Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Hope you were led by the Spirit today and blessed.  I had a good day of sharing with some peeps . Two black kids, a girl Lateisha prayed to receive Christ today and a guy Trinity professed faith.

Latetisha was sitting in the lunch room and did a survey with me.  She was tall 5’10” and nice looking with straight hair, kind.  She understood the Gospel but did not think she was going to Heaven as she did not want to trust in Christ as her Savior because she was still sinful.  I said everyone was, but it seemed she did not think she would have the strength to keep from sinning.  I suggested that if it was stuff she did dating that God could give her the strength to resist by the fruit of His Holy Spirit, and that without God’s help no one could live the Christian life.  We talked about it more and she said “Ok. I’m going to do it” and she prayer to give her life to Christ. She took The Case for Christ but then reconsidered, thinking about how much was on her plate and took the Student Edition of the book instead.  I gave her a Bible Study and got her e-mail to send her a story to read.  Please pray for God to give her spiritual strength to live for Christ.  She was waiting to be good enough, something I explained she would never be.  I know God can keep her and I promised her I would be praying for her.  Right afterwards, an older woman bureaucrat (she had a name tag on) started to give me grief about talking to people, but I just politely answered her leading question as if it was all I had time for and slipped away before she could lecture me about things that were not true anyway.  She had been eavesdropping on my conversation with Lateisha.  So please pray I could stay out of the grasp of people trying to get me in trouble at school, I just would rather not have to deal with them or have to be looking over my shoulder for some busybody or the cop they called.

I found Trinity, a guy on the track team (high jump triple jump long jump and 200 M) in the Science building. He was a nice looking guy, really short hair wearing a COD track hooded windbreaker, seemed suburban.  He had been raised in church somewhat, had not gone in a while, but more recently had returned to a private expression of faith, praying before meets and in the morning and asking for God’s help.  He felt he had seen God answering his prayers.  He hadn’t been focused on Christ or the Cross at all in his prayers though he had asked for forgiveness.  I helped him see the Gospel more and he seemed a bit unsure if that had been part of his mindset.  Christ hadn’t been in any of the responses to my questions and I showed him a prayer of commitment he could pray if he thought he had not really expressed thankfulness to God for the work of Christ on the Cross, or trusted in Him for the forgiveness of his sins.  He said, “Yeah, I think, I’ll do that.”  And we talked more about the Holy Sprit’s power to live the Christian life.  I gave him Enjoying Your Walk with God to read and a bible study.  Before I let him I asked, “Do you trust in the death of Christ on the Cross to forgive your sins and make you right with God?”  He said, “Yes I do,” and I shook his hand and said, “Well, the Bible says if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead you will be saved.  So you can count on that.  I’ll be praying for you.”  He thanked me and I was off.

Later I was answering some questions a Christian girl had about Jesus and the Bible.  Kathleen was a cute little button of a kid, had on a big poofed drivers cap, brown straight hair, a little quirky.  She went to a Roman Catholic Church but had given her life to Christ in faith.  Chris, a black athlete who I had talked to on Monday, slid about 3 spaces away onto the couch where Kathleen was sitting with her feet up on, caught my eye saying, “I read that booklet through all the way.”  I said, “Great did you pray?”  “I pray every day,” he replied.  “Yes,” I said, “but did you pray the prayer in the booklet?”  I had explained the Gospel to him but he had to run to class and seemed unfocused (almost ADD) so I gave Him the booklet, encouraging him to read it which he’d just said he had prayed and I said, “Great,” again.  And he stood up pulled up his pants and walked away before I really could say much more as I was tied up with Kathleen.  So I’ll keep him in prayer.  Also on Monday, a girl I had gone through the Gospel with last semester said she had prayed to receive Christ as well.  Allie, a cute African American girl.  She’d promised to pray later, as she had attracted a boy at the end of our conversation.  I’ve been praying for her some, but I did not know.  So that was good too.

So I will be praying for Lateisha and Trinity, Chris and Allie in the Hopes that God will keep them and draw them closer to Himself.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry if you have had some time and for evangelism if you had a moment today. God blessed.

In Him,
Bob Bollow