Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and mercy peace and love were multiplied to you. I had a good day on campus in as much as Eva prayed to receive Christ. Her story is below if you have time. Please pray she will grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I went through the gospel with a Muslim, Mustafa (curly hair and a mustache like Freddy Mercury, slight build), and 4 other students who claimed to believe the Gospel but I think I helped them understand it more clearly.

 Eva was sitting in the hallway that heads along the Student Services building and ends down by the bookstore. She had kind of a Little House on the Prairie way about her in appearance. She had an oval face with what we used to call “granny glasses”. Her hair was kind of thin, long and went to her elbows. It was stick straight, the front in strands of bangs fell in wisps over her glasses to the bridge of her nose. She had on a pink sweatshirt with a cheerful slogan on it I forgot to write down and wore dark grey slacks. She had a pleasant way about her said she was introverted. 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’d say because I’d help other people. I’m studying to be a nurse so…” she said. I asked the likelihood she would go to heaven. “90ish,” she replied. As I began to go through the Gospel with her I asked her what Jesus had done back in history to take away the sins of the world. She remembered Jesus had died thought it had been a while since she went to Church. I explained Jesus had become a perfect man and was a sacrifice for our sins. His blood cleansed us and was a payment to God. She gave a sound of ascent agreeing. I went on to say all I usually say. The credit of His life perfectly fulfilling the law was to our credit. God adopted us and gave us the blessings of His family, sacrifice and cleansing blood and righteousness. All this was hers by faith believing Jesus was God had died for her sins and rose from the dead. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else, briefly comparing Islam and the Buddha. “The first option,” she replied. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and I talked her through it asking, “It says here Does this prayer express the desire of your heart. Would You say it did?” “Um hum,” she replied. “If you wanted you could pray it right now, I wouldn’t hear you but God would hear and you’d know you were forgiven. Wanna do that?” I asked. She nodded and took the booklet and prayed to receive Jesus. I went through the Christian life with her. She didn’t have a Bible but had been thinking she would buy one. So I gave her one and showed her how cross references worked and the study helps and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven” in the front. I explained living the Christian life by the Spirit’s power, “Inside Out”. I told her I would pray a Bible Verse for her each day from now until Spring and on year after. I also gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and Bible Promises for You. I quickly gave her a Bible Study as she had to leave. I got up to go saying if I saw her around I would say hi. “Thank you,” she said as I stepped away. “You’re welcome,” I replied and I headed off.

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

 In Him,

Bob