Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed in the Lord with hope. I had a good day today sharing the faith and Remy (A Filipino guy) and Katie who each prayed with me to receive Christ. Stephanie  was close but her friend showed up and insisted they leave before she could pray.

Remy was sitting in the hallway of the BIC between classes on some hall chairs and said he had some time to answer some questions. He was a very well groomed guy, hair long on top, short on the side. Short in height with what a girl would say was a cute face (I think), wore stylish black rimmed glasses, tan shorts and a long sleeved button neck shirt. When I asked him what he would say to God if he died and was asked why he should be let into Heaven he said, “‘Cause I believe in Him,” He thought he’d have a 75% chance of going to heaven and went to a Roman Catholic Church. He listened attentively to the Gospel though and responded once with an affirmation but was a man of few words. I explained the option of two circles in the booklet I was using one representing a person who had trusted in Christ for forgiveness with God living inside him and the other God outside their life living for themselves asking which would he be and he put his finger on the circle with God inside him. So I asked him if he had been trusting in Jesus to forgive him for his sins or if he was, “Just hoping that he was good enough to be forgiven?” ‘That I was good enough,” he replied and so I said “if he’d like to be forgiven trusting in Jesus there was a prayer he could pray” and after walking through it I read the line, “Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?” He nodded in affirmation. “Then would you like to pray silently?” “Yeah sure,” he replied. And he prayed to receive Christ. He has a conflict of work when we have Bible Study but he took a Bible Study to read and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do. I wrote his name and the ate in the front he’d been forgiven. I explained a symbolic view of the Mass to him encouraging him if he was at church to use that time to be thankful remembering Jesus had died for him and reminded him that if he was now trusting in Jesus righteousness to be his own the likelihood he was going to Heaven was 100%. He shook my hand when I said maybe I’d bump into him in Heaven and said with a warm expression, “Thank you, it was nice to meet you man,” “Nice to meet you too I replied.”

I headed over to the PE building where Katie was sitting at a Table watching something on her computer. It didn’t seem to be school related so I asked her if she wanted to do a student survey. She said she went to Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) and was up for it. She had her hair up with a  2 inch headband around her head, like she had been working out. She wore a short sleeved t-shirt that was tie-dyed blue and white and had black yoga pants on. She had a oval, kind face, cute, sweet kid. She described herself as a “Very, very faithful Catholic.” And she wanted to “travel to another country and help people, like a mission trip”. I asked her what she would say to God and she said, “Oh.” then thinking a bit said, “Even though I haven’t lived my life in a perfect way, I have lived knowing You, and loving You and trusting You. I’m not perfect but I love Him very much.” She thought she had a 60-70% chance of going to Heaven. I began to explained the Gospel to her and explained imputed righteousness, that she did not go to heaven because she was good but because Jesus was good. I told her it was good she loved God but loving God does not get you to Heaven trusting in Jesus work on the cross to pay for her sins did.  “So if someone would say to you why should God let you into Heaven you’d say, ‘Because Jesus Died for me,'” She let out a quiet “Oh!” in realization after I said that. I went thought the rest of the Gospel and asked if she would want to be forgiven wth God inside and she said she would so I asked, “So when you asked for forgiveness for your sins in the past were you trusting that Jesus had died for you and so you would be forgiven?” “No! No!” she exclaimed. So I said there was a prayer she could pray then to receive forgiveness trusting in Jesus and the Holy Spirit could live inside her. After talking her through it I asked if she would like to pray and she said, “Yeah.” And she did. So that was great. She was happy and said, “Thank you.” I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s power.” in the front. I also wrote her name and the date in the front she’d been forgiven which she really liked. I explained “living inside out” and the fruit of the Spirit and a symbolic view of the Mass. She had to go so I gave her a Bible study with a quick explanation and she said she’d like to come to ours so hopefully she will. I told her I would keep her in my prayers and got up to go. “Thank you so, so much for everything,” she said. I gave her a light hug around the shoulders in her chair and said she was welcome and headed out the doors.

I went through the Gospel with Aleiah who came from a Muslim home but was not interested in the Muslim faith. Very smart girl. Very pretty eyes and long hair past her shoulders and we talked about God and the problem of evil in the world. I think I was of help to her moving toward faith, with several philosophical answers helping her to see how blessed she was being intelligent and pretty, she had braces on and I pointed out even getting her teeth straightened was something unavailable to most people in the world, and saying how God loved her. We talked for a while. She took the booklet I had gone through and the pamphlet “Jesus and the Qur’an”. “Thanks for talking with me,” she said as I got up to go. So I will pray for her this school year. I have gone through the gospel with a few Muslims this year disinterested in the faith they grew up in.

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

In Him,

Bob