Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with the good things of your daily bread. I had a good day on campus though brief, as I got sick. I happened while talking to Taria (a pretty black girl with rust colored long hair). I was helping her see she needed to return to trusting in what Jesus had done not her good works. I started to sweat and felt a little stomach upset. She prayed the prayer as I explained it saying amen but felt she had given her life to Christ but had started counting on her efforts to be forgiven. I explained living by the Spirit’s power asking God to transform us. So she recommitted to Jesus work and was grateful and I left her at the counter in the cafeteria. And I went and sat down weal and ill. I took some natural immune boost pills and  vitamin C, drank some water. I sat for a while and started to feel the over all bad vibe lapse a bit. I walked into the hall and talked to some Christian workers I knew. I headed for the elevator across the lounge and had to sit down. But Jayra came by having talked to her “really Christian friend” she was happy to see me. It turned out she had been thinking about the conversation they had had when I’d said hi to her the day before and she thought that was interesting. She was happy. It perked me up a bit. When she left I asked the Lord if I could find a person to pray to receive Jesus and head home. I got up to the 3^rd floor and found Judith who prayed with me to receive Jesus. Her story is below. Please pray she grows in her faith and I feel good enough to return to school tomorrow.

Judith was up on the third floor in the NE corner lounge sitting in one of the chairs with a table top attached. She’s a pretty Latina girl with long wavy hair parted down the middle. Her chin was square, she had pronounced lips and a perfect smile. She wore black rectangle lens glasses. She was slight and wore light grey sweats and a pullover grey hoodie. I asked her one thing she wanted to do before she died and she said, “Be a kind person with everyone.” I’m certain no one has ever told me that before as a goal. I asked, “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?” “Um,” she thought for a second and said, “That I always tried my best not to fall into sin.” She thought she had a 50% chance of going to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her. I asked what Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world she said He had been crucified. I explained the Blood of Christ to cleanse her and allow God to live in her with His Spirit and the righteousness of God Christ earned and God would give her all these things when he adopted her. I explained John 1:12 telling her that receiving Christ mean that she believed on His name, that Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose form the dead. “So if someone asked ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ you’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me.’” “OK,” she replied. And I read Eph. 2:8,9. I asked if she would want God living on the inside and be forgiven for her sins trusting in Jesus. Then He would give her strength and take her to Heaven when she died. Or did she think something else? “That option,” she replied, pointing to the circle with God inside. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there’s a prayer she could pray and I read it through and asked if it was the desire of her heart and she nodded and I asked if she’d want to pray it silently. “Umhum,” she said. ”Just pretend I’m not here.” “OK,” she replied and prayed to receive Christ. I told her then the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 100% trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus. I went through the Christian life with her explaining living by the Spirit’s power. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. She said she liked to read a little so I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study. “Thank you,” she said. I said I would pray a Bible Verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. “If I see ya around I’ll give ya a wave,” I said getting up to go. “Thank you,” she said again. I said she was welcome and headed off.

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

In Him,