Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope you had a great day yesterday and God blesses you through the weekend.   I had a good day of sharing yesterday and Beahja (rhymes with Asia) prayed to receive Christ. I also bumped into Jai who prayed to receive Jesus last semester. He’d said he wanted to tell his family the Gospel when he had prayed with me. They seemed to be Christians in name only.  When I saw him yesterday he thanked me again for telling him the Gospel and said, “It’s really made a difference. I pray the prayer every day.” He had torn the prayer out of the booklet and carried it in his wallet. It actually is a good prayer it reads as follows: Lord Jesus I want to know you personally. Thanks for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive you as my savior and Lord. Thank you for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life, make me the kind of person you want me to be. Jai then told me he had gone through the booklet with his parents Janet and Jerome and had prayed the prayer with them as well. So it would seem he has lead his parents to Christ! He gave them the book I had given him. He called it “Things God promises not to do”. I gave him another booklet to have and the book Bible Promises for You. I told him I would pray for his parents too. He was really thankful and glad to see me. God gives me this gift once in a while, to see someone who has prayed growing in their faith and making a difference in the lives of others. It made my day.

Beahja was sitting in the hall where the BIC building enters into a tunnel connecting it underground to the PE building. She is African American and was wearing yoga pants and a jacket. She was maybe 5’4” and had braids and a cute oval face. She did not have much time and I made sure not to take any extra time going through the Gospel. When I asked her what she would say to God to get into Heaven, she answered more saying why she would want to go, “Because I wanna meet the rest of my family.” She thought she had about a 65% chance of going to Heaven and she knew the story of the Gospel, that Christ had died, but she was not trusting in His work to be forgiven. “I know I should believe deep down God has forgiven me,” she said.  I said that wasn’t what I was asking her. I was asking if she had been trusting in that the reason she had been forgiven was Jesus. She decided she had not trusted in that and though she only had 3 minutes to get to class she prayed to receive Christ out loud in the hall.  I quickly gave her a Bible study and the book Bible Promises for You. I gave her a hug around the shoulders, told her I would pray for her every night for a year and apologized for making her late and she ran off to class. I’ll be praying for her, hoping to meet her again to encourage her and to be encouraged that she is walking with the Lord

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism yesterday if you had a chance, God truly blessed me yesterday.

In Him,

Bob