Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with a spirit of wisdom, revelation and the knowledge of God. I had a good day on campus and a bumped into Ellias who said he had prayed and received Christ from an earlier conversation we’d had in September. I had several good conversations too where seeds were planted. Please pray that He comes to faith and Nick, a Romanian Orthodox raised agnostic is provoked by our conversation to know the Lord. Thanks for your prayers. The day’s notes are below if you have time.

I saw Ellis as I said and again whom I had not seen since the 6^th of September. He said then he would pray later then.  At first before hearing the Gospel he was saying God would observe him and what he did and he would get into Heaven. He did not know Jesus had died for his sins when I’d asked what Jesus had done to take away his sins. He was a good-looking black dude with short braids and a green bandana like a sweatband around his forehead he was wearing again today. When I asked him today he said he had prayed with a big smile. I was talking to someone and he was passing in the hall and asked as he passed. I passed him later talking to some friends who have meet me. So I kept walking out of sight and got out a Bible Promises for you Book.   I wrote his name and “Sept. 2024 and Forgiven!” in the front and gave it to him as I passed him again.

Josh is guitarist I’ve been praying for since last year. He’s reading through the Bible I gave him and a King James one going back and forth. That lasted an hour as we talked about a few bands and the ancient world. I talked to Nick for a half hour apologetically talking about the limits of human knowledge and that only God can know and do the Good. This is because: You must be omniscient to know what the Good is and how an action can create a good outcome and omnipotent to insure it results in good thereafter. Only by the power of the Holy Spirit, in us, with the intervention of God in our actions transforming us and them can good come. I explained that to him and that only Christianity claimed God could be living inside him. So I hope the seeds with these and those over hearing the conversations will be a blessing.

I also spoke a half hour with Danny. He had a recurring temptation.  He had a spiritual pride that kicked in on him. He said that he was doing everything God had for him to do. I emphasized only the Holy Spirit’s power can allow us to live the Christian life or successfully serve God. I told him to not wait for it to get so intense and think he had success to brush it off but to pray God would remove the thoughts of Satan out of his heart any moment anything affected him. Satan was waking him at night to jack him around with it. I came across him 2 and a half hours later and he had visibly brightened and taken my advice and thanked me.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today God blessed me with good conversations in Christ.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things coming down from the Father of Lights. I had a really good day on campus talking to people. Thursday I passed 2000 students who have trusted in Jesus as their Savior after I told them the Gospel, (since we began Third Watch Ministries). Danielle, Marisa, Tamara and Annette each prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Their stories are below if you have the time. Please pray they grow in their faith.

Danielle was sitting in some overstuffed chairs on the North side of the hall just past the fire doors (? they are glass and close off the hallway). The hallway continues down to the bookstore. She had a deep red hoodie on and black leggings. Her face was cute, semi-rounded sort of a pointed nose. She had long dark brown hair past her shoulders, kind of a sly smile. She had been going to a kind of a Bible Study fellowship with her girlfriends who she said were more up front about their faith.. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven, “I would say because I feel like I‘ve experienced God, experienced that I believe in God. I‘ve done enough good and experienced enough to know what Heaven is like.” She thought she had a 70-75% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and I asked what it was that Jesus had done to take away her sins so God could live inside her. She had gone to a Lutheran Church when she was young (but hadn‘t really found a church) and said there was a word for what He did and she couldn’t think of it. I suggested she might be looking for the word “reconciliation” and she thought that might be it. So I said, “Well this is what that word means,” And I began to explain the blood and righteousness of Jesus to cleanse her pay God what she owed Him and then make her righteous. God would adopt her and give her these things as the blessings of His family and fill her with the Holy Spirit. I said she was forgiven by faith; that she believed Jesus was God, had died for her sins and rose from the dead. Not that she just knew the story from growing up with it at church but that that‘s what she put her trust in as an adult. “So if someone would say to her,” Why should God let you into Heaven?” she would say, “Because Jesus died for me.” I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done on the cross, then the Holy Spirit would live in her and give her strength. Or did she thing something else. “I would probably go with that one more,” she replied pointing at the circle with Christ on the throne. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a pray she could pray. I talked her through the prayer and asked if it was the desire of her heart. She said, “Ever since I was a child I thought that.” So I said she could pray it silently and asked if she’d want to do so. “Yeah,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus. When she was done I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front of Bible Promises for You and gave it to her and she said, “Thank you.” I told her the likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus. I gave her a Bible Study explaining it and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told her I would pray for her until next Spring and one year after and got up to go saying I would see her in Heaven. I’ll be old and get there first so look me up and I’ll show you where the cool stuff is. “OK I’ll take note of that,” she said. “Ok have a good one,” I replied. “Thank you, you too,” she said and I was off.

I came across Marisa sitting in some chairs just past the bookstore entrance. I had asked her before and she’d said, “No.” But today she had on pink bunny slippers. So I said, “Hey bunny slippers you wanna do a student survey?” “OK,” she said. She’d sat one chair from me when I had gone through the Gospel with another student earlier in the week and mentioned that saying she had been reading a prayer on her phone. She had a slight accent or different intonation I could not place. She had a shag hair cut in front but straight and long across the back, light brown hair. She had a narrow face, pretty, no make-up and a perfect shaped mouth like “Mrs. Potato head” if you saw the toy as a kid. She wore a tube top that was less than 5 inches wide made of some floral print on white and had on cream-colored pants that were tight at the ankle. It turned out she had started to believe in God about a year ago and her mom had been taking her to a Catholic church. She was going to begin taking a class there soon that when finished allowed her to get baptized and take the mass. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said, “I feel like God knows the good things that I do. He can see that I would deserve it.” She thought she had a 95% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with her and when I asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins she said, “The cross.” I began to explain then the death of Christ and that this cleansed her and allowed God to live inside her and paid for her sins. She asked how that differed from the Catholic Church. I said it depended upon what priest you talk to but I know there are those who would tell you what I have said. I talked about the Mass saying that the Catholic Church would probably say it really became Jesus. I said they would tell her to do good things but that the good things that she did she should do by the power of the Spirit in her. I explained the righteousness of God that Jesus earned by perfectly fulfilling the Old Testament Law and told her the verses describing that in Christ. “You don’t go to Heaven because you’re good but because Jesus is good and your connected to Him,” I explained. I said God would adopt her and give her the blessings of His family the Sacrifice for her sins the blood that cleansed her and the righteousness of God that surrounded her. “So ya got someplace to go, Heaven, and something to wear when ya get there, the righteousness of God.” I explained salvation by faith in what Jesus had done. I explained again how her good stuff could not fix her bad stuff but God could work all things together for good and turn a bad thing into a good thing because he controlled the future. She said she knew that happened. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. She said she would so I read through the prayer asking if she would want to put her trust in Him. She looked down at the prayer I was holding near her and I could see her eyes move back and forth reading while I held it and then she said, “Amen.” I told her the likelihood she would now go to Heaven was 100% trusting in Jesus’ blood and righteousness. We talked some more. “Before I knew God I was a very negative person, my friends tell me I have changed,” she told me. “I want my cousin to know God. I text him things and he does not complain.” She did not have a Bible so I gave her one. I explained there were some older books that the Catholic church added but I did not think they taught out of them much. She still wanted it so I showed her the study helps. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven! in the front. I gave her Bible Promises for You and said she could text Bible verses from it to her cousin. She liked that idea and made a conspiratorial face, like it was a good plan. I gave The case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. I told her I would pray for her each day from now until Spring and one year after and she was grateful. I got up to go and said she thanked me and I headed out.

Tamara was a pretty black girl who looked like her face was the model for a doll. She had perfect lips and skin and big eyes and straightened hair with a bit of a wave in it that rested on her shoulders. She had a nylon black blouse on that was bunch up on her like a sack and wore baggy jeans. She was a quiet girl but had an amused laugh that came out as I talked to her if I said something that she found funny. That helped me to feel like she was getting it. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. “I don’t know, ‘cause you love me?” she replied. She said she went to a “Baptist kind of church” when she went. She thought she had a 70% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with her and I asked her what the big thing was Jesus had done to take away her sins. She guessed, “He forgives you?” I said that was true and this is how it works. I explained the blood that cleansed her on the cross and pays God back for all the imperfect things we’ve done that we owe God something perfect for. I explained the righteousness of Christ He earned by perfectly fulfilling the OT Law. She seemed to be tracking and giving assent all through. I explained salvation by faith and placing her trust in Jesus and what He had done. “Would you want to be forgiven for your sins and have God live inside you?” I eventually asked. “Yeah,” she replied. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I walked her through it asking if it expressed the desire of her heart.  She nodded. I asked if she wanted to pray it silently. “Yeah,” she said. She took the booklet then and prayed to receive Jesus. I told her the likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100%. I asked if she had a Bible and she said she had bought one a month ago. At first it was $50 so she held off, then in the middle of the night she looked at it and it was only $25 so she bought it.  I explained living life by the Spirit’s power “Inside out” asking God to transform her. I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet she had not heard of Strobel before. I told her I would pray for her a Bible Verse each night from now until Spring and one year after. “Pray for me to be consistent,” she asked, saying she was trying to do a daily Christian reading and she had only lasted at it month and a half before missing days. So I explained how the Holy Spirit could give her self-control for that and explained the fruit of the Spirit and wrote down the verse for it. “Thank you,” she said as I got up to go. I said “Sure,” and that I would see her in Heaven.

I came across Annette at the very end of my day. She was sitting on a bench to my left as I came down the hallway past the pool entrance after the tunnel from the BIC building. She was a fresh-faced cute kid and had dark brown hair parted in the middle with bangs in the front, eyes had kind of a sparkle. She had black leggings that turned into bellbottoms and was wearing a white zip up hoodie over a tube top that had pencil width black and white horizontal stripes. She was on her laptop and said she had a little time. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. “I mean I’ve been faithful to Him my whole life. I go to church every Sunday and pray to Him. I go to confession. I try my best always—to go to Heaven. She was sure she would go to Heaven 100%. I asked her what the big thing was Jesus had done to take away her sins. She struggled for “The word for it in English.” I’m not sure what nationality she was she looked too white to be Latina, though the county is 60% Catholic, eastern European maybe. So I began to explain the Gospel to her and compared it to some of what she might find familiar at Church. I told her about the Blood of Jesus and compared that to the Mass. When I finished explaining salvation by faith to her I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. “Yeah,” she replied. I told her there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it. “Oh I like that,” she said hearing it. I asked if she would want to pray it silently to be forgiven and she said, “Sure.” I handed her the booklet and just as she was about to begin she asked, “Can I keep this?” “Sure,” I said. When she was finished praying she said she used to go to retreats where a “Pastor” spoke. Since she did not call the speaker a priest I assume she went to something with a friend. She liked it and asked if there was something like that on campus. I told her when Bible Study was and gave her the name of another one on campus she could try I had a card for. It turned out she was waiting for some kind of workout class or sport to begin as when we came to the end she had to run quickly realizing saying, “Oh I have to go I have to change.” So I quickly gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and forgiven in the front. And told her I would be praying for her. “Have a good day,” she said walking quickly to the locker room. “Yeah, God bless you,” I replied.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good day walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Josh and Reanne prayed to receive Jesus as their savior. Their stories are below if you want to spend the time. Mimi, (a pretty black girl with piercings in each nostril and about a dozen bracelets on her arm) She wore glasses and had curly hair tinted to frame her face was close, saying she might pray later, she did seem to believe the Gospel was true. God was like of like a Medicare Supplemental plan for her, call on Him when the need arises. Please pray for these students who heard the word today. Thanks for your help.’

Josh is a huge offensive lineman. His dark blonde hair is a mop with bangs nearly in his eyes, he has a narrow blondish mustache and a big curly beard reddish blonde in color. He was wearing blue sweats and his face somehow reminded me of Jeremiah Johnson, the movie character played by Robert Redford when I was in Junior High with a lighter beard. He seemed like a solid guy. I asked him what he would say to God to be let into Heaven. “I don’t know,” he replied, “I probably couldn’t tell.” I asked him what he thought would get someone into Heaven. “Believing everyone is equal,” he replied. “Well everyone is equal in the sight of God,” I replied. He thought he had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven and said he had gone to church when he was young with his Grandma. I began to go through the Gospel with him and I asked him what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world. He wasn’t clear on the details. So I began to explain that God became a man, lived a perfect life for him and had died shedding His blood as a sacrifice that cleansed us and made it so God could live inside us. He tracked with everything I said and looked me in the eye periodically. But he was a real soft-spoken guy. I explained the righteousness of God Christ earned and that God wanted to adopt him. God would then give him the blessings of His family the sacrifice for his sins the blood that cleansed him and the righteousness of God that surrounded him. And the Holy Spirit could live inside him. He was saved by faith. I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “I would like to be forgiven,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it saying,” it says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart, do you think it does?” I asked. He looked at it and said “Yeah,” 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 that?” “Maybe yeah,” he said. He took the booklet and I said he could do it right now. “Do it right now?” he asked. “Yeah, no one would hear you,” I replied. He looked down at the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished I told him that now trusting in the righteousness of Christ and the blood of Christ the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study explaining it a bit. I explained living “by the Spirit’s power Inside Out”. I explained he could ask God for help in anything he was doing and God could help him do it better if success would not harm him. I said, “Riches destroy some people”. He nodded.  I said he could ask God to help him see the defenses and thing on the field from the line. “Thank you, I appreciate it,” he said shaking my hand. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him every day from now until Spring and one year after and I headed off.

Reanne was sitting in the hallway of the second floor of the BIC in a row of chairs in front of an administrative office of some kind. She seemed to have lost her voice somewhat and apologized as it was hard for her to talk. She’s a pretty black girl with an oval face and a smaller nose. Her hair looked thinner and was in lots of natural braids the thickness of a couple of wooden matchsticks that were lightened brown at the ends. She wore light grey cotton shorts that looked to be made of sweatshirt material and a cream-colored v neck shirt. Her skin tone was the same as milk chocolate. She described herself as anti-social and she in fact did not say much of anything as we talked but she voice did seem shot. She seemed pretty sharp. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said, “I’ve given my body to Christ and my life to Christ,” she replied. She thought she had a 75% chance of going to Heaven. I asked her what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world and she said, “His sacrifice.” So I went on to tell her what that had done cleansing her from sin and allowing God then to live inside her. Jesus actions were how God got paid so He could be just to forgive her. I explained salvation by faith and God’s grace. I asked her too if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else. “Be forgiven,” she said. But I misheard her and said, “What?” “That one,” she replied pointing at the circle with Christ on the throne of her life. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart? She nodded. I said she could pray it silently right now and asked if she’d like to, she nodded again and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. She had a Bible and I explained living by the Spirit’s power to transform her, “Inside Out”. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study I quickly explained. I told her I would pray for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. “Thank you,” she said and flashed a pretty smile. “You have a good one,” she said and I thanked her and she 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 ya had a great day walking with the Lord and knowing He loves you. I had a good day on campus and Samantha and Micheal each prayed with me to receive Jesus today at school. Please pray they grow in faith and live for Him.  Their stories are below if you have time.

There’s a lounge with vending machines on the 1^st floor of the BIC. Samantha was sitting in a connecting hallway under skylights that comes off of it near an elevator you need a key to ride. She was almost on the hallway that makes a ladder rung between halls. She had her laptop open and looked busy, most students look busy so it’s just a guess if they might talk. She had long natural blonde hair, a pretty wholesome face and was wearing baggy grey sweats and a baggy grey hoodie that matched it. She had tennis shoes on. She reminded me of Rosamund Pike in the Western “Hostiles”, with a smaller nose. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and he asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Hmm, what would I say… I never thought about that before,” she replied. I asked her what she thought it was that got you into Heaven. “Accepting Jesus into your heart,” she said. She thought she had a 95% chance of getting into Heaven and she was going to a Bible study with some girls who had approached her but she did not know what it was called. She did not think it was connected to a Church. I began to go through the Gospel with her, saying of the Booklet, that what I was going to tell her would help her understand what she meant by Accepting Jesus into her heart. I said, “eternal life was knowing God because you have the Father, 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.” I said, “God wants to live inside you but He can’t because of sin, sin kills you (Rom. 6:23) God give you life. So God can’t be in the same place as sin so He takes away your sin so he can live inside you. So what is the big thing Jesus does to take away your sin?” “He forgives you?” she replied. “Yes that’s right he forgives you and this is how it works,” I replied and I explained the Blood of Jesus cleansed her and was a payment to God for sin. His righteousness was to her credit when God adopted her. I said all Jesus had done could be hers by faith by grace saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else. She said she’d like to be forgiven so I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. I asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. “Yeah,” she said and I said if she wanted to she could pray it silently and only God would hear. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said again and I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” “OK,” she replied and she prayed to receive Jesus.  I said the likelihood she would now go to Heaven was 100%. I explained the Christian life to her living “Inside out,” saying, “First God changes you on the inside by the Spirit’s power then you will do good things on the outside because God transforms you.” “Thank you so much,” she said. I said sure and gave her some books. I wrote her name and the date and forgiven!” on the inside of Bible Promises for You I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study explaining each a bit. I told her I would keep her in my prayers from now until Spring and one year after praying a Bible verse for her each day. “Thank you so much,” she said sincerely again. I said she was welcome and if I saw her around I would give her a wave. “OK,” she said and I headed off as she went off to class.

I was outside on a black metal bench overlooking the outdoor stage of the MAC arts building.  I talked for a while to a Catholic student, Theresa, one of the few I have met who understood and used the term “Transubstantiation”. She thought she had asked God to forgive her trusting in what Jesus had done. I gave her a promise book she was thrilled to have and we went our separate ways.

One bench down Michael wearing a black nylon short sleeve shirt and black cotton/polyester sweats tight at the ankle. He had on white socks and one-strap sandals. He had a mushroom top afro and it ended here and there in a pin curl. His top lip curled up a bit to hold a bit of a mustache on a wide mouth, he had some beard trying to make a go of it on his jaw line. He was a click bigger than me and good-looking. I asked him if he wanted to do a student survey. He didn’t but said that he went to church. I asked if he would want to hear the big metaphysical question he could think about for the day. “Sure,” he replied. “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus, so you’re dead and you stand before God and he asks, “Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” He basically said he cared for others and helped people. I said, “That’s what you have done but what did God to so you can go to Heaven?”  “He is seeing what I’ve done,” he replied. That was something God did do but it wasn’t the answer I was seeking. So I asked if he’d like to hear some Bible verses that explain how you get to Heaven and he agreed. I began to explain that God wanted to live inside him and that this would mean he would have eternal life. He did not seem to know what Jesus had done to take away his sins (when I asked) so God could live inside him. I began to explain the blood and righteousness of Jesus first saying that God became a perfect man. He saw the cross diagram I made notes around and said then, “He dies on the cross.” I agreed and filled in the details of the cleansing blood of Christ.  I explained the righteousness of God that Christ had earned and said that he would not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good and he was connected to Him. I said God wanted to adopt him and all God had done could be his by faith. I explained his good stuff could not fix his bad stuff. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven,” he replied. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it asking him also if it was the desire of his heart. “Yeah,” he replied. I said he could pray it silently; I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Yeah I’ll do it,” he said and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. He had a KJV Bible His cousin had given him so I said he should read in the book of John. I explained the Christian life to him living “Inside out”, “By the Spirit’s power”. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside of Bible Promises for You. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study explaining each a bit. “Nice to meet you man,” he said, “Was it John?” he asked. “Bob,” I said, “but that’s my middle name so close,” and I gave him a grin. “Nice to meet you too,” I replied and he shook my hand and said, “Thank you.” “Yeah sure,” I said and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with good things from the hand of God. I had a good day on campus and Arielle prayed with me to receive Christ. I got some seeds planted with a couple other students who were interested in thinking about it. So I’ll be praying for a 5×5 solid built Latino guy named George (who had a tattoo of Jesus covering his chest he showed me the top of) with a beard and Melody a pretty black girl, her hair in a scarf sitting on come overstuff chairs just past the bookstore entrance wearing shredded bellbottom jeans. Arielle story is below. Please pray a pray for these students.

When I first got to school I asked God it there was anywhere to go yet. I had a sense I could find someone in the cafeteria so I headed over there and I came across Arielle sitting against the windows at the counter. She was a cute black girl with square features and a smaller nose, her hair was straightened and shoulder length. She was willing to do a student survey so I asked her what she would say to God if she died and was asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Oh wow that’s difficult… Because of my sort of like kindness. I’m the kind of person that puts others before myself.” I told her the Bible teaches that, “Let each of you consider one another as more important than yourself, ” I quoted. She hadn’t heard the verse. She thought she had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. She said she went to church off and on but because of school and work she didn’t have as much time for it. I began to go through the Gospel with her and said that God wanted to take away her sins so He could live inside her. “So what’s the big thing Jesus did to take away your sins? ” She thought for a moment and said, ”I don’t know.” So I began to go through the Gospel with her and used all the examples I used to help her understand the blood of Christ that cleansed her and was a payment to God. “You explained that really well, at church they never explain anything,” she said. I said that any kind of knowledge had terms and needed explanation and often at church they act like you already know everything. I said the Bears had a game last night saying that if you never saw a football game none of the positions or plays would make sense to you if someone just named them. “I never watch football,” she replied agreeing she would not understand it. I said I had skipped the game. (The simple fact is that most churches in my experience rarely explain the Gospel and when they do they leave essential parts of it out as if everyone knew them. This knowledge is no longer true of American Society.) I went on to explain the righteousness of God Jesus earned that could be to her credit and was a gift of God by faith. She would not go to Heaven because she was good, she’d have to be perfect, but because Jesus was good and she was connected to Him. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. “Yeah,” she said with solidly getting it. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her though it. and said, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of you heart?’ would you say it did?” She agreed it did so I said she could pray it silently, “Wanna do that?” “Yeah sure,” she said. So she took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I explained then that the likelihood she would go to Heaven was now 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I told her the Christian life was by the Spirit’s power living “Inside out”. First you ask God to transform you on the inside, then you become a good person and you do good things on the outside. She did not have a Bible of her own. Her family had one that everyone could use. So I gave her one and showed her all the study helps in it. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. She thanked me. I gave her Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I gave her a Bible study explaining that Jesus was prophesied to be God and said he was in many different ways. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after. “Thank you so much,” she said as I got up to go. I said God bless you and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a good week serving the Lord in your heart with thankfulness. I had a good week on campus and 10 students trusted in Christ that I know of though I am hopeful any that there are others who will one day believe. Adam and Rita prayed to receive Jesus on Thursday. Their stories are below if you have some time. Please pray they grow in their faith.

Rita was sitting alone at a table. She was in the lounge that is halfway down the hall of the East wing of the Health and Science buildings on the 2^nd floor. She was a pink long-sleeved T-shirt and had a pretty full face, looked a bit heavyset. She was Latina. Her Grandfather was a pastor in Mexico when he was alive though she said she would not say she was as religious as him. She had long dark brown straight hair past her shoulders. I asked her what she thought she would say to God to get into Heaven. “He knows when you’ve done enough,” she said. “He brings all the obstacles; He has a plan.” I asked her what the likelihood was she would get into Heaven. “Very likely,” she replied, “I work in a nursing home in a dementia unit.” She said the patients would affirm her and in not so many words she kind of thought they could see she was being good to them and so was good. “I’ve always been good though.” The world is pretty corrupt. So you could see how a religious girl who wasn’t doing a lot of what others in her age bracket would, could see the contrast to her own life. She’d recently been in a car crash and the family would be short a car. At the crash she was sitting down and a bird had landed in a nearby bush and her grandfather had loved Cardinals and she felt like God was reminding her of him and telling her He had a plan. As I went through the Gospel and asked her what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world. She knew Jesus had died. I told her Jesus said, “You are to be perfect as your Heavenly father is perfect.” We owe God for the things we wrecked of His, owed Him something perfect back. We are not perfect so Jesus perfect blood is the payment for her sin. The cleansing blood of Christ allows God to live inside her. Then in explaining the righteousness of God, that Jesus had earned for her and provided, I said she was clothed with Jesus. She would not go to Heaven because she was good but because Jesus was good and she was connected to Him by faith. Then God adopts her. I explained how her good stuff could not fix her bad stuff but God can work all things together for good because he controls the future. I then asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. And said again, “So would you want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus?” “Yeah,” she replied. So I said that if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talking her through it I asked if it was the desire of her heart. “I was just thinking something like that,” she replied. So I said she could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear her but God would hear and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said again and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I told her when she was finished that the likelihood she would go to Heaven now trusting in the Christ’s blood and righteousness to save her was 100%. I explained living he Christian life “By the Spirit’s power.” Being transformed. I gave her a copy of Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study she liked. She was at another campus (COD has a couple remote ones) on Wednesday but said if it got cancelled she’d try to make a Bible study. I told her I would pray a Bible Verse for her each day from now through Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. I got up to go. “Thank you,” she said. “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I replied. “She smiled, “Ha OK, have a nice day. Thank you,” she said again and I headed out.

I came across Adam sitting on the patio on the south side of the BIC. There’s a little shade from the back wall of the computing center and he was sitting in it at a picnic table. He had kind of a “Wreck-it Ralph” face, clean shaven with blondish brown shaggy hair, blue grey eyes that stood out in the brightness of the outdoors. He was wearing black cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt with palm trees on it, big dude. He said he had 20 minutes to kill before some kind of guidance counselor appointment (possibly). He didn’t have any books, was a real mild-mannered guy. He said his mom and he had gone to church when he was younger but he said that had “dropped off” and he “never really understood it”. He said he wanted to buy a house someday and it seems like several students have that this year, I think it is symbolic of something they see slipping away from them in culture. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. He thought for a minute with a “Hmm what would I say…” “I always try to help others around me, care about others. I always believed in God.” He thought the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 70%. I began to go through the Gospel with Him and he knew Jesus had died to take away our sins. I began to explain the Gospel to him and he followed everything as I explained the blood and righteousness of Christ. I said all God had done for him could be his by faith and that his good deeds could not fix his bad deeds.  I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else and looking at the caption under the circle with Jesus on the throne of his life he paraphrased it saying, “Living life trusting in God.” I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and read it through explaining it saying, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ So would you say it does?” “Yeah,” he replied. I said he could pray it silently and he nodded. Handing him the booklet I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” “OK,” he replied and he prayed to receive Jesus. I began to go through the Christian life with him and when I asked he said if he had a Bible he said if he did he did not know where it was, so I gave him one explaining all the study helps. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave him a Bible Study too and Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told him the likelihood he would now go to Heaven was 100%, trusting in the blood and Righteousness of Jesus. Something I began saying to students this year is “So when you think about it, I’m old, so I’ve sinned way more than you. Each year I sin and God forgives me but it piles up over a life but if this wall fell on us and we both died right now we would both go to Heaven. Because Jesus blood is worth an infinite amount and His righteousness is worth an infinite amount so we’ll both get in—even though you deserve it more than me, Jesus paid the way.” He thanked me and shook my hand and I said I would pray a Bible Verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after. “I’ll see you in Heaven. I’m old so I’ll get there first. Look me up I’ll show you where the cool places are.” “All right,” he said with a big smile 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 filled up to the fullness of God [Eph. 3:19]. I had a good day on campus in as much as Kai and Aliyana trusted in Christ praying today and so did Micheal. I got together with a student for a Bible study but just helped him think through some life stuff (nothing serious though) as the other guy cancelled. The girls’ stories and Michael’s are below if you have time you wish to spend. Please pray they grow in their faith.

I bumped into a guy who prayed to receive Jesus year before last. He’s kind of a character, has a mixed background. His dad is African American and Puerto Rican, and I think he once told me his mom was Asian, but I might not remember that right. He wears as many chains around his neck as Mr. T. but he is a small dude, wears Clark Kent glasses and has what looks to be wavy hair, though I have not seen much of it. He’s always wearing a cap or hat or ball cap. If I did not know his race I would guess he was white by his features. He told me to call him D when I first met him, but I don’t know anyone else that calls him that. He asked if I ever went over to the PEC. “You mean the PE building?” I asked. “The Physical Education Center,” he corrected me. I think you should go over there. Last year he told me to go to Star Bucks and talk to people, I did then and someone trusted Christ. So I stood up from the chairs we were in the hall. “Where are you going?” he asked. “You told me to go to the Physical Education Center so that’s where I’m going,” I replied. “Really?” he asked. “Yep,” I said and I headed over to the other side of campus.

I walked through the tunnel from the BIC to the PEC and Kai was sitting under the stairs. She was a little heavy set and had a cute round face. She had brown hair pulled back behind her head and was wearing gray stretch shorts and a black t-shirt with white and red on the front I never quite made out. She seemed like she had been working out. She said she would do a student survey and seemed like a warm genuine person. I asked her one thing she’d want to do before she died. “Have a closer connection with God,” she replied.  I asked what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I’ve never really thought about that.” She replied and couldn’t think of anything to say so I asked, “What is it you think would get you into Heaven?” “Probably having that closer connection to God,” she replied. She thought she had a 75% chance of going to heaven and went to church. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she knew Jesus died to take away the sins of the world. As I explained to her the cleansing blood of Jesus as a payment for her sins and the righteousness of God He earned. Her head was nodding up and down the entire time. She just listened and I explained salvation, receiving Christ by faith. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else. “I would be forgiven,” she replied. So I said if she’d like to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and so I talked her through it saying finally, “It says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” She nodded. I said she could pray it silently and she said, “Sure.” She prayed then to receive Christ. When she finished she handed the booklet back to me and said, “Thank you.” I said, “You can keep the booklet,” and explained the Christian life to her living by the Spirit. She had a Bible so I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and I gave her a Bible study explained Isaiah 9:6 and how when Jesus walked on the water he was claiming to be God. I told her the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the righteousness of Jesus and His blood to save her was 100%. I told her I would pray for her from now until Spring and one year after. “Thanks for your time,” I said getting up to go. “Thank you,” she said again and I headed out.

I headed back to the BIC building and ended up going out on the patio watching the waterfall for a moment looking at all the weeping evergreen trees they planted twist in various directions. I moved a bit to the west and was looking at the different twists caught up in it for a minute for some reason thinking about the trees in front of my house. I turned around and there was a pretty brown-haired girl on the bench against the stairs 10 feet or so behind me. I hadn’t seen her before looking the other way or she’d sat down while my back was turned. She had baggy bell-bottom faded jeans on and a white tank shirt with tiny flowers on it here and there, her left nostril was pierced with a diamond chip, her nose had a little scar on the other side. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said, “That’s a good question.” Then thinking more said without much certainty, “I’m a Christian so I follow His faith and stuff. I’d like to think I’m a good person.” She was 100% sure she was going to Heaven and went to a mega church in St. Charles. I began to go through the Gospel with her and saying God had to take away her sins to live inside her I asked, “What’s the big thing Jesus does to take away your sins, do you know?” “No,” she said simply. So I began to explain the atonement to her and the righteousness of God Jesus earned by perfectly fulfilling the Law. I said this was predicted in Isaiah 61:10 saying, “So there is a robe there, clothing, and then Galatians 3:27 tells you what the clothing is saying you are clothed with Jesus. So you don’t go to Heaven because you’re good but because Jesus is good and you are connected to Him.” I explained God would adopt her and give her the blessings of His family, “He gives you the sacrifice for your sins the blood that cleanses you and the righteousness of God that surrounds you. So you got someplace to go, Heaven, and something to wear when you get there, the Righteousness of God. And then He fills you with His Spirit.” I explained that all God had done for her she could have by faith, believing in His name. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else. “Definitely forgiven,” she replied. I said then that there was a prayer she could pray if she wanted to be forgiven and I read it through explaining it. “It says here ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’” I read. “Yeah,” She replied. I said if she wanted to she could pray it silently, I wouldn’t hear but God would hear and she’d be forgiven. “Sure,” she said taking the booklet. “Just pretend I’m not here,” I said. “Alright,” she replied and she prayed to receive Christ. I explained then trusting in the Righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness, and his blood, the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible Study on the deity of Christ. I said I would pray a Bible Verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. “I’ll pray for you too,” she said. “Thank you,” I said. I told her if I saw her I would just give her a wave. “I’ll probably see you in the hall too,” she said. “Yeah you can say hi. If you see me pray for God to lead me to the right person.” She agreed. “I’m going to show all this to my mom and my friends,” she said enthusiastically. I told her she could ask her friends the question what they would say to God if they died. “Tell them this old guy with a ponytail and an earring asked me this question, see if they know the answer. I got up to go. “Thank you Bob,” she said. I said I’d see her around and headed off.

Soon after that I bumped into D again. I sat on a cushioned bench next to him to chat him up. He asked if I had gone to the PEC. I said I did. He asked what happened and I told him a girl had prayed to receive Christ. D was pleased. Then Michael walked up to the edge of the stairs across form us. He had dropped in the middle of a Bible study last year, he read some verses with us for the last half of it. He was at the top of the stairs across from us 10 feet away. I had briefly talked to him but did not know him well. I gave him a wave. “You know that guy?” D asked. “Yeah he came to Bible study,” I replied. “What’s his name?” he said. Then hollered at him, “Hey.” He walked over and D said, I forget your name what is it? “Michael,” Michael replied. Michael seemed a bit limited socially, but he seems to be taking regular classes. He’s short and had a heavy beard and mustache that looks usually like it had been growing 3 days or so. He had stick straight hair parted in the middle, tapered in the back, had a kind face. Really a regular looking guy wearing jeans and a t-shirt. He wore a solid color flannel shirt over it open down the front. He was carrying a backpack. He was upbeat as he had been the half dozen times I’d said hi to him. He reads well and grasped all the concepts in Bible Study clearly and you wouldn’t know him to be different than a lot of students. Many college students don’t see their social setting clearly. “Hey who died for you?” D asked him out of the blue. “I guess my parents, or my grandfather.”  Michael said, not knowing where the question was coming from. He thought D had asked, Who would die for you? Someone else walked up and D turned to him to talk to him not knowing where to go with what had seemed like a strange answer. Michael said he’d missed the CRU Bible study having had a hard time finding it. I stood up and began talking to Michael explaining that D was asking about what Jesus had done for him. Michael did not seem to have understood the Gospel at all. I began explaining how God wanted to live inside him and how Jesus had paid for his sins. I read a couple Bible verses and turned the page and he read the next on out loud. He would listen to my explanation and then read the next verse out loud. I explained everything to him asking if he would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus. He said he would. So I said there was a prayer he could pray. I turned the page and when I did he read the prayer out loud. I said, “Ok now you can know your sins are forgiven.” He was happy with that. He had to head off to his math class I believe but I see him often so I will give him a promise book and talk the Gospel through with him a bit more. We were trying to get a Bible Study going at 2, which was close to when we were talking, so it seems he would have a conflict. I’ll teach him some things on the fly when I see him now that I know a bit where he is at and pray for him each day.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism Wednesday if you had a chance. Was kind of a strange day but God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope life was filled with peace and joy for you today. I had a good day on campus. Kevin prayed with me to receive Jesus and Ethan let me know he’d prayed to receive Jesus today, I’d gone through the Gospel with him earlier. Melvin had an every man face and Clark Kent hair. Latino guy with a 5 o’clock shadow rivaling Richard Nixon said he would pray later. Their stories are below, please pray they grow and Melvin prays to receive Jesus.

Melvin flagged me down saying he had a question for me, but saying he really had to study for a test and did not have much time. He’d probably heard me asking people to do a survey about God, I’d not met him to my knowledge. Kids kind of know who I am after a bit of the semester rolls by assuming I’m the college pastor I think.. He was sitting on the corner of the 1^st floor hall in a T-shirt and sweats studying, just west of the cafeteria. I kneeled at his side and asked what was up. He said he had been struggling with some anxiety over his faith. He’d had dreams he was falling into Hell. He’d talked to his priest (being Roman Catholic) who’d said, “Jesus took all the pain on Him so you do not need to be anxious.” I asked what he thought got him into Heaven and he basically said, “being a good person”. So I went through the gospel with him quickly explaining that His goodness would not get him into Heaven but Jesus dying for him and rising from the dead could. I also explained Jesus righteousness to his credit, said he was saved by faith in what Jesus had done. I explained this was represented in the Mass where the wine was symbolic of Jesus blood and wafer of his body. He said he’d want to be forgiven so I said that if he wanted to trust in Christ there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it. He affirmed, when I asked, that it was the desire of his heart. I said he could pray it silently. He felt pressed for time and said, “Can I take this with me?” I said, “Sure”. He thought he would pray later when he was alone.  I gave him Bible Promises for You showing him some verses to read for comfort and headed off.

Nathan was sitting in a lounge beside the finance accounts window. He had straight dishwater blond hair parted in the middle in kind of a Bobby Sherman shag cut. He wore a large silver cross around his neck, smooth features, white guy.  I had first encountered him in some seating that’s in a circle outside the Cafeteria. He had church group he attended and was not interested in a survey but was unsure what to say to God to get into Heaven when I asked. He said I could show him some verses. I quickly went through the Gospel with him. “Something to thing about?” I asked. He agreed and I left him the booklet showing him the prayer. It seemed he intonated he might pray later. When I came across him today he had done so. I said I would be praying for him and he said he had a promise book and so I headed out. He didn’t want to talk today either so I headed off.

Kevin was sitting at a counter height table in the hallway that winds down to the Bookstore. He had a small face with a small block chin and a parted in the middle mustache. His hair was stick straight and also parted down the middle and he looked to me like he could be cast as a scientist in a science fiction movie. He wore aviator style glasses and wore a polyester zip up running jacket. There was a large gold colored cross around his neck. He did not have a lot to say and when I asked him one thing he’d like to do before he died he thought for a moment and admitted he had “no big plans”. I asked what he thought he might say to God if he died to get into Heaven and he said, “Ah…I don’t know, I’m not sure.” I asked what he thought it was that got someone into Heaven and he said, “Living life and having a meaning.” He thought he had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. He listened patiently to the Gospel. He said he had been to Catholic Church periodically. When I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sins he knew He had died. I explained how the blood of Jesus cleansed him so God could live inside him and paid God for what we owed Him for not living perfectly in the world. I also explained the righteousness of Christ that he would inherit when God adopted him. I said this was the symbolism in the Mass where Jesus blood is symbolized in the wine and the wafer symbolized His body broken and when he took it it was reminding him Jesus had died to pay for his sins and he could just say “Thank You.”  I said this was his by faith and asked him if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done so God could live inside him or did he think something else. “No I would want that first one,” he replied pointing at the circle. So I said, “Well if you wanted to be forgiven there is a prayer you could pray.” I talked the prayer through with him and said, “It says here, ‘does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ Would you say that it does?”  He thought it did so I said he could pray it silently and I would not hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. He agreed and I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” “Ha, alright,” he replied smiling and prayed to receive Jesus. When he finished I explained that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be to his credit and His blood of infinite worth the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. 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 gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet  and a Bible study explaining it to him which he seemed to like. “Sorry I took so long,” I said in getting up to go, he was not very responsive on the surface. But he replied, “Thank you so much.” “God bless you,” I said and shook his hand which he held out like a Karate chop, I shook it as best I could and headed off.

I also talked with Kenny today who had a mop of blondish hair and blue eyes, good looking guy who described himself as athletic. He had a long sleeve t-shirt with  “Iron Sharpens Iron” printed on the back. He went to a Bible Study with his Girlfriend. He did not know the Gospel at all however he thought he might pray later saying when I asked, “Do you believe Jesus is God died for your sins and rose from the dead?” “I would like to believe that,” he replied so I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet saying it might help him with his faith.

Areej from Pakistan on a student visa heard the Gospel too, She was living with her brother and sister-in-law and hoped to stay in America. She had no head covering on and I asked her what she thought about that having said she was a Muslim. She said she thought when she was ready to show her devotion to God she would wear one probably.

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 Sisters n Brothers in Christ,

I hope His faithfulness was a shield and a bulwark to you today in all things. I had a good day on campus and Jorie, Markail [mar kell], and Monse [mon say] prayed to receive Jesus today and Karoulin[car-o-lyn] said she would pray later as her friend walked up. Please pray they grow in their faith and Karoulin trusts in the Lord. She had curly hair in flat tight individual waves, a pretty-cute face and was a Latina saying she had a relationship with God and then it dropped and it was her fault. The other three have their stories below if you have the time. Thanks so much for your prayers.

 Jorie was sitting at the last doorway out of the second floor of the BIC as you head east on a bench outside the lounge on the corner. African American, she had a narrow face, sharper than an oval. Her eyebrows came to flat ends, one the right had a line cut across it. She had a small pug nose and wore black-rimmed nearly round large lensed glasses. Her upper lip was full and flat with only the tiniest V in the top of it beneath her nose. Interesting looking girl. She’d straightened her hair and frosted it here and there with highlights. She wore a black tank shrink top and had grey sweats on tight at the ankles. She was up for doing a survey and I asked her what she would say to God if she died and were asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I don’t know, um…” Then the answer seemed to dawn on her and she said, “Because I’ve been a faithful servant.” She thought the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. She had recently gotten a job that went late Saturday nights and she’d had a hard time getting out early to Church, it seemed like with someone she lived with who was her ride. I began to go through the Gospel with her, she knew Jesus had died so I explained how the blood and righteousness of Christ cleansed and was a payment to God. His resurrection was predicted by scripture. She was engaged and smiled and chuckled when I said something in a way novel to her. When I finished I asked her if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else. “I want to be forgiven,” she said solemnly. I said, “It doesn’t seem like you had put this together before?” I asked. She shook her head, No, she hadn’t. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. I talked it through with her saying then that, “It says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” She nodded and I asked if she would want to pray it silently. She nodded yes and I gave her the booklet and she prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living the Christian life “By the Spirit’s Power” and I gave her then The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible Study explaining it and said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after. I said the likelihood she would now go to Heaven really was 100% trusting in the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus. “Thank you so much,” she said as I got up to go. “Thank you,” I replied and shook her hand saying “God bless you.” “God bless you too,” she said and I headed off.

 Markail was not far down the hall in one of the lettered connecting hallways. He had a loose afro that ended in pin-curls and a rounded square face, his mustache was short, no longer than his mouth and was only the width of a pencil. He had almost Asian eyes. Good-looking guy. He had a black polyester short sleeve shirt on and black sweats with white stripes down the sides. He had open back sandals on and white socks. When I asked him one thing he wanted to do before he died he said, “Accomplish my dream to be a pro-athlete.” I asked what sport he played and he said football. “What position do you play?” I asked. “No let me guess, safety,” I said. He grinned and laughed with a “Yeah.” I asked what he would say to God if asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I been really trying to get closer to Him. I have been missing it but I have been trying,” he replied. He said the likelihood he would get into Heaven was 75%.  I began to God through the Gospel with him and saying God had to take away his sins so He could live inside him I asked, “What is the big thing Jesus did to take away your sins?” He thought for a second and said he didn’t know. So I began to explain that Jesus had died to cleanse him and take away his sins and that His righteousness would be his if God adopted him. And He would fill him with the Spirit. This was God’s gift by grace through faith. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. He raised his eyebrows and pointed to the circle with Jesus on the throne of your life. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it saying, “It says here does this prayer express the desire of you heart?” He nodded it did. I said he could pray it silently and I wouldn’t her but God would and he’d know he was forgiven, “Wanna do that?”. “Yeah,” he replied and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. “This is crazy!” he said when he was done. “I had just been trying to get closer to God.” “Yeah and then God sends me along to tell you how.” He should his head and said again “This is crazy.” I explained the likelihood he would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I explained living by the Spirit’s power that that God could help us do anything He wanted us to do. As a safety he was really like a quarterback on defense also a middle linebacker but he had to pick out what was going on “See the field,” and he could ask God to help him do that or remember the coach’s instructions. He listened closely to that. I said if God blessed him and he got famous and someone asked how he got there then he could tell them it was Jesus and God would get the praise. He had a Bible so I encouraged him to read John. I gave him Bible Promises for You and I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the inside. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Book and a Bible Study. I told him I would pray for him a Bible verse each day from now until Spring and one year after. If I see ya I’ll just give ya a wave. He let out kind of a joyful chuckle and said, “Thank you.” We fist bumped and I headed off.

I felt like I was supposed to go over to the science building so I headed there. I came across Monse sitting alone in a chair in the lounge on the first floor of the west most end of the second building. She was a cute Latina girl with a round face, short and a little pump wearing black leggings and a gray sweat shirt. Her hair was frosted in what would have framed her face but it was pulled back behind her head tight. She said she went to church and wanted to take care of her parents. Her goal was to be a nurse practitioner. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven and she said thinking just a moment, “Because I’m your child.” She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she knew Jesus had died for her sins and said she had been to Church. I went through the Gospel with her and she listened closely that the Blood of Jesus had cleansed her and was a payment to God for what we owed Him. Everything belongs to Him so we owe for damaging what was His, for all the imperfect things we had done—we owed God something perfect, to repair, “But if I accidentally roll over your foot in the parking lot I don’t have an extra spare perfect foot to give to God. So I owe Him for all these things and I can’t pay. But God loves me so He becomes a perfect man. His Blood is worth an infinite amount because He is God. So when he pours out His blood it pays God back for all the imperfect things we have done that we owe God something perfect for.” I explained that Jesus earned the Righteousness of God by perfectly fulfilling the Old Testament Law and He can give this to us as promised in Isaiah 61:10 fulfilled by Christ Galatians 3:27. I said this was hers when God adopted us. I said it says in Acts we are all children of God (His offspring) but by faith in Jesus we have the “rights” of a Child of God. If I found out where you lived and driving by I climbed in the kitchen window and started eating stuff in the refrigerator and your mom walked in and said, “What are you doing here?” I said, “I met Monse at school and she said we are all children of God so I thought I would get something to eat.” She would kick me out because I don’t have the rights of your family.” This made her smile. “But when you join God’s family you have the blessings of His family, the sacrifice for your sins the blood that cleanses you and the righteousness of God that surround you. So you have someplace to go, Heaven, and something to wear when you get there, the Righteousness of God. And he fills you with the Holy Spirit. I asked if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else. “Be forgiven for my sins,” she replied. So I said there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it. I said, “It says does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” She said it did so I said if she wanted she could pray it silently right now and know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” I asked. “Hum hum,” she replied and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I said when she finished that the likelihood she would be forgiven now trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%.  I gave her Bible Promises for You and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the inside. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Book and a Bible Study. And asking if she liked science she said she was interested in the human body. I gave her a creation magazine (it had a genetics article) and a couple quick statements of fact on Mitochondrial Eve and Y chromosomal Adam and mutations. I said God Spirit could give her insight into diagnosing patients so she would know how to treat them and what medicine to give them. She could ask for His help in that.  I told her I would be praying a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and a year after asking God to bless her. Saying I was sorry if I took too much time I got up to go. “Thank you,” she said. “Thank you,” I replied shaking her hand and I headed down the hall. She walked past me on her way out and we waved.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a good week enjoying the last of the summer weeks. I had a good day on campus Thursday. Rebecca and India each prayed to receive Jesus and be forgiven today and Ellias was close seemed to believe saying he would pray later, after first saying God would observe him and what he did and he would get into Heaven. He did not know Jesus had died for his sins. He was a good-looking black dude with short braids and a green bandana like a sweat band around his forehead. He knew Ella who prayed earlier in the week and sat by us near the end it seemed they had a class together. Notes from the girls’ stories are below if you want to spend the time. Please pray they grow and Ellias trusts in Jesus.

I came across Rebecca in the cafeteria. She was a pretty fair skinned Latina girl. She had straight brown hair past her shoulders with highlight framing her wider diamond shaped face. She wore the moth-wing granny glasses that I see a lot. Hers were silver on the bottom and across the top gun metal color. She had the longest eyeliner commas on the tips of her eyes, maybe an inch and a half perfectly applied. She was wearing thigh high leggings that looked to be black lace and ended in bellbottoms (over white tennis shoes) coming up a half foot from black cuffed shorts. Her a blouse looked to match her lacy bell bottoms, the sleeves ending wineglass shapes at the wrist. Her fingers, ending in long pink fingernails were pretty glam. She was Roman Catholic growing up but had begun to attend a “Christian” church with her boyfriend and felt like that had made “God closer to me”. She said her BF was in a study group at school but could not remember the name. They meet on the second floor of the PE lounge. I actually always say hi to them, there’s 5 or 6 guys that all seem happy to see me doing evangelism. I asked her what one thing was she’d like to do before she died. “That’s hard…” she replied and then said, “That through my life I follow what the Bible has said.” She thought the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 80%.  I said “Knowing God” was that He lived inside her and asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins and she knew He was crucified. She listened closely to the Gospel and took it all in and I explained that the cleansing blood of Christ that paid God for sin and His righteousness would be hers when God adopted her—if she believed by faith and put her trust in what Jesus had done to be forgiven. She voiced agreement with the points of the Gospel. I asked if she’d like to be forgiven or thought something else. She said she would like to be forgiven so I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her though it saying, “It says here ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ So would you say it does?” “Yeah,’ She replied. I said she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven. Would you want to do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said again and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I told her then that the likelihood she would go to Heaven now was 100% trusting in the righteousness of Jesus. I explained the Christian life to her was living by the Spirit’s power asking Him to transform her. She did not have a Bible when I asked saying, “I’ve been meaning to get one.” So I gave her the NKJV I had and showed her Bible study helps it has in it. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I explained the prophecy it begins with and gave her a Bible Study on ways Jesus claims to be God. She was nice and said, “Thank you.” “So nice to meet you,” I replied. “Nice to meet you too,” She said and I said I would see her in Heaven, she nodded and said, “Have a nice day.” And I was off.

 India was sitting in the Science building lounge. She was dressed a bit like a tomboy in khaki cargo pants and dusty blue zip up fleece, white tennis shoes. She had her afro in braids and had soft classic black features. Cute, slightly round face really lit up in a bright white smile. She had a tiny precious stones pierced in each side of her nostrils. She was a warm person. She said her family members were all Christians. She had not gone to church since she was small. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. “Hmm, she replied. “I wouldn’t have a good answer.” I asked her what the likelihood she would go to Heaven was. “Zero percent at this rate right now, I don’t want to lie.” I began to go through the Gospel with her and she knew that Jesus had died for her sins. She took in the ideas and smiled at the metaphors. The God wanted to live inside her and she would then be like the energizer battery and God was the batteries. I said that her good stuff would not fix her bad stuff. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus or thought something else explaining other religious options and then asked her if she would want to be forgiven. ”What?” she asked. I must have spoken to fast and slurred something I was pretty worn-out Thursday. I asked the same thing again. “I’d want to be forgiven,” she then replied. I said she could pray silently and I would not hear her but God would. She took the booklet and prayed then to receive Jesus. I said the likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. She had a Bible and so I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside saying if you ever doubt it you can look here and think “that old Christian man said this”. I gave her a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. We talked more about how the Christian life is By the Spirit’s Power. I said Christianity was the only religion where God lived inside you. I pointed out that the Bible predicted the future and if God wrote a Book He would know the future. I gave her the Rose fold out “100 Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus”. Nice to meet you man,” I said getting up off the floor at her feet where I had been sitting. “You too,” she said cheerfully. I reached out and shook her hand and said, “God bless you.” “God bless you too,” she replied and I was off.

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

In Him,

Bob