Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day has been blessed with lots of friendly kiddos at the door. We’re handing out Rice Krispie treats if you are in the hood. Viktor prayed to receive Jesus today and I crossed paths with Brandon who had committed to Christ last week and he said hi so I asked, “Did you pray that prayer?” And he smiled happily and said he had so I said I would put him on my prayer list but that I had actually been praying for him already. He was happy to hear it.  The first person I talked to was Mitch who was having a lot of trouble with an X-Girlfriend he’d had a baby with. He said he hadn’t gotten to read the book I gave him before yet (The Case for Christ Student Edition) but said he had thought a lot about what I had said. We talked about suffering and signs, and he had been praying some and felt like God had given him some peace showing me a rainbow he’d seen. I explained that a rainbow was God hanging his Bow of war (as in a Bow and Arrows) in the sky as a promise He would not destroy all humans again with a flood. It was his sign of making peace with men. I quoted his some other verses and gave him my contact information again and encouraged him that if he trusted in Christ by the power of His Spirit in him things would not get at him so much and he’d be able to throw off more of a Spirit of Peace to his X and his child. He is a pretty intense guy.

After talking a while with Mitch I went down the hall and found Viktor sitting on a row of chairs. He was wearing a winter hat with a couple strands of hair falling out on either side of his forehead, he had a diamond stud in either earlobe that were too big to be real. He could have been the fourth brother of Alec Baldwin though he had a slightly less pronounced nose, a bit more baby faced. He wore blue sweats and a slightly darker navy blue hoodie. We talked a bit about God. He had had anxiety attacks for about 3 months and had prayed for that time asking God to take them away and felt like He had taken that away. He had gone to a Catholic Church a bit when he was younger and now went holidays and told me he believed in God. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I’m a good hearted person; I’m not perfect, um… I don’t think I’ve done anything to maliciously destroy someone’s life.” I asked him how likely it was he’d go to Heaven and he said, “I’m not that religious, I wouldn’t know. 60-70%. I would hope I go to Heaven, I don’t know.” He listened closely to the Gospel and told me as I went through it about the things I’ve said already. He knew Jesus had taken away the sins of the world but I’m not sure he’d put it together as to how. After I explained Christ’s righteousness was given to those who became God’s children and his blood cleansed him, I asked if he’d want to be forgiven trusting in Christ or thought something else. He said, “I’d want to be a Christian,” pointing at the circle I’d described as Christ living in you with His Spirit because you’ve trusted in Christ. I asked if he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead and he said he did so I said then if he believed in that he could place his trust in that to be forgiven. I explained God liked to be asked and so there was a prayer he could pray silently and having gone through it I read, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” “Um hmm,” he replied looking at the words and nodding so I said something like, wanna do it. He took the booklet without replying and prayed to receive Christ. He didn’t have a Bible so I gave him one and put his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. He thanked me for it. I gave him a Bible study and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote Just ask and By the Spirit’s Power in the front having explained God would give him all the power to do what he was asking him to do. He told me he might like to study radiology at school but it was pretty competitive so he wasn’t sure he’d get in so I’ll pray God gives him a solid path. He thanked me as we parted ways. “Yeah, I’ll keep you in my prayers,” I said having told him I’d be praying for him until the Spring of 2021. “Thanks,” he said. And I headed off.

I had some more conversations with kids I knew but didn’t find anyone else willing to hear the Gospel and after a couple hours more as my headache kicked back in I shortened my day a bit and headed home to serve the little tikes at the door and Baby sit the neighbors baby as the dad was sick and the other sibs needed their mom’s company still.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God blessed me in the time I had on campus.

In Him,

Bob