Hey sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was great and filled with the Lord’s blessings. I had a good day on campus and Rebeca prayed with me to receive Christ. Two other girls were close to accepting Christ it seemed too, Natalie, a Latina girl and Shannon, a short blonde girl both were in the science building.

Rebeca was sitting out on the lawn between the MAC arts building and the PE building where they have outdoor concerts. The trees all along there are just beginning to flower and it was a breezy, warm, sunny day. I sat on the mulch beneath a tree without leaves. She had running shorts on and a hoodie, long brown wavy hair that was blowing across her face as we talked. She had an oval face, not very tall. She was really nice. I walked up and asked her if she wanted to do a student survey. It was getting into the afternoon a bit and I still had to write the Bible Study for tonight on homosexual marriage and LGBT stuff so she was going to be the last person I talked to.  “I’m not very religious but OK”, she replied. It turned out she went to a church once in a while where some friends of ours used to go. When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked why should I let you into Heaven she said, “I would say… because I believe in the Lord and um… I would apologize for the sins and everything, and [say] that I’m not a bad person.” She was sure she was going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with her and she understood everything and followed right along. She knew Jesus had died to take away her sins. And so I asked her if she would want to “be forgiven for her sins with God living inside her or thought something else. Islam teaches God’s a mystery that can’t be known, his spirit’s in the world but does not come inside people so they have a different god, or the Buddha, he left his wife and child to go search for enlightenment, so he’s not looking for God he’s just trying to get his head straight.”  And she said, “The first one you said.” So I asked if when she asked for forgiveness for her sins if she’d basically been thinking she was a good person who would be forgiven or if she thought, “I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me.” She began to think about the question so I told her if she thought she’d want to be forgiven and hadn’t done that there was a prayer she could pray and I read through the prayer explaining it and asked. “So do you think that something you still need to do or have you done that?” “I think I still need to do that,” she replied. So I said if she’d like to she could pray silently in her heart so only God could hear and He would forgive her sins and live inside her to give her the strength to live the Christian life. “So would you like to do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” she replied. And she prayed to receive Christ. She was happy when she finished and I told her she could keep the booklet and explained living “inside out”. I gave her a Bible study and 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” under it. I explained how everything God was asking her to do He would give her the strength to do if she would ask writing “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. I got her email to send her some more verses and such and asked her if she had any questions. She didn’t. She thought she might be able to make it to the last Bible study next week. “Well, it was really nice to meet ya,” I said. “It was really nice to meet you too,” she replied. Standing I gave her a card for Compass church saying she might like the pastor’s teaching there to listen too since she was not making it to Church much and showed her the email. I knelt beside her and then gave her a light hug across the shoulders and said, “God bless you.” “God bless you too,” she said happily. And I 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