Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed today knowing the love of Christ Jesus. I had a good day on campus and Kinsley prayed with me to receive Jesus. Her story is below if you have some time. Alex studying to do HVAC said he had been trusting in Jesus though he had not been able to explain why God would let him into Heaven moments before hearing the Gospel, saying “there really isn’t anything if I’m gonna be honest”. But he committed to faith when I left him, taking the booklet. Please pray these are blessed and sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

 Kinsley was sitting in the PE lounge alone at a table. She’s a pretty girl with a statuesque edged nose and sharp jaw line; her brown hair was wavy and parted down the middle. She wore a dark blue pullover hoodie with some printing on it I could not make out. Looked a little like actress Courtney Cox with a narrow face. She was willing to do a survey with me when I asked her the big question to see if she was interested. “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?” She replied, “I feel like it’s what you do but it shouldn’t be a list of stuff.” I agreed and said, “Yeah, say you had a boyfriend for a while then you found out he was cheating on you and stealing your stuff, so you cut him loose. He comes back in about a week and says, ‘I know I did you wrong, I was even stealing your stuff and selling it for drugs but I just want you to know, I’m gonna be nice to my next three girlfriends.’ You can’t do good stuff over there to fix your bad stuff here.” She smirked a half grin agreeing and saying “right.” I asked if she would like to hear the Bible verses that answered the question, “Or aren’t you really interested?” She agreed and I asked again if she’d want to do a survey or just hear the verses. She said she’d do the survey. Before she died she wanted to, “Do more good, fulfill my purpose, what if feel like I should do.” She thought the likelihood she would go to Heaven was 60%. I asked if she went to Church at all and said she hadn’t regularly but “currently I’ve gotten more into it because of my boyfriend. So I’ve gotten more closer.” I began to go through verses with her. Saying “Knowing God” was that He lived inside her with His Holy Spirit I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world. “I actually don’t know at all,” she replied. So I began to explain what Jesus had done in living a perfect life. I told her of His sacrifice and His blood cleansing her, which was also a payment to God. The righteousness of God Christ earned was to her credit. God adopted her and gave her the blessings of His family. I said she needed to receive this by faith and faith saved her. I asked if she would want to be forgiven for her sins trusting in what Jesus had done or thought something else, explaining Islam and the Buddha a bit. “So would you want to be forgiven?” She nodded. So I said then there was a prayer she could pray. I talked her through it and asked if it was the desire of her heart. She nodded I said she could pray it silently and she took the booklet and said, “Do you have multiple of these, “I do but you can keep that one,” I replied thinking she might say she’d pray later but she said, “Thank you.” And she prayed to receive Jesus. I began to go through the Christian life with her and she did not have a Bible, “I just have a small one,” she replied. “Would you like a full Bible?” I asked. I would,” she said. I’d forgotten to put one in my pack but I said if she was going to be here five minutes I could go get one. I had some in my truck. She agreed. I explained the Christian life by the Spirit’s power living “inside out”. I gave her Bible Promises for You and wrote her name and the date and “forgiven!” on the inside. I gave her “The Case for Christ Answer Booklet telling her Strobel’s story in which she had interest and a Bible study. I told her I’d go get a Bible. I was at the other end of campus but parked by the door so I drove back to the PE building about a quarter mile and gave it to her. She was sitting with a girl when I returned. I gave it to her and she thanked me and I quickly I showed her the study aids in it and wrote the date and “forgiven” in the front. I told her I didn’t know if I would see her again but I would pray a Bible verse for her each day from now until spring and one year after asking God to bless her. She thanked me and I headed out.

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

 In Him,

Bob