Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day and Spring feels right around the corner. I had a good day on campus and Kyran (ki rin) prayed to receive Jesus today. I also walked a student around doing evangelism and answer his questions for a while. Kyran’s story is below if you have the time, please pray he grows in his faith.

 An African American guy, Kyran, was the first person I spoke to today. He was sitting in an armchair across the hall from the offices outside of the continuing education rooms. He was wearing jeans and a black jacket. He had some multi colored Nike high tops on his feet. He had 6-inch braids and a narrow face with a bit of a beard under his chin and a slight mustache. He was a thin guy not quite my height, good lookin’ kid. Since he sat in the only chair against the wall, I sat at his feet. I asked him one thing he wanted to do before he died and said, “Have a strong relationship with God.” He said he wasn’t going to Church though he had as a kid. I asked him what he would say to God to get into Heaven. “That’s a good question, “he said thinking about it and then said, “I tried to follow your life as close as possible.” I asked the likelihood he would go to heaven and he thought he had a 50/50 chance. I explained knowing God was being one with Him and God could not be in the same place as sin that God had to take away his sin. When I asked what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world he said, “He died for us.” I agreed that the blood of Jesus cleansed us and had paid God for all we had done. I explained the righteousness of God Jesus earned that was too our credit when God adopts us. We must receive Christ and believe Jesus is God; He died for our sins and rose from the dead. “Not that you just know the story but that that’s what you put your trust in to be forgiven. So if someone would ask you, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ you’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me.” I asked him if he’d want to be forgiven for his sins trusting in what Jesus had done. “Then God would live inside you and give you strength and take you to Heaven when you died. Or do you think something else?” “That one for sure,” he said, pointing to the circle with God inside. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray. I talked him through it and asked if he thought it expressed the desire of his heart. He nodded looking at it. I said he could pray it silently. “Wanna do that?” I asked. He nodded again and took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. When he was finished I showed him there was more about faith in the booklet and then explained the Christian life to him praying and reading the Bible asking for forgiveness. He said he had a Bible. I explained also living By the Spirit’s power Inside out asking God to transform him on the inside so he’d do good things on the outside. I said I had some books to give him and for some reason offered him a Bible though he had one. I showed it to him, that there were study aids in the back and he said I said, “That’s way better than my Bible.” I was glad he thought it would be useful. So I gave it to him after I wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I also gave him Bible Promises for You and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I gave him a Bible study explaining it a bit. It turned out we’d gone to late and he was a little late for class. I told him I would keep him in my prayers each day and that the likelihood now he would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I said, “Have a good one,” and shook his hand. “Thanks. You too,” he said and he hustled off down the hall.

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

In Him,

Bob