Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

How’s your day been? It is beautiful weather over by me and I had another good day on campus today. Two guys prayed with me to receive Christ. Chris was sitting outside on a bench. He had a pretty cool look going on, black dude with short hair in front and on top and then long braids coming out the back (kind of like in the movie “Predator”), cool glasses. I asked if he wanted to do a survey and he said that he thought he had last year. A guy came to Christ last year that did not look like him in my memory at all with the same name, but his grandfather was a pastor so I checked — wasn’t him. Sometimes my mind’s eye can’t be counted on, if someone changes their hair or isn’t wearing a cap, now wears glasses, I might not remember them right from a 15 minute conversation a year back. So I asked him, “Well, how did you answer this question: “You’re walkin’ down the road and you get hit by a bus, so you’re dead, and ya stand before God and he says, ‘Why should I let you into heaven?’ What would you say?” He said something about being good, and I said, “Yeah, that’s the wrong answer man. I got this little booklet that helps explain it.” and he said, “Yeah, I think you showed me that, does it have a planet in it?” I said it did. So I went through the Gospel with him again (ha not that I remembered doin’ it the last time from the 400 conversations I had last year, he might have been sitting with a bunch of guys and kind of tuned me out). This time he really began to track with me and the Lord was in it. I the end he said he had not prayed to have his sins forgiven based on what Jesus had done for him and he prayed with me to receive Christ. Pretty Great. I told him about Bible study and got his e-mail, he seemed interested so we’ll see. I gave him More than a Carpenter to read and a Bible (as he did not have one) encouraging him to read in the Book of John and about the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5. I talked to him some more and he was interested in Creation, bright guy, so I gave him The Case for a Creator. So 2nd times the charm right? He was cool so I hope he comes to Bible study.

Then I texted another guy who had been having some hard things happen and wanted to get lunch, it was a bit after 2 PM. Turned out he wasn’t ready to deal but while I was waiting for a text back I headed into the lunch room. Kevin said he would do a survey with me. Kind of a tough looking black dude. Really short hair cut, sweats, intelligent guy. I went through the gospel with him and I could tell by the way he interacted he knew it. Though his answers to the survey stuff and been short. In the end he wanted to pray to receive Christ and be forgiven. So he did and I said, “It seemed like you knew this stuff.” And he replied, “Yeah. But I just pushed it aside.” “But now you haven’t?” And he looked at me and said, “Right.” He took More than a Carpenter from me and a Bible study and really did not seem to want anything else. He was just finally ready to believe and ask for forgiveness today. I think sometimes someone with the gift of evangelism has to preach at some of these peeps and that coupled with the prayers that go out with me, God works in them through His Holy Spirit. It’s great to be a closer in baseball if God’s got your arm and so you are hitting your spots.

So thanks for your prayers today. I had a couple other good conversations with some students, their faith crystallized and a couple were just a nudge closer to the truth. God once again gave me divine appointments.

In Him,

Bob Bollow