Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed and fill up with the fullness of God walking with Him in newness of life. I had a good week on campus and Ivan [e vahn] prayed to receive Jesus on Thursday. Through the week Connor, Amelia, Taylor, Zach, Colton, Tania each prayed to receive Christ and David* committed to Christ believing. Ivan’s story is below if you have some time. Please pray each of these are sanctified by the Spirit.

 Ivan was sitting in the small lounge just east at the doors from the SSC lounge where they have events. He was a short guy with short dark brown hair combed back and a mustache. He looked like a young, slightly better-looking version of Freddie Mercury the rock star of decades ago. His shirt was a plaid grey flannel and he had on black sweats, tight at the ankle. He had a slight accent but said he was born in America and had relatives all over the world many whom he’d visited. Some were in Mexico others in Guatemala and Romania. I asked him, “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?” “Hmm, what would I say?” he said pondering and concluded, “Because I forgive everybody for what they’ve done, in a way.” I asked the likelihood he would get into Heaven when he died and he thought it was 70%. He hadn’t gone to Church since he was a kid. I explained that eternal life was knowing God because God could live in you with His Holy Spirit and asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world and he remembered Jesus had died. I began to go through the Gospel with him, thereafter, telling him all I usually say about the blood and righteousness of Christ, the payment of His life for what we owe God and salvation by faith.  He was attentive to it all the way through without comment. Finishing I said, “So what kind of person are you or would you want to be?” Then I asked if he would want to be forgiven with God living inside him or thought something else. I gave the CliffsNotes version of Islam and the Buddha. “Interesting,” he said and seemed to be thinking. I let him think it through and asked and then asked again if he would want to be forgiven for his sins or thought something else. “Be forgiven,” he replied. So I said if he wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. “Yeah,” he replied. 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?” “Why not,” he replied. He took the booklet and prayed then to receive Christ. He flipped through the booklet some after and I asked he’d prayed having looked down for a bit. He said he had. So I explained the Christian life to him living by the Spirit’s power, “Inside Out”. I gave him a Bible and wrote his name and the date and forgiven in the front. I gave him Bible Promises for You and a Bible study and The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I told him I would keep him in my prayers each day praying a Bible verse for him until Spring and one year after. He seemed grateful and I headed out.

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

 In Him,

Bob