Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you are warm and dry. I had a good day on campus and Flora and James each prayed with me to receive Christ.

Flora was up on the 3rd floor of the BIC sitting on a bench on the outside of the lounge with the vending machines on the south side. She was a colorful person, had reddish streaks in her dark brown hair. She wore black rectangular framed glasses, her nose turned up in a point (kinda like a elf) and her lips when relaxed were in bit of a frown.  But she was upbeat and pleasant. She wore some kind of sweats or leggings that were loose fitting, her knit, lose, crew neck sweater was black with narrow pink stripes. She said she’d do a survey and when I asked her what she would say to God she exclaimed, “Oh ____,” with an expletive and I laughed and said she probably should not say that. She agreed and thinking quickly said like it had dawned on her, “Cause I’m a child of God. I swear but…” She said she thought she had a 50% chance of going to Heaven. Her mother had converted from Roman Catholicism when she married her dad and become Greek Orthodox. So the big Holiday with family was Easter she said, when they always went to church and had “A lamb on a spigot.” I explained God wanted to live inside her but first had to make her His type and take away her sin. I asked how Jesus did that, she couldn’t think of anything. But she listened to my explanation of the Gospel, Our sin, Christ’s death and resurrection. His blood and imputation and a relationship entered by faith. When I asked her if she would like to be forgiven for her sins with God inside her or thought something else she said, “I would want to be forgiven for my sins with God inside.” So I offered her a prayer explaining it saying she could pray and be forgiven placing her faith in Jesus. “Right now!” she said her eyes wide taking the booklet away from me. I said, “Sure.” “Down on my knees or something?” “No just right here,” “Do I say it out loud,” “No you can do it quietly in your heart.” So she prayed then and received Christ. I explained living the Christian life and asked her if she had a Bible, “No I really want one though.” “I’ll give you one,” I replied. So I finished explaining the Holy Spirit and living “inside out” and gave her a Bible and showed her the “Where to Turn” section and explained what messianic passages were telling her Jesus words were in red. I wrote her name in the front and the date and “Forgiven”. I told her that if she would trust in the righteousness of God to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I also gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible study. She Thanked me. “I like your hair color it looks cool,” I said getting up to leave. “Thanks,” she replied, I just had it done yesterday.” And I headed out.

James was over in the science building waiting to get into class. He was studying to be a nurse. He is Filipino with fair skin; His features looked more classically African American, full lips and a broad nose. He was wearing an athletic fleece; half zipped with a team name across the front I never got an angle on to read, blue jeans and with tennis shoes. He was Roman Catholic. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I don’t know what I’d say.” So I asked him what he thought it was that got you to Heaven and he said, “Obey God’s commands.” He said he was a little sleepy and looked like he’d been studying. But he listened quietly to the Gospel and I got him to smile a few times. He knew Jesus had died to take away his sins. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven with God inside or thought something else. “Forgiven,” he replied. I said there was a prayer he could pray and walked him through it suggesting he could pray it silently and be forgiven and would he want to. “Yeah,” was all he said and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I took it back and showed him more of what was inside and then said he could keep it handing it to him and he said, “Thank you.” I also gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible study. I told him if he was trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I gave him a Bible a well as he did not have one. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside and gave him a symbolic view of the mass saying when he took it, it was to remind him Jesus had died for his sins and he could just say thank you. He seemed grateful and we said good bye and I headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob