Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your week was blessed walking with the Lord in the power of His Word and you have successfully sprung forward on your clocks. I had a good week on campus talking with students about the Lord and life and Andrew, Javon, Gio, Myaa, and Tyler prayed to receive Christ, as did Xander on Thursday. Please pray that these students might be sanctified by the Spirit. Xander’s story is below if you have time.

 Xander was sitting on the end of the lounge that is the last corner of the BIC on the 1^st floor on the north side on a bench. The glass wall of the lounge was behind him, his foot resting on a skateboard tipped on its side. He had on a red and blue, sectioned, windbreaker, black t-shirt with some graphic I could not make out half under his coat and off-white jeans. He wore a black cap the brim of his cap was purple. He had brown hair and a beard and thin mustache and wore rectangle black rimmed glasses. He was up for doing a survey. He had skin like mine at his age and warm eyes medium face sharp nose. I asked him to describe himself and he said he was “Shy and restless”. When I asked one thing he wanted to do before he died he kind of paused and struggled for words and said, “Be like… worth something.” I began to go through the Gospel with him and asked, “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?” He thought a moment “I’m really sure what I’d say.” I asked what he thought it was that might get someone into Heaven. “I’m not entirely too sure, being good and stuff, believe in God, trust in His safety,” he replied. He thought he had a 40% chance of going to Heaven. It turned out he had gone to church as a child. Then his grandmother had taken a fall and went from a walker to a wheel chair and they family stopped going. He didn’t remember the time well and wasn’t sure if the fall had anything to do with why they stopped going. I began to go through the Gospel with him and said, “Eternal life is knowing God because He lives inside you and you know Him that way.” When I asked what Jesus had done back in History to take away the sins of the world he said, “He came and told people things and they killed Him. He died for our sins.” I went on to explain what that meant and that Christ lived a perfect life for us; His blood cleansed us and was a payment to God to the life we owed. He rose from the dead. Believing on the name of Christ would save him; that He was God, had died for his sins and rose from the dead. “Not that you just knew the story but that that’s what you put your trust in so that if someone would ask you, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ You’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me.’ That would mean you had faith in Jesus.” I asked if he would want to be forgiven trusting I what Jesus had done, “Then the Spirit would live inside you and take you to Heaven when you died.” and spoke of a couple other options. “Be forgiven,” he replied. So I said there was a prayer he could pray and talked him through it and asked if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said it did. So I said he could pray it silently. “Wanna do that?” “Yeah,” he replied and took the booklet. “Just pretend I’m not here,” I said. He then prayed to receive Christ. I began to go through the Gospel with him and asked if he had a Bible and he said he had a couple. So I said reading John was a good way to start. I told him the likelihood he would now go to Heaven trusting in the blood and righteousness of Jesus was 100%. I said, “You know you said you’d like to be worth something.” He looked at me in acknowledgment. “Well if weren’t worth something God wouldn’t have died for you.” He smiled. I gave him Bible Promises for You and wrote his name and the date and “forgiven!” in the front. I told him how he could turn the verses into prayers. I told him I would pray a Bible verse for him each day from now until Spring and one year after asking God to bless him. I gave him a Bible study explaining it a bit and told him a bit of Strobel’s story and gave him, The Case for Christ Answer Booklet. I got up to go and said, “I’ll be praying for you,” ‘Thank you,” he replied. “I’ll see you in Heaven,” I said and he smiled with a brightness in his eyes and I headed off.

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

In Him,

Bob