Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ!

How has your life in Christ been today?  I hope you have had joy in serving Jesus.  I had a great day today on campus.  The Lord really blessed and Kiera and Rashundra, two black girls, prayed to receive Jesus.  So a nice birthday present for me!  Oh and yesterday at the book table, Matt, a guy who Tuesday said he would pray later, told me he prayed to receive Christ so that was cool too.

Kiera was sitting in the PE lounge, on a half circle couch, reading and listening to music.  I interrupted her and she said she’d answer some questions.  She is a cute girl, soft features, long thin braids with brown highlights, wearing black and white yoga pants with some type of African animal print.  Nice, shy girl.  She is a dancer and told me it was Beyonce’s birthday, having told me she’d like to dance on stage with her.  I told her it was mine too and that I wish I knew Beyonce as I bet she is having some awesome cake today.  Kiera had gone to church a bit when she was younger, enough to have a student bible of some kind, so I gave her a new one (NASB) as she wanted another.  She had some familiarity with the story of Jesus, but had said she would go to Heaven because she was a good person.  After I had gone through the Gospel with her, she said she’d like to make more time for God, and knew she should try.  I said, “Do you believe that Jesus is God, has died for your sins and rose from the dead?”  She made one of those ‘oh yeah’ faces where you kind of scrunch up your features in affirmation, nodding her head.  I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her and how God could give her the strength to live the Christian life by His power if she wanted to ask for it.  If she would pray for forgiveness in the name of Jesus, His Spirit would enter her.  I said, “Say you are dancing at some club and you somehow end up dancing alongside a girl who is one of Beyonce’s dancers when she is in town for a show.  She sees you dance well and tells you she dances for Beyonce.  You tell her you love Beyonce and she offers you tickets for the show, telling you her name is Cindy (at which point I said that really does not sound like the name of one of Beyonce’s dancers but oh well).  She gets your name, Kiera, and says “just say, ‘Cindy left a ticket for you at the box office at the gate.'”  So [later] you go to the gate and tell them you are there to get a ticket left for you and say your name is Kiera.  The person at the gate asks who left it for you and you struggle for a minute to remember but then say, ‘Cindy’  She finds the ticket and you get to go in.  You got in but you had to claim the name Cindy who left you the ticket.  God has a ticket for you to go to Heaven and for Him to live inside you, but you need to claim it in the name of Jesus.”  “Oh I see that!” she said.   I walked her through the prayer to receive Jesus, asking her if she would like Him to live inside her and help her live the Christian life.  She decided she would and prayed to receive Christ.  I explained the Fruit of the Holy Spirit to her and gave her the verses for that and a Bible Study on Suffering from last night’s study.  So that was great.  She said she’d often sit there and I said I’d check with her once in awhile and pray for her each night.

Rashundra (ra shun dra) was sitting with her friend she lives with, Monique (hair pulled back glasses looked smart.)  She was a cute kid with straightened hair in kind of a shaggy pixie cut, round face with a bit of a point on her chin.  They were sitting in the hall outside of Rashundra’s class that was soon to start.  Monique was a Christian and claimed Jesus had died for her as to why she should be let into Heaven.  Rashundra knew the story of Jesus, but when I asked her she was more about what she had done religiously.  After I went through the Gospel with them I asked them if they had ever asked for forgiveness based on what Jesus had done for them.  Rashundra wasn’t sure she ever had.  When I explained the prayer to her she wanted to pray to receive Christ.  And she did.  I gave them the student editions of The Case for Faith and The Case for Christ and Bible studies to read.  They had to run to class as the teacher had walked past us and into the room.  So I let them run and they said they would email me about the Bible Study, so I hope they do.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God’s Spirit was with me and blessed.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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