Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope you were blessed today. I had a good day on campus where David, a Roman Catholic, and Kalli came to pray to receive Christ.  David was sitting in a hallway on the first floor and was interested in doing a survey before class.  Good lookin guy with short brown hair.  He was from a Roman Catholic background.  He seemed like a nice guy and said he “liked to help people” as a reason he’d go to Heaven.  He understood that Jesus had died to forgive sin and thought he had a better than average chance of going to Heaven, but in talking through the Gospel he had not  been trusting in Jesus’ work on the cross to forgive him.  He decided he wanted to be in a relationship with Christ and prayed to do so. I gave him a Bible and More than a Carpenter to read and a Bible study on the Deity of Christ and quickly explained the Holy Spirits work.  The idea of receiving Christ was novel to him so I am hopeful my prayers for him will bring him closer to God by the Holy Spirit.  And that the book, and especially the Bible, will draw him in to the Father.  I take heart sometimes in Isaiah 55:11 “So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.”  This is one of those times, but I should take heart in it always.

Kalli was sitting on a bench upstairs and down the hall from where I had left David in the BIC building.  Nice kid, young looking, with braces and glasses and brown shoulder-length hair.  Her mom went to a Greek Orthodox church and her dad to one she described as “christian”.  She said she got to celebrate 2 Easters. (Ha, I think I would rather have 2 Christmases, but hey.)  A bit into going through the Gospel with her, after doing a survey, her friends walked up who had met me before at a book table.  Emily and Matt were Christians who I had bounced a few questions off of to see if they believed (a few months back when I met them).  They sat in on the rest of the Gospel and I made sure I had a brief overlap so they would hear it all.  Kalli hadn’t been able to remember how Jesus took away her sins and said, “I helped the needy” when I asked her why she’d go to Heaven, but a lot seemed to come back to her as I talked her through it.  I asked her if she thought she had been trusting in the work of Christ to forgive her sins and she wasn’t very sure, but then didn’t think she had directly asked.  And frankly, from interacting with her she had not been trusting in Christ.  So she decided she wanted to pray to receive Jesus and she did which was cool.  Then I offered her a book, and Emily and Matt each took one as well.  Kalli took the Student edition of The Case for Christ and Emily liked science and really liked to read so she took The Case for a Creator chiding the other two for being not much for reading as Matt took the Student edition of The Case for Faith.  I gave them all Bible studies and got their e-mails to send them stuff.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you got a moment.  God really blessed.
Bob Bollow