Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you week last week was blessed and you walked in peace with the Lord. I had a good week on campus and 5 people prayed to receive Jesus, (Pearla, Griffin, Irlanda, Jarely) including CJ on Thursday. His story is below. Thanks for your prayers.

I had some other work to do on Thursday and wasn’t sure I’d get to campus until a Bible Study I had (which cancelled due to a lost cell phone).  But I ended up getting to campus just over an hour early. A guy in the BIC hallway with curly mop of hair and a beard, Gabe, committed to Christ saying he’d pray his own prayer later. I found CJ in the cafeteria. He had a hoodie on and a grey watch cap and was kind of randomly unshaven. He was African American and had an oval face, his features were unique, his lips not very full and the side of his nose which was more narrow than the stereo typical black guy wear like a shield or a plate. Good looking guy. When I asked him what he would say to God if he died and were let into Heaven he said, “’cause we go way back and our moments we spent together are worth more than … the evil I’ve done on the earth.” He said he thought he had a 50/50 shot at Heaven but he then said “Not because I’m afraid [I won’t get in] I don’t know if paradise is the only thing, if there is something bigger I would want to go there.” I said, “The Bible says that ‘no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered the heart of man, the things He has prepared for those who love Him.’” He liked that. I went through the Gospel with him and he knew Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. So I began to explain to him the Gospel and 3 times during the verses I explained he affirmed what I said, with a “Makes sense”. I asked him if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “I would like to be forgiven,” he then said something like I also feel like God wants us to guide us. I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I began to explain the prayer reading with explanation, “Lord Jesus I want to know you personally.  I want you to live inside me Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. so your grateful I open the door of my life and receive you as my Savior and Lord, or my God Thank you for forgiving me of my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person you want me to be.” Then I said, “It says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart, so would you say it does?” he nodded and I said he could pray it silently and he said, “I just prayed it as you read it.” “Great I said. I then went on to explain the likelihood he would go to Heaven, with all that it was now 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of God to save him. I told him the Christian life living “Inside > Out” by the power of the Spirit to strengthen and guide him. He had a Bible but I gave him Bible Promises for You writing his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. He was very grateful for it and I also gave him a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. “Thank you may God bless you, thank you for this!” He was happy for the materials. “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said, “If you get there first you can show me where all the cool places are. “He said he would and blessed me again and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob