Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with Christ. I had a good day on campus and Nataly prayed with me to receive Christ and a couple of black athletes, Dave and Keandall, each committed to Christ sitting at a table together in the big SSC lounge where we have Bible study saying they would pray later.

Nataly was sitting in a lounge on the second floor doing an on line quiz for a class. She has blonde hair and a cute round face with a small chin, sweet kid. She was wearing a red, white and blue pullover jacket with solid color panels, straight leg jeans cuffed at white tennis shoes. I asked her if she’d like to do a student survey for a Bible study group on what she thought about God. “I just have to finish this quiz, then I can take it,” she said. “Ok, I’ll wait,” I said and sat in the armchair beside her. When she finished I asked her what she would say to God if he asked her, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “So I can ask Him why I died like this.” It didn’t really answer the question but I said I had thought before that if you went to Hell you might not even be given the chance to find out how you died. There might not be anyone in Hell to ask or who knew. “That’s really interesting,” she replied. She thought she had about an 80% chance of going to Heaven and said she went to a Roman Catholic Church. She knew Jesus had died to take away our sins. As I finished going through the Gospel I asked her which kind of person she thought she was or would want to be; Forgiven and having God live inside or thinking something else. I said I knew she knew the story but had she ever placed her trust in what Jesus had done for her? She said she felt like she “would trust in Him. Allow him to come into your life and talk to you so I think I would go about it that way.” I thought that probably meant she would like to trust in Christ. So I talked through the prayer saying that if she had never as an adult had a chance to tell this to God, that she wanted to trust in Jesus, she could pray it. If she wanted she could do so silently so God would hear and tell Him. “Um hum,” she said nodding her head. She took the booklet from me then and prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the Christian life to her living by trusting in the Spirit’s power and writing that in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do showing her there some verses in the back and after each one page chapter. I gave her a Bible study on places where Jesus claims to be God. She did not have a Bible of her own so I gave her one and wrote her name and the Date and “forgiven” under it in the front. I showed her the “Where to Turn” pages in the back. There is a section of Messianic prophecies in the back too that are fulfilled and I explained what that meant and that that was part of what made the Bible different from other religious books, it predicted the future and that is how you know God wrote it. I told her when she took the Mass that the wafer was symbolic of Jesus body and wine symbolic of His blood. It was to remind her that Jesus had died for her and so she was forgiven, so when she took it she could just say to God, “Thanks.” She reached out her hand to shake mine and said, “Thank you.” “God bless you,” I replied. “You as well,” she said 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