Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed with good things from the hand of the Lord. I had a good day on campus though I only found one new person to go through the Gospel with but Zaylen prayed to receive Christ. Please pray he is sanctified by the Holy Spirit. His story is below if you have time.

 When I first got to campus I asked God to lead me where to go and kind of headed toward the cafeteria. The elevator door opened as I walked by it and I had a nudge to ride it to the 3^rd floor and look in the cut out small lounges that sort of look out over the SSC lounge. So I headed there and found Zaylen he was sitting with a guy I had gone through the Gospel with before named Jaylen who was a Christian. Zalen had long dreadlocks coming out of an afro that came halfway down his neck. He had black metal rimmed glasses, rectangular shaped and wore a black windbreaker and sweats. I asked them if they wanted to do a survey and Zaylen asked what it was about so I said, “The big question is, “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? So it’s really the answer to that question have any interest in that or do ya know the answer already or not so much.” Jaylen said he knew the answer. Zaylen put his hand up turning it side to side saying, “Sort of’.” He looked like a guy waving in a parade from a convertible, except he wasn’t smiling. “Well ya wanna just hear the verses?” I asked. He agreed so I began and then kneeling at the coffee table they sat in front of. I then recognized Jaylen’s face seeing a scar on his face, he had an inch and a half high afro and said I’d given him the booklet. I began to go through the Gospel with Zaylen and Jaylen his friend listened to most of it again short of a moment on his phone. I said all I usually do asking him what the big thing was back in History that Jesus had done to take away the sins of the world so God could live inside us and give us eternal life. He said He was crucified and so I explained all that meant. He lived a perfect life we could not live and then was a sacrifice for our sin. His blood cleansed us and was a payment to God and He earned the righteousness of God, which was to our credit when God adopted us. I said he needed to receive Christ; to believe Jesus 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 as an adult so if someone would say, ‘Why should God let you into Heaven?’ You’d say, ‘Because Jesus died for me, I trust in that.’ That would mean you had faith in Jesus.” I said that faith saved him and read the verse. Saying the last question is would you want to be forgiven for your sins trusting in Jesus then He would live inside you and give you strength take you to heaven when you die, or do you think something else? I explained a bit of Islam and the Buddha. I then said, “So when you are asking for forgiveness of your sins are you thinking I’m a good guy and pretty solid and I think God will forgive me because of that or are you thinking I know I’ll be forgiven because Jesus died for me? I know you knew the story because you answered the question about how Jesus died but do you trusted in that or think you’d never put it all together before?” I asked. “Never put it together before,” he said. So I said ok well, if you’d want to be forgiven trusting in what Jesus has done there’s a prayer you could pray and I talked him through it asking if it expressed the desire of his heart. He said it did. So I said he could pray it silently right now and only God would hear him and he’d know he was forgiven. He took the booklet and they both bowed their heads and he prayed aloud to receive Jesus. So that was great. I began to go through the Christian life with him and he didn’t have a Bible but said he’d like one. I gave him one and explained all the study aids and wrote his name and the date in the front in black and “forgiven!” in red. He thanked me when I gave it to him. I also gave him Bible Promises for You. I showed him how to turn a verse into a prayer. Jaylen said he had one at home. I gave him a copy of The Case for Christ Answer Booklet and a Bible study on the deity of Christ. I told him I would be praying from him the next year. He was smiling then and I said I would see them both in Heaven. “I’m older than you so I’ll get there first so that will be nice when ya get there to have an old guy show ya where the cool places are,” I said. They both grinned and Zaylen expressed his gratitude and told me to have a good one 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