Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed with good things from above. I had a good week on campus and Alex, Ella, Luis, Nick and Jonny each prayed to receive Jesus. Then Thursday Thalia prayed to receive Christ. Her story is below if you have some time. Please pray she grows in her faith.

 Thali was sitting just past the glass fire doors in the hall near Starbucks that goes down to the bookstore. She had on a light pink hoodie and pink print pajama pants. She had straight blondish hair and a flat-ish nose, chin came to a point, a bit like singer Kelly Clarkson (Or two twins I once knew Jen and Noel). I asked her if she wanted to do a student survey for a Bible Study group. She said she had a church she had started to go to. I asked her the name and she went to her phone and showed me the picture of the white Church. It had an A frame drive under awning. I guess she had just recently looked it up. It was a “Church of God” denomination. I believe the church that does not use instruments in worship. I said the survey was really about this question, “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 asked her if she knew what she’d say. She didn’t seem to have a solid idea so she agreed to do the survey. Revisiting the question she said, “Because I’m a good person, I love animals.” She thought she had an 80% chance of going to Heaven when she died. I began to go through the Gospel with her saying God had to take away her sins to live inside her. I asked what Jesus had done back in History to do that she thought and said, “He died on the cross.” She believed the Gospel and I explained all I usually do, what the blood of Christ did and His righteousness to our credit. “You don’t go to Heaven because you are good but because Jesus is good and you are connected to Him. Like if you marry a millionaire you got a million bucks of if you get adopted into a billionaire’s family you get to live in the mansion and drive the cars.” I said God adopted her and gave her the blessings of His family, the sacrifice for our sins the blood that cleansed us and the Righteousness of God that surrounds us. I explained she was saved by faith; placing her trust in that Jesus was God, 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. “Yeah,” she replied. I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray. I talked her through it and asked if it expressed the desire of her heart. She said it did. said she could pray it silently and she said, “Unkay,” I gave her the booklet and she said, “Thank you,” and prayed to receive Jesus. I said that the likelihood she would go to Heaven now trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I began to go through the Christian life with her By the Spirit’s power and living “Inside Out.” She didn’t have Bible but had been meaning to buy one so I said I could give one to her. I showed her the study helps and how a cross-reference works. I wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. “For free?” she said. “Yeah sure,” I replied. “How come?” she asked. I explained people gave me money to buy Bibles and give them to students. She accepted that saying, “Thank you so much.” I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name in it. I gave her The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study explaining that. I told her I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless her. I had made her late for class and she said, “I have a class at 12:30.” So I said I was sorry and she left right at that time and was probably 2-3 minutes late as she hurried off.

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

 In Him,

Bob