Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

How was your day walking with Christ? I  had a good day talking to the peeps and had some great conversations and Duke, an African American guy, and Brygette, a pretty Latina girl who prayed to receive Christ.  Unfortunately as I ended the day and was about to go through the Gospel with my last peep a guy threatened to call the cops on me. I  have no idea who he was, but he was carrying his laptop in a plastic grocery bag so I am pretty sure he was not a student.  He did not even know my name.  I’ll have to look for the girl later as he interrupted me, claimed I was inviting people to Church, and we, according to him, had spoken before and I had invited him to church (I’ve never invited peeps at COD to church).  He claimed that was soliciting.  I explained to him I was a student and was not soliciting anything, just inviting students to a Bible study.  He claimed that was just like a church and the police had told him to inform them if he saw me.  He went on to explain he was stopped from soliciting people about Chick-Fil-A over something he disapproved of that they were doing.  But since he was threatening to call the police, and felt himself to be their duly appointed deputy of all things anti-1st amendment rights on campus, I moved on since I was on my way out when I spoke to the girl.  I left, as a conversation with policemen never goes my way.  I was at my locker and on the road faster than they could get to the spot I was at on the other side of campus and I lived to evangelize another day.  I have a little paint job tomorrow so that will help them be sick of scouting for me if they choose to tomorrow.

Duke was sitting in the PE building on the stairs as I went out.  I’d just helped a Roman Catholic girl (Sam) understand that faith alone saved her, and she in the end saw purgatory was unnecessary as well, so that was great.  Duke said he would talk.  He had long hair that broke into dreadlocks, the tips of which were died brown at his shoulders and a little Goatee.  He was wearing blue track sweats.  He had gone to church off and on.  He said, “I been loyal with my life even though I don’t attend church that much.  I still believe in God.  He still blesses me. I ask for forgiveness for my sin each day.”  He seemed to me like a great guy but he did not know the Gospel at all or how God took away his sin with the work of Jesus.  I made sure I was really clear explaining everything to him point by point, asking him if he understood because it was all obviously new to him.  He’d thought he had a 50/50 shot at Heaven and he wanted to be forgiven in the end.  He was really attentive, but to make sure I said, “Do you believe that Jesus was God and died for you and rose from the dead and trust this will take away your sins?”  He said, “Yes sir.”  (He was saying yes sir after any point when I asked him if he understood, but hey I am getting kind of old looking.)  I showed him the prayer asking, after I explained it, if this was what he wanted and he said it was.  So I offered for him to pray it and he did.  He did not have a Bible and said he’d like one so I gave him the New American Standard Bible I had and a copy of Playing with Purpose.  I explained the Bible study on Jesus’ claims to be God I gave him and the Holy Spirit’s work.  He gave me his e-mail so I can send him some stuff.  It was a great conversation.  He was a genuine good guy.  I told him I would pray for him and he thanked me and I left.

I went over to the MAC arts building and found Brygette.  She had curly hair, pretty, dressed nice.  She had gone to the Bible Church’s Spanish-speaking service where her mom still attended, having gone back since she got cancer.  But she thought her good outweighed her bad.  I told her a fictional story about a guy who had been horrible to her.  He was stealing her stuff, selling it for drugs and sleeping with another woman while they were dating.  When she spotted the tattoo of the other woman’s name she broke up with him when he confessed he’d been drunk, slept with her, and gotten the ink done.  A week later he comes back and says to her, “Brygette I know I have been horrible to you and I feel bad about it so I want you to know I am gonna be nice to my next 3 girlfriends” I told her she’d tell him, “That doesn’t help me at all!”  “See” I said, “you can’t do good stuff over there to fix your bad stuff here.  Your bad stuff is still out there messing with people.”  She took my point, though I could tell she wanted to hang on to hers.  But after I had gone through the Gospel she was moved to faith and said she wanted to be forgiven and claim the righteousness of Christ as His gift to her.  She was really nice and prayed to receive Christ in a half whisper as I held the words out to her I had explained.  I gave her the Student edition of The Case for Christ to read and a Bible study.  I told her about a story I could send her, so she gave me her e-mail and we talked about disappointment at church and stuff.  So after we’d talked a bit more and she’d given me her e-mail, I promised to pray for her and got up to go and she said “Don’t forget to send me that story” and I promised I would.

I had other good conversations too so thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God really blessed.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope your day was blessed.  I had a great day walking around sharing the faith with students and 3 prayed to receive Jesus today. Two girls, Sam and Taylor, and a guy named Kaven.

Sam and Taylor were sitting at a table tucked away beside the vending machines in a lounge on the 1st floor of the BIC.  I had walked past since I usually look for someone sitting alone, but I had a second thought that they both might be willing to talk.  So I went back and they were friendly.  Sam has stick-straight blonde hair, mostly light with some brown mixed in and Taylor had brown, wavy hair.  Both were cute.  It came out, when I asked them why God should let them into Heaven, that Taylor wanted to see her brother who had died when he was 17 and Sam had dated him.  Sam said she had a strong faith.  Neither of them could tell me how God had taken away their sins, though both were reasonably sure they would go to Heaven.  Sam had attended a small Baptist Church and Taylor had gone to a community church for a while with other friends who had taken her.  It was in her neighborhood.  So the Gospel had never really been put together for them and laid out clearly.  They responded well to the bible verses and listened clearly and when I offered them the chance to be forgiven they both wanted to pray to receive Christ.  I walked them through the prayer and they said they wanted to pray.  I gave them each a booklet to pray and they did.  So that was great.  They took the booklets I use some of the Bible verses out of, and I had explained the Holy Spirit to them.  I gave them each Bible study on the deity of Christ to read, though they did not want a book to read.  So I will be praying that they get back into a good church.

Kaven doesn’t attend COD, but he was willing to talk, having some time to kill.  It never came up what he was doing at school.  He is a bit on the round side, had a mustache and a few days growth of a beard, wore glasses, brown hair combed back.  Looked like a musician somehow :-).  Nice guy, he was dressed pretty nice.  He hadn’t been to church since he was a kid but was interested in the Gospel and understood it clearly after I walked him through it.  He said he’d like to be forgiven, so I asked him if he believed the story of Christ and that He was God and had died and rose again to pay for his sins.  He said, “Well, yeah I was raised that way.”  But he had never asked God to forgive him of his sins based on what Jesus had done.  I encouraged him that he had to choose these things for himself as an adult.  I asked him if he would want to follow God and give his life to Him.  I walked him through the prayer and he took it and prayed and brightened a bit.  That was good to see.  He said he’d had a Bible but it was lost in a move, which was why his family had stopped attending church.  They’d moved and lost the habit.  So I gave him a Bible to read and explained the work of the Holy Spirit to him.  I offered him a book and he was interested in The Case for a Creator.  He was into science.  I told him I would keep him in my prayers and it was good to meet him and we shook hands and I left.

I also had some really encouraging conversations with Christians today who understood things more clearly and were grateful.  A girl Cassidy, straight brown hair, intelligent looking, who played the viola in the symphony in a nearby town took The Case for Christ from me to read, saying she’d like to learn more about God.  Her parents had raised her with no faith.  And a black girl, Latisha, had to run to class but heard everything but the offer to pray before she ran off and was really tuned in as I spoke.  So I sent her off with the booklet and I hope to see her again.  I pray each night for God to be with the seeds I planted as I know many peeps were close to the kingdom of God and I hope He will continue to work to bring them to Himself.

So thanks for your prayers today for the Ministry and for evangelism if you had a chance. I’m grateful for your help, and God gave me a very productive day walking with Him.

In Christ our Lord,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Well, I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord.  I had a good day and Kevin, a Presbyterian guy, came to Christ so that was cool.  He has brown hair, kinda cut across the front like Friar Tuck – you know from Robin Hood?  Except he is not bald on top and his face was not quite as round either.

He was a fresh-faced looking guy, wearing a jacket and getting ready to go home.  He agreed to answer some questions if it wasn’t too long.  By the end of the Gospel though he was really grateful I had delayed him.  He hadn’t seem to be able to put together how his sins were forgiven, though he knew Jesus died it seemed.  His answer to the Why should God let you into Heaven? question showed this as he said, “I go to church every Sunday, believe in God, my whole family goes to Church… I think I would be accepted.”  I explained the righteousness of Christ to him and that both his Justification and Sanctification were from God alone.  And when I asked him, after I went through the Gospel, he confessed he had not been trusting in Christ and had been trusting in his own moral goodness.  And he wanted to pray to be forgiven. So he did. That was great. So I gave him a Bible study on the Deity of Christ and talked a bit about the Holy Spirit with him and he took a copy of The Case for a Creator.  H already had the book the Case for Christ.  And I got his e-mail to send him some stuff. He was really grateful and said, “It was great to meet you.”

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. I’m grateful for the help as God leads me about on campus. 79 people have prayed to receive Jesus this school year and several more orally committed their life to Him.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you walked in the Spirit feeling His presence today.  It is still really cold here but I had a good day sharing the faith and talking to students.  Marita prayed to receive Christ today.  She is Roman Catholic, pretty brown hair and eyes and has an Asian last name and looks a little bit Latino too.  She was sitting in the Science building and just hanging out.  At first she wasn’t sure she wanted to talk to me, thinking I was part of the Mother goddess cult.  She had rebuffed them earlier in the week.  I explained some reasons they were wrong from the Scripture and that I had questions about the real God and the Bible and was a Christian.  She said she was Catholic and I said she would probably agree with what I asked her, so she said ok.  She thought of herself as very committed to her “Religion” and was 100% sure she was going to Heaven, I think just because she went to church regularly and believed in God.  But as I went through the Gospel with her (she was really interested as the Bible verses spoke to her) it seemed she did not know how God took away her sins.  “What is the big thing God does with Jesus to take away your sin?” I asked her.   She didn’t seem to register with that, so I asked her if she understood what reconciliation was and how God did that, hoping something from her catholic background would click.  But still she had nothing, so I simply explained the Gospel to her from there and how the righteousness of Jesus was to her credit.  She chose the circle to be forgiven and have God live inside her, and I asked her if she had ever, “asked God to forgive her based on what Jesus had done.”  She didn’t seem to understand the question so I asked, “When you ask God to forgive you, have you been thinking in your heart that you were pretty good and God was a good God and you go to church and stuff so He would probably forgive you, or are you thinking God will forgive you based on what Jesus had done?”  “I believe in Jesus,” she replied.  I was sure at this point that that was true, but also that it had become true while we were talking so I said, “Do you believe Jesus was God and that He has died for you and rose from the dead so your sins can be forgiven?”  She said, “Yes.”  So I said, “But you didn’t really know that before I explained it to you right?”  She said, “Right.”  So I said “You know how, when you are a kid, you just go to Church and stuff with your parents and you don’t really pay attention.  But now you are in college and you have to decide to follow God making up your own mind?”  She agreed.  So I turned the page and said “Well if you would like to be forgiven, trusting in what Jesus has done for you on the Cross, there is a prayer you can pray to accept His forgiveness and receive Him.”  I walked her through the prayer, explaining all of it and asked her if she would like to pray and she nodded and said, “Out loud?”  I said, “No just in your mind, God can read your thoughts, just between you and Him.”  And she prayed to receive Christ.  So that was great.  I don’t know how come it was so hard for me to simply offer her an opportunity to pray, but it worked out fine . I gave her a Bible to read and a Bible Study on the power of scripture and the fruit of the Holy Spirit, explaining a bit of that to her.  I also gave her More Than a Carpenter to read.  She was happy and as I got up to leave and said I would see her in Heaven, she warmly said, “Thanks for stopping.”  And I smiled and said, “You’re welcome.”

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry on campus and for evangelism today if you got a moment.  God blessed my day and please pray that Marita would grow in her new faith.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope you day was blessed walking by faith.  I had a good day on campus, though we are having a hard time getting the Bible study off the ground.  But I have some leads to pursue from my student advisor for next week.  Chris prayed to receive Christ, a real out going African American guy who looked a bit like a young Eddie Murphy.  He was sitting over in the PE building and trying to get a girl across the room to share his Girl Scout cookies (thin mints) when I first walked in.  This, you have to admit, is not a bad pick-up as she did cross the room for a cookie.  After this escapade I walked over and he said he would answer some questions.  He went to church with friend once in a while and he tuned into the Gospel, a quick study, and believed everything I related to him about the work of Christ.  I asked him which kind of person he was, if he wanted to be forgiven or thought something else and he said,  “That one,” tapping on the circle with Jesus inside you.  I asked him, “Do You believe Jesus is God and trust that He had died for you and rose from the dead?”  He said he did.  I mentioned there was a prayer and turned the page and before I could say anymore he took it from me and read it through to himself. “Did you pray it?”  I asked and he said “No I read it.”  I said, “Well pray it if you believe it.”  And he did.  I gave him a Bible and the NBA book Playing with Purpose.  He ran track but liked other sports.  I gave him a Bible study too on being connected to God using several passages from the Bible and talking about the power of Scripture.  I told him I’d pray for him and he was really grateful.

Earlier a Lithuanian girl, Auguste, (A goose ta) seemed to believe, but took the booklet from me to pray later.  So I am not sure she was ready. Long brown hair, cute not thin at all. She took a Bible study to read too. Her grandparents were very “Religious” and her parents were not.  But she said she believed Jesus was God and had died for her sins ,so I will pray for her in the hopes it is a seed that will take root.  Christ was familiar to her and she remembered He had died on the Cross but I actually felt it was good she was going to think it through a bit more.

I had a good conversation with a Christian girl from India too, Rosin, and answered some of her questions for a while.  So the time was short but productive today.  Thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance and please pray that Chris would grow and Auguste would come in to Him.

Blessings in Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I hope you had a good day today and took in some sunshine somewhere feeling God’s love.  I had a good day on Campus and Cory and Robert prayed to receive Christ.

Cory was sitting in the cafeteria on the counter looking outside and said she would answer some questions about God.  She’s an African American, kind of a fresh-faced kid.  She just looked like a good person.  Her features looked more Latino, straight hair pulled back no make-up.  She was very quiet.  She grew up in Elgin where her family had been going to church and they just hadn’t found a new one around here yet.  But they went back once in a while to a Baptist church there, and must have some Catholicism in the family because she said she went to Christmas mass.  She patiently listened to the Gospel and though she seemed to have familiarity and nodded in agreement with each point, she hadn’t seemed to understand how God had taken away her sin and had said why she might go to Heaven, “Because I tried to live my life the best I could.”  When I was finished she decided to pray to accept the forgiveness of God based on what Jesus had done for her.  She asked about Christian groups on campus.  I’d told her about our Bible study and I told her of some other ones I knew of.  She is so quiet and shy I doubt she’ll look for one if she does not happen on to ours.  But I got her e-mail to send her some stuff and gave her the Student edition of The Case for Christ to read and a Bible study and told her I would keep her in my prayers.

I had a couple long conversations with some students I run into who seem to like to talk and ask questions about the faith.  In the MAC arts building I saw Maggie who committed to Christ.  We talked about purgatory and I read through the end of Romans 8 and talked to her about that as opposed to what the Catholic Encyclopedia says, and about society and movies.  And Kwanai, a strong Christian Black girl had some questions about the Christian life and discipling others..

I was pretty tired at the end of the day and thought I’d walk down one more hall to the locker I’d gotten.  Two-thirds of the way down the hall no one seemed to be in, I had this strong sense I was supposed to go back to the PE building the opposite direction where I’d talked to Kwanai about 2 and a half hours before.  I plopped down on a chair across from the locker, sat for a few moments.  I couldn’t shake off the feeling, so I said alright to the Spirit and marched to the other end of the school.  No one was free on the ground floor lounge and there was a coach there in the middle chatting up some guys.  Talking to students in front of him would violate my “don’t let any potential bureaucrats know you exist on campus” rule.  So I went upstairs and Robert was playing around with his phone on some of the new circle bench couches and said he’d answer some questions.  He is on the football team, plays offense.  He had a smattering of a beard here and there and an afro, pretty big guy.  He was really into his family. His folks were divorced and he was the default “man of the house” somewhat.  He’d been to church more when he was younger.  But he knew about the sacrifice of Christ. He agreed with the Gospel all the way through, so I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven and he said he did but said, “To be honest I haven’t trusted in that [the work of Christ on the Cross] but in that I was a good person [for forgiveness].”  So I showed him a prayer he might pray, but after I read the prayer through he said that wasn’t where he was at.  I questioned him more as I could tell he believed (he was saying he didn’t think he had the power to live for God) and asked something like, “Would you want to begin to live asking for God’s power to help you to follow Him?”  I explained how we are not to live the Christian life in our own strength but God will help us live it through the Holy Spirit.  “Sometimes they tell you something in Church and you don’t really want to do it, so you have to pray for God to make you even want to pray to pray to change.”  He laughed at that and said he would like to have God living inside him and helping him live the Christian life and he prayed to receive Christ.  I gave him a Bible (he did not have one of his own) and Playing with Purpose on the NBA stars testimonies, a Bible study on the deity of Christ and got his e-mail.  It had taken about 45 minutes from when I’d first gone to leave.  When I went downstairs again the lounge was empty and I figured it was time to head home.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a moment.  God blessed. Please say a prayer for Cory and Robert, that they might grow.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

How was your day today?  I hope you had a sense of the real presence of Christ as you walked with Him.  I had a good day on campus and Liz prayed to receive Jesus.  She has brownish-blonde hair and was wearing sweats, sitting in the PE building lounge.  She was a really up-beat person, joyful.  She attends a Roman Catholic Church and did a lot of mission trips in High School and hoped to do some overseas.  She really did not understand that Jesus had taken away her sins by His work on the Cross though, when I explained how Christ’s merit was to her credit as a gift from God she piped in with “Awesome!”  She said she felt like being close to God was up and down for her but had to do with her participation in Church.  She wanted to be forgiven though and prayed to receive Christ.  I’ll be praying for her that the Gospel might truly take root.  She had her own Bible, so that was a good sign as many Catholic students do not.  I gave her the Student edition of The Case for Christ to read and a Bible study to read as well.  She said her father was not Catholic and had “no religion” and she thought he would probably read the book I gave her as well.  She seemed excited to show it to him.  So that was good.  A couple other students were moved by the Gospel and seemed to genuinely want to think about it on their own today too so I felt like there were 2 or 3 good seeds planted where God would continue to work.

So thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance and please pray for Liz that she might grow. I’m truly grateful for your help.

May God bless you richly.  I hope you are warm and dry.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Well, I hope your weekend has been blessed and filled with love.  I had a good day of sharing the faith on Friday and Karli received Christ as her Savior.  She was sitting at the entrance of the underground hallway that leads out of the BIC building over to the MAC and I was a few steps down the hallway when I felt like I should go back and try to talk with her.  She’s a cute kind of pretty kid, light brown hair and blue eyes, sharp features wearing no make-up, a gymnast.  She had been to church in her neighborhood before but not since she was younger.  I wasn’t sure  how interested she’d be in the Gospel, somehow she seemed to put off.  Something of an air of self determination.  But I could tell as I talked about sin and God living inside her by taking it away through Jesus and giving her His righteousness, that she was very attentive and looked right at me.  She followed closely what I explained, listening to the Word of God.  And the Word had its effect on the elect.  As in it is written in Isaiah 55:11 “So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” And Karli wanted to be forgiven, saying she believed Jesus was God and had died for her when I asked her and she prayed to receive Christ after I walked her through the prayer.  I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her and I asked her if she wanted a book.  I gave her a pocket Bible and I explained the different books I had and she was taking a criminal justice class and was interested in the format of The Case for Faith and the evidential way Strobel writes the book. So I gave her that and got her email to send her some stuff.

I also had a great conversation with Nick and Jeanna [Gina] brother and sister. They were raised in the Church but had become cynical about the Bible and what was true. For about half an hour I told them a lot of apologetic ideas. Some of the Gospel began to register with them.  Nick took an apologetic DVD “Jesus:Truth or Fiction” and His sister Jeanna took The Case for a Creator. I felt hopeful some good seeds were planted.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism at College of DuPage.  73 students have prayed to receive Jesus so far this school year and God has blessed the work.
In Him,
Bob Bollow

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Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today as you walked with Christ by His Spirit.  I had a great day of sharing the Gospel and Pat and Gil prayed to receive Christ.  Pat was sitting in the PE building and said he had nothing to do, so I asked him some questions and went through the Gospel with him.  He’s got brown hair, clean shaven, 19 year old normal looking guy.  His plan is to go into Special Ed at Illinois State next semester and eventually become a dean of students.  He was an all around nice guy.  He attended a catholic church and figured he would go to Heaven because he was basically good.  He had never trusted in Christ as his Savior and said he’d gone to church because that was what his family had done.  After I went through the Gospel with him, I asked him if he had ever asked God to forgive him based on what Jesus had done.  He said he had been more the person with God on the outside of his life.  He said he hadn’t asked to be forgiven based on the work of Christ and believed God had been involved in the world.  I said, “When you hear the story of Jesus being God and dying for your sins to make you right with God, do you believe it, does it strike you as true?”  He thought for a moment and then said, “Yes, I believe.”  I offered him the chance to ask for God’s forgiveness and have the Spirit inside him.  I said, “When we are kids, a lot of time we just go along with whatever our family is doing.  But when you become a man you have to decide for yourself.”  He agreed and prayed to receive Christ.  He was thoughtful about it and took a Bible Study from me and a copy of More Than A Carpenter.  We talked for a while about his plans and marriage and life and he thanked me shook my hand and headed to class.

Gil was an interesting, smart, articulated guy.  He was sitting by the doors at the Northeast corner of the BIC building.  He is a big African American dude, already had a 5 o’clock shadow of a heavy beard, looked about 30.  He had been a great athlete and figured he’d play pro sports.  He had had the misfortune to be struck in the back by a forklift at a job before he got to College, and was told he would never play sports and might not walk again.  But he blew it off and completely recovered.  Realizing he would never play pro sports, he tried and succeeded at a number of other things, but was back at school realizing there was only so far he could get without a degree.  He wanted to be pre-law and go to Northwestern.  I explained the Gospel to him as he could not tell me how God took away his sins, though he’d said he “put Him [God] first.  I tried to live what I thought was a good life.”  He had never asked for forgiveness based on what Jesus had done, not knowing it.  I explained how God wanted to live inside Him and asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins.  He said he did, so I took out the booklet and showed him a prayer he might pray to be forgiven and he did so.  We talked more about the law and he felt he was naturally gifted in thinking in terms of it.  So I gave him The Case for Faith explaining the author [Lee Strobel] was a lawyer and had graduated from Yale and had been an atheist.  The book is set up like a Lawyer would examine the facts about Christianity.  He was really grateful and thought God had sent me to him.  I agreed it was not a coincidence, but then I don’t really believe in coincidence.  I also gave him a Bible study to read and suggested he contact me by e-mail if he wanted more things to read.  I encouraged him to seek the aid of the Holy Spirit to guide him and direct him in life and he grasped that and thought he would.

I had a great conversation for about 45 minutes that was really providential with Kailoni to end the day.  African American, she was a beautiful girl, lovely eyes but it had cost her a lot.  She was sitting in the cafeteria at the counter looking out.  She was a Christian but had done a lot of things wrong.  I encouraged her in God’s forgiveness and asking for His strength through His Holy Spirit to live the Christian life.  We talked about her father leaving her and the cost of it.  Though he was now back in her life somewhat, he wasn’t a Christian and I helped her recognize what had led to some of her mistakes.  I gave her a shoulder hug and she grabbed my shoulder in return and she felt God had led me to her and was really encouraged. So that was great.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and evangelism today if you had a chance.  It was a blessed day walking by the Spirit and I felt greatly used by the Lord.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking by your faith in Christ.  I had a good day on campus and Raina came to Christ after a few hours chatting peeps up.  She is a pretty African American girl . Petite with her curled hair.  She was fond of gold, on her nails, big wreath shaped hoop earrings and marble size gold balls covering her purse.  I think she had just come out of class and had plopped down in a hallway chair on the first floor of the BIC building.  Her arms were loaded with several colored folders and she was looking at her phone.  She said right away she would answer some questions.  When I asked her what she would say to God if asked why He should let her into Heaven.  She thought for a bit and said, “I’ve tried my best to follow your Word, what you said we should do. I feel like I deserve to be in Heaven.”  It seems like a good answer on the face of it, but if you think about it her words are really just a religious way of saying, “I am good.”  She went to church.  She wasn’t sure how good she was, as later she said she figured she had about a 70% chance of going to Heaven.  I walked her through some bible verses and illustrations.  She knew John 3:16 and Romans 3:23 and knew Jesus had died.  I continued to talk to her about how she had to be perfect to get into Heaven as her Heavenly Father is perfect.  She knew she wasn’t, and said she wanted to be forgiven for her sins after I had gone through the Gospel telling her, “We don’t go to Heaven because we are good but because Jesus was good and He died for us.”  So I asked her, “When you think about it, when you ask God to forgive you for something you have done are you thinking, ‘Well God is good and I am a good person so He will forgive me.’ Or are you thinking, “I know God will forgive me because Jesus died for me,’ are you trusting in Him?”  She kind of sheepishly said, “A little of both?”  I could tell she felt convicted and that she had not trusted in Christ.  I showed her the prayer and said, “If you really don’t think you have ever trusted before in what Jesus has done for you, you could pray this in your head now like I am not here.  God can read your thoughts.”  She took the booklet from my hand prayed and then I said, “So you can say this is the day you received Jesus.”  She smiled and agreed and said, “I’m going to show this to my mom, she would like this.”  So I offered her another booklet to take and she gratefully took it.  I talked to her awhile about churches and the Holy Spirit and depending upon Him.  She took a copy of the student edition of The Case for Faith to read and a Bible study and gave me her email to send her some stuff.  She might come to Bible study (once I told her Ellen would be there she seemed interested).  Fortunately the Holy Spirit makes people talk to me.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  P please pray Raina would grow in her faith.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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