Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

 I hope your week was blessed with a sense of the nearness of God and His love and care for you. I had a good week on campus. Kyran, Matthew, Steve* & Shay trusted in the blood and righteousness of Christ to save them. Shay prayed to receive Christ on Thursday and her story is below if you have some time you want to spend. Please pray she grows in her faith.

 Shay was sitting in the lounge between the science buildings on a bench couch under the stairs a table was pulled up in front of it but the vendor had left for the day. Someone she knew was with her, a large African American guy with a beard, possibly her brother. Later I saw her leave with someone who had to be her mom based on their dynamics and he left with them. She had her afro parted down the middle and in popcorn balls that would look like Mickey mouse ears in a silhouette. Her afro was dyed in random streaking of blue and green. Her medium sized nose was pierced with a tiny gold Playboy Bunny and she wore large gold hoop earrings. She was an above average size young woman, had on shredded jeans and a white, baseball jersey styled, blouse on with black printing. I never got the angle to read the words across her chest once seated. Her head looked nearly round from where I sat and she had full lips, only the liner remained on the edge of the bottom lip. I asked him first and he said he “wasn’t a student here”. Shay said she was and was getting emails from another Bible Study group. (There’s 3 on campus and a couple cults.) I said this was a little different and asked her the question, “You get hit by a bus and you’re dead. You stand before God and He asks, ‘Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “I don’t know but I’ve been wanting to know that,” she replied. So I asked if she’d like to see the Bible verses that gave her the answer and she said something I didn’t make out and I asked again and she said, “Sure.” I began to go through the Gospel with her explaining the things I always do. I asked what Jesus had done to take away her sins and she knew He died. So I explained His blood to cleanse and pay for her sins and righteousness to her credit when God adopted her. I said we had to receive this by faith, which was a gift from God. Though we could not be perfect, and our good stuff could not fix our bad stuff God could change bad things into good outcomes. I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done. Then God would live inside her by His Spirit and give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died. “Yeah,” she replied with an upward lilt in her voice like that seemed great. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. I talked her through it asking if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded it was in reply. I said she could pray it silently and God would hear her and she’d know she was forgiven trusting in Jesus. She nodded again, took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I showed her then the acrostic for living the Christian life, Beginning with Go to God in prayer and Read the Bible. She did not have a Bible so I gave her one and wrote her name and the date and forgiven in the front. I explained confession and that everything in the Christian life was “By the Spirit’s Power” “If you go to Church they’ll say, “You should do this, you should do that.” Then you think this is great but I’m gonna forget this by Wednesday. But if you wanted you could say, ‘Lord make me this kind of woman.’ Then if you forgot by Wednesday it doesn’t matter because God’s already at work. Christianity is Inside Out not outside in. First you ask God to transform you on the inside, then you become a good person and you do good things on the outside. I gave her Bible Promises for You and a Bible study I briefly explained and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet saying there were some things about Easter in it. “See you in Heaven,” I said getting up to go, she laughed a bit with something like a “He he.” Then said, “Yes! Thank you.”

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

In Him,

Bob