Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus and Tamera prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Tamera was the first person I talked to she was sitting at a counter high table in the back room of the cafeteria. She is a petit 4’11” Black girl. Today she had her hair up in an afro bun with a 3 inch hair band around her head. She wore a bright colored tie-dye with some anime characters on the front and black jeans. Cute kid, small features. She was friendly and used to go to Church with her Grandma in Rockford. She lives locally now. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said. “Umm… I feel like I’d say like, I don’t know… I did a lot of bad stuff in my life but I did more good than bad.” She thought she had an 85% chance of going to Heaven. She listened to the Gospel closely and she knew Jesus had died for her sins. I explained the imputed righteousness of Christ saying she was saved by faith. “You should do good things to please God but your good stuff does not fix your bad stuff.” I went on to tell her the tale I often tell. “Like say you had a boyfriend for about 3 weeks, you thought he was pretty cool but then it turned out he was cheating on you and stealing your stuff, so you cut him loose. He comes around in about a week and he’s like ‘Oh Tamera I know I did you really wrong. I was even stealing your stuff and selling it for drugs, but I just want you to know, I’m gonna be nice to my next three girl friends.’ You’d be like, ‘Yeah that doesn’t help me at all.’  ‘Cause you can’t do good stuff over here to fix your bad stuff there. But that’s what a lot of people think. They’re like, “I’ve done some bad stuff but I I’ve done some good stuff too. My good stuffs gonna fix my bad stuff with God’. But your bad stuffs still out there kicking people around and there’s not much you can do about it. But God says He’ll turn your bad things into good things. It says in Romans 8:28 that all things work together for good, for them that love God and are called according to His purpose. So God can take the trajectory of even bad things that happen to you or you have done and turn them into good things–because He is all powerful and knows the future.” I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else. “Probably forgiven,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to there was a prayer she could pray to receive God’s forgiveness and I talked her through it and said if she wanted to you could pray it, not like I would hear, and God could live inside her. “So what do you think I said holding the booklet before her and I waited a while, as she thought (I think reading it silently through again, praying God would penetrate her heart. “Maybe,” she finally said. “It seems right.” So I waited a few moments more and she reached out and took the booklet and I said, “Just pretend I’m not even here.” She prayed to receive Christ. She had a Bible so I gave her the book 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “by the Spirit’s power” in the front and her name and the date and “forgiven” saying she could remember. I told her anything God asked her to do He would also give her the power to do. I gave her a Bible study and asked if she had any questions and invited her to Bible study again as she lived in town. She gave me her email. I headed over to talk to some other black girls, both from Africa who had said hi while we were talking, I’m the godfather for the little boy Eli, one of the girls had recently. I chatted with them and then headed out. I was a ways down the hall almost to the book store and remembering Tamera hadn’t a church I walked all the way back and gave her a card for the Compass church. I hope she will come to Bible Study.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed though I slept very little last night. I got a couple good seeds planted too with Johnny (nation with a broad down the center of his head) whose dad has been taking him to church and Ryan (strawberry blond, stock kid) an atheist in the Mac.

In Him,

Bob