Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
How was your day walking with the Lord?  I had a really god day on campus and Jewellel [pronounced Jewel] and Brian came to Christ.

Jewellel was laying on the floor against a section of the wall that came out a bit with her knees bent, wearing big sunglasses and ear buds in her ears from an Ipod.  She’s black, has straight hair, had faded bleached-knee blue jeans on, cute kid.  I asked her if she wanted to do a survey and she hemmed and hawed a bit so I asked her, “Do you know how to get to Heaven?”  She admitted she didn’t so I asked, “Do you want to know?” She hesitated and said she did.  So I sat on the joined chairs that made kind of a bench at her feet against the wall and started going through the Gospel with her, explaining that she would have to be perfect to go to Heaven, but she wasn’t.  That would leave Hell for her and everyone else too, so God became a man, Jesus, to live a perfect life for her.  I explained how Jesus was the source of all life and when He died it restored life to the world.  “You know how when someone does something cruel to you it kind of kills you a Little bit?”  She nodded and said, “Yeah.”  “Well, every time we sin we do that to people.  We create a little death in the world and in us. Jesus restores life where we have created death around us and in us, He pays for our sins with His blood.”  She said she went to church once in a while when she was a kid, but that her father was still very religious.  She said she prayed to God and asked for help sometimes.  I explained to her that what God wanted most from her and everyone is what anyone wants in a relationship, He wants us to believe Him and believe in Him and what He had done to take away her sins.  I asked her if she wanted to be forgiven and she said she did, so I took out the little booklet I have and showed her a prayer where she could have forgiveness and trust in Christ and walked her through the prayer, now laying next to her leaning on one arm on the floor. saying she could pray it right now like I wasn’t here and I got up and sat down again as she slowly read.  When she was done I said God forgave her sins.  I gave her my e-mail and talked to her about a book and she took Enjoying Your Walk With God and a bible study to read, and told her I would be praying for her all this year and next year.  I gave her knee a squeeze as I got up to go saying I thought God had sent me to her.  She reach up and squeezed my hand, smiling, and I said I’d see her in Heaven. She seemed really happy.

Towards the end of the day I found Brian, a black guy from South Africa, laying on the grass outside.  He had very short hair and a light mustache, very friendly.  I had said hi to a friend of his on a bench and he asked me about the Cubs and Sox since I had a Cubs shirt on.  We talked a bit and I asked him if he wanted to do a survey about God for a Bible Study Group.  He said ‘fine’ and I asked him some questions and went through the Gospel with him.  He had gone to church some, even lately, and had thought he was going to Heaven because, “I’ve been a good person all my life.”  I went through the Gospel with him and could tell it was news to him he had not heard b4.  He said he would like to be forgiven and I showed him the prayer but he said, “I will pray this on my own later.”  I said, “Do you believe that Jesus was God and died for your sins and rose from the dead so you can too and do you trust in Him to make you right with God?”  “Yes I do,” he replied.  So I shook his hand and said “Well based on your confession I can tell you God forgives your sin, hearing your faith.” He got a big smile at that and I gave him More Than a Carpenter to read and a bible study.  He gave me his e-mail when I offered to send him a story and I promised to pray for him.  So I will send him some stuff.

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

In Him,
Bob Bollow