Battle Log
Tuesday 23 January 2024
Posted 23 January 2024, 6:01 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink
Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday January 16th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500
Despite of the week-long heat wave alert, God gave us a window of overcast but dry weather with cool temperature best for street outreach. Praised the Lord Winnie was able to rejoin the Toowong team today though with unpredictable delay due to stomach pain. So, I started solo first and Winnie rejoined me about 20 minutes later. Both had great outreach opportunities leading to many fruitful gospel sharing conversations. Recap below is the Battle of Hung. (**By the way, I have to take next Tuesday off as I need to accompany my wife for a specialist consultation appointment to determine if a spinal bond operation is needed to enlarge the shrink spinal cord tube)
1) First rejected by a non-Chinese speaking man with an excuse he was fully into his music listening happy hour. I still suspected he is a Mainlander just pretending non-Chinese to avoid a chat. One day in future, he might regret on his such decision to ignore the gospel.
2) Next, I was led to approach an Indonesia girl who appeared very open for a chat but her bus came right at this very moment but she still earnestly took a tract to read.
3) Then I was led to approach a local Aussie woman who seems to be an atheist but she was still happy to have a friendly chat but no tract.
4) Then next cam a very interesting gospel conversation with a young man from Anfai who claimed that he had listened to the gospel message many times from many of his Christian friends in UQ. He even has attended many of those Christian fellowship meeting but he insisted his heart has still not yet been touched by the gospel message to react. He sarcastically advised me to look for someone else to share the gospel. But I was moved not to let him go yet switching the topic to share my personal testimony to showed that God has different timing for every elected person.
5) Next I was moved to approach a mainlander girl whose Grand pa and Grand Pa in law are all pious Christians in China yet her parents and herself are all fair dinkum atheists , despite she admitted her grannies are godly person with great personal life witnesses. ,She was not too keen on religious issues, but she was still opened for chatting for considerable time.
6) Then God gave me a middle-aged mainlander man by the name Zhou? from Shangdong to have a long chat. Initially, he showed definitely no interest to chat and claimed he has a very established view on religious matter consideration atheist is the most sensible choice as he is convinced there is no proof of existence of God more so from scientific point of view. I did not push to convince him there is a God, but use apologetic approach to explain the scientific ground of the 6 days creation story and supplement with my personal testimony. God also helped making him missed his bus to have long enough time for me to share the gospel and the creation God. Finally, he came back to his sense to check why the bus did not turn up and I leave him the space to ponder on what I had shared with him. He also willing took a tract.
7) Chris a Chilean but not a religious person yet just falling short of declaring himself an atheist. Yet my sharing of the gospel had aroused his sense to pursue spirituality and admitted every one need Jesus. He willingly took a tract and a selfie with me.
8 ) Last but not the least was an Indian girl who responded to the gospel with Christian's language such as trusting in Jesus who love the sinner unconditionally. I even thought she was readily a Christian but her status was somewhat like the Anfai guys who has absorbed a lot of head knowledge about God, Jesus and his salvation but not yet reaching the opportune time to surrender to receive Christ. Nevertheless, she was happy to take a tract and too ka selfie in a hurry to catch her bus.
View previous Toowong (QLD) report (16 January 2024)
Toowong Team (QLD)
Meets 1:30-3pm every Tuesday afternoon at the Toowong train station on the 2nd floor and splits into two teams, one at the main entrance of Toowong Tower on Sherwood Road, another at the foot of the pedestrian bridge across Benson Street.
Contact Johnny Hsieh for more information.