Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day and weekend so far has been a blessing from the Lord supplying all your needs. I had a good day on campus Thursday and Nicole prayed with me to receive Jesus. Grace was close to trusting in Christ too (a heavy set girl with short brown hair, nice smile from an Anglican background). So I’ll be praying that she sees the light of God’s word. She could not think of how Christ had taken away her sins.

Please God draws Nicole into a deeper walk with Jesus and Grace to saving faith. Nicole’s notes are below if you have the time.

I was in the big SSC lounge at the exit for Starbucks. I felt a nudge to turn down the hall along Starbucks, it runs sort of southwest. Nicole was sitting in some benches that face each other, designed I think to be on either side of a table. They are against the wall in the foyer entrance to the doorway at the top of the waterfall they turn off outside in winter. She looked to be in her 40’s, had gone to grad school and was picking up a class for something at COD. She said she wanted to travel. People in her age bracket are not common at school and usually turn me down to talk. She had stick-straight brown hair and her oval face was nondescript. I guess she could have been a character on “Little House on the Prairie”. She looked a bit worn out, wore a fleece and jeans. I sat across from her to ask questions and then sat at her feet closer to go through the Gospel. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. She said, “I believe because I’ve tried very hard to be a good person. I tried to be inclusive when it was not a popular opinion. I tried to volunteer my time and recourses to people who needed it. I tried to help those less fortunate and animals. I tried to live life to the fullest.” She said she was raised pretty religious and was forced to go to Church as a kid. When they got into High School they were able to push back more against their parent’s desire that they should go and went less often. By the time she was through college and then grad school she had a family and never went anymore. She listened to the Gospel and knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. She’d gone to a lot of different Churches growing up, some Roman Catholic. She listened to the Gospel and as I finished telling her of the blood and righteousness of Christ I said the blessings of adoption into God’s family, “The sacrifice for your sins the blood that cleanses you and the righteousness of God that surrounds you,” could be had, received by faith. “So if you believe Jesus is God He died for your sins and rose from the Dead. Not that you just knew the story from when you were a kid but that’s what you place your trust in as an adult to be forgiven. So if someone would say to you, ’Why should God let you into Heaven?’ You’d say because Jesus died for me. If you place your trust in that they you have faith in Jesus. And the Bible says ‘For it’s by grace you have been saved through faith. It’s not of yourselves it’s a gift from God and no by works so no one can boast.’ So you should do good things to please God. You seem to have done a lot. But the good stuff you do can’t fix your bad stuff.” I explained God could turn our bad things into good things [Romans 8:28]. I asked if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else. “Be forgiven,” she replied simply. So I said if she’d want to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it asking if she’d want to pray it silently. “Sure,” she replied. She then prayed to receive Christ. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible study on the ways Jesus claims to be God in the Bible linking the New Testament to the Old and I gave her Lee Strobel’s Booklet, The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I explained living by the Spirit’s power, “Inside Out” and I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day. I got to my feet to go and she said, “Thanks, have a good day.” I thanked her and headed out kind of amazed really. I get to talk to so few people who are older, sometimes I forget God is at work in any whose hearts have not grown hard in the tasks of life.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism if you had time this past week. 5 people prayed with me to receive Jesus. 25 have this semester

In Him,

Bob