Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ.

I hope your day was blessed as mine was on campus. Karina prayed with me to receive Jesus (please pray for her to be blessed). Another girl Keema (had green tints all through her hair, tiny girl dressed all in black) was close, saying, after I walked her through the prayer, “I think this might help me.”  Then closed the booklet. I talked to her more and gave her a Bible Promises for You book.

I went to student activities and the girl at the desk said she had no knowledge of written conditions for the Public entering the school and that to the best of her knowledge it had been open to the public in the same manner it always was. I have a friend who works with a different organization you would recognize the name of on campus that does campus outreach and Bible Studies. He said no one has spoken to him about his movements on campus at all saying he has received nothing in writing concerning limiting his activities at school. His club reserved a large public room for their Bible studies so they obviously know he is there. Another campus group is (I believe) doing student surveys to begin the year and get contacts as I have talked to sever students who did them. Several who did surveys have prayed with me to receive Christ, some were not interested in hearing more. But I know this campus groups actions have not been critiqued (by officialdom at COD).  I don’t know if their staff has done the surveys along with the students but I assume so as that has been the modus operandi of past years. So I guess I will wait until the police wish to talk with me again and take notes for our lawyer if they do. Here is Karina’s story if you feel like taking the time.

Karina was sitting in the cafeteria. By the time I got there it was late in the day, only one other person was in the huge room. I first looked in and thought it was empty. But walking around the angle of the vending machines I saw her sitting at a table alone, seeming to study. She said she’d do a student survey and it turned out she went to a local church where friends of ours have attended. She was raised catholic, however. She walked thought the parking lot later when I was sitting talking on the phone in my truck and I saw she had kind of a Saundra Bullock look, squared chin and her dark brown hair was long past her shoulders. She had milk-white plastic framed glasses and skinny jeans with ripped knees. She wore a dusty dark green velour long-sleeved top. She had a black mask on with a Christian fish symbol with a little cross in it. When I asked her if she died and stood before God what she would say to get into Heaven she said, “Umm, hmmm,” thinking a while and then, “That’s hard.” Finally she said, “That He necessarily doesn’t have to let me into Heaven. She thought her chance of going to Heaven was 50/50. So I began to go through the Gospel with her and she knew Jesus had died for our sins when I asked her what He had done to take her sins away. But she had not been trusting in it. I explained the righteousness of God, saying earlier than I usually do that if she would trust in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100%. I explained His blood that cleanses us from sin and believing by faith.  Saying there were two kinds of persons those trusting in what Jesus had done for them so that God could live inside them and those who did not. Then I explained that the Spirit gave us power to live the Christian life and then we could live “inside out” where God’s power changes us, we become good people and do good things. She was engaged all through, I could see in her eyes though her mask was up. I asked if she would want to trust in Jesus to be forgiven and know she was going to Heaven. She seemed to be thinking but I just went on and said, “If you’d like to trust in Jesus there’s a prayer you can pray,” and I talked her through it. I said, “It says here is this prayer the desire of your heart?” She nodded. So I said if she wanted she could, “pray it silently right now and be forgiven, wanna do it?” “Sure” she said evenly. And she took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus, ending by crossing herself. I restated the Christian life, trusting in the Spirit’s power to transform us. I gave her a copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” on the inside flap. I also gave her a Bible Study on how Jesus claims to be God and she said, “Thank you. Thank you. I really appreciate it.” I said sure and I would pray for her each day for a year and said, “Now you’re all set.” She thanked me again and I headed out to the truck.

So thanks for your prayers for my ministry troubles and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God Blessed in spite of my recent angst.

In Him,

Bob