Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your days have been good, we are waiting for 3rd snowstorm this week to kick in tomorrow night in Chicago. I had a good day on campus and Amani prayed to receive Jesus today and Tammy prayed to receive Jesus yesterday.

Amani was sitting in the upstairs lounge of the PE building just chillin’. African American, she had straight shiny black hair coming down shoulder length from a baseball cap and freckles, real cute kid, pug nose fair skinned. Had a black hoodie on and leggings and a horizontally striped top. When I asked her if she’d do a student survey she hesitated but said yes. She was friendly as we talked. She thought she had about a 65% chance of getting into Heaven and when I asked her what she would say to God to get into heaven she said. “That’s a good question… hmm.” She thought for a bit more and said, “Where I’m at right now in my life I haven’t done anything to spectacular, if I had it [the question] later in my life I’d have more to say.” She said she’d mostly thought of herself. But then most our time for any of us is that way, whose teeth did you brush this morning? I only did mine. She listened closely to the Gospel but could not remember how God had taken away her sins, it had been a while since she went to church. “You should be a teacher,” she told me liking the illustrations. I said I kind of was. When I asked her if she would want to be forgiven or if she thought something else she said, “I would want to be forgiven.” So I said she could simply ask for forgiveness and God would grant it and talked her through the prayer saying she could pray it silently to God and He would hear her heart. She took the booklet from me, “You said pray silently?” And I said something like, “If you want, only God needs to hear.” And Amani prayed to receive Jesus. She didn’t have her own Bible so I gave her one showing her the “Where to Turn” section and she liked that and then writing her name in the front and the date and “forgiven” beneath it. We talked a bit about dating struggles and purity, it is pretty brutal everywhere in her age bracket but even more so in the Black community. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do I wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front and explained the Christian life that way as “Inside Out”. She also took a Bible study and gave me her email. She said her Grandmother was a strong Christian and I said she was probably praying for her and that’s how I happened by. And we agreed there are no accidents. I told her I would pray for her. Then she thanked me and I headed out.

Yesterday Tammy was sitting in the Science building waiting for her teacher to show up with a couple other students on a bench. She had kind of a 4 inch high curly perm afro, wore a jacket and jeans, looked kinda fair skinned, cute kid.  She described herself as “Bubbly”. “That’s really hard,” she said when I asked her why God should let her into Heaven. “I really don’t know what I would say, I feel like I would be in awe. What should I say?” I went on to explain the Gospel, to answer her. Her extended family was religious but she had only gone to church a bit as a kid, still she knew Jesus had died to take away our sins. I had finished the Gospel and told her about Christ’s imputed righteousness when her teacher came. So I skipped the rest of the illustrations, read about 3 more verses too her and asked her if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins with God living inside her. “I would want to be forgiven for my sins with God living inside me,” she repeated back to me. I said if she’d like to be forgiven she could take a moment and pray for God to forgive her. I talked through the prayer with her and she took the booklet and prayed. I quickly explained living “Inside out”, wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do and handed her a Bible study. She said she could only come late to the Bible Study but she would try to drop by. She stood taking the Bible study from me and thanked me and went into the classroom to my left. So I hope I can bump into her again.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism these last two days if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob