Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you could be as warm as ya wanted. I had a good day on campus and Janet prayed with me to receive Jesus. I got a good seed planted with a guy named Mike in the MAC Arts building, too, who was under conviction but was sinning a bit. I gave him the student edition of The Case for Christ. He tried to give me the ‘science /evolution disproves religion’ thing but I gave him a bunch of current DNA stuff and shook his cage open. I walked around for 90 minutes before I could get anyone to do a survey or to talk about God. The school had a small mob of over a half dozen Campus Crusade people doing surveys (I passed 7 in the halls) without going through the Gospel with people. No hope for change, but they could just notify people they had a Christian group with the same effect. So no one I found wanted to do another survey or talk about Heaven where they actually heard the truth (since they had just done a data survey). Many had been asked several times and were annoyed when I spoke with them. But CRU finished their damage at 1 PM or so and I found 3 peeps to talk with after about 3 hours.

Janet was sitting in the cafeteria, having eaten half her sub sandwich. She didn’t look big enough to eat the other half. She was a cute, petite, Latina girl. Small pretty face, no make-up, long brown hair pulled back behind her head. She had diamond look studs in her ears, too big to be real. She had a black long sleeve shirt on and leggings. She had been raised early on by her grandparents who always brought her to church. She hoped to be the first person to graduate from college in her family. When I asked her what she would say to God if He asked her why He should let her into Heaven she said, “Hmm… growing up I guess with my grandparents, they were very religious. I assume that because I haven’t done anything bad I would be accepted.” She was sure she’d go to Heaven when she died. I began to explain the Gospel to her that God loved her and wanted to live inside her to give her power to live life and know her. I explained that first He had to take away her sins and asked her if she remembered what Jesus had done to take them away. “He sacrificed himself” she answered. “Right, He died for you,” I replied and then explained how His blood cleansed her and His righteousness was to her credit. I asked at the end if she would want to be forgiven and she said she would. “Do you believe Jesus is God, He died for your sins and rose from the dead?” I asked. “Yes I do,” she replied. “So would you want to place your trust in that and to be forgiven, instead of just hoping you were good enough?” I asked.”Uh huh, yeah.” she said nodding. So I talked her through the prayer she could pray, explaining she could pray it quietly, not so I heard, but God would hear her and forgive her and live inside her. “Think you’d like to do it?” I asked. She nodded. She took the booklet and prayed while I went back to the other side of the table to get a book out of my backpack. I gave her the booklet to keep and explained living by the Spirit’s power “Inside out”. I wrote ‘By the Spirit’s Power’ and her name and the date and ‘forgiven’ in the front of 20 Things God Can’t Do and showed her the 100 Bible verses in the back. I gave her a Bible study and got her email to give her some more things. She had her family’s Bible that she had taken for herself and I explained how John began and that she could read there. I also gave her the Rose publication “Following Jesus” because she said she was very busy with work and school and was having a hard time getting to Church. I also explained Zwingli’s symbolic view of the Mass and some other things. “Thank you, thank you,” she said happily as I got up to leave. I said she was welcome and maybe someday I would see her in Heaven and she could tell me she finished her degree. She liked that idea and I left having told her I would be praying for her each night.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed me and had a plan for the day.

In Him,

Bob