Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed.  We had a good day at College of DuPage. Thanks for your prayers.  Victoria prayed with us to receive Jesus today.  My broken jaw seemed to get a little screwed up from all the talking I did today though, so I hope God will heal it up.

When we got to the school today, they had not given us a table. This isn’t uncommon.  Seems nearly every year they don’t place us somewhere (anticipating this we came an hour early). They have a new rule we did not comply with, but it didn’t matter since they said we could take a random table of our choosing downstairs.  So we took one right at the base of the stairs and we had good traffic. We were across from the popcorn machine and next to the Henna Tattoo artist, so lots of kids walked by. We actually got a better spot than they would have given us anyway upstairs.  By the time I came in from parking, Ellen had already explained to the new woman in Student activities the impossibility of complying with the new rules. Ha, but it didn’t matter.  I could be lead to the opinion they sort of blacklisted our group (this is Ellen’s opinion) and I did have to get the cops off my back with a Lawyer. But hey, God is able. So thanks for praying because it worked out good.

Victoria actually came down for a henna tattoo, and then after she got it she came over to ask about the Bible study. She was an African American with her hair pulled back in a hair band.  Her hair was natural, she dressed in jeans and a t-shirt.  El thought she looked a little older or mature physically (bigger) than someone right out of High School.  She was very nice. So I told her when and where the Bible study was (we were right down the stairs from where we meet, easy to point to)  and asked her if she died and God said to her, “Why should I let you into Heaven?” what she would say?  “I don’t know. I guess I would hope I did enough good things to get in,” she replied. “So you kind of hope your good stuff will outweigh your bad stuff?” I asked. She agreed she thought that, so I asked her if she would like to know how to get to Heaven.  She said yes and so I walked her through the Gospel.  She said she wanted to be forgiven for her sins and that she believed Jesus was God and had died for her sins.  I asked her if she would like to trust in that to be forgiven.  She wanted to do that and I walked her through the prayer, encouraging her to pray like I wasn’t there. As I sat down she prayed out loud, just under the din of all the conversation and noise around us, saying “Amen” as she finished.  I told her she could take a book to read, since we had a dozen different books out on the table.  She took a copy of a book someone gave me called Experiencing Christ Within Workbook. It had some good stuff in it, so I decided to leave it out on the table and that is the book God lead her to take.  I gave her a Bible Study and our contact information, so hopefully she’ll come.

About a half dozen student seemed interested to come to bible study once in a while. Hopefully that will bring a few more in to discipleship.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry if you had a moment today.  God worked and we are grateful for the power others in the church bring to our efforts on campus.

Blessings,

Bob