Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed recognizing the grace given to you. I had a good day on campus and Emily and Jaylin each prayed to receive Jesus. Please pray they grow in their faith. Their stories are below if you have time.

Emily had long brown hair parted in the middle and a pretty mature face, looked Latina. She wore a grey sweatshirt and leggings with flared bottoms. She was sitting in the hallway and had 5 minutes until her class stated. I asked her “the big question” that she said she’d be willing to hear. “You’re walking down the road and you get hit by a bus. So you’re dead. And you stand before God and he says, “Why should I let you into Heaven?’ What would you say?” “Because of all the good things I’ve done,” she replied. I said, “Well think about it this way, “Christianity is like a blood transfusion, I have A+ blood if you fill me full of B- blood I would clot up and die.” I told her as I tell just about everyone God wanted to transfuse His life into her, live inside her with His Holy Spirit but first that to make him His type, by taking away her sin. I asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sins and she knew He had died. I began to go through the Gospel with her speaking of the blood of Christ and his resurrection from the dead. I left out the righteousness of Jesus imputed to her except to quickly mention it. I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else, “Be forgiven,” she said. So I went through the prayer with her and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. She was thinking of something else and I asked again and she said, “Oh,” and read it and said, “yes.” I asked if shed like to pray it silently, she nodded and prayed to receive Jesus. I quickly gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front and she thanked me. I gave her Strobel’s book The Case for Christ Answer Booklet.  And she had heard of his story before. I gave her a Bible study and told her I would keep her in my prayers each day from now until Spring and one year after. “Well I’m going to make you late for class,” I said. She agreed, “Nice to meet you.” “Nice to meet you too,” I replied and she hurried off. I thought it was 2 minutes after her class began but later realized my watch was 4 minutes ahead so I think she just made it.

Jaylin was sitting outside the “Everyone is welcome” sign room with glass walls near student activities. They were loudly beating drums in exactly the same cadence over and over again. I had walked through the area about 40 minutes before and they were still at it when I came back through, no change. He had short braids and his hair was shaved an inch past his his hair line in front and similarly over his ears, it made the look of his hair like a cap. He had on tan pants and a grey hoodie. He also wore a small black cross as an earring hanging beneath his left ear. He was small slight and had a caterpillar mustache and something of a goatee under his chin. He had sharp features and a small sharp nose. Good-looking guy. I asked him what he would say to God if he died and were asked, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” “I would say… I don’t know what I would say to God. I think I would say, I don’t know. I don’t know why you would.” I asked the likelihood he would go to heaven when he died. “50/50 where I am right now,” he replied. I went through the Gospel with him and he had a basis for understanding it all. I said God wanted to be one with him and live inside him but first had to make him His type by taking away his sins. I asked how Jesus had done that and he knew Jesus had died. So I explained more clearly than he had understood about the blood of Christ to cleanse him and pay God and the righteousness of God Christ earned. Explaining he was saved by faith I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else. “I wanna be forgiven,” he replied. I explained there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He nodded it did. I said he could pray it silently I wouldn’t hear him but God would hear and he’d know he was forgiven. “Wanna do it?” “Sure,” he replied. He prayed then to receive Christ. He had a Bible but hadn’t been to Church in a while. I told him to start in John. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front. “Thank you so much,” he replied. I also gave him The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I said he might find one of the questions in it valuable. I talked him thorough a Bible study a bit and told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after. I got up to go and said, “OK baby see you around.” “Thank you so much,” he said again and I headed off.

So thanks for your prayer for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed. I’m off to go to a Bible Study.

In Him,

Bob