Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed so far with all good things coming down from the Father of Lights. I had a good day on campus and Martin, Desha and Morgan each prayed with me to receive Jesus today. Eddie took The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. Thanks so much for your prayers. Their stories are below if you have time.

Martin was sitting with his back to the staircase in the foyer area outside the cafeteria. He was sitting in a sofa chair wore a light tan sweatshirt and dark sweats, a watch cap and had transparent frame glasses, large semi-circular. He had a small Errol Flynn style mustache a light sandy brown color—same color curly wavy hair came out an inch all around from under his cap. His face was pretty rough and badly scarred, bigger guy good looking. He went to Catholic Church every Sunday. When I asked him what he would say to get into Heaven he said, “I would say umm… Because I tried my best.” He thought he had a 50% chance of going to Heaven. I went through the Gospel with him and in asking what Jesus had done to take away his sin he said, “He forgives it?” I said, “God actually forgives you because He got paid.” I explained then the Gospel and ended up saying the reason the priest can tell you, you are forgiven, when you confess your sins is because he knows God got paid. He does not forgive your sin he is telling you God forgives you.” I used the example of an insurance agent and car insurance, when you wreck your car the agent does not pay the company pays. He took it all in. When I asked f he wanted to be forgiven or thought something else he said, “Forgiven.” So I explained there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it. “I don’t have much time now but I promise I will pray this later.” I said if he prayed now I would pray for him all year and he smiled and prayed then to receive Jesus. I gave him Bible promises for You then writing his name and the date and forgiven in the front and quickly explained the Christian life by the Spirit’s power.  He was grateful and I headed out telling him I would pray for him through next spring and all next school year. I got up and said I’d see him in Heaven and headed out.

Desha (day jza) was sitting on a row of chairs where the hallway ends into outside doors or turns into the tunnel to the PE building. I sat next to her on the floor. She had on torn up jeans and a white sweatshirt. Her long straightened hair was nearly to her elbows and she had on rectangle shaped black glasses, nice looking African American girl, upbeat and cheerful, warm smile. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. She said, “I feel my time on Earth I did my dues. I prayed I was thankful, I gave what I could to people who need me.” She thought she had a 50% chance of going to Heaven. When I asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sins she did not say Jesus had died and was uncertain. I went through the Gospel with her then and she took it all in patiently. When I asked her if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done she, pulled up her sleeve and showed me a sentence tattooed there I could barely see (it’s poorly lit where we sat) that had the word blessed in it saying, “See.”. So I said, “This is the greatest of all God’s blessings.” Then said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. I went thought the prayer with her saying if she had never asked God to forgive her before trusting in Jesus she could pray silently and asked if she’d want to pray. “Yes.” She said brightly and she took the booklet saying, “Thank you.” She prayed then to receive Jesus.  I explained the Christian life to her living by the Spirit’s power. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the inside. I told her the likelihood now she would get into Heaven trusting in the righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and said I would be praying for her each night until next spring and through the next year. She got up to run to class and said, “Thank you so much.” And we both headed out.

As I entered the PE lounge there were two African American girls were sitting at a table. I had not seen them before so I thought I would ask them to do a survey. Before I crossed the room from the staircase one got up and walked over to two other black girls by the vending machines leaving Morgan behind and she was willing to do a survey. She looked athletic, was tall, she had on navy blue running sweats with Adidas stripes up the sides. She had a pretty oval face with soft features. Her hair was in narrow braids close to her head in a bun behind it.  When I asked Morgan what she would say to God to get into Heaven she said,  “That I prayed to Him and asked for His help all the time.  He gets me through the day.” She had not gone to church much since she was a kid. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she did not know what Jesus had done to take away her sins. I had just begun to talked about the imputed righteousness of Christ when her friend returned and I asked for a moment more to her friend, but Morgan disregarded her, even later when she called out to her having crossed over to the doors she seemed unconcerned. I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else and she said she would be like to be forgiven. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it. She sat there reading it then and I said did you pray it and she picked it up and prayed to receive Jesus then. I explained living the Christian life by the Spirit and she thanked me. I then gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I explained the Bible study and living by the Spirit’s power quickly, telling her I would be praying for her and that now the likelihood she would g to Heaven was 100%. She thanked me again and got up to meet up with her friends who by then had crossed the room.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God truly blessed the work.

In Him,

Bob