Hello, Dr. Craig, I wanted to write in about your impact in my life and faith. I am currently a graduating senior with a major in Philosophy. I am looking to get a Ph.D. in Philosophy and am currently applying. But your ministry's impact on my faith began while I was in high school. I am 21 years old now. I became a Christian in 2014, as I was beginning high school, and soon thereafter found out about the unbelief of my closest friends. After some months, I was online and found the YouTube debates that were raging about God's existence and couldn't answer the questions and arguments of the atheists in these comments sections. This caused me deep doubt until I committed myself to searching for the evidence for and against theism and Christianity. It was in this that I found your work and debates. Over the course of months, I learned about natural theology and apologetics, and my faith was not just restored but strengthened. Suddenly, I was confident now to discuss my faith with my peers and became equipped to answer their questions and defend my faith. I learned about the intellectual roots of the Christian faith and found a deep passion for philosophy that remains with me now. In college, I have worked to share the gospel through apologetics and to inform my brothers and sisters in Christ about it. I have helped brothers and sisters in their crises of faith and challenged by unbelieving friends with the gospel. I also had the pleasure of meeting you on two occasions at the Defenders class with my girlfriend before we got engaged. I write to you now because the truth of the gospel is hitting me in ways it never has before. My fiance, who you and Jan got to meet last time we were there, suddenly died two weeks ago. It's been a shocking and heartbreaking turn of events, especially since our wedding was only two and a half months away. The grieving has been hard, but God has been with me and faithful to me through it all. I've seen my family and hers come together with such love that it's moving, and my brothers and sisters both in our local campus ministry and the church that she and I had attended are loving us with the love of Christ. Waves of grief have been followed by waves of joy and love. The main thing that I want to thank you for is that, in all of this, I have not doubted once God's existence or the truth of the resurrection of Jesus and our hope of resurrection at the return of Christ. Your work has equipped me to focus on the truth and to look to Christ as my Rock during this time of heartache. Your work restored my faith in high school. Now it has equipped me to endure in faith during this time of grief. I am eternally grateful for the work that God has done in and through you for the gospel. He is sustaining me in deep and mysterious ways, and your work has played a role in that. I pray that God will continue to use you to reach others for the gospel and His Kingdom. P.S. Last time my fiance and I were there, she was so excited to meet Jan because she looked up to her and saw her as the kind of Christ-like wife to imitate. Every time I heard you talk about her, I was amazed at God's work in your marriage. I wanted to encourage you and Jan with that.
-Kevin
