Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you are walking with the Lord in Joy. My day on campus (Tuesday) was unusual in as much as though I talked for a while with 2 students (on different occasions through the day) who had previously received Christ and another Christian I knew briefly, I did not get one single student to talk to me all day until the last guys I talked to in the afternoon. Not many peeps were about since it is Thanksgiving week and there are only 2 days of class (none today) but I ended up near the end of my day in the PE lounge and decided to interrupt the idling of two guys Nino and Kam, and Nino prayed with me to receive Jesus.

They were leading against a counter in the PE lounge where I have gotten some conversations going before. I asked if either of them wanted to do a student survey on what they thought about God for a Bible study group. Nino said he’d do it and tried to persuade Kam who hemmed and hawed and landed on “nah” and was disinterested, in as much as he overheard after the questionnaire part ended and the Gospel began. But Nino zeroed right in to everything I said. Where Kam had larger features and was a slightly bigger guy with shoulder length braids, Nino had the sides of his head basically shaved and his hair line cut just so, but on top he had a mop of hair like a fern. He had a jaw line beard and a mustache and a warm smile. He wore a quilted black jacket zipped all the way up and Black sweats. Both played football. When I asked him what he would say to God if asked why should I let you into Heaven he said, “Because I do a lot of good things.” Kim scoffed at this and I said, “You better hope he is not behind you in line.” And Kam thought that was funny. But that was as much as Kam participated. Nino was very attentive as I said. I don’t think he knew what Jesus had done to take away his sins, just that He had. I went through all I teach students about the death and resurrection of Jesus for the payment of their sins and that when God adopts them as his children he gives them the sacrifice for their sins, His blood to cleanse them and the righteousness of God to their credit. Nino was sure he wanted to be forgiven and so I said something like, “Well, it seems like you have never put all this together before or had a chance to trust in it, right?” Yeah he said. So I said if he wanted to trust in what Jesus had done so he could be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through it and said if he wanted to he could pray it silently right now and be forgiven. “Wanna do it?” I asked. “Yeah,” he replied and he silently prayed to receive Jesus. Kim had walked away and conversed with others as we talked, but Nino had not been distracted by that in the least, or all the racket going on in the room. He said he had a bible so I asked, “Is it a family Bible or your Bible?” “Family,” he said. So I offered him one and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in it in the front. I showed him the “Where to Turn” section and the Messianic passages fulfilled pages explaining what that was about. I also gave him ad Bible study and taught him one of the examples on how Jesus claims to be God and a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do writing “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front. I told him happy Thanksgiving and maybe I’d see him around and he was thankful and I headed out.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism yesterday if you had a chance, patience and your prayers paid off.

In Him,

Bob