Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Well, I hope you were blessed today walking in the Spirit.  I had a great day sharing on campus, and Jake and Keichelle each prayed to be forgiven through faith in the work of Christ for them on the Cross.  I park in a far out lot at the beginning of the school year (until students drop classes and you can park closer and not feel like you are taking a spot for a kid who might be late to class) so I come in through the science building.  Jake was sitting on the step of the sunken floor of the big lounge in the Health and Science building.  Slim, white kid with braces, shorter hair, athletic. He grew up in a Lutheran Church.  He thought he had a shot to go to Heaven and had tried to follow God’s teachings, but he didn’t know the Gospel well and so I went through it with him, reading him some bible verses and quoting others.  When I asked him if he would want to be forgiven he said yes.  So I showed him a prayer he could pray to ask for forgiveness, believing in what Jesus had done for him and accepting forgiveness and he prayed.  He had known the story from Church but had never given his life to Christ.  He took a Bible study from me and since he was really into basketball I gave him Playing with Purpose, a book on testimonies from stars in the NBA.  He was pretty excited about the book so that was great.

Keichelle was sitting on the third floor in a lounge just down the hall a bit and up a floor from where we have Bible Study.  She’s African American, friendly, sweet kid, round face and sort of pug nose and straight hair pulled back into a bun, cute, intelligent girl.  She said she’d like to go to Europe, and I said I’d like to take a boat down the Rhine River in Germany and see all the Castles.  She had a friendly smile and was very interested in the Gospel.  As I began to explain it to her she kept getting this bemused look on her face as she realized she didn’t know it at all.  Her friend kept calling and finally she picked up and told her where she was and said something like, “You need to get here!”  She told her friend she was having this really interesting discussion and told her, “We are going to this Bible study!”  Her friend dropped by only briefly to say she was going to the bathroom however and didn’t come back.  But Keichelle continued to listen about the Blood of Christ paying for our sin and how He died in her place, restores life to all the places our sin creates death and how his righteousness was to our credit (imputation).  When I asked her if she had ever asked God to forgive her for her sins based on what Jesus had done she hesitantly said, “Yes.” “But you didn’t understand what you were doing right?” I replied. “No.” she admitted. “You didn’t know any of this stuff before did you?” I asked smiling and she said, “No” with a bit of a pouting smile.  So I said “Well then you need to ask for forgiveness now” and I read the prayer through to her explaining it and asked her if she wanted to pray.  She said, “I was praying it while you read it.” So I responded, “Then say, ‘Amen'”. “Amen,” she prayed.  I got her email address to send her stuff and gave her a Bible Study to do on her own. So pray she comes to Bible Study won’t you?  I think she would be fun to have around this year, but she’d have to hang at school for a while as she lives pretty far from school and we decided to have an evening Bible study this year.

Thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  The Lord heard and brought some peeps to Himself through the work.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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