Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you day was blessed with a sense of God’s love for you and you had good weather. It was over 50 here today so hey. I had a good day on campus and Adrienne and Kyle each prayed to receive Jesus today. Please pray they grow in their faith. Their stories are below if ya got some time.

Adrienne (Adrian) was sitting in one of the couch chairs by the student activities office. She was looking at her phone and said she’d do a survey. She was heavy set wearing multi colored plaid leggings and a white t-shirt.  African American, she had multi colored “cat’s eye” glasses on she had a round face, rounded features and her hair was long and pulled back behind her head teased out but not straightened. She said she had ADHD and seemed a bit unfocused. I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked why should I let you into Heaven. “Because despite all my downsides I tried to be a good person.” She thought she had a 75% chance of going to Heaven. It seemed like she had been raised in Christianity and when I asked she knew Jesus had died on the cross to take away the sins of the world. As I went through each point of the Gospel I asked if she understood making sure I was drawing her back in, the phone never left her hand but she was not looking at it directly. I asked her after explaining that Jesus was a payment for her sins she needed to trust in by faith if she would want to be forgiven. “Forgiveness sounds good,” she replied. So I asked if she believed Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. “It’s what my Grandma taught me, I loved my grandma,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it. “Sorry I missed that,” she said when I asked if it was the desire of her heart. I’d seemed to lose her to her phone for a moment and then she said she had ADHD. So I talked her through it again, she focused this next time and I asked if she would want to be forgiven praying it silently. “Yeah,” she decided and prayed to receive Christ. “I liked that prayer,” she said then. She did not have a Bible so I gave her one; she wanted the larger study Bible. I showed the page where 99 Doctrines are listed and where they appear in scripture. I explained what cross references were and how to use the notes in back. I gave her the Book Bible Promises for You. A friend came by then, Lazar, a everyman looking white guy with glasses so I got his name shook his hand, engaged with them both a bit and having told her I would pray for her I headed out. She’d had some interest in witchcraft so I’ll be praying that washes out.

I went through the Gospel with Phillip in the cafeteria who had a narrow mustache and a bit a beard along his jaw line. Good looking guy with sharp features and narrow line stripped shirt on and a pink ball cap with something that looked like a cloud on it. He said he was on the fence still trying to figure it all out but happily took The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and I headed off hoping a seed was planted.

Kyle looked Asian, wide nose, thin build, wore wire rimmed glasses with large roundish lenses. He was sitting in the second floor hallway waiting for his girlfriend to get out of class. He had a white hoodie pulled up over his head, and grey sweats on, fair skin. His shoulder length hair, was kind of wavy, not stick straight and he was fair skinned and might have been mixed race in ethnicity. He was an intelligent kid and had a lot of questions about life he asked me after he had prayed to receive Christ, about how I’d lived. When I asked him one thing he’d want to do before he died he said, “Watch my kid or kids grow up.” Having a family is usually a tell for a young guy that he will trust in Christ in my experience going through the Gospel with students. He said he was “Only 20,” and wasn’t sure if he’d have other stuff he’d want to do. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. “I’ve never been like a strong believer. I’m willing to try to work on my faith I guess. Yeah. I really wouldn’t know what to say.” I asked what the likelihood was he would get into Heaven and he said, “Maybe 75%”. He was raised by two Catholic parents; he said he went to church these days only on Holidays a few times each year. He listened as I began to go through the Gospel with him and knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. When I read the verse that said Jesus had been see by 500 people al at one time he said, “Wow,” not having heard that before. As I finished I asked if he would want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. “I would be forgiven,” he said. I said that if he’d want to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. After I went through it I asked if it was the desire of his heart, “Yeah” he replied. So I said he could pray it now and he shrugged and but then nodded and prayed to receive Christ. I asked him if he had a bible and he didn’t so I gave him one that had a “Where to Turn” section in back for questions and messianic passages Jesus had fulfilled. I put his name and the Date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave him a Bible study and Bible Promises for You. We talked a while since he had about 20 minutes until his girlfriend showed up, he was waiting for her class to end. He said something about being on the fence with his faith, meaning pursuing it. I said that now he’d trusted in Christ and that is an act of faith and he was just on the other side and he could ask God to guide and help him. I explained living inside out by the Spirit’s power and told him I would be praying for him. His Girlfriend Hannah showed up and he introduced me and I said hi to her and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob