Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I hope your day was blessed of the Lord and you were guided by His Spirit in all things.  I had a great day of sharing and two Students, Luis a Latino Guy, and Ryann, prayed to accept forgiveness by receiving Jesus as their Savior.  I also had some encouraging conversations with a couple guys;  Ricky (a guy overheard part of this and asked me to meet him there tomorrow too) and later Baru whose father is a moderate Muslim and whose mother is a Christian.  I gave each of them The Case for Christ (Ricky took the student version).

Luis was sitting in the Cafeteria eating and said he’d be interested to answer some questions.  He had a ball cap on, a thin mustache and walked with a forearm crutch.  He was trusting in his goodness to go to Heaven and hadn’t really thought about the death and resurrection of Christ.  But he wanted to be forgiven and have God live inside him.  So after I had gone through the Gospel with him he prayed to receive Jesus.  I gave him More than a Carpenter to read and told him I would pray for him.  Kyle, a Christian from China who had studied in Saipan, overheard us and we had a great conversation for some time about theology and Christianity in China and the underground churches there.  He asked some very good questions.  I left him feeling a lot of peace.   I had another half hour I planned to stay on campus so I walked over to the science building on the sidewalk outside as it was a beautiful day.

At the Science building I found Ryann sitting in the far end of the building in the lounge on the ground floor.  She was up for talking.  She felt she recently had asked God into her life wherein she had been away before.  She is pretty with brown curly hair, tanned complexion.  She knew that Jesus death was the way God had taken away sin, but she admitted she had not been trusting in that and had no assurance of salvation and had never asked God to forgive her sins based on what Jesus had done.  She could not believe God had forgiven her for all of her sins.  But I explained the Gospel and that it was Christ’s righteousness, not hers, that made her fit for Heaven that was to our credit.  I said, “Have you ever had someone do something really cruel to you and it feels like you died a little bit?”  She said she had.  I said, “When we sin it is like we create little bits of death around us and in us and in others.”  I explained that Jesus was the source of all life and that when He died he gave His life to restore all the death we have created.  And that we received this payment for our sins by faith.  She said she wanted to have God live inside her and be forgiven.  So I showed her the prayer where she could ask to receive Him and asked if she wanted to pray and she said, “Yes.”  And she did.  I talked to her about reading the Bible.  She did not have one, so I gave her one.  She was interested in Science and struggled with how it fit with faith.  I explained that every scientist has to act as if there is a God to order the world, to expect continuity in their experimentation, they are theists in the philosophical basis they work off of.  I said, “If everything came from random chance and an explosion you could not count on consistency in the Lab or in an O.R.”  She seemed to see that but it was a new idea to her.  So I gave her a copy of The Case for a Creator and a Bible study on the deity of Christ.  I got her e-mail to send her stuff too.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism on campus today if you had a moment. God really blessed the work.

In Him,

Bob Bollow