Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was filled with life and peace. I had a good day on campus talking to students and Rosslyn prayed to receive Christ after I explained the Gospel to her. Two guys were close. Jake, a Latino looking guy with a round face and a thin mustache and slight goatee, his hair pulled back and tied behind his head. He had a full sleeve of ink on his left arm and some random tattoos on the right. We talked out on the south patio of the BIC building and he wanted to talk to his friend who was devoted to God about it. Issac was a good-looking black guy his afro topped in points. He was sitting in the cafeteria in a brown hoodie and wanted to check out a Bible study, he was right on the brink so I hope he’ll contact me.

Rosslyn was sitting in the ground floor hallway that runs down along the bookstore. She had a narrow pretty face with long dark stick straight hair almost to her elbows. She had full lips and had put inverted comma points on the end of her eyes that make your eyes look more almond shaped, I guess. She had on a cream-colored sweatshirt and a pale blue jean skirt. She seemed like a kind person. She said she had grown up in an evangelical church but was thinking about finding a Catholic church. (Another Catholic guy, Diego, told me today he would say to God, “I don’t deserve to be here but it’s because of your sacrifice that I’m here.” The official positions of denominations notwithstanding students often simply believe.) I asked Rosslyn what she would say to God if she died and He asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I feel like I can’t answer that, I feel like he sees what I’m doing,” she replied. I then asked what she thought it was that got you into Heaven. Her response was, “The way you live, your life, being kind to others, not being selfish.” I began to explain the Gospel to her and when I told her that God had to take away our sin so He could live inside us I then asked what Jesus had done to take away our sins. “He died,” she replied. I said that was right and went on to explain the blood of Jesus to cleanse her and be a payment for all we owed God. I explained the righteousness of Christ as the gift. “So you don’t go to Heaven because you do good things but because Jesus is good and you are connected to Him.” I explained everything God provided for her, His sacrifice, blood and righteousness were hers by faith. When I finished explaining the Gospel I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done on the cross and not good things she had done, then He would live inside her and give her strength. “I agree with that, yeah,” she replied. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I read it through with her. “It says here does this prayer express the desire of your heart? So if you wanted to you could pray it silently and I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do it?”  “Yeah,” she replied. She took the booklet and then said, “I have to read it,” and then she read it silently to receive Jesus. “Thank you so much,” she said then. I explained living the Christian life by the Spirit’s power. I gave her a copy of Bible Promises for You and I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I gave her a Bible study and Strobel’s Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I said I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after. I said that the likelihood she would go to Heaven if she is trusting in the righteousness of Jesus to be her righteousness was 100%. “Thank you so much I really appreciate it,” she replied. “God bless you. I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said getting up to go. “God bless you too have a good day,” she said 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