Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you had a blessed day walking with the Lord.  I had a great day on campus and Brian prayed to receive Christ. I also talked with an Albanian guy, Lis (good looking tall clean shaven guy). Though Albania is largely Muslim, his family was not religious at all and he said, “Your presentation was very good so I will take the book to read (I had offered him the student edition of The Case for Christ). I will be praying for him. Later, Olivia, an African American girl said she had no reason not to believe, but had not been immersed in Christianity at all before. She had never gone to Church, but she was very open. I encouraged her to ask for faith, after going through the Gospel with her and gave her The Case for Christ and a Bible and a short book by Max Lucado Pocket Prayers and a Bible study.  So I am hopeful she will be led to Christ.  Dan, a Muslim from Indonesia heard the Gospel today too and he took a Jesus and the Quran pamphlet. So I am hopeful that might take root for someone else to give him the truth.

Brian was sitting on a set of chairs overlooking the revolving doors where a lot of kids wait for the bus outside the SRC building. He said he had time to answer some questions. He just wanted to get a job and be successful in life.  He is Roman Catholic and Latino, slight accent.  He had a jacket and jeans on, straight short hair and a Micheal Jordan mustache [he had more hope in than showed] a small cut on his upper lip and skin like mine on his cheeks. Regular looking guy, nice, took everything quite serious. When I asked him what he would say if God asked him why he should let him into Heaven he let out a bit of a thinkers laugh and said, “That’s a hard question.” He thought some and said, “If God asked me, I wouldn’t have a question. I’ve always been trying to help people that need my help. Sometimes they don’t want to be helped, but I try to help them as best I can.” I asked him what the likelihood he would go to Heaven and he said he hoped it would be 100% but he settled on having a 50/50 shot explaining, “Because most of the time I feel like I’m doing good things, [but] I reflect back and think, ‘oh I really did some bad things–I should have done something different.'” He listened attentively to the Gospel and understood it.  When I offered him the opportunity to be forgiven, trusting in Jesus, he said he’d like to be. So I asked if he’d been trusting in what Jesus had done for him in asking for forgiveness or if he’d thought he would try harder and try to do things to make up for it. “Kind of do good things,” he replied. So I offered him a prayer to be forgiven and he leaned in attentively as I explained it. I said he could pray it quietly in his heart where God could read his thoughts.  He prayed then and seemed at rest. I offered him the booklet to take and explained the Christian life “By the Spirit” to him and a remembrance view of the mass. As he got up to go, I gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and a book called Pocket Prayers. He smiled at me and said, “Thank you, have a great day.” I wished him well and he headed for the bus.

So thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance. God blessed.

In Him,

Bob