Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Well, I had a great day of sharing today and 4 African American students, three girls — Desire, Delet, Mesha and a guy Randy, all prayed to receive Christ today.

Desire was sitting between Mesha, who was standing, and Delet, sitting beside her on a couch, on the first floor at the base of the stairs down from Starbucks.  Desire had her hair up and pulled back with a laptop on her lap, she was tall. Mesha, standing, was a bit shorter, straight shoulder length hair and Delet was small, her hair in ring curls, cute. All had bright smiles when I got them to laugh. Only Desire wanted to do a Student survey, but the other girls said they would listen and they did as I went through the Gospel with them.  It was obvious from Desire’s answers that she was trusting in her good works and obedience to make her right with God, and she could not remember how God took away her sins, saying her grandma would slap her right now for forgetting.  She went to church.  When I was done I pointed out to Desire what she had been trusting in from her responses and asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins by trusting in what Jesus had done for her on the Cross.  She said she would.  Then I asked the other two girls one at a time for their names and then asked them if they would like to be forgiven as well.  They both said they would too. So I walked them through the prayer and each prayed to receive Jesus.  Desire finished first and then Delet and finally Mesha.  I showed them all the books I had and each picked one.   Mesha took the Student Edition of The Case for Faith, Desire took the Student Edition of The Case for Christ and Delet took More than a Carpenter. They told me I had their e-mails from the book table we had on student activities day.  I caught up with them in the hall later and remembered to give them each a Bible Study.

Randy was sitting on a bench in the hallway next to Jacky, who was a 300 pound defensive player for the football team. He had short cropped hair on the sides and a bit longer on top. He was from out of state and went to church at home, but he did not know how Christ had taken away his sins and it was obvious he was hoping his goodness (which he was not that confident in) outside of that church would be good enough to help him get into heaven. After I explained the Gospel, Randy wanted to pray to receive Jesus and prayed quietly based on what I had told him, not reading a prayer.  Jacky said he wasn’t ready to do it. He wanted to play pro-ball and was certainly big enough, whereas Randy said he wanted a family. After Randy prayed I taught them some more about the Holy Spirit and some prophecy about Jesus and His claims to be God. On two occasions, pretty girls walked by giving an endorsement:  A Blonde girl saying “amen” and an African American girl, so I think that helped keep Jacky interested.  Later a black woman came up to me and gave me a hug saying she had been praying for me while I was “teaching those boys.”  So I guess God sent me some help.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and today for evangelism if you had a moment, God heard them and blessed.

In Him,
Bob Bollow