Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a good week enjoying the last of the summer weeks. I had a good day on campus Thursday. Rebecca and India each prayed to receive Jesus and be forgiven today and Ellias was close seemed to believe saying he would pray later, after first saying God would observe him and what he did and he would get into Heaven. He did not know Jesus had died for his sins. He was a good-looking black dude with short braids and a green bandana like a sweat band around his forehead. He knew Ella who prayed earlier in the week and sat by us near the end it seemed they had a class together. Notes from the girls’ stories are below if you want to spend the time. Please pray they grow and Ellias trusts in Jesus.

I came across Rebecca in the cafeteria. She was a pretty fair skinned Latina girl. She had straight brown hair past her shoulders with highlight framing her wider diamond shaped face. She wore the moth-wing granny glasses that I see a lot. Hers were silver on the bottom and across the top gun metal color. She had the longest eyeliner commas on the tips of her eyes, maybe an inch and a half perfectly applied. She was wearing thigh high leggings that looked to be black lace and ended in bellbottoms (over white tennis shoes) coming up a half foot from black cuffed shorts. Her a blouse looked to match her lacy bell bottoms, the sleeves ending wineglass shapes at the wrist. Her fingers, ending in long pink fingernails were pretty glam. She was Roman Catholic growing up but had begun to attend a “Christian” church with her boyfriend and felt like that had made “God closer to me”. She said her BF was in a study group at school but could not remember the name. They meet on the second floor of the PE lounge. I actually always say hi to them, there’s 5 or 6 guys that all seem happy to see me doing evangelism. I asked her what one thing was she’d like to do before she died. “That’s hard…” she replied and then said, “That through my life I follow what the Bible has said.” She thought the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 80%.  I said “Knowing God” was that He lived inside her and asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins and she knew He was crucified. She listened closely to the Gospel and took it all in and I explained that the cleansing blood of Christ that paid God for sin and His righteousness would be hers when God adopted her—if she believed by faith and put her trust in what Jesus had done to be forgiven. She voiced agreement with the points of the Gospel. I asked if she’d like to be forgiven or thought something else. She said she would like to be forgiven so I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her though it saying, “It says here ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart?’ So would you say it does?” “Yeah,’ She replied. I said she could pray it silently and know she was forgiven. Would you want to do that?” I asked. “Yeah,” she said again and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I told her then that the likelihood she would go to Heaven now was 100% trusting in the righteousness of Jesus. I explained the Christian life to her was living by the Spirit’s power asking Him to transform her. She did not have a Bible when I asked saying, “I’ve been meaning to get one.” So I gave her the NKJV I had and showed her Bible study helps it has in it. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave her Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I explained the prophecy it begins with and gave her a Bible Study on ways Jesus claims to be God. She was nice and said, “Thank you.” “So nice to meet you,” I replied. “Nice to meet you too,” She said and I said I would see her in Heaven, she nodded and said, “Have a nice day.” And I was off.

 India was sitting in the Science building lounge. She was dressed a bit like a tomboy in khaki cargo pants and dusty blue zip up fleece, white tennis shoes. She had her afro in braids and had soft classic black features. Cute, slightly round face really lit up in a bright white smile. She had a tiny precious stones pierced in each side of her nostrils. She was a warm person. She said her family members were all Christians. She had not gone to church since she was small. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven. “Hmm, she replied. “I wouldn’t have a good answer.” I asked her what the likelihood she would go to Heaven was. “Zero percent at this rate right now, I don’t want to lie.” I began to go through the Gospel with her and she knew that Jesus had died for her sins. She took in the ideas and smiled at the metaphors. The God wanted to live inside her and she would then be like the energizer battery and God was the batteries. I said that her good stuff would not fix her bad stuff. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus or thought something else explaining other religious options and then asked her if she would want to be forgiven. ”What?” she asked. I must have spoken to fast and slurred something I was pretty worn-out Thursday. I asked the same thing again. “I’d want to be forgiven,” she then replied. I said she could pray silently and I would not hear her but God would. She took the booklet and prayed then to receive Jesus. I said the likelihood now she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. She had a Bible and so I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside saying if you ever doubt it you can look here and think “that old Christian man said this”. I gave her a Bible Study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. We talked more about how the Christian life is By the Spirit’s Power. I said Christianity was the only religion where God lived inside you. I pointed out that the Bible predicted the future and if God wrote a Book He would know the future. I gave her the Rose fold out “100 Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus”. Nice to meet you man,” I said getting up off the floor at her feet where I had been sitting. “You too,” she said cheerfully. I reached out and shook her hand and said, “God bless you.” “God bless you too,” she replied and I was off.

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

In Him,

Bob