Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Hope your day was blessed.  I had a great day walking around sharing the faith with students and 3 prayed to receive Jesus today. Two girls, Sam and Taylor, and a guy named Kaven.

Sam and Taylor were sitting at a table tucked away beside the vending machines in a lounge on the 1st floor of the BIC.  I had walked past since I usually look for someone sitting alone, but I had a second thought that they both might be willing to talk.  So I went back and they were friendly.  Sam has stick-straight blonde hair, mostly light with some brown mixed in and Taylor had brown, wavy hair.  Both were cute.  It came out, when I asked them why God should let them into Heaven, that Taylor wanted to see her brother who had died when he was 17 and Sam had dated him.  Sam said she had a strong faith.  Neither of them could tell me how God had taken away their sins, though both were reasonably sure they would go to Heaven.  Sam had attended a small Baptist Church and Taylor had gone to a community church for a while with other friends who had taken her.  It was in her neighborhood.  So the Gospel had never really been put together for them and laid out clearly.  They responded well to the bible verses and listened clearly and when I offered them the chance to be forgiven they both wanted to pray to receive Christ.  I walked them through the prayer and they said they wanted to pray.  I gave them each a booklet to pray and they did.  So that was great.  They took the booklets I use some of the Bible verses out of, and I had explained the Holy Spirit to them.  I gave them each Bible study on the deity of Christ to read, though they did not want a book to read.  So I will be praying that they get back into a good church.

Kaven doesn’t attend COD, but he was willing to talk, having some time to kill.  It never came up what he was doing at school.  He is a bit on the round side, had a mustache and a few days growth of a beard, wore glasses, brown hair combed back.  Looked like a musician somehow :-).  Nice guy, he was dressed pretty nice.  He hadn’t been to church since he was a kid but was interested in the Gospel and understood it clearly after I walked him through it.  He said he’d like to be forgiven, so I asked him if he believed the story of Christ and that He was God and had died and rose again to pay for his sins.  He said, “Well, yeah I was raised that way.”  But he had never asked God to forgive him of his sins based on what Jesus had done.  I encouraged him that he had to choose these things for himself as an adult.  I asked him if he would want to follow God and give his life to Him.  I walked him through the prayer and he took it and prayed and brightened a bit.  That was good to see.  He said he’d had a Bible but it was lost in a move, which was why his family had stopped attending church.  They’d moved and lost the habit.  So I gave him a Bible to read and explained the work of the Holy Spirit to him.  I offered him a book and he was interested in The Case for a Creator.  He was into science.  I told him I would keep him in my prayers and it was good to meet him and we shook hands and I left.

I also had some really encouraging conversations with Christians today who understood things more clearly and were grateful.  A girl Cassidy, straight brown hair, intelligent looking, who played the viola in the symphony in a nearby town took The Case for Christ from me to read, saying she’d like to learn more about God.  Her parents had raised her with no faith.  And a black girl, Latisha, had to run to class but heard everything but the offer to pray before she ran off and was really tuned in as I spoke.  So I sent her off with the booklet and I hope to see her again.  I pray each night for God to be with the seeds I planted as I know many peeps were close to the kingdom of God and I hope He will continue to work to bring them to Himself.

So thanks for your prayers today for the Ministry and for evangelism if you had a chance. I’m grateful for your help, and God gave me a very productive day walking with Him.

In Christ our Lord,

Bob Bollow

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