Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed and you are feeling the warmth of God’s presence contra mundum (against the world). I had a great day on campus. Yesterday I only got through the gospel with one girl who was a Christian and blessed me to talk to. But today I got some good seeds planted and Joanne and Jonathon each prayed with me to receive Jesus.

Joanne was sitting in the upstairs lounge having finished a work out at the PE building. She was wearing workout clothes and no make-up, her long dark hair was pulled straight back into a pony tail and she had some over the knee workout pants on with a print pattern, rounded black frame glasses. She was a cute kid and friendly. She went to a Catholic Church every week. When I asked her what she might say to God if she died and he asked her why He should let her into heaven she said, “I don’t know, that’s an interesting question… I believed in you my whole life or I believe in you.” When I asked her how likely it was she would go to Heaven she said, “I haven’t done anything terrible. I go to church.” So she seemed pretty sure she would go. I began to go through the Gospel and asked her what Jesus had done to take away her sins she didn’t seem to remember, so I said “This is how it works” to her and told her about Christ’s perfect life and death for her and his righteousness that was to her credit. I could tell it all resonated with her and she said wanted to be forgiven. I said it seemed like she hadn’t put it all together before about what Christ had done to be able to place her trust in that and she shook her head that that was right. So I said she could pray to receive God’s forgiveness trusting in Jesus and walked her through a prayer she could pray silently like I wasn’t even there and she took the booklet and said, “Alrighty, thank you,” and prayed. I explained more of the Christian life to her and gave her a remembrance view of the Mass where she could take a moment to be thankful and remember Christ had died and taken away her sins. She took the book 20 Things God Can’t Do and I wrote her name and yesterday’s date which we both had wrong in the front. I explained living “inside out”, the fruit of the Spirit and gave her a Bible study. I got her email and she said she might like to come to the Bible Study next semester. She was pleased to understand our faith and as I stood she stood too, reaching to shake my hand over the center of the table tied to the couch we’d sat on. “Thank you very much. It was nice meeting you Bob,” she said. And I said “It was nice to meet you too.”

I walked over to the other end of school and found Jonathon waiting for his class to begin saying he had 10 minutes to talk. He had on a gray hoodie, black sweats and a Sox baseball cap, a day’s growth of beard, very average looking guy, oval face, with a strong look to his eyes somehow and he made eye contact and looked straight at me off and on as I spoke. He had been through confirmation in the Catholic Church as a kid but didn’t remember much, saying the priest gave them something they agreed to and signed it. He hadn’t been going of late. He was a quiet guy, good listener. When I asked him what he would say to get into heaven if God asked he said, “Hmm…” and thought for a while. “I don’t know what I’d say exactly.” We had a time issue so I said, “You can say that if you want” and he agreed. He thought he had a least a 50% chance to get to heaven. I began to go through the Gospel with him and he tracked well with what I was saying. I asked him what Jesus had done to take away his sins and he couldn’t think of the answer so I said, “That’s OK, it’ll come back to you.” I then told him the Gospel. I think he understood for the first time. He wanted to be forgiven as I finished telling him the Good News and so I offered a prayer to him that he could pray trusting in the work of Christ. “It says here ‘Does this prayer express the desire of your heart’ so would you say it does.” I asked. “Yeah, ’cause I understand,” he replied and he received Jesus praying for forgiveness. That was great. I explained a remembrance view of the mass as I do to Catholics and said that if he was trusting in Christ’s righteousness to be his then the likelihood he would go to heaven was 100%. His class was about to begin so I quickly gave him the book 20 Things God Can’t Do writing his mane in the front and unfortunately the 2nd as the date. “Thanks a lot, Bob” he said with a big smile as he got up to go. “Take care of yourself.” I replied “You too”, he said and took off.

I also went through the Gospel with some others, Ivette was very grateful, little pretty brown haired girl with braces. I gave her the book Bible Promises for You and the Compass church website to listen to some sermons as she had dropped out of the Catholic Church, so I hope she will pray and think more about it later.

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

In Him,

Bob