Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you were given all good things. I had a good day on campus and Alex an episcopal student committed to Christ. (He had brown hair and a nice tan and the perfect skin of the young, tall, good looking long face.) He thought he would pray later. I had a good long conversation with Bujar from Albania and went through the Gospel with him. (He had very short hair and a couple days growth of beard, looked like Jimmy Cagney’s cousin or a dockworker.) I gave him the book Dear Muslim Friend. He liked it. Finally Leah prayed to receive Jesus. Her Story is below if you have time. Please pray she grows in her faith.

Leah is African American and was wearing blue jeans and a Hooters hoodie. I think it might have been more about owls to her since she had no salacious aspect to her persona, not even remotely. But the restaurant may have changed from it’s rep, I’ve never been there. She had a plain oval face with perfect skin and full lips. She wore a white headband and straight hair poured out the back of it to her shoulders. Her medium sized nose was pinched between the very large blue frames of near square glasses. She said she went to a large church on Rt. 59, I had heard of, which was 25 minutes from campus. I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven if she died. “I feel like—I don’t know, I feel like I’d say there’s better people than me that are more worthy of getting in than I am,” she replied. She thought she had a 50/50 chance of going to heaven when she died. I explained that Jesus had said knowing God was eternal life and said this meant God lived inside her. I said the problem was sin, like a blood transfusion God had to make her His type, so he took away her sins. So I asked her what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “I don’t know,” she replied unable to think of anything. I began to explain the Gospel to her then and she agreed with the points giving verbal ascent to the blood and righteousness of Christ and God adopting her. I finished explaining that she received Jesus by faith, believing that Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. Not that she just knew the story from growing up at church (though she hadn’t known it) but that she put her trust in this as an adult. “So if someone would say to you, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ you’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me.’” I asked if she would want to be forgiven trusting in Jesus then he would live inside her and give her strength and she said, “I would want to be forgiven.” I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and the read it through to her and said, “So if you don’t think you have ever prayed a prayer like this before asking God to forgive you trusting in Jesus you could pray it silently right now. I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven.” “OK,” she replied and took the booklet and closed it. “Did you pray it while I read it?” I asked. “Yes,” she replied. I took it back and then explained the Christian life. She told me I had nice hand-writing and I said I did the best I could. I explained the Christian life living “By the Spirit’s Power”. I found out she already had a Bible at home. So I gave her Bible Promises for You writing her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. “Thank you,” she said taking the booklet. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. She thanked me taking that and I gave her a Bible study. I told her I would pray a Bible Verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. She was grateful and said it was nice to meet me and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed bringing Leah to Himself and I got some seeds planted.

In Him,

Bob