Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Hope you had a good Monday.  We had a good Bible study today and afterwards I did some evangelism and Kameron, a black guy here to play basketball from Arkansas, and Youstina from Egypt prayed to receive Christ.

Kameron was sitting in the lounge where we have Bible study and I get hassled once in a while.  But my policy of staying under the radar is working out.  I sat on the floor at his feet and had a computer screen blocking sight of me from the desk.  Kameron is 6’5″ and is trying to learn point guard, he just hopes to get a scholarship for school.  He was a really polite guy, his voice kind of sounded like Horace Grant from the Bulls heyday.  He did not look like him much though. 😉  He said he hoped he could play basketball in Europe.  I asked him some questions and he said about getting into heaven:  “I honestly don’t know what I would say. To be honest I don’t read the Bible much I’m not gonna lie.”  I went straight through the Gospel with Kameron and he said he wanted to be forgiven and had not prayed for God to forgive his sins trusting in what Jesus had done for him.  So he prayed with me to receive Christ.  He said he liked to read, (busting the athlete stereotype) and though I offered him the student edition of The Case For Faith after talking to him about what he’d like to read, he took the long version.  So that was good. I got his e-mail too to send him stuff.

Youstina was sitting on a bench looking south, waiting to go to class in the science building a bit before 3 PM.  Pretty girl, glasses, fair skinned for an Egyptian and articulate.  It was cool to talk to someone from so far away and lead them to Christ. When she told me her name, I asked where her name was from and she said Egyptian.  Muslim peeps talk with me at times and at first I thought from her ethnicity she would be Islamic, but then when I asked her why God should let her into heaven she said kind of uncertainly, “I did some good things,” thought a while and added, “I go to church.” So I was hopeful then she might receive Christ and asked her if she was Coptic and she said she was.  I explained the Gospel to her and she did know Christ had died on the cross to take away sins but she was not trusting in it.  And when I asked her if she had ever prayed for forgiveness of sins trusting in what Jesus had done she said she hadn’t.  She had thought she had a 20% chance of going to heaven.  But she believed and prayed to receive Jesus, pretty great, cool to think she has seen the pyramids and came here to find Christ in faith.  I explained the Holy Spirit to her and the assurance she could go to heaven trusting in Christ’s blood.  She did not have her own Bible and so I gave her an English one.  The Coptic Church does not have an English Bible translation they officially endorse ,though I believe they are good with the NKJV and they add some deuterocanonical books in the Old Testament we would consider uninspired history. I explained that the Bible I gave her would differ in that,  but was the same in the NT books she was familiar with.  She was interested in Science so I gave her a copy of The Case for a Creator to read and got her e-mail and told I would keep her in my prayers.

Peeps have started to call me “sir” this year here and there.  I think I finally crossed the threshold into ‘older looking’ to a college student.  Ha, at least it took a while. God may have to provide some supernaturally-imposed rose colored glasses at some point, maybe He already does.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance, God led me through His Spirit and that was great.

In Him,
Bob Bollow