Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you were blessed today as you walked with Him.  I has a good day on campus today, and Ada prayed to receive Christ. Two other girls said they would pray after class and ran to theirs: Xesia (Excess e ah) and Sydney.  Tomorrow we’ll do a book table to try to get some more peeps to Bible Study and share the Gospel with those who drop by.  We had a good group at Bible study tonight.

Ada was walking down the hall with one of the girls I know who is from Nigeria, Emike.  Ada had long braids past her shoulders and looked a bit like Emike, who is her cousin, with a bit wider nose and a narrow face. Cute, wearing shredded up jeans.  I was introduced and Emike said she’d gotten into a fender-bender on the way to school. I began talking to Ada as we stood, asking her some questions leading to the Gospel. She goes to the Teen Church meeting at local large church, it turns out, but didn’t understand the Gospel.  I explained that God wanted to live inside her to give her eternal life and she asked Emike, “Did you know this?”  To which Emike’s reply expressed both that she knew it and it was true.  So at one point Ada dramatically rushed away.  I said “Do you think she’ll come back?  “Probably” Emike said. So we talked some more and then I said we should go around the corner to look for Ada. She’d sat down there on some chairs and been distracted by her phone, and was a little freaked out by the Gospel it seemed. But Emike assured her, “He tells this to everyone.”  I completed going through the Gospel with Ada and she said she had not understood it before and wanted to be forgiven.  I walked her through the prayer and she prayed to receive Christ. She wanted a book and had a Bible, so I gave her 20 things God Can’t Do and she put it in her purse happily.  Kind of strange, but they traveled on their way and I told them I’d be praying for them. (Ada is in a good church).  I already  pray for Emike.  I’m sure I’ll see them around.

Xescia (Excess e ah) was sitting at one of the counter-height tables in the MAC arts center.  She had a wide, rounder head with very curly hair and looked a bit Latino.  A happy person, it seemed.  She said she’d gone to a bad church in Cicero as a kid. That left her disinterested in Church.  She was up for talking about God, though she didn’t take my questions seriously, saying she’d ask God to let her into heaven so she could “meet David Bowie.” To which I said he might have had a shot, but I was not sure he was there but in the other place  where there is no community, so you couldn’t run into him.  She genuinely listened to the Gospel until a bit after her class began, through the prayer explanation saying she wanted to be forgiven and believed Jesus was God and had died for her sins, “I’ll definitely do this, but I have to run to class” and she ran off.  But sometimes the art students are possible to meet again in the lounge, so I hope I’ll run into her later to see if she was genuinely interested and prayed.

Sydney was a pretty, short girl waiting for class in the science building. She had leggings on and what looked a bit like workout clothes.  She had dark blonde hair, shoulder-length with curls in the ends of it.  I asked her if she’d like to know about God and she said “I want to, but how long does it take? I have to go to class.” So I offered her the speeded up version that I should have done faster, as she quickly nodded to every point and listened to me explain the prayer. She said she wanted to be forgiven and have God living inside her, and believed Jesus was God and had died for her., but she would have to pray later as she just had to get to class.  So I cut her loose, giving her some contact information and gave her the booklet and she took off to class.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a moment.  God blessed.  And I’ll be praying for Sydney and Xescia in the hope they will come too.

In Him,

Bob