Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed. I had a good day on campus and Rachel prayed with me to receive Jesus. Ariel took the student edition of The Case for Christ, uncertain she wanted to give her life to God since she wanted to do things on her own but was interested and wanted to talk things over with her boy friend, Joshua, as well. When I asked her if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead she said, well yes because the Bible says that, but she was not ready to trust in Christ by faith. So I’ll pray for her and Joshua for a while.

Rachel is friends with Justin, a guy on the track team who received Jesus this semester. She’d asked me to pray for her since I’ve seen her walking around the PE building a lot this semester, so I said I would. She was sitting in the PE lounge today where I usually see her at the long table with some guys. She took a break from her math homework to talk. When I was going through the Gospel with Justin she could not answer “the big question” as she walked by so I’d been praying I would have a chance to go through the Gospel with her. She is tall, long legs, runs and jumps for the track team. She wore a blue workout jacket and runners shorts today. I think she is from Nigeria originally. She has a oval face rarely wears make-up, has an inch and a half afro she sometimes dyes brown, wears near round oval glasses, cute kid. She is usually kind of gregarious (described herself as Hilarious) but by the end of our conversation was somewhat reserved. When I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked “Why should I let you into Heaven?” she said, “Because I feel like… ah… I lived a pretty God-fearing life I guess. I know my faults and acknowledge them.” She thought she had about a 70% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with her and she knew John 3:16 and 14:6, she knew Jesus had died to take away her sins. She said she’d want to be forgiven but had “gone through a lot”. “I feel like He owes me.” she said. “Because of all you went through.” “Right,” she replied. I talked to her about the way the world worked and that because sin had entered the world sometimes God allowed a bad thing to happen so a worse thing would not happen talking. I illustrated with a story where she was making all the stoplights going to work and then end up missing the last one because someone was driving slowly in front of her and it made her late. Later you ask God why He couldn’t have just let you make one light, but what you didn’t know is you have to cross the railroad tracks one more time before you get to work and the crossing gates are broken. While you were stopped at the light, the train went by, so you missed the stop light, but didn’t get hit by the train, but you never found out about the train because you were stopped at the light. I talked with her about the complexities of the world more and she seemed to accept it more. I said her knowledge needed to become faith and told her she could ask for more trust and faith. I walked her through the prayer and she decided to pray to receive Jesus. She was still a little somber after. I explained the Christian life to her where everything God was asking her to do He would give her the power to do. I explained living “inside out” and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside of 20 Things God Can’t Do and I gave her a Bible study and explained if she was trusting in Jesus righteousness to be hers the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. She gave me her Email and I said I would send her something. “Thanks for talking to me for so long,” I said as I got up to go. “That’s cool, anytime,” she said getting back to her math. So I’m glad to know her better and know how to pray for her and hopefully I’ll be able to connect with her some more.

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

In Him,

Bob