Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today and you felt the nearness of God. I had a good day on campus. Did some “break-up with your psychologically disturbed now ex-girl-friend counseling” with Jake who had prayed to receive Jesus earlier this year (he was pretty heartbroken as the girl had cheated on him, cut school Monday in a zombie state and cried a lot, he was sleeping with her so that gave me a chance to explain why God said not to do that). And Tony prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Tony was sitting on the couches right outside the cafeteria just chillin’ out. He was wearing a winter cap and dressed in black workout clothes, had a bit of facial hair here and there. He was running and jumping for the track team. Small in stature, nice face deep smile lines around his mouth. He went to church. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “Because I did a lot of great things when I was on earth for people, for others.” He was sure he would go to heaven when he died. I began to go through the gospel with him and asked him what the big thing Jesus did to take away his sins so God could live inside him and he said, “He died.” So he knew the message a bit. I explained that what he had said was good to do but did not get him into heaven but trusting in Jesus and what HE had done and His righteousness did. He wanted to be forgiven for his sins but realized he had not been trusting in Christ. He admitted with a smile, it was true he’d though he would be good enough when I asked if he thought he’d done enough good things and God would be cool and forgive him. So I said he could change that by a simple prayer and trust in Jesus and I talked him through the prayer to receive Christ, asking if he wanted to pray it silently so God could hear. “Yes,” he said. He prayed then to receive Jesus. He had a Bible so I explained living by the power of the Spirit. I gave him the book 20 Things God Can’t Do. And in writing his name and the date, April 4 and “forgiven” realized MLK had died today. “Martin Luther King died today,” I said. ‘The day he died you were forgiven, pretty cool, and he agreed that was true and grinned. I got his e-mail to send him some stuff and said I would pray for him until next Spring and got up to leave and he said, “Appreciate it.” And I said, “Your welcome man,” and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob