Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Thanks for your prayers for the ministry of evangelism.  Today Jake came to Christ.  He was sitting in the science building.  Talkative white kid, slender short hair, went to Catholic Church Christmas and Easter primarily.  He said he kept a rosary in his car and prayed regularly.  He was talkative, a great kid.  Saved his friends life once.  His dad is a truck driver and he said his mom has a Bible study in her house.  I wouldn’t be surprised if his mom was praying for him.  He had prayed for forgiveness sometimes but had no knowledge of the Gospel or of how God took away his sins.  I went through the Gospel with him and explained asking God for forgiveness based on what Jesus had done for him, which he had never done.  He prayed to receive Christ with me.  He was really into science and I gave him a copy of The Case for a Creator.  His friends had walked up and cut the end of the conversation short so I’m hopeful to talk him up again sometime.
I had a couple other good conversations one with a lapsed Catholic, Fred, and also with a black girl Allie.  Allie said she would pray later as we had an attentive spectator, a kind of geeky white kid.  She was cute and nice and he seemed eager to talk to her and had walked up on us later.  She had prayed for forgiveness b4 but never in the name of Jesus thinking about His work.  She was a big Bears fan, and of Cutler the quarterback, so I used the analogy of meeting him at a club and being offered a skybox ticket in a box he’d rented for out of town friends.  All she had to do was go to the gate and give her name and tell who had provided the ticket.  “But what if you went to the gate and gave your name and wouldn’t say who gave it to you?  Without Cutler’s name you can’t get the ticket.  Your name is not enough.  The person at the gate would say, ‘I could have 15 Allies reserved, you need the name’.  Heaven’s like that.  You have to trust in the name of Christ and His provision for you to get in.”  “Something just clicked when you said that,” she responded. Which was a bit of Déjà vu.  That’s the second time someone said that to me this semester.  I think she understood and she kind of emphatically promised me she would pray so I hope she will.
So thanks for your prayers for the ministry if you had a chance of late.  I’m sorry I did not get an e-mail out this morning I was studying for the Bible study and lost track of the time before running to school.
In Him,

Bob Bollow