Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you found grace walking with Him in peace. I had a good day on campus I cut a little short to help some friends fix up a rental property. But Janine prayed to receive Jesus and Melanie thought she would pray later so maybe she will. She had a round cute face with freckles and was wearing a winter cap and a hoodie, green pants. Played base in a band. I asked if she wanted to be forgiven after going through the Gospel and she said, “I’m down for that.” I asked if she “believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead?” She thought about that for a minute and said, “Yeah, I’m down with that I was raised Catholic so…” I said if she believed that she could place her trust in that to be forgiven she thought she’d like to do that. She wanted to think a bit about it the prayer after I explained it but thought she would pray later. “I like how you explained everything,” she said as I got up to go so I gave her Bible Promises for You and put her name and the date and “forgiven” with a box she could check if she prayed later and said if she’d let me know I’d pray for her until 2021 of Spring. She was cheerful as we parted and I gave her my number and left her in the hands of the Spirit to move her to Christ.

I found Janine at the end of the hallway out of the PE lounge that ends in a doorway to the outside revealing the outdoor theatre. She was sitting on a bench and no one else was down there at all. I don’t mind walking down there to ask one person if I can go outside at the end of the hall. If I have to turn around and walk all the way back it seems kind of awkward. But if you can’t do awkward you can be a contact evangelist so I went down to ask her and she said she’d do a student survey. She had a cute face semi round glasses and stick straight brown hair and a broad nose. She look Filipino I heritage. She came from a Roman Catholic Background. She wore a teal green jacket and black yoga pants. When I asked her what she would say to God if asked why He should let her into Heaven she thought a moment and said, “I believe I’m a good person.” “I believe you are you too,” I said smiling and she smiled back. She thought she had a 90% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked her what the big thing was that took away her sins she couldn’t think of anything and so I said, “That took away the sins of the world?” “I don’t remember anything,” she replied. So I just continued on and said something like “This is how it works.” I explained that Jesus had lived the perfect life we could not live for us and died to pay for our sins. His blood cleansed us and the righteousness of God was to our credit when God adopts us into His family and we become children of God. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven with God inside and or thought something else. “I would want to be forgiven,” she replied affirmingly. I asked if she’d like to trust in what Jesus had done to be forgiven. “Yeah,” she said. I told her there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it asking, “Is this prayer the desire of your heart?” “Yeah,” she said again. I said she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven would she like too? “Yeah,” she said again, she was engaged though. And she prayed to receive Christ. It turned out she did not have her own Bible so I gave her one showing her the Where to Turn section and the section on messianic passages. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I also gave her a Bible study and 20 Things God Can’t Do explaining the Christian life was By the Spirit’s Power and I wrote that and Just Ask in the front. I said that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%.  “It was nice to meet ya,” I said getting up to go. “Yeah it was nice to meet you too,” she said and was thankful. “Maybe after 40 years I’ll see ya in Heaven and you can tell me how things went,” I said. She laughed and said, “OK!” And I headed back down the long hall.

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

In Him,

Bob