Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed in spite of your plans today, ha. That’s how my day went. I could not find the class I was supposed to teach. I went to the section of the building where I thought those classes are usually taught. The instructor had given me a number and not the building so I was unsure if it was the BIC or SRC. Looking in every room in the SRC area I somehow could not find the class. I looked for the number in the BIC and didn’t find it either. I text-ed the teacher twice and got no response. So I decided to do some evangelism and Trinity prayed with me to receive Christ.

Trinity is African American and was sitting on a row of chairs as you head into the tunnel that goes from the BIC Building into the PE building. She had long braids woven into her hair that capped her head black with some brown here and there. Her face was pretty and small, slight features, she had leggings on and boots and a long coat that was probably mid thigh if she stood. When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked why should I let you into Heaven she said she hadn’t been good when she was younger but more recently had been better. “Over the years I’ve been stuck in areas so dark but I’ve always found the light. I’ve always at least had a mustard seed of faith.” She lived with her parents in a very conservative Christian home and thought she had a 95% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with her. It took her a bit of my going into it to remember Jesus had died to take away her sins but she remembered verses it seemed. When I came close to finishing, saying she was saved by faith and not works, she said she had been a gymnast and had had a few operations from injuries and finally more recently had hurt her back. It meant she had to stop but she saw some good come out of it as she is now able to coach. She said this when I talked about how God made good things out of bad things (Romans 8:28) but that your good things did not fix your bad things. She wanted to be forgiven but said her situation was complicated, talking about some of the Joyless restrictions of Sunday’s at her home. I explained that everything she had said to me seem to be about her trying to be better. “I think you knew the story of Jesus but it seems like if something went wrong and you needed to ask for forgiveness you would think you would be forgiven because you would try harder and do better.” I explained to her that she needed to trust in Jesus and what he had done to forgive her and trust in Him to do the work not herself. “That’s what I’ve been doing!” She said realizing. I said what she needed to do was start over with God and tell Him she would accept His forgiveness and the price He had paid for her sin and then live by His power. I talked her through the prayer and she was moved to tears and prayed to receive Christ. I explained then about the life in the Spirit living inside out. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible study and then she had to go as her friend had showed up. I told her I would pray for her for the next year and we said good by and I headed over to the PE building.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry today though things did not go as planned God had a plan and I planted a couple seeds too, had a long conversation with a Muslim Amer (A Mirr).

In Him,

Bob