Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

How’s the life over by you? Good I hope. Things went well on campus today. I didn’t manage to get into too many conversations but hey were good ones and Gaby and Quanell prayed to receive Jesus.

Gaby was just sitting in a lounge on the ground floor in the SSC. We talked for about an hour. Brown hair glasses boots, 21. She is Roman Catholic but she said typically getting everyone in the family to church on a Sunday created so much stress and bad feelings that her family just kind of gave up, since the end result was counterproductive. She wanted to travel the world and hopes to go into pediatrics and become a doctor. We talked about that and the state of the world for quite a while and then about the Gospel and taught it to her, she did not know how God worked to take away her sins. I asked her if she wanted to receive Christ. She said she wanted to be forgiven her hesitation was forgiveness for things she did. She said sometimes she did things she knew were wrong and might hesitate over them but did them anyway. She had a hard time with the idea that God would forgive deliberate sin. I Reminded her about the love of God and the severe solution for a severe problem the cross is, about God’s love for her and that Paul basically says he does the same thing, and I paraphrased Romans 7:19 “For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice the very evil that I do not wish.” I said, “God knows the future it is not as if He is surprised by your sin but forgives you and has a plan to fix it. He made us out of dust after all his expectations are not that high (that we would be perfect though we would have to be to go to heaven without His work). But also you have to watch your pride; it is pride that tells us we have done something that even God would not forgive when He tells us He will.” That seemed to resonate with her. I read through the prayer for her and asked her if it was the desire of her heart she said it was and I said well if you will promise me you will pray this tonight I promise to pray for you through the end of this year and next year too. She promised. I gave her The Case for a Creator knowing what was to come in some of her science classes and a bible study on the deity of Christ.

Later in the Afternoon, maybe 2:15 or so I came upon Quanell waiting for a ride by the doors of the SRC building. He was up for doing my survey and we talked. He hoped he would be wealthy and was new in town and had just started to go to His Sister’s Church, Baptist he thought. He was trying to be good, “not to lie, be the best he could be” and seemed like a good guy. But he did not know how God took away his sins. I explained the work Jesus did to him and he tracked with me and wanted to be forgiven and have God live inside him. His ride called but he made them wait and prayed to receive Christ. I had explained the Holy Spirit to him and trusting in God’s power to live the Christian life. I quickly gave him a Bible Study on the Deity of Christ and His claims in the NT and a copy of More Than a Carpenter to read. Then got his e-mail quickly to send him stuff as he ran for his ride.

So a couple peeps came to believe on Jesus to pay for their sins and I had a good day. Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance and please pray for Quanell and Gaby to grow in faith and trust in Him.

In His love,
Bob