Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope ya had a good day walking with the Lord. I had a good day on campus. Jason and Giancarlo prayed to receive Christ and I bumped into Brian who said he would pray later and he said he had done so. So I’m grateful for God being willing to use the ministry on campus to get people directed to their life with God. Their stories are below if you have some time today, please pray they grow in their faith.

Jason was sitting on the chairs in front of the doors into the tunnel into the PE building from the BIC. He had a curly strings of thick hair to his jaw-line wore rectangular wire rimmed glasses. He was a tall athletically built guy. Wore athletic shorts and a bluish t-shirt, angular facial features. He said he was a part of his college group he said he’d do a survey. He wasn’t cheerful at all but stat through the survey, he might have been having a bad day. When I asked him what he would say to God he said, “Hum… If it’s my time to die, I feel like I’ve served my purpose on Earth.” He thought he had a 75% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked him in presenting the Gospel what Jesus had done to take away his sins he thought for a minute and said, “I’m drawing a blank. I said no worries it will probably all come back to ya. I don’t know that it did altogether however and I think the Gospel seemed novel to him. But as I finished I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus or thought something else. He said, “The right,” choosing the circle with God inside. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and explained it saying he could pray it silently and asked if he wanted to he nodded and took the booklet then after a few moment he handed to back saying. “I’m sorry to cut this short but I have to meet one of the coaches.” I said “No worries. Wanna keep the booklet?” He took it and headed off and I said, “This is 100%.” And he headed down the tunnel. He’d been glancing at his phone so I knew he had to be somewhere. So wishing I’d had a few moments more I headed out.

Giancarlo was sitting on some of the sofa chairs in 1^st floor lounge at the bottom of the stairs near student activities. He looked like a young Charles Bronson, had the beginnings of his mustache and a mop of swept back hair, slightly more rounded features. He was a good natured guy. Wore a t-shirt and jeans. When I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “Humm that’s a complex question, what you’d say to God…” Then thinking a bit more he said, “I always avoided doing things out of ill will.” I agreed saying they say you should never punish your children until you have cooled down and he agreed. I asked him what the likelihood was he would get into Heaven and he said, “I don’t know what constitutes you going. You should learn the Bible and devote yourself to God. You can’t just be a good person. I used to be a catholic but I’m not so sure. I hope 60-79%> “Just passing I opined and he laughed saying, “Yeah.” I went through the Gospel with him and he remembered Jesus had died to take away his sins. When I had finished explain the Blood of Christ had paid for his sins and His righteousness was to his credit by faith I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else he replied. I guess the intelligent answer is to be forgiven for your sins. I don’t know I have been intending to get into faith again and this would be a place to start.”  I agreed it was a way to begin with God. He decided he would give God control of his life and prayed to receive Christ and be forgiven. And he prayed to receive Christ. He had a Bible and I gave him a Bible Study on the deity of Christ and a Bible Promises for You book writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” On the inside and he grinned when I wrote the last. He took the full sized copy of The Case for Christianity Answer Book and was genuinely interested to learn some more having studied on his own. He said he would contact me about a Bible study if he was interested but it would be good to have someone to ask questions of. So we exchanged phone numbers. I told him 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 pray for him through next spring and then a year after one of Paul’s prayers in the Bible saying he had a lot of good one lines. He thanked me and I headed out.

A while later I bumped into Brian sitting in the MAC lounge. I had forgotten his face for a second but then when I got his name I recognized him and told him I had been praying for him. I asked if he had prayed that prayer in the booklet. He said he had. I had described him before sitting in the cafeteria a Latino guy, hair short, shaved sides straight flat mop of hair on top, had the blue collar look to him, mustache and smattering of beard. He still was that guy half shaved. He was cheerful. When I had asked him before what he would say to God to get into Heaven he said, “I’m a child of God.” He was a faithful Catholic and simply had never asked God to forgive him based on what Jesus had done. So I’m glad he prayed to receive the Lord and trust in His blood and righteousness.

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

In Him,

Bob