Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed in the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Peter prayed with me to receive Jesus. Another guy Ben seemed very close, (a Christmas and Easter Christian) saying he’d think about it but thought he did believe Jesus was God and died for his sins and rose from the dead. “Seems like a great thing… I never took it for myself.” he said and he thanked me. Clean cut nice looking kid with a COD sweatshirt on sitting in the MAC.

Peter was sitting in the Science building in the hall at the end of the day. He had about a half hour before class and could talk a bit. He had skinny jeans on, tall thin, wearing a plaid shirt. He looked a bit like Waldo of “Where’s Waldo” fame (a lot of guys look like that dude it seems). He had like brown hair with a curly mop of hair cut very short on the side. His glasses were frameless on the bottom, nice smile.  He said he went to Church on Christmas and Easter. I asked him what he would say to God if he died and were asked why He should let him into heaven. He said, “I have no idea… I mean I’m an eagle scout, I help people, we’re supposed to design a project to help people, model the life of Christ, I followed His guidelines.” When I asked him the percentage likelihood he would get into heaven he said, 60%. I’ve no idea what the passing… [grade]. I’ve sinned before I think everybody sins.” So I began to tell him the Gospel and he was very enthusiastic, which was great, it seemed then like God was working in his heart and it turned out He was. I would finish a point and he would say, “Cool.” or “That’s awesome.” Or “That’s so cool.” I actually thanked him at one point unconsciously. It slipped out, I was just grateful he was believing. At the end I asked him if he would want to be forgiven with Christ living inside him or if he’d thought he was a pretty good guy and hoped things would work out. “Well before I would have said as you said, the second one but now after listening to this I realize I should say I believe Jesus has died for me.” So I said if he wanted to there was a prayer he could pray telling God that and he could be forgiven trusting in Christ and after taking him through it I asked if he’d like to pray it and he said, “Sure.” He prayed in a barely audible volume then and received Christ as his savior. That was really great as I’d been walking around for 2 and half hours with only one optimistic contact with Ben. He did not have his own Bible so I gave him one showing him the “Where to Turn” section to which he said, “That’s awesome.” I wrote his name in the front and the date and “forgiven” under it and he thanked me. I explained the Holy Spirit’s power to live the Christian life and wrote “By the Spirit’s power” in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do and gave him a Bible Study. Then he had to run to class saying he’d try to make the Bible Study some time. I thanked him for talking to me and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob