Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
Well, I hope you made it through the day and could rest in the Spirit.  I had a headache all day and basically had a brain fog, having slept poorly.  But in spite of that God was faithful.  I had some good conversations and Sheljo prayed with me to receive Christ.  His family is Roman Catholic from India, kind of interesting.  He had a really short haircut and was wearing a gray wool coat with a hood, jeans and work boots.  But they were the shinny hipster kind now popular, unlaced with the jeans bunched up at the open boot top, not the blue collar beat up kind.  We were in the large science building lounge . He didn’t have much to say and looked around alot as I spoke with him, kind of distracting given we were in a basically empty lounge later in the afternoon.  But I could tell he continued to listen so I just kept rolling.  He had large eyes.  I was just trusting God to come across to him, my head was weary and I did not feel very capable of putting my best foot forward.  He said he wanted to serve God with His life and seemed like a nice guy.  After I had gone through the Gospel with him he said he would want to be forgiven when I asked.  I asked him if he had ever asked God to forgive him based on what Jesus had done on the Cross.  “Well, I have gone to confession,” he said.  I explained to him the priest could tell him he was forgiven like an insurance agent can tell you you are covered for car insurance.  But when you damage your car the agent does not pay, the company pays.  “The priest is just acting as God’s agent, telling you God forgives you.  And he can only do that because Jesus died for you.”  He’d actually already said, when I asked him what he’d say to God if asked why He should let him into Heaven, “I feel sorry for what I did.”  I walked him through the prayer and asked him if he’d like to pray it and he said, “I did as you read it.”  So I said “Amen?”  And he said, “Amen”.  He was interested in a book and really brightened up when I offered him the book on the testimonies of Christians in the NBA, Playing with Purpose.  I guess it’s nice to have something you think will be fun to read, but as we looked at the book together he really seemed to think it was great that some of these players were Christians.  People like to think someone they admire for a talent like a sport also lives with the same view they do.  I gave him a Bible study to read and he was grateful.   We shook hands and I told him I would see him in Heaven.  He had a bit of an accent and there is a pretty huge cultural gap between us, and my head had a knot of pain by my eye.  But God still used me to speak to him, which was kind of Him to do.  And I was grateful.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance.  God was faithful.

In Him,

Bob Bollow

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