Hey sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you were blessed today. I had a good day today and went through the Gospel with several students. I got to talk to Micheal again who had suffered with clinical depression.  I’d gone through the Gospel with him the other day and talked with him for an hour today and gave him a Bible study.

Yesterday, Sal prayed with me to receive Christ. He was laying down on the half wall just outside the PE building reading a book. He had shorts on and a t-shirt and a pink baseball cap on, nice looking kid with a bit of beard growth. He had a tattoo on the inside of his left forearm that read “DO MORE”. He said he wanted to travel the world and help people. When I asked him what he would say to God if he died and He asked ‘Why should I let you into heaven’ he said, “That’s a tough one… I’m not sure how to answer the question. I’ve always been caring to people, I’ve been honest, not ripped people off, stuff like that.” He was sure he would go to heaven. He knew Christ had died to take away our sin and said he went to church some. As I finished the Gospel I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven and he did, so I asked him if when he had done something (he knew he needed forgiveness for) if he had been trusting that Jesus had died for him or if he had thought he was a trying to do good and “that God would forgive him if he would just Do More?” I asked pointing at his ink. He grinned and he said, “That I would do more.” So I talked him through the prayer and said he could pray it silently and be forgiven and asked, “Do you think you’d like to do that, you could do it right now like I wasn’t here?” “Yeah, I guess.” he said matter-of-factly, and he took the booklet and prayed to receive Christ. I explained the Christian life to him as living “Inside out” where we ask for transformation and God’s power by the Spirit to live the Christian life. I gave him the book 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible study writing by the Spirit’s power in the front and the day he’d received Jesus. “You know I wasn’t gonna come out here but then I did,” he said talking about laying outside to read on the wall. “But then I did, and you never know what’s gonna happen.” I laughed and shook his hand and he said, “Thank you so much.” “Just remember ‘Do More by the Spirit’,” I said pointing at the tattoo saying he could add by the Spirit at the bottom and he said he might.

I also had a talk where I went through the Gospel after that with Matt outside down the concrete patio along the BIC building and he had lost his faith. Originally as a kid thinking he would study to be a priest. Clean shaven kid in a white t-shirt and shorts, dark brown short mop of hair kind of a pug nose, sitting Indian style in the bright sunlight against the building. “I tried to live my best, tried to question my intentions behind things.” he’d said in answer to what he would say to God. “I want to believe this,” he said after I had finished the Gospel.  We talked about suffering, something had happened to break his faith.  He took the student edition of The Case for Faith. I encouraged him to pray for faith and ask God for it. He had to go to a math appointment for tutoring but wanted to read the book and talk more so hopefully we will.

So thanks for your prayers for the ministry and for evangelism the past couple day. God blessed.

In Him,

Bob