Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed in the Lord.  Trina prayed to receive Jesus today. Yuanita said she would pray later.  Kristina committed to Christ and I think she truly believed, but had to run to her class as it was about to begin as I finished with her.

Kristina was sitting on the 1st floor hall of the BIC building.  She had long brown hair and was wearing leggings and a fleece.  Pretty girl and tall.  She had been to the Orthodox Church as a child but it was “just some traditions in her family” as she described it.  Her parents didn’t seem to have faith and her family no longer attended.  When I asked her what she might say to God to be let into Heaven she said, ” “Oh, like I’m not… I don’t feel… I mean everybody sins. But I don’t do horrible [stuff]. Know what I mean?” I said I understood.  She only thought she had about a 50% chance of going to Heaven.  She knew Jesus had died for the sins of the world and it seemed like she had some childhood faith still.  After I went through the Gospel, I asked if she believed Jesus was God and had died for her sins. She did.   I asked if she’d like to trust in that to be forgiven. She said she would and I ran through the prayer with her. But her class immediately across the hall from us was beginning.  So I quickly gave her a Bible study and the book 20 Things God Can’t Do, and encouraged her to email me.  So I hope God will move in her heart to pray to receive Him.  She said she prayed for forgiveness, so I will be praying God continues to move her to Himself.  I wish I had had 5 more minutes, but I think God always has a plan in that.

Trina and Yuanita were sitting together in a lounge down the hall from where Kristina had been at a table together.  African American, they both had many thin braids tied into their hair.  Yuanita was smaller and her braids were light brown and Trina’s matched her natural hair color and she wore glasses and was taller than Yuanita, who was small.  I asked if they’d want to do a student survey about what they thought about God.  Yuanita was a bit unresponsive, but Trina said yes right away and that made Yuanita want to participate.  Yuanita was distracted repeatedly by her phone but Trina paid close attention to all that I said.  When I asked her what she’d say to God as to why He would let her into Heaven she said, “Oh that’s deep… It depends on how you feel at that time I guess.”  Yuanita said, “I don’t know.”  They said they had been to Willow Creek when I asked if they had been to church.  Trina thought she had about a 50% chance of going to Heaven and Yuanita thought the same. Trina remembered Jesus died for the sins of the world, but had not trusted in it. She wanted to be forgiven and so I explained a prayer she could pray [in the booklet I bounced off of] and she happily decided to pray to receive Christ.  I asked Yuanita if she wanted to pray, but thought she’d not necessarily been tracking with all of it as she’d looked at her phone so much and said “or would you like to pray later?”  “Pray later,” she replied.  Trina prayed then.  I wrote some more notes in the booklet for Yuanita and then began to explain the Christian life to Trina.  I asked if she had a Bible and she said she did, but then Yuanita piped in, “that’s my Bible.”  I took out a bible then to give Trina.  At once Yuanita admired it saying, “Oh this is a nice compact Bible,” so I offered to get her one from my truck if they were going to be sitting there a while. They said they were.  I explained more of the Christian life to Trina and left to get a Bible and another copy of 20 Things God Can’t Do since Yuanita wanted one too.  I told Trina that if she trusted in the Righteousness of Jesus, as I’d explained already, she could be 100% sure she would go to Heaven. I suggested to Yuanita that she could not be sure of that until she’d received Christ.  This seemed to make her want to pray, so I said she could think about it while I went to my truck. It took me a bit of time even though I’d parked close and I passed Yuanita on the way to the rest room and said I could meet her at the table.  She said “Great!” and had the booklet open as she walked.  I waited for her for a while with Trina but then thought she might be unsure still about praying as she was not returning. So I asked Trina to text her and tell her I could just leave the books for her and Yuanita texted back “Thanks. And thank you for your time.” So I will keep her in my prayers.  It was as important for me to be sure she has prayed as it was that she take the time to understand in doing so. If God wants me to know, I’ll run into her again and then know to pray differently for Yuanita.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God blessed and led by the Spirit.

In Him,

Bob