Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Hope your day was blessed and you felt the presence of the Lord. I believe the Lord guided me again today by His Spirit through prayers. Ana prayed to receive Jesus today. Daniella, who I’d gone through the Gospel with just barely before she ran to class a few days back, sat across from me while I went through the Gospel with Vanessa. I smiled at Daniella and she smiled back and listened a bit. (A pretty petite brown haired girl.) I had a given her a copy of the booklet as she ran off to class. Vanessa thought she would like to pray later and left and I went over and Daniella told me she’d read the prayer in the booklet and took More Than a Carpenter from me. I told her I would pray for her. She seems like a really sweet girl. I bumped into Lonie and Aleena (two African American students) waiting for the bus by the revolving doors of the SRC, who I’d gone through the Gospel with on the 8th. Lonie had prayed to receive Christ then and Aleena said then she would pray later and she smilingly told me today she’d prayed to receive Christ. They smiled, laughed and thanked me when I told them I would be praying for them and had been.
Ana was the last person I talked to today in the MAC Arts building, sitting overlooking the lounge. She is a pretty, Latina girl, with sharp features, long brown hair and a big engagement ring on her finger. She is engaged to guy in the army stationed in Hawaii, and I got his name to pray for him as well. She plays the saxophone in the Army band. We talked for about an hour. She thinks of herself as Catholic and didn’t know how God took away her sins. She said she really did not know much about the Catholic faith, but her entire family is catholic and she has been trying to motivate herself to get back into church. Her fiancé is really religious and she asked me about how I thought it would work in regard to the Catholic Church. I told her I was marrying a girl from a Catholic background to a guy who is Lutheran next summer. I said my understanding was that if she got marriage counseling through the Catholic Church they would recognize a marriage outside their specific auspices. She hadn’t been to confession in a couple years and did not like it. She wasn’t very inclined toward church but her fiancé was “very spiritual”. We talked about naming (she was struggling with taking her fiancé’s name) as belonging to someone, as that was the topic of last night’s Bible study in light of the 3rd commandment [if ya want the notes out of curiosity I can send them. 😉 ] We talked about men and women and respect and love, but all this was after I had gone through the Gospel with her and she was really receptive. She said she wanted to be forgiven. After I went through the prayer I asked her if it was the desire of her heart and she said yes. For a moment she was not sure she wanted to pray, but then changed her mind and prayed to accept the forgiveness of Christ. I explained about asking for the Holy Spirit’s power to have the strength to love. I poured as much marriage guidance as I could into about 25 minutes. I gave her a Bible study to read and gave her Enjoying Your Walk with God. We talked about raising kids and I encouraged her that it would be good if she could find a church she felt comfortable in that was kind of middle ground. I encouraged her to check out Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton saying it was “high church” and might feel familiar to her and be acceptable to her Fiancé too, who did not want to attend the Catholic Church. She said she would think about it. I got her email and so I think I will send her the link for the Church where some friends attend as she does not live too far away to go.
So thanks so much for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. 20 people have prayed to receive Christ this year so far on Campus and God has truly been faithful in answering prayer.
In Him,
Bob Bollow
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