Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today walking in the joy of the Lord. I saw a bit of sunshine and taught a segment of a comparative religions class for adult education at school that helped some people understand some things. Several walked up after and thanked me. And Damani prayed to receive Jesus today so that was great. He was sitting in the upstairs of the PE lounge. He had near shoulder length braids pushing out just past his chin under a blue hoodie. Handsome face, sharp jaw line, wide pointed nose and MJ mustache, wore black sweats. He played corner for the Football team and receiver, I asked if he had hops, if he could grab the rim and stuff, since he was only maybe 5’9″ and he said he did. We talked about football and making it and my neighbor who played a little in the league. He wanted to get into the NFL. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I always tried to do more good than bad. I always tried to help people.” He said he thought he had a 70% chance of going to Heaven. He had gone to church a little when he was young. So I began to go through the Gospel with him. He did not know what Jesus had done to take away his sins so I explained God justice was that we owed him something perfect in payment for anything that we did that damaged ourselves or anything else in his world and Jesus was the payment, dying on the cross and then He rose again. I explained that you had to trust in the Name of Jesus to get into Heaven, that He was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead. I made up a story suggesting some Chicago Bears player spotted us at school doing a talk here for some reason and since he’s peeps were not gonna show for the skybox seats he had he asks if we want to go to the game for free. He says he’ll leave the tickets at the gate. I asked for a suggestion for the imaginary player and he said Tarik Cohen. So we walk up and say our names but the woman at the gate says who left you the ticket? Then we say, Tarik Cohen and she finds the tickets and lets us in. So to get in we have to claim the name of who paid for the tickets, I explained and Jesus paid for your ticket into Heaven. He liked that and said, “Correlates.” I talked about sacrifice and how it was part of the world, like without an offensive line sacrificing you can’t getting any offense going. He agreed and said, “Facts.” In the end I asked if he wanted to be forgiven for his sins and he said, “Yes sir.” I talked him through the prayer and asked if was the desire of his heart and he said “Yeah,” nodding.  I said he could pray it silently to be forgiven trusting in Jesus he took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. He was grateful. I asked if he had a Bible and he said he’d have to find it. I asked if he’d like one and he said he would so I gave him one showing him the Where to Turn section and the Book of John to begin reading. I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. “Appreciate it,” he said taking the Bible. I explained that now trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be his righteousness the likelihood he would go to Heaven was 100%. I told him I would keep him in my prayers.  I explained the Christian life was asking for Gods power to give him the strength to do everything in life. I gave him a Bible study and he had to run to class and said “Appreciate ya.” And I said, “Yeah.” And we each headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob