Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today and you are enjoying springtime in the USA. It’s been nice to be able to walk around outside on campus the College has a lot of flowering trees that really smell great right now, make me want to have a picnic under them with my wife. Theresa prayed with me to receive Jesus today. I also had an apologetic discussion that lasted well over an hour with a very pretty tall Muslim girl Maryam, who was sitting outside with her hair up and workout clothes on by the MAC arts building. She took my contact information saying she wanted me to talk with her father. Everything she had been told as an objection to the Bible was false but it gave me an opportunity to correct what she had been told and point to some of the flaws in the Quran. I also helped a guy who’d prayed to receive Jesus last year, Eddie, with his philosophy paper for a while.

Theresa was sitting in a chair looking at her phone in the shared lounge joining the Science Buildings. She was wearing jeans shredded over the thighs knees and down to her ankles and had a white blouse on. She looked a little bit Latina she was very short and had a big toothy smile; her brown hair was pulled over the top in front tied together in back. Cute kid with a very bright spirit. She went to Church in the City somewhere every week. When I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked her “Why should I let you into Heaven?” she said, “Ooh…gimmie a second.” Then after a moment she said, “I would say I tried to do what your word said, I tried to do the best I could.” She had a Bible with a bookmark sitting closed on the study table attached to the chair she was in and she thought she had about an 88% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she really tuned in to what I said. When I asked her what the big thing was that God did to take away her sins she said, “He just forgives you.” “Well what is the thing Jesus did so you could be forgiven?” I replied. She thought a second and said, “He died.” “Right he died for you,” I said. And I began to go through the Gospel and explain how Chris died so she would not have to die and that His blood cleansed her from sin making her alive inside and then that His righteousness was to her credit. As I finished I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins with God inside or if she thought something else. “Forgiven with God inside,” she replied. So I asked her if when she asked for forgiveness if thought she was a pretty good person and God would forgive her or if she was trusting in what Christ had done for her and taken that to heart. “No I never thought of it that way,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to trust in what Jesus had done to forgive her there was a prayer she could pray asking God to live inside her and forgive her and I walked through the prayer with her and said she could pray it silently so only God would hear. She was hesitant and had described herself as quiet and shy at the first. So I said I could walk over and get a drink from the drinking fountain and leave her in private for a bit and she agreed. When I returned she had prayed to receive Jesus. I explained living inside out by the Spirit and gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do writing her name the date and “forgiven” and then “By the Spirit’s Power” on the inside encouraging her that anything God was asking her to do He would give her the Power to do by His Spirit. She said maybe next year she would come to the Bible Study and contact me by email, so I hope she will. I told her I would pray for her for the next year. “It was nice to meet you,” I said getting up to go, “It was nice to meet you too,” She said with a big smile. I said, “God bless you.” God bless you too,” she replied and I headed out.

So Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today, God truly blessed and I go a lot of good things done.

In Him,

Bob