Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with all good things from the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Leslie prayed to receive Jesus as her savior. Another girl Emily was close, maybe, and was going to think about it. I think she was used to thinking her own way about God and the Bible re-tracked her a bit. Please pray for these girls if you have a moment. Leslie’s story is below if you want to spend the time.

Leslie was sitting in a row of chairs at the first door East of the SSC lounge. She had long wavy brown hair framing her, a cute round face, she had full features and looked like a Latina. She was the flip side of petite but not fat. She wore a black sweater and leggings and seemed reserved. It turned out she went to a Catholic Church. I asked her if she wanted to do a student survey and she was hemming an hawing, not sure she wanted to say yes or no. So I said the main question is, “Say you are walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and He says, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ what would you say?” “Well, He’d want you to tell the truth,” she replied. “Would you like to hear the Bible verses that explain how you get to Heaven?” I asked. She said she would so I told her my name again and showed her my email on the back and began to go through some Bible verses and explain the Gospel. I asked her if she knew what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world, saying God had to take away her sins so she would be purified and He could live inside her. “He died,” she replied. I explained to her that that was how she was purified and how God got paid [1john 1:7]. I said Jesus earned the righteousness of God and could give it to us to our credit. I said she needed to receive Him by faith believing Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. Her good stuff would not fix her bad stuff but God would work all things into Good for them that loved him.  I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else showing her the circle with God inside her. She nodded saying, “Be forgiven.” So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. “Ok,” she said. I talked her through it and asked if she wanted she could pray it right now and I wouldn’t hear but God would and she’d know she was forgiven. “Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” she said. I handed her the booklet and she said, “Oh ok,” and she prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living by the Spirit’s power and the symbolism behind the mass. I gave her a copy of Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thank you,” she said taking the book. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a bible study. I told her I would pray for her for the next year a Bible verse each day. She thanked me again. “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said getting up to go. “OK. Thank you,” she said again and I headed out.

Thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism if you had a chance today God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today with a sense of the nearness of God as your good, He cares for you. I had a good day on campus and Jack prayed with me to receive Jesus today so that was great. I got a seed planted with a guy named Cameron with swept back hair and a couple days growth of beard, intense thinker. He was colorfully dressed, red high-tops pale green shorts and a running jacket by the elevator in the MAC. He didn’t know yet if he wanted to be forgiven by trusting in Jesus but had been raised in the Church and took The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. Jack’s story is below if you have time. Please pray the Lord is made real to Cameron and Jack grows in faith.

Jack was sitting at a table alone in the cafeteria, had finished eating. He had long kind of wavy mostly straight sandy-clay hair about shoulder length parted in the middle. He wanted to make it with his band. He had a narrow face cleanshaven, wore blue-jeans and a shirt, black high-tops. Looked like Tom Petty’s little brother.

I asked him what he would say to God and he said, “That is an interesting question.” Then thinking some more said, “Basically I’m a good person I deserve to be forgiven.” He said he thought he might say something more complex or completely random in the moment though. He was not sure there was a hell so he thought that he had a 95-100% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked him what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world he said, “He crucified Himself.” That Biblically true. The responsibility for His death lies with the Jewish leaders who turned him over, the Romans who nailed him to the cross, and our sins, but he said of His life, “No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself.” [John 10:17&18] He listened to the Gospel and it seemed familiar in some sense to him and he had been raised in the Church. I explained that he would not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good and he was connected to Him. I said he needed to place his trust in Christ’s work to be forgiven by faith. I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. “Probably be forgiven,” he said. So I said there was a prayer he could pray and said if he wanted to be forgiven he could pray it silently and only God would hear. “Wanna do it?” “Yeah!” he said enthusiastically. “Just pretend I’m not here,” I said and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I explained living by the Spirit’s power “Inside>out”. I gave him Bible Promises for You, writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “Thanks!” he said as I gave it to him. I said I’d pray for him for the next year. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet too and a Bible Study. He thanked me again and I said I hoped I’d see him with his band when he got famous so I could say, “I met that guy!” He laughed and I headed out.

I had a good conversation with Ian a future black preacher in the PE building that was good, helping him tune up the message but he had it down very well. He looked almost exactly like Eddie Griffin in the movie “Undercover Brother” which I have never seen but have seen the ads for. I didn’t mention it though because if he hated the movie (a comedy) it would seem like a put down for his look. He had a throw-back big afro and an Awesome handshake.

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 filled with mercy peace and love. I had a good day on campus and Lizbeth, Aimee, & Bella each prayed to receive Jesus today. Please pray they grow in faith and love for God. Their stories are below if you want to take the time. Thanks for your help in prayer.

I came across Lizbeth sitting looking out the window on some sofa chairs in the second floor of the foyer by the bookstore where Noah sat yesterday. She was dressed all in black, sweater and leggings, and had dark black hair parted in the middle and an oval nearly round face, no make-up.  Friendly looking, she had a nice face and smile. I asked her if she’d like to do a student survey, about what she thought about God and stuff for a Bible Study group. I had to repeat the question 3 times I guess her ear buds were in. “I already attend a Bible study,” she replied. “Oh yeah? What’s the name of it?” I asked. She told me and I said I had not heard of it. So I said, “Well you want to hear the one big question and take it with you through the day?” She agreed and so 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 asks, “Why should I let you into Heaven?’. What would you say?” “Because of the good things I’ve done?” she said in a questioning way. “Well would you like to know what the Bible says is the answer to the question and the way you get to Heaven?” “Ok let’s have it,” she replied so I began telling her Christianity was like a blood transfusion and God wanted to know and live inside her. Then I realized she was going to give me the time and I began to go through the booklet with her in the order of the verses there and ones I write in it with things often I say.” When I said God wanted to know her, live inside her with His Holy Spirit I asked her what He had done to take away her sins. “Jesus died on the cross,” she replied. I went through the rest of the Gospel with her and asked her if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for her on the cross. “Yes,” she said immediately. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ So you think it does?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said. I replied, “Well if you want to then you could pray it silently right now. I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear you and you’d know you were forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. Wanna do it?” “Yeah,” she replied and as she took the booklet I said, “Just pretend I’m not here.” That idea made her laugh brightly, I guess to think I would disappear. She took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to her living inside>out, first asking God to change you and then becoming that person living by the Spirit’s power. I gave her a copy of Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study on the Deity of Christ explaining how Jesus did things that only God could do to tell them He was God and telling her an example. “Got it,” she replied.  I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day for the next year. I got up to leave and she said, “Thanks.” I said it was cool and headed off leaving her with a friend who had walked up.

Near the end of the day, I came across a couple cute little Latina girls. Aimee [Amy] was sitting on my left as I faced her and Bella in a pair of sofa chairs overlooking the SSC lounge from the 3^rd floor. It’s the largest lounge on campus. Aimee had lightened her hair sandy colored and it was dark though on the ends that hit her shoulders and had tints framing the bottom of her face. She had a ring piercing in her left nostril and a rhinestone in the right. She wore a blue tracksuit and had on white trainers.  Cute face. Bella on her left had dark brown hair, and her face was a bit more pretty than cute and a little longer. Her left eyebrow had a sharper arch at times when she spoke. She wore Black leggings and a creamy white colored fleece. She had tan high-tops on with stars on them (I think). Both had their hair parted down the middle. I walked up and asked them if they wanted to do a student survey about what they thought about God. Bella asked, “What?” and I repeated it to her. “I think God is my creator,” she replied. “Well, the big question in the survey is: You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus, so you’re dead. And you stand before God and He asks, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’. What would you say?” “I would say because I praise Him,” Bella replied. “What would you say?” I asked Aimee. “Because I thank Him all the time,” she replied. “Well, would you like to know what the Bible says gets you into Heaven?” I asked. Both agreed they would. So I kneeled in front of them then and began to go through the Gospel holding the booklet in front of me and reading upside down, sometimes writing on my palm sometimes on the ground. I explained the atonement and the righteousness of God and asking if they went to Catholic Church they said yes I said that the Mass was symbolic of what Jesus had done. The wafer is symbolic of His body, the wine his blood. I said that the Catholic Church teaches only God can forgive your sin. So when they’d confess to a Priest he does not forgive them but is telling them God forgives them and he can do this because he knows God got paid. I used the example of an insurance agent and the company he represents as I sometimes do.  The Agent does not pay for repairs the company pays. I finished saying they needed to receive Jesus as savior believing He was God and had died for their sins and rose from the dead and trusting in that to be forgiven. I said that would mean they had faith in Jesus. And then I explained faith saved them. I asked if they would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus. “I think we would both like to be forgiven,” Bella said looking at Aimee who nodded. So I offered them the prayer they could pray and read it through to them. I asked if it was the desire of their hearts. Bella read it again and said it was Aimee said, “Is it the desire of my heart?” “Yes,” I said. She then read it slowly and said, “Yes.” So I said would you say Amen to the prayer then. Would you like to pray it silently. They wanted to and each took a booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living by the Spirit’s power to them, Inside>out. I told them I would pray a Bible verse for them each day for a year and gave them each a copy of Bible Promises for You writing their name and the date and “forgiven!” in it. Fortunately, I asked Aimee how to spell her name, as I was about to spell it wrong. I gave them The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study showing them the Trinity was in Isaiah 9:6 and explaining that Jesus walked on the water to tell people He was God. Their friend walked up so I got up to go and they thanked me and I said thanks for talking to me and headed off.

Thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed. I’m close to seeing 150 student trust in Christ this school year.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with comfort and love coming down from the father of lights. Thanks so much for praying today if you had a chance. Noah and Nick prayed with me to receive Jesus. Please pray they both grow in their faith. I’m grateful for your help.  Their stories are below if you have some time.

Noah was sitting on some sofa chairs in the second floor of the foyer. These overlook the doors to the outside at the entrance to the bookstore on the ground floor beneath them. He was wearing a green hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up and navy-blue sweats. He was waiting for some time to pass until class. I asked him if he’d do a survey and he said, “Sure I’m religious,” and we exchanged names. He was Italian and had relatives in Italy he wanted to visit, had a broad warm smile. He had indistinctive, smooth features like a caricature, his skin was a little rough, his hair coming out from under his hood, stick straight. Nice guy. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven if a bus hit him and he’d died. “I confess sins, before, I do somewhat regularly. He was 100% sure he would go to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with him and in asking him what Jesus had done to take away his sins he said, “He died on the cross.” I went through the atonement then with him and the righteousness of Christ. I said this was symbolized in the mass and the wafer symbolic of Christ’s body and the wine His blood so that when he took it he should just say “Thank you.” saying, “How do you connect with all this God has done for you so you know you will go to Heaven?” I then explained salvation by faith believing Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. “Not just that you know the story but that you place your trust in this to be forgiven,” saying he needed to place his trust in that as an adult. So if someone asked him why God would let him into Heaven he’d say because Jesus died for me. I said the last thing was did he want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for him? Then the Spirit would live in him giving him the strength to live the Christian life or did he think something else? “Probably be forgiven with in Jesus,” he replied. I said if he had not asked Jesus to forgive him based on what He did for him on the cross there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it and asked if it was the desire of his heart. He said, “Yeah.” When I suggested he could pray it silently he nodded and prayed to receive Jesus. I quickly talked him through the Christian life living by the power of the Spirit, inside>out. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and 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 and finally said the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the righteousness of Jesus. “Have a good one man,” I said getting up to go. “You too. Thank you,” he replied and we parted ways.

Nick is an Asian guy, good looking, almond shaped eyes and no eyelids, a classic face perfect skin. He was wearing a light blue hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled up and grey sweats. He was alone in the NW corner lounge of the second floor of the science buildings. He was laying on the couch and wasn’t sure he wanted to do a survey. He was about my size a little shorter. So I asked if he’d like to hear the one big question to think about. He wasn’t sure he wanted to hear it wondering how long it would take. He somehow really did not want to have a long conversation about religious things. I got the ok and quickly squeezed the question in somehow and he asked to hear it again. He then said he didn’t know what to say. So I asked if he would want to hear what the Bible said the answer was. “Ok,” he replied. I began to tell him Christianity was like a blood transfusion. “I have A+ blood so if you fill me up with B- blood by mistake I would clot up and die. God wants to fill you with His Holy Spirit, but first he has to make you His type. He has to take away your sin, to purify you, then you are perfect and Holy inside and you match God, then God can live inside you. So how does God take away your sin?” He thought for a second and then said, “You go in that room with the priest…. You confess,” he said finding the word. I said it was true that the Bible says that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I said that the Catholic Church teaches only God can forgive your sins. It’s like when you buy a car and you go to an insurance agent and buy insurance for your car. But when you crack up your car you call the agent and he tells you to take it to a body shop. But you don’t expect the Insurance agent to pay the bill. The company pays. So the Priest is not forgiving your sins he is telling you God forgives you and he can do that because he knows God got paid. “This is how it works,” I said and I took out a booklet. He sat up on the couch then so I could sit. I explained the gospel and the righteousness of Christ writing in the booklet and using illustrations and then saying he could be saved by faith. I said the mass was symbolic of this, the Body and Blood of Christ. I finished and asked if he’d want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done for him or thought something else. “Be forgiven, that one,” he pointed at the circle on the right. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and I talked him through it asking if it was the desire of his heart. “Yeah,” he replied. I said he could pray it silently right now; I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d be forgiven. He agreed and I said “Just pretend I’m not here.” I got up to go to my back-pack and he said, “This right here?” he pointed at the prayer and I said “Yeah.” He prayed then to receive Jesus. I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. “Thank you,” he said taking the book. Then I gave him Strobel’s booklet. I gave him the Bible Study on Christ’s claims to be God. I explained how God walked on the water in the Old Testament and Jesus walked on the water I the New Testament, to tell them He was the same God as the God of the Old Testament. “Cool,” he replied. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him for a year. I got up to go and he said, “Thank you I really appreciate it.” “You’re welcome,” I replied and headed out.

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

Prayin’ for ya.

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope ya had a great day walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus. I was able to go through the Gospel with two Catholic students (Carlos and Tiffany). Each of them seemed to feel like what I was saying was not “Catholic” like their families. Though they could not say exactly what differed. Both took the booklets and so I hope the Spirit will lead them to consider a life by faith. Stephen then prayed with me to receive Jesus at the end of my day (as I had an eye appointment to fix my eye with a laser I had to leave right after). His story is below. Please say a prayer that these students come to faith or in Stephen’s case grow in their faith. His story is below if you have time. Thanks for your help in prayer.

Stephen was sitting on the second floor of the BIC alone on a bench looking at his phone. He has stick straight blonde/brown hair that went just past his jaw line, pulled behind his ears. He had a couple days growth of beard, had on a t-shirt and Jeans. He had kind of the outdoorsy look but he was extremely soft spoken and it felt like he was a little uncomfortable in his skin the entire time. He wanted to travel. He’d gone to Church when he was younger. I asked him what he would say to God if struck dead by a bus and was asked: “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I would just hope I would get in for my…” he replied but trailed off and I didn’t hear him so I asked and he said, “I would help somebody else so I would hope God would help me, letting me into Heaven.” “Kind of like do unto others as you would have them do unto you?” I asked. He agreed. I had never heard that applied to God before but God was about to offer His help, sending me tell Stephen the Gospel. I asked what the likelihood was he would get into Heaven and he said, “50/50, either I do or I don’t.” I went through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died on the cross to take away our sins. After explaining the blood and righteousness of Christ and the cross as a payment and cleansing of sin I said he could receive this by faith and faith saved us. I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done on the cross so He could live inside him. “I think I’d be OK with Him being with me,” he replied. “Well, if your like to be forgiven for your sins there is a prayer you could pray,” I replied saying how it asked God to live inside him, thanked God for forgiveness through the cross and asked God to make him the kind of person he’d want him to be. I asked him if that expressed the desire of his heart. “Sure,” he said. And so I said he could pray it silently and he silently nodded and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life living inside out. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. “Thank you,” he said. I said he was welcome. I gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet, explaining Strobel’s work. I gave him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ too and told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day for the next year. I told him now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I said since Christ’s righteousness was worth an infinite amount there was enough for us both. I got up to go and he said, “Thank you so much.” “Thank you for talking to me and giving me someone to pray for for a while,” I replied. “Thank you,” he said again and then said, “Have a good day.” I thanked him and headed out.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed, and helped my eye today too, I’ll get the other worked on a week from Friday.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed week and God gave you peace in the midst of the turmoil. Look for a good price on your favorite canned beans. Seems that food is escalating. I had a stomachache for 3 days. I thought it had left me last night but it came back this morning. I’ve been trying to feel better instead of that today. I was just eating dandelion heads in the yard and that helped. Some old Irish gardener recommended it on YouTube. I think she soaked hers in vodka for a couple months first but I skipped that part. I had a great day on campus as Angely [anj a lee] prayed to receive Christ. She was the only person I found to go through the Gospel with Thursday. It seems like there are scarce few students about but I am on about the same pace as last year. So I hope God will continue to bless the next couple weeks. Her story is below if you have time please pray she is blessed.

I came across Angely sitting on one of a set of oversized chairs around the corner of the SSC lounge on the second floor. She is 5 foot tall, a very pretty Asian girl. She had a diamond shaped face and high cheek bones. Her shoulder length hair was parted down the middle and she had pretty eyelashes that did not seem likely to be given by the gene-pool. She was wearing white spaghetti strap shirt, under a flannel of black and grey and had leggings on, very petite. She wanted to travel, to be a stewardess we talked about a relative of mine that flies all over the world and other tales I tell of flight she liked. (Ellen told me when I got home that being 5’ she would probably have a tough time reaching the overhead compartments on a plane, so she should try to be a pilot.) When we finally got to the survey again I asked what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” She replied “’Cause I’m a believer.” I asked her what the likelihood was she was going to Heaven and she said, “I actually don’t know. Maybe 50%.” I began to go through the Gospel with her and she seemed familiar with some of what I said. After I had gone through everything. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else. She said, “I’d want to be forgiven.” She expressed that she had tried to live the Christian life and didn’t think she had.  So we talked about the Christian life living Inside>out, where the Spirit would change you on the inside and you would do good things on the outside. I told her she needed to stop trying to do good things but needed to ask God to change her on the inside by His Spirit and she would do them because she was changed. I gave her Bible Promises for You and said she could turn the verses into prayers. I went back to the prayer and explained it and asked if she thought she had told God she was trusting in what Jesus had done to be forgiven. “I feel like I’m waiting,” she replied. We’d talked a long time so I just said, “Stop waiting,” I said she could pray and I would not hear her but God would hear did she want to do that and she nodded and took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. So that was great. I took back Bible Promises for You and wrote the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible study and explained it and gave her The Case for Christ answer Booklet. We also talked about motorcycles when she said she liked by rings. They tell the story of the Gospel and she thought they were cool (which of course they are). She wanted to learn to ride. I told her I thought that learning to ride a motorcycle was a good skill if she traveled as well as knowing how to drive stick shift. She had a plan for the later I think.  I told her there was a class offered to teach her to ride a motorcycle at school in the summer which she was excited to hear. I also told her she should know how to fire a gun. She’d never fired one, but her father had them and was kind of an Asian version of a “good old boy” they were from the south. He liked to drive around in his truck. I said I was sure he would teach her. She said they did not get along but being a lot alike they fought, so she did not think he would. I spent a while then encouraging her to ask God to change her heart toward her father. I said I was sure he loved her and she agreed. I said in my own life God did not always answer my prayer to change others but He was always willing to change me when I asked. I told her she should ask the Lord to do that and I explained this was a useful skill in the professional world to be able to do the steps around people and bite her tongue. She was moved and agreed she would ask for God to change her heart towards her dad. I talked about my own relationship with my dad that we had butted heads when I was young but by the time he died he was one of my best friends. I explained now trusting in Jesus’ righteousness to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. His righteousness was worth an infinite amount because He is God and so there would be enough righteousness for an old biker like me and a young woman like her that hadn’t hardly done anything yet but if we died today God would forgive us both. “Amen,” she replied cheerfully. Thanks for talking with me you made my day,” I said getting up to go. “You made my day too,” she replied. I said, “Thanks,” and headed off.

Thanks for your prayers today.

Bob

Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your morning was blessed with grace and peace. Esther from Nigeria prayed to receive Jesus yesterday but I was too sick with a stomachache when I got home to write about it. It lasted until bed. But I woke mostly without pain this morning. Her story is below. I’ll be going out today and I’d be grateful for your prayers to guide me if you have a moment and for Esther to grow.

I decided to try crossing the street to a couple buildings I never venture into having found few people to speak with the last few days. The Homeland Security Training Center and classroom buildings, and the auto tech and welding buildings are on the other side of the main complex of 7 buildings where I usually talk to students. I rarely go there as there are rarely any students there. There was one student in the Homeland buildings and about 5 in the tech center. 2 did a survey. Esther received Christ (the other was a Christian). Esther was from Nigeria and had a nice sounding accent. Her face had no make-up and her afro was in some very thin braids no more than 5 inches long. She had a smaller nose and full lips, a perfect heart shaped mouth, nice smile. She was soft spoken and wore a black jacket with snaps that looked like big oversized Legos each in a different primary color. She had grey sweats on tucked into fleece boots. I asked her one thing she would like to do before she died. “Get to know God more,” she said. I asked her what she would say to God if she was hit by a bus and killed, “I would say, ‘This is my last chance to give my life to Christ.’” She replied. She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her. Saying, God wanted to live inside her with His Holy Spirit and give her eternal life but He first had to cleanse her of sin, I asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sins. She thought for a moment and said she didn’t know. I explained to her that the blood of Jesus, on the cross, cleansed her and paid for her sins. I explained the righteousness of Christ like extra credit in a class. I said she had to believe Jesus was God, had died for her sins and rose from the dead and that if she trusted in that she could be saved. “Would you want to be forgiven for your sins?” “Yes,” She wanted to be forgiven she said. I explained the prayer to her and asked if it was the desire of her heart. “Yes,” she said again. I said she could pray it silently and she took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. She did not have a Bible so I gave her a compact one showing her the Messianic passages in the back and the where to turn section, for answers and showed her the maps and messianic passages and the chronological life of Jesus (realizing it was a pretty good little Bible and I was sorry they were now out of print). I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her Bible Promises for You I wrote “Eph. 1:13” on the page with eternal life saying the Holy Spirit entered her when she had faith, having explained the Christian life was living “Inside > out” where first we are transformed on the inside then by the power of God’s Spirit we do good things. I also gave her a Bible study on the deity of Christ and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day for the next day. She was grateful and I said that trusting in the righteousness of Christ the likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100% because the Righteousness of Christ was of infinite worth. There was enough for an old man like me and for a young woman like her who hadn’t even done anything yet. She smiled and I headed off. I did not find anyone else to go through the Gospel with yesterday.

Thanks for your prayers.

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed week and God gave you peace in the midst of the turmoil. Look for a good price on your favorite canned beans. Seems that food is escalating. I had a stomach ache for 3 days, I thought it had left me last night but it came back this morning. I’ve been trying to feel better instead of that today. I was just eating dandelion heads in the yard and that helped. Some old Irish gardener recommended it on YouTube. I think she soaked hers in vodka for a couple months first but I skipped that part. I had a great day on campus as Angely [anj a lee] prayed to receive Christ. She was the only person I found to go through the Gospel with Thursday. It seems like there are scarce few students about but I am on about the same pace as last year. So I hope God will continue to bless the next couple weeks. Her story is below if you have time please pray she is blessed.

I came across Angely sitting on one of a set of oversized chairs around the corner of the SSC lounge on the second floor. She is 5 feet, a very pretty Asian girl. She had a diamond shaped face and high cheek bones. Her shoulder length hair was parted down the middle and she had pretty eyelashes that did not seem likely to be given by the gene-pool. She was wearing white spaghetti strap shirt, under a flannel of black and grey and had leggings on, very petite. She wanted to travel, to be a stewardess we talked about a relative of mine that flies all over the world and other tales I tell of flight she liked. (Ellen told me when I got home that being 5’ she would probably have a tough time reaching the overhead compartments on a plane, so she should try to be a pilot.) When we finally got to the survey again I asked what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” She replied “’Cause I’m a believer.” I asked her what the likelihood was she was going to Heaven and she said, “I actually don’t know. Maybe 50%.” I began to go through the Gospel with her and she seemed familiar with some of what I said. After I had gone through everything. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else. She said, “I’d want to be forgiven.” She expressed that she had tried to live the Christian life and didn’t think she had.  So we talked about the Christian life living Inside>out, where the Spirit would change you on the inside and you would do good things on the outside. I told her she needed to stop trying to do good things but needed to ask God to change her on the inside by His Spirit and she would do them because she was changed. I gave her Bible Promises for You and said she could turn the verses into prayers. I went back to the prayer and explained it and asked if she thought she had told God she was trusting in what Jesus had done to be forgiven. “I feel like I’m waiting,” she replied. We’d talked a long time so I just said, “Stop waiting,” I said she could pray and I would not hear her but God would hear did she want to do that and she nodded and took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. So that was great. I took back Bible Promises for You and wrote the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible study and explained it and gave her The Case for Christ answer Booklet. We also talked about motorcycles when she said she liked by rings. They tell the story of the Gospel and she thought they were cool (which of course they are). She wanted to learn to ride. I told her I thought that learning to ride a motorcycle was a good skill if she traveled as well as knowing how to drive stick shift. She had a plan for the later I think.  I told her there was a class offered to teach her to ride a motorcycle at school in the summer which she was excited to hear. I also told her she should know how to fire a gun. She’d never fired one, but her father had them and was kind of an Asian version of a “good old boy” they were from the south. He liked to drive around in his truck. I said I was sure he would teach her. She said they did not get along but being a lot alike they fought, so she did not think he would. I spent a while then encouraging her to ask God to change her heart toward her father. I said I was sure he loved her and she agreed. I said in my own life God did not always answer my prayer to change others but He was always willing to change me when I asked. I told her she should ask the Lord to do that and I explained this was a useful skill in the professional world to be able to do the steps around people and bite her tongue. She was moved and agreed she would ask for God to change her heart towards her dad. I talked about my own relationship with my dad that we had butted heads when I was young but by the time he died he was one of my best friends. I explained now trusting in Jesus’ righteousness to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. His righteousness was worth an infinite amount because He is God and so there would be enough righteousness for an old biker like me and a young woman like her that hadn’t hardly done anything yet but if we died today God would forgive us both. “Amen,” she replied cheerfully. Thanks for talking with me you made my day,” I said getting up to go. “You made my day too,” she replied. I said, “Thanks,” and headed off.

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you were filled with the presence of the Lord. I had a good day on campus and got through the Gospel with 3 students, one took a booklet, I left the booklet with a foreign student, David, who could not understand English well but said he could read. Finally at the end of my time today I came across Clay. He said he would pray later. So I’d be grateful if you would pray he would. Thanks for your prayers, some of his responses are below if you have the time.

I came across Clay, wearing light grey sweats, and a grey t-shirt with a ghost on it of some kind. He had short brown curly hair and an oval face, tall and thin. Good-looking guy. He was sitting in some chairs outside the cafeteria. Beside him was a black guy on his right. Next to her was a pretty girl with long blonde hair. I never got their names.  She had what must have been penciled in eye lashes that were under her eyes and above them. She had a nose piercing in her septum. I asked Clay if he wanted to do a survey about God. “I’m Buddhist,” she informed me, interrupting. “Ok,“ I said and asked Clay again and he said, “Sure I’m into God.” They all looked to be high school students checking out the college. The black guy, who was on his phone, but had been talking to the girl as I walked up had traditional features and a beard and lose curls. He later said he was mixed race and he was not very dark in skin tone. I asked Clay what he would say to God to get into Heaven. “I always tried to be the best version of myself throughout life. I tried to do the best I could, whether I did or didn’t [succeed]. I don’t know how to end it,” he said thinking about what his words so far. I asked him what the likelihood he would get into Heaven. “Depending on how I lived,” he said thinking. 65%,” Then he changed to 75% saying the last 25% is yet to be seen. He had “fallen out” of going to Church. “I tried my best to do the right thing,” he said adding to his first answer. Then later he said still thinking about what he would say, “I think of doing things in God’s eyes. Before I do this thing I think what he would think of it.” I went through the Gospel with him. He could not think of what God had done to take away his sins. Though I told the associates to his right not to help him. But then after Clay struggled a minute both said, “He died on the cross,” nearly together. Clay remembered that then. I got though most of the things I say saying of the righteousness of Christ he would not go to Heaven because he was good but because Jesus was good and he was connected to Him.. He liked one story and laughed and said, “How many times have you told that story?” I said hundreds of times in the last year. It suddenly occurred to him he had a time he had to be somewhere. I finished up, explained forgiveness and offered him the prayer saying if he wanted to have God live inside him he could pray it later. He agreed and thought he would. We got up I said so long to the black guy who liked some of what I’d said and knew enough to be a Christian. “See ya Eyes, “ I said to the girl. “You have a really bright aura,” she replied. “Well, you know how it goes,” I said. And headed off catching up to Clay somehow I gave him a promise book and we split at the hallway.

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

In Him,

Bob

Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Hope you had a good day walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus in as much as I got through the Gospel with a couple people before the power outage shut things down at 1PM or so. A Muslim named Q, (he looked like a thin Cat Stevens with glasses) and Janoah a confessing Christian, black small girl with a white doily on her head and long braids. She was without knowledge of the atonement (until after I talked to her about it) but claimed she had prayed before. Hopefully one day I will see them both in Heaven.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had the time. God was faithful to give me some kids to talk to.

In Him,

Bob