Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Well, I had a great day of sharing today in as much as I got a couple good seeds planted, got a solid one into a Unitarian, Max ( I hope), and a Black guy Antoine (an Twan) and then Mackenzie prayed to receive Christ. Also my friend from Russian Ministries Sergey had given me 4 Russian New Testaments with testimonies inside at the beginning to give away when I had met a girl taking English as a Second Language who spoke Russian and basically no English. I only thought I needed one but then met another Russian speaking girl and gave one to her and found the girl I had been speaking with before, Mohera yesterday and gave her one. Then today, while talking to my friend Robie, a friend of his Sergei had an accent that sounded Ukrainian to me a little so I asked him where he was from. He said Ukraine and I said I got a book for you, fortunately I was outside and my truck wasn’t too far from that end of School so I ran to get it. I explained the later part of it was a New Testament. He flipped through it looking at the testimonies critically and telling me and his other two friends, one Russian speaking one with one Polish and one Ukrainian parent who the people were and from what country. I thought I was in trouble since he seemed a bit displeased they were not all famous Ukrainians but in the end said, “Good book” and so I was sure he’d read it.

I had my friend, Rebekah, who is in Romania as a missionary praying for me this morning; she found a program you can text with from overseas for free to a state side cell phone. So I had a missionary praying for me and it lifted my heart a bit as I began and I figured it would be a good day. I couldn’t get anyone to talk to me for about half an hour or so but then a girl sitting outside the PE building that I had talked to last year (and forgotten, she reminded me) was sitting on the wall. So I chatted her up sitting on the new $20,000 stone half wall that now graces the sidewalk as you exit the PE building for no good reason I can think of. My tax dollars at work, they tore out the more useful sidewalk, ruined the green space with pavers and cut down several mature willows and flowering trees (where are the environmentalists when ya need ‘um). So she smoked and asked me about the end of the world to which I more or less responded “it might not be the end of the world, but you can see it from here” while taking about the Lord and the cross some more. When she was done with her cigarette and had to go to class I saw another girl was sitting on the other side of the walk from us — so like 35 feet away. She overheard us I guess because when I walked over and asked if she wanted to do a survey she agreed right-a-way. Mackenzie, a cute blonde girl, was smoking too but played basketball and thought it might even things out, maybe it does. Turned out her Mom went to Pathway, a church where some of my peeps attend in Elmhurst. I went through the gospel with her and pointed out she had thought she would be good enough to go to heaven and was trusting in that and hat would not work. Mackenzie said she wanted to be forgiven and have God live inside her and I said, “Well God is like a pretty girl, He likes to be asked. You know how that is. Say you are a senior in high school and some Guy sidles up to you and says ‘So when are we going to go to Prom,’ and you’d say, ‘humph, as soon as you ask me, maybe.’ God’s the same way He just wants you to ask him and to accept His forgiveness so here’s a prayer you can pray.” I read through and explained the prayer and said something like, “So if you’d like to be forgiven you should pray this, quietly in your heart like I’m not here.” She did pray and said she was into Science and liked to read a lot so I gave her The Case For A Creator and a Bible study on the deity of Christ. Then I asked her if she would like to meet this sweet girl I know that goes to Pathway who could meet her at Church and go through the Bible and show her some stuff. “She’s a cute blonde girl you’ll like her.” She seemed really enthusiastic about meeting my friend Maggie and copied her number down off my phone. I said I would see her around and pray for her. So I was really excited about that and texted Maggie who was excited to be used by the Lord too. So pray this all works out and Satan does not change her heart or she’d feel too shy. I got her e-mail though to send her stuff so if it does not materialize I can try to help it out.

So thanks so much for your prayers today, I had a great day and the sun was shining. My Mom, Shirley, who has severe dementia, is in the hospital with fluid in one lung and a cough she can’t shake so I drove up about an hour and half North to sit with her in the hospital tonight for a few hours. She’ll have it drained tomorrow so I’ll head back up while some plaster I repair dries. Thanks for helping with the ministry. May God richly bless you weekend.

Blessings in Him,
Bob