Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today. I had a good day on campus and a guy, Reese I had gone through the Gospel with on September 20 prayed with me to receive Christ who formerly and identified as a Muslim. So I guess God had me harvest the seed He had me plant a couple days ago. Efrain, a kind of “Where’s Waldo” looking guy, Latino, very reserved heard the Gospel and said, “I would seek to be forgiven if it were possible”. He had real joy after I went through the prayer with him saying he would pray later. He was in the science building and thinking me ran off to take a test.

Reese wanted to talk after I walked up to him to say hi. He was in blue sweats and a navy blue hoodie. He has long dreadlocks past his shoulders, a beard, looked like he’d walked out of Woodstock music festival from the neck up, granted no one there wore cotton sweats. He was sitting in the lounge just east of where we have Bible study near the entrance. When I had talked with him before (September 20) and gone through the Gospel with him he seemed open to the Gospel and I gave him the Student Edition of The Case for Christ when we parted. When I’d asked him what he would say to God if he’d died and was asked why He should let him into Heaven we’d lasted talked in the cafeteria. Then he said, “Well my understanding about Heaven is it’s an almighty place God allows people in who prove it to him. I feel like I try to prove to Him I am worthy of His time.” When I sat with him today he asked me if I thought we all had a purpose for being here, using the analogy of both of our being at school for different reasons. I think he was thinking still of earning God’s favor. I explained to him that God had a good purpose in the world for those who had partnered with Him. I quoted Romans 8:28 to him again as I had before “All things work together for good for them that Love God and are the called according to His purpose. I said God’s call goes out but not all respond. I said the first thing had to be first for God to work through us. Saying, “You can’t run out on the field without cleats on,” and he agreed. I explained Christ’s righteousness again which he needed to trust in not his own goodness. I told him how God had given everyone a measure of faith, using Romans 1 and the parable of the talents. But if you bury that faith and do not seek God from there, God will not have mercy on you. God called the servant who had done so evil and lazy. God says you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart. I pulled out a booklet again and wrote down verses as I had done for him before. I asked him did he believe Jesus was God he died for his sins and rose from the dead? He hesitated for a second like he would vacillate but then just didn’t and said, “Yes, I believe in Jesus.” So I said if he’d wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray, placing his trust in that to be forgiven. Then God would live inside him and give him all the strength he needed to live the Christian life. I talked him through it and asked if it was the desire of his heart and he said it was. So I said he could pray it right now and know he would be forgiven. He took the booklet then and prayed to receive Christ. He was happy about it. I gave him Strobel’s book The Case for Christianity Answer Book and I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” inside. I gave him my contact information if he had any questions. He had a Bible. He said his mom was a Christian and his family was both Muslim and Christian but they all got along. I gave him the book Bible Promises for You for his mom. I told him I would be praying for him through next spring and for one year after each night. He thanked me and I said if I did not see him soon I would see him in Heaven. I bumped into him later in the day walking out the door and he was happy still.

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

In Him,

Bob