I picked a short verse and said how it could be turned into a prayer. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. He was happy with that. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and told him the story in a couple sentences. He said he hoped I would find some students to tell this to and I said, “Yes, they don’t even know how to live but though you did you now have security knowing Jesus died for you.” He agreed. As he walked to the door I said, “I’ll keep you in my prayers.” “Please do,” he replied and he headed off smiling.

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 hand of the Lord. I had a good day on campus though I only found one new person to go through the Gospel with but Zaylen prayed to receive Christ. Please pray he is sanctified by the Holy Spirit. His story is below if you have time.

 When I first got to campus I asked God to lead me where to go and kind of headed toward the cafeteria. The elevator door opened as I walked by it and I had a nudge to ride it to the 3^rd floor and look in the cut out small lounges that sort of look out over the SSC lounge. So I headed there and found Zaylen he was sitting with a guy I had gone through the Gospel with before named Jaylen who was a Christian. Zalen had long dreadlocks coming out of an afro that came halfway down his neck. He had black metal rimmed glasses, rectangular shaped and wore a black windbreaker and sweats. I asked them if they wanted to do a survey and Zaylen asked what it was about so I said, “The big question is, “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say? So it’s really the answer to that question have any interest in that or do ya know the answer already or not so much.” Jaylen said he knew the answer. Zaylen put his hand up turning it side to side saying, “Sort of’.” He looked like a guy waving in a parade from a convertible, except he wasn’t smiling. “Well ya wanna just hear the verses?” I asked. He agreed so I began and then kneeling at the coffee table they sat in front of. I then recognized Jaylen’s face seeing a scar on his face, he had an inch and a half high afro and said I’d given him the booklet. I began to go through the Gospel with Zaylen and Jaylen his friend listened to most of it again short of a moment on his phone. I said all I usually do asking him what the big thing was back in History that Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world so God could live inside us and give us eternal life. He said He was crucified and so I explained all that meant. He lived a perfect life we could not live and then was a sacrifice for our sin. His blood cleansed us and was a payment to God and He earned the righteousness of God, which was to our credit when God adopted us. I said he needed to receive Christ; to believe Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. “Not that you just knew the story but that that’s what you put your trust in as an adult so if someone would say, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ You’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me, I trust in that.’ That would mean you had faith in Jesus.” I said that faith saved him and read the verse. Saying the last question is would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus then He would live inside you and give you strength take you to heaven when you die, or do you think something else? I explained a bit of Islam and the Buddha. I then said, “So when you are asking for forgiveness of your sins are you thinking I’m a good guy and pretty solid and I think God will forgive me because of that or are you thinking I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me? I know you knew the story because you answered the question about how Jesus died but do you trusted in that or think you’d never put it all together before?” I asked. “Never put it together before,” he said. So I said ok well, if you’d want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus has done there’s a prayer you could pray and I talked him through it asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said it did. So I said he could pray it silently right now and only God would hear him and he’d know he was forgiven. He took the booklet and they both bowed their heads and he prayed aloud to receive Jesus. So that was great. I began to go through the Christian life with him and he didn’t have a Bible but said he’d like one. I gave him one and explained all the study aids and wrote his name and the date in the front in black and “forgiven!” in red. He thanked me when I gave it to him. I also gave him Bible Promises for You. I showed him how to turn a verse into a prayer. Jaylen said he had one at home. I gave him a copy of The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study on the deity of Christ. I told him I would be praying from him the next year. He was smiling then and I said I would see them both in Heaven. “I’m older than you so I’ll get there first so that will be nice when ya get there to have an old guy show ya where the cool places are,” I said. They both grinned and Zaylen expressed his gratitude and told me to have a good one 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