Hey Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

I hope you day was blessed walking in the Lord, it was a beautiful day here just to walk between the building among the many flowering trees they have planted. I had a good day on campus and 3 guys Andy, Josh and Damsith each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Andy had a blue shirt and jeans on and kind of looked like a ken doll with a couple days growth of beard, same hair cut as Ken. Sitting in the cafeteria at the counter, he was the first guy I spoke with today who was willing to talk.  He only had 11 minutes before class started and did not have time to do a survey but said he would do take a booklet. As I gave it to him I borrowed a bit more of his time to explain the Gospel. I had taken all the time before class as I looked walking away but he had not seemed worried about it as he had become interested. It turned out he had friend who had gotten him interested in religion a few months ago, taking him to some church stuff but that guy had entered the Navy. After hearing it he remarked about what a great proposition the Gospel was in God’s offering him salvation already paid for by Christ. After I had gone through the gospel he said he’d want to be forgiven so I asked if he’d been trusting in Christ, saying I knew he’d probably heard the story before. “But if I’d asked you why should God let you into heaven would you have said you were trusting in that Christ died for you?  Or were you trusting in the idea that you were basically a good person and God would forgive you and be merciful?” “Yeah I’d have said that,” he said with a grin. So I offered him the prayer saying he could be forgiven with God living inside, he took the booklet back from me then praying to receive God’s forgiveness through Christ. I had enough time to explain the Christian life to him living inside out and give him a Bible Study and 20 Things God Can’t Do, writing the date he’d received Christ and “By the Spirit’s power” in the front. He thanked me and we laughed that maybe we’d see each other in Heaven and I let him go to class.

Josh was Filipino and was sitting at a table in the PE building just up the stairs outside the workout area, wearing a white t-shirt and some blue sweats with stripes on the sides. He had a straight dark mop of hair, as you might expect, starting to recede a bit in front, and almond eyes with hidden eyelids which at first made me think he was Chinese. He is from a small Island in the Philippines but said his family lived in the Capitol and took a boat still sometimes to vacation on the smaller Island of his birth. He came from a Roman Catholic background but had not been to church in a while. When I asked him what he would say to God if he died and God asked him why should I let you into heaven he said, “Hmm… Because I believe in you.” He knew Jesus had died for his sins but had not been trusting in it, he paid close attention to the scriptures and explanations without remark and as I finished the Gospel I asked him if he wanted to be forgiven. “Yeah,” he said nodding his head. I asked if he had been trusting in Christ or if he still needed to do that if he did there was a prayer he could pray and I walked him through receiving Christ by the prayer and asked if he’d like to pray that and he said, “Yeah sure.” and he silently prayed to receive Jesus. I explained the life in Christ to him living inside out and gave him 20 Things God Can’t Do and a Bible Study on the deity of Christ. He was happy but didn’t have much to say in response so I asked him some questions about his home and left saying, “God bless you.” Shaking his hand. “God bless you too,” he replied warmly and I headed out the doors.

I went back to the truck to get more books chatted up a guy Kevin on the deck, with ink sleeves and a reddish beard, seemed to have been in the military based on his cap. He was grateful to hear the Gospel and gave him a Pocket Prayers Book, “There ya go.’ he said gratefully accepting it, I hope that was a good seed.

I came upon Dansith sitting in the hall he had a light blue shirt on with a crucifix around his next and jeans on.  He had a thinning loosely curly head of hair and said he was from Sri Lanka. He appeared Indian in features, darker skin nice looking guy. He looked upset and I said, “How you doing? Something wrong?” It turned out he was worried about Trump starting a nuclear war based on “Operation Gotham Shield” which simulated an apocalyptic strike on New York City. I told him Trump had also said he was going to let the Chinese take care of North Korea and that NK did not presently have a weapon they could reach the US with. That calmed him down a bit as we talked more I asked if he’d like to do a survey for our bible study Group and he was up for it.  I asked him, “What’s one thing you’d like to do before you die?” He said “See Jesus”. So that was promising. But he was trying to do enough good to merit going to Heaven.  I asked him what he would say to God if asked why He should let him into heaven and he said, “Because all the things I’ve done… I’ve done good things and bad things, I have done more good deeds.” He seemed to think God would weight them out and the biggest pile would determine his salvation.” He then rambled a bit, “I’ve been baptized and I’ve done things for others… I do take wrong turns and I get worried. God is the only way to truth the only way to have [it]. He is the eternal. We need to do good deeds that’s what we’re here for, help the poor, the blind the weak.” He went on a bit more. I began going through the Gospel with him and he would interject something good he had done as I spoke, I talked about how Christianity was like a blood transfusion where God wanted to transfuse His life into you, to live inside you with his Holy Spirit. He talked about having O blood and he gave blood every year. I asked him how God took away his sins what was the big thing Jesus had done, “Holy Spirit?” he guessed after thinking a moment. “Well this is how it works,” I began and walked him through the Gospel. He found other places to talk about doing good deeds in the middle but I finally got him to just stop and then clarified what I was asking him when asking if he wanted to be forgiven, I told him he could not do good works to be forgiven and pressed upon him that Jesus had to die for him and he had to trust in that. I asked if he had been trusting in that. “Most of the time no,” he admitted, “but I’m seeing it now.” he realized then he need to trust in Christ’s goodness not his own and prayed then to receive Christ after I walked him through the prayer. He took 20 Things God Can’t Do to read and I write his name in the front and the date he had been forgiven, writing, “Forgiveness is yours!” under it. He went to class then as we both stood and he was grateful as we parted.

So thanks for your help in prayer for the ministry and for evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob