Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Hope ya had a great day walking in the Lord.  I had several good talks with students and Courtney prayed with me to receive Christ.  She was laying on her back, looking at her phone in the Mac Arts center.  She has long brown hair and was dressed all in black with some white in her shirt at the neck line, kind of a rounded diamond shaped face, brown eyes.  Her dream is to work in a music studio.  Kind, nice girl.  Courtney had been to a couple of churches but had left, feeling like the Church was about them — as opposed to caring for people, I believe.  I didn’t know if she was a Christian but she had a heart of compassion.  But of course that would not save you.  She admitted later she did not read her Bible and I encouraged her to read the Book of John explaining it a bit to her.  “I feel like my heart would deserve it (Heaven). It’s always been in the right place, the way I think about things.”  But it turned out she had not trusted in or understood the Gospel but was just going to Church, kind of trying to follow along but not knowing the path.  When I explained the Gospel to her she had known the story a bit but had not asked God to forgive her based on what Jesus had done.  I explained the work of the Holy Spirit to her and how God could give her the strength to love others and live the Christian life. She wanted to pray to receive Christ and be forgiven, to have God live inside her.  She said she was not a disciplined reader at all.  So I gave her a Bible Study and a copy of More than a Carpenter to read, telling her she could just read it little by bit and not to worry about her progress.  But to trust that God would do the work to transform her and to keep asking Him to do so by His Spirit.  As we were getting up to leave she said, “I think you talked to my boyfriend the other day.”  I asked her what his name was and she said, “Tyler.”  I said, “I remember him. He had a Cubs jacket on and a hat.”  And she said, “He did.”  I said I had talked to him over in the science building but he had not prayed with me.  So I encouraged him to and said to him, putting my hand on his shoulder, “You know this is true.” as he got up to leave.  And he agreed he did.  I told Courtney I had been praying for him.  She gave me her number as her email did not work, so maybe I will text her next week to see if Tyler had prayed to receive Christ.  I’ll keep them both in my prayers now.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had the chance.  God blessed and called Courtney.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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