Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today with the leading of the Spirit into love and good things. I had a good day on campus and Gaetano prayed to trust in Christ today. He was Latino. I got to present the Gospel to a couple of Muslim girls sitting together at the counter in the cafeteria too, so it was a good day. They really seemed to enjoy it and both took a booklet and the little tract “Jesus and the Quran.”  Leen from Jordan who moved here when she was 6 (slight build, long dark brown hair and round plastic glasses) and Jud(e) from Saudi Arabia (Long lighter brown hair wire-rim glasses) who had just been here a few weeks, but had gone to an English speaking school. Both spoke English with no accent. Neither wore a head scarf. They said they believed in it, but were not ready to commit. They listened attentively and politely to the Gospel.

When I got too school, I had had a poor night’s sleep and was still a bit worn out from everyone I spoke with yesterday. I asked God to give me some leading as to where I should go and I got a picture in my mind of the PE lounge. So I decided that was as good an idea as any and headed over that way, asking some students along the way, but no one was interested. Gaetano [Guy tan oh] was sitting in the upstairs of the lounge at a table against the glass, looking down on the pool. He had a thin mustache and a beard that began more or less on his jaw line and rectangle glasses. He was not very tall, wearing a jacket and jeans, fair skin. He had kind of a square face and a medium brown hair parted on the side swept to the right. He knew Jesus had died for his sins and was a practicing Catholic. He had taken an Old Testament class at COD last semester. When I asked him if he wanted to do a survey, questions about how you get to Heaven, he said, “I can listen to you for a while.” So I asked him some questions. He thought he had about a 40% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I don’t know what I’d say. I’d be more in shock than anything in meeting Him.” I began to go through the Gospel with him. He understood a lot of it already and knew Jesus had died for his sins. He followed well as I explained “When you think about it, what God wants most from you is what you would want in someone you married, to believe Him.” “Trust,” he immediately put in. “Right,” I replied. As I finished explaining the righteousness of Christ imputed to him he saw how everything fit together, so I asked if he’d want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. He wanted to be forgiven, so I asked if he had been trusting in what Jesus had done for him or had known the story but had not really applied it to himself to be forgiven. He thought maybe it was “50/50” So I said, “Well, if you would like to completely trust in Jesus to be forgiven, there is a prayer you could pray.” And I walked him through it, explaining he was asking God to live inside him (to know Him personally) and was expressing he was grateful for being forgiven. I asked if he’d like to pray it silently so only God could hear and be sure he was forgiven by trusting in Christ. “Yeah, I’ll do it,” he replied. And he prayed to receive Jesus. He had seen me around a few times he’d said. We talked about prophecy and the limitations of science to know truth. He had begun to take a New Testament class with a professor I knew who was a Christian. I gave him 2 Rose publications, one listed 100 prophecies Jesus had fulfilled and the other show some scholarly reasons to trust the Bible. I also gave him a Bible study on the deity of Christ and explained living inside out by the Spirit’s power, that everything God was asking him to do He would give him the power to do. He wanted to work with autistic kids and I said God’s Spirit could help him break through the limitations of communication in a learning environment.  He felt he had found some validations of the Bible himself. We talked about the likelihood that there had been a worldwide flood, as 500 different cultures in the ancient world are on record in their belief there was a flood of some kind that destroyed all or nearly everything. He thanked me as we finally got up to leave, over an hour later, and shook my hand and said he’d look for me. I got his email to send him some stuff. I said I would keep him in my prayers and that when someone decided to trust Christ and prayed with me I kept them in my prayers each night until that spring and for one year following. He said he would pray for me too and I thanked him and we parted Brothers. He had met the Lord.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed. We had 4 kids at our discipleship Bible study tonight so that was great. One, Stephanie, prayed to receive Jesus last semester.

Blessings,

Bob