Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

How’s the life over by you and yours? We are doing good and my aspirin has not worn off yet so I hope I can write this in an hour or so. I had a good day on campus and  Amber and Geet Each prayer to receive Jesus today.

I felt prompted to go to the third floor of the BIC today when I first arrived and I found Amber sitting in the far northeast corner lounge. She was sitting alone at a table and said she’d do a student survey. She seemed a tad reluctant in part it seems because she thought her church so boring. She went to a Methodist church and the pastors were all replaced (the Methodist Church does to keep control in the hands of the Hierarchy) with other pastors that her brother and her decided could not even tell a story. I kept her entertained, telling some word pictures and tales I use to communicate the Gospel and got her to laugh but I was prompted to pray and ask God to work in her heart as I approached the end of our conversation so she would be genuinely believing and not sold on something not in her heart. She was a big girl with a pretty face, long semi-blonde hair to her shoulders a low cut shirt and a black fleece like coat with a brown faux fur collar. She thought for a bit after I asked her what she would say to God if she died and was asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” She finally settled on, “I did the best I could with what I got.” She thought she had about an 80% chance of going to Heaven. I said if God lived inside her it would mean she knows Him and would have eternal life. I asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins so God could live inside and she knew Jesus had died. She was pretty engaged whenever I kicked in with a word picture to illustrate a verse and said, “I guess I would wanna be forgiven” when I asked her if she wanted God to live inside her or thought something else. So I said there was a prayer she could pray if she wanted as no one would hear her and she said. “Sure, and she smiled.” She finished praying before I looked up again. I explained the Christian life to her then saying it was 100% she would go to Heaven if she trusted in Christ’s righteousness to be her righteousness. I gave her the book Bible Promises for You which she agreed to take with bit of hesitation until I wrote her name and the Date and :forgiven” in the front and “By the Spirit’s power, just ask” having explained that she lived the Christian life by asking for His Spirit to give her power to do everything. Then I think she was glad for it and I gave her a Bible study too. I told her I would keep her in my prayers each night until 2021 spring and she thanked me. “It was nice to meet you,” I said shaking her hand from the opposite side to the table. “Nice to meet you too,” she replied. “God bless you.” “God bless you too I replied and I headed out.

Geet was sitting on the second floor overlooking the MAC Arts building lounge at a counter height table. He was visibly Filipino though all that was visible over his black mask over his nose and mouth was his eyes and hair. He was slight with a flannel shirt on that had an attached grey hood and jeans on. His voice sounded somehow familiar but I knew I had never talked to a guy named Geet before even if I could not see his face. The black mask he wore was like a surgical mask and he said he wore it because it was cold outside, but of course he was inside so I’m not absolutely sure what was going on.  He reached out and shook my hand as I left so he wasn’t a germaphobe. His hair was short and stick straight. He was fair skinned and said he was half French his eyelids were darker as it they had eye shadow his eyes not classically Asian.  I asked him what he would say to get into Heaven and he said, “I don’t know. I guess… ah… that’s a tough one… Because I believe.” He thought he was sure he would go to Heaven, 100%. He attended a Catholic Church sometimes. He knew Jesus had died for his sins but as I went through the Gospel it was like he was hearing it all for the first time. I explained we owed God something perfect for anything we had damaged or misused in this life even if we only hurt ourselves. I said Jesus lived a perfect life and his righteousness was to our credit.  He was really turned in based on the changing movement of his eyes and he verbal expressions. As I finished what I usually say to communicate the Gospel and said, “So there’s basically two kind of people,” beginning to point at the circles. “People who want to be forgiven for their sins…” and then he cut me off, “I definitely want to be forgiven!” he said suddenly and firmly. So I said there was a prayer he could pray to be forgiven and I began to read through and explain it then saying he could pray it quietly in his heart. “I actually just prayed it,” he said. So I went on to explain the Christian life and he did not have a Bible so I gave him one writing his name and the date and forgiven” in the front. I showed him the “Where to Turn” section and the one with Messianic passages. I gave him a Bible study and talked to him about praying and asking God for help in everything he did. “Just pray, that’s what I like to do.” he replied. He was upbeat and happy and I talked to him about some other things and said he could email me if he had any questions. “I’ll shoot you an email,” he said. He was grateful and I said, “If I don’t see you again I’ll see you in Heaven.” “Yeah, I’ll see you in heaven,” he replied in a happy tone of voice. And I headed out.

So thanks for your prayers for evangelism and for the ministry. God truly blessed today.

In Him,

Bob