As promised, here is my update with my $20:

 

As I explained in my earlier post, I decided to buy Expo markers for my professor and leave them in her office as a surprise gift. The next class period, she brought the markers to lecture and was pretty excited to show students how her name was written along the bottom of her new markers. Overall, I think this worked just about as well as it ever could. She has brought the markers to class ever since. I'm not certain that she has looked into the verses I included on the markers, but God knows and is working.

Also, last night, Jess and I took our professor to dinner. Unfortunately, she would not let us pay for her meal and so that kind of caused problems with the $20 we planned for her, but that is alright. We will get another idea soon. However, conversation was very good at dinner. She was very interested in our backgrounds and of course, hearing her story was awesome. I felt like God made a couple of little entrances and might have shown a some light on her. She seemed really interested about the church that I attend here and I think she might have a  Christian background similar to mine. Yeah, Jesus! I'm currently deciding the best way to ask her if she'd be interested in going to church with me this weekend, so I'd definitely appreciate some prayers toward that.

Anyway, that's the progress thus far and I guess we'll be back to the drawing board with Plan C.

Blessings to all of you this Christmas!

Justine