Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your weekend has been blessed so far with good things from above. I managed to throw out my back yesterday evening dumping mulched leaves into the neighbor’s compost pile. It saves me about 8 yard stickers but turn out to be a bit too much after a stressful day of work. But hey I had a good week on campus and 6 students prayed to receive Christ along with Maryellen* who committed to Christ at the counter of a resale shop I went to. Londyn prayed to receive Jesus on Thursday and last week Josh, Tyler, Chris, Tessa & Bobbi. Please pray they grow in faith.

Londyn was the last student I spoke with on Thursday and we spoke for an hour. She looked a bit like the actress Jane Seymour when she was young. Londyn’s features were a bit sharper and smaller, as was the rest of her. She had brown wavy hair, which was tinted brown to frame her face. She wore a baggy grey hoodie and sat across the table from me in the NW side ground floor atrium lounge of the BIC. She said she just wanted people in her life to feel good. I asked her, “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?” “I think I’d… look at Him a while and tell Him I tried to give my life to Him and I will continue to do that in Heaven,” she replied. She was 100% sure she would go to Heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with her and she knew Jesus had died for her. I said all I usually say about the blood of Christ cleansing her and being a payment to God. I told her of the righteousness of God adoption the resurrection. She listened closely and I asked her if she would want to be forgiven for her sins or thought something else saying the CliffsNotes version of the Buddha and Islam. I asked her if when she was praying for forgiveness of she thought she was a good person was trying to get back into Church (she’d recently moved to Lombard) and God would forgive her, she nodded. Or was she thinking, “I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me.” ‘The first one,” she said. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and talked her through it and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. She said it did. I said she could pray it silently and she said, “I would love to do it!” So I gave her the booklet and she prayed to receive Jesus. “Loved every minute of it,” she said when she was done. I explained the Christian life to her living “by the Spirit’s Power” and inside “Inside Out” asking God to transform her. I told her the likelihood she would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%.  I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside saying, “Kind of makes it official, not because I say you are forgiven but Jesus does.” She was delighted by that. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and I gave her a Bible study explaining it. I explained some other doctrine to her, the Trinity and the problem of evil. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking I finally got up to go. “Well thank you,” she said. “It was so nice meeting and chatting with you.” “Thank you,” I replied. “I’ll see you in Heaven.” “Well OK!” she said and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob