Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Hope your day was blessed today walking with Him. I had a good day on campus and Mahala prayed with me to receive Christ and Goldie committed to Christ say she would pray later. She was from South Africa. Black, had her hair straightened and combed down into a bob, wore glasses. She was under conviction so I hope she will pray, she said she went to Cru. She had said she had faith but she realized at the end she had never been trusting in Christ’s work on the cross to be forgiven.

Mahala was sitting in the ground floor lounge on the atrium that has vending machines in it on the south side of the BIC. She was wearing a purple blouse and had yoga pants on that were solid at the thighs and looked like a pair of nylons across the front, they had several holes in the front in either leg , might have been designed that way, there were not runs. She had curly, deep brown hair down past her shoulders and big eyes and wore huge eyelashes; she had a pretty face, pointed chin and wore heavy make-up. She said she had gone to church with friends growing up if there was a sleep over at their house that went over to Sunday and said she loved the church youth groups she went to in High School. She had gone on several mission trips too. She was a really nice person and had a simple heart but was a little unclear on what was true of Christianity. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said, “Well, everybody deserves a chance at happiness and to live peacefully whether in the after-life or your life [now].” She thought she had a 99% chance of going to Heaven. I began to explain the Gospel to her, that Jesus had died for her sins and His blood had cleansed her as a power now in the world, His righteousness was to her credit. She would repeat things I said and I would say them again with more clarity fixing what she’d said that was a bit off. “You explain this more clearly than they do at Church,” she said to me. I thanked her and continued to teach her. At one point she exclaimed, “Love it.” I think when I was explaining how we are saved by faith and though we should do good things to please God our good stuff did not fix our bad stuff but God could turn your bad things into good things quoting Romans 8:28. Then I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or if she thought something else and she picked the circle with God inside saying she’d want to be forgiven. I said, “It doesn’t seem like you’ve ever really put all this together before to place your trust in it.” She agreed so I said that if she’d like to place her trust in what Jesus had done to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. “I like that part,” she said (of the line, “Take control of the throne of my life, make me the kind of person you want me to be.”) “That He would take control.” So I said she could pray it silently so only God could hear saying “You know what this is like: God’s like a pretty girl, he likes to be asked.” She agreed that was true and said, “Sure.” And took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. She did not have a Bible so I gave her one and showed her the “Where to Turn” Section. “That would be really helpful,” she said. And I agreed the bible was a big book and some of it is hard to understand without scholarship so it is nice to know where to look for stuff. I said Jesus words were in red and showed her the Messianic passages section. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I gave her 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” in the front and “Just Ask”. I told her the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%, trusting in Jesus righteousness and she agreed. I gave her a Bible Promise book too. We talked a bit more and I told her I would be praying for her and getting up to leave I said, “God bless you, it was nice to meet you.” “Nice to meet you too,” she replied shaking my hand, “Thank you, you too.”

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

In Him,

Bob