Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with good things from the hand of God. I had a good day on campus and Arielle prayed with me to receive Christ. I got some seeds planted with a couple other students who were interested in thinking about it. So I’ll be praying for a 5×5 solid built Latino guy named George (who had a tattoo of Jesus covering his chest he showed me the top of) with a beard and Melody a pretty black girl, her hair in a scarf sitting on come overstuff chairs just past the bookstore entrance wearing shredded bellbottom jeans. Arielle story is below. Please pray a pray for these students.

When I first got to school I asked God it there was anywhere to go yet. I had a sense I could find someone in the cafeteria so I headed over there and I came across Arielle sitting against the windows at the counter. She was a cute black girl with square features and a smaller nose, her hair was straightened and shoulder length. She was willing to do a student survey so I asked her what she would say to God if she died and was asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “Oh wow that’s difficult… Because of my sort of like kindness. I’m the kind of person that puts others before myself.” I told her the Bible teaches that, “Let each of you consider one another as more important than yourself, ” I quoted. She hadn’t heard the verse. She thought she had an 80% chance of going to Heaven. She said she went to church off and on but because of school and work she didn’t have as much time for it. I began to go through the Gospel with her and said that God wanted to take away her sins so He could live inside her. “So what’s the big thing Jesus did to take away your sins? ” She thought for a moment and said, ”I don’t know.” So I began to go through the Gospel with her and used all the examples I used to help her understand the blood of Christ that cleansed her and was a payment to God. “You explained that really well, at church they never explain anything,” she said. I said that any kind of knowledge had terms and needed explanation and often at church they act like you already know everything. I said the Bears had a game last night saying that if you never saw a football game none of the positions or plays would make sense to you if someone just named them. “I never watch football,” she replied agreeing she would not understand it. I said I had skipped the game. (The simple fact is that most churches in my experience rarely explain the Gospel and when they do they leave essential parts of it out as if everyone knew them. This knowledge is no longer true of American Society.) I went on to explain the righteousness of God Jesus earned that could be to her credit and was a gift of God by faith. She would not go to Heaven because she was good, she’d have to be perfect, but because Jesus was good and she was connected to Him. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins. “Yeah,” she said with solidly getting it. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her though it. and said, “It says here, ‘Does this prayer express the desire of you heart?’ would you say it did?” She agreed it did so I said she could pray it silently, “Wanna do that?” “Yeah sure,” she said. So she took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I explained then that the likelihood she would go to Heaven was now 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I told her the Christian life was by the Spirit’s power living “Inside out”. First you ask God to transform you on the inside, then you become a good person and you do good things on the outside. She did not have a Bible of her own. Her family had one that everyone could use. So I gave her one and showed her all the study helps in it. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. She thanked me. I gave her Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I gave her a Bible study explaining that Jesus was prophesied to be God and said he was in many different ways. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after. “Thank you so much,” she said as I got up to go. I said God bless you and headed out.

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

In Him,

Bob