Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a great day walking with Jesus.  I had a good day on campus following Him and Kathy and Taylor prayed to receive Christ.  Kathy is Vietnamese, cute kid, straight shoulder-length hair and glasses, French nails.  She was sitting messing around with her phone in the corner of a lounge with a glass wall that looks out on one of the courtyards in the BIC (which looks like it cost about $25 grand to lay out by a landscape architect.)  I sat down at her table with the sun pouring in through the glass wall to talk.  Though her family is Buddhist, she had taken the initiative to attend the Vietnamese church in town.  But I guess internal squabbles of one kind or another led her to leave.  I used some of this to help her realize that she had recognized her relationship with God as her Creator but had not trusted in Jesus as her Savior.  After I went through the Gospel with her, (she had not been able to come up with how God took away her sins with Jesus when I asked) we talked more and she decided to pray to receive Christ and did.  She confessed she’d realized her prayers had really been selfish and about what she was doing, not what He had done.  I gave her a Bible study on Doubt and got her e-mail address to send her more things, encouraging her to come to Bible study.  I also explained the work of the Holy Spirit to sanctify her, as I always do if there is time.  She was still in contact with her pastor so that was good.

Taylor was a quiet, big, African American guy with a full thick beard and short cropped hair.  He was a football fan so we talked about the game a bit.  When I asked him what he would say if God asked him why he should be let into Heaven, he struggled some and finally said, “I don’t know.”  I told him about the Bible study and said I’d show him some verses that would probably settle it for him.  He had had some minimal interaction with Christianity but didn’t really know anything, and lately had felt he would like to begin going to church.  He wanted to have a family.  He was very interested to hear the Gospel and tuned right in.  We had a good conversation.  He wanted to be forgiven and prayed to receive Jesus as his Savior and Lord after I walked him through the prayer.  He did not have a Bible so I gave him one, and also the book Playing with Purpose that has the testimonies of stars in the NBA in it, and a Bible study.

So thanks for praying for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  God has really been a blessing this year and I know the prayers of His people are bringing power to the time I spend on campus.

Blessings,

Bob Bollow

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