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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I made it to 3 out of 4 street outreaches this week!  Although the 3rd one was a bit different from usual.

So, Roger was with me in Riccarton Tuesday afternoon, and in the city on Friday afternoon.  Then, on Saturday afternoon, I was invited by Toby, of Student Life to join his church in a door knock outreach with his church.

For the Tuesday afternoon outreach, I decided to ditch the flip chart and focus on handing out tracts (mostly Christmas ones).  I walked up and down the streets doing just that!  Roger stuck to his usual routine and had some marvellous chats.  Pictured is one he had with two young guys from a local Catholic High School.  Roger was rejoicing at their openness.  God is good.

Again, on Friday, I focused on giving out Christmas tracts.  But I was also able to have many interesting conversations.  I gave away 100 tracts through the 2 hour outreach.

Now, the door knock outreach.  I was very encouraged by how this worked out.  I was encouraged by the emotion of the local pastor encouraging the team, of mainly youth, in what they were about to do.  I was encouraged by Toby’s organisation of the outreach.  I was encouraged by the local churches willingness to reach out to their neighbours, in spite of nerves.

We paired up and prayed up, and then hit the streets.  We were each allotted houses to knock at.  At the door, we introduced ourselves, handed out a little Christmas gift pack, on behalf of the church, and then asked if we could do a short survey.  The main goal wasn’t an instant gospel conversation, but to open the door for future gospel conversations.  They were invited to a Christmas Carol service in the evening, and the opportunity to join a Christianity Explored program run by the church.

My partner and I covered about 25 houses.  It was fascinating getting a feel for those in the local community.  Some were a bit lonely, mourning the fact that people in the neighbourhood didn’t know each other.  Some were busy (on the phone).  Some were simply not interested.  Yet, many were willing to chat, and do the survey.

I was encouraged.  And I hope the others involved were too!  I wasn’t able to stay for the debrief.  The more we do this, the easier it gets for the next time.  May the evangelistic heart of the local church rise up and reach out with the good news of Christ!

The rest of my week has been spent in online ministry.  I had a number of great face to face chats on the needGod.net live stream - esp. on Thursday.  And I’m still ploughing through the never ending harvest field of TikTok direct messages.

Thank you for your prayers.  Merry Christmas!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 20th 2023 from 1300-1500

A hot summer day with high noon heat wave, but more so, it was an afternoon of amazing grace bringing blessing to both the gospel targets and the Gospel Team workers of three, namely Johnny, Shu Yi and Hung. The presence of the Spirit was strongly sensed with the manifestation of His overwhelming Mission Power. God moved an led an Aussie migrant woman Emily with mixed blood of Australian, Solomon Island and India to support Shu Yi while she was preaching to an Indian young girl. We all thought Emily was either a friend or relative of that Indian girl but the fact is they are not related. Emily was simply moved by the Spirit to join Shu Yi with silent prayer and she herself was moved to tear when the message of the gospel touch her heart. She actually was also aware of Johnny and Hung. God further moved Emily to greet with Hung and expressed her admiration and appreciation of our street outreach ministry. I was in turn moved to invite her to join us as she work nearby. She got our ministry time between 1300-1500 and promised she will join us as long as on any Wednesday, she is free during that ministry periods. This was really a big blessing and life uplifting and confident boosting divine action to encourage not only Shu Yi but we as well. We all praised and gave glory to God> As for Johnny and Hung, we all got very good and fruit bearing conversation. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:-

1) My first gospel targets were two girl one from Hong Kong and the other from Shandong it took me a while to realize this and switched back from Cantonese to Mandarin. But I could only manage starting the topic and end up leaving with them the tracts.

2) Then I was led to chat with a lady from Dailin China. . tp do vocational study here at Tafe. Though she is a non-religious person, but she admitted no one is perfect and she acknowledged that there should be a consequence to hold us responsible for our imperfection of sins. It leads to the conclusion, we human race all need salvation by Jesus. As soon as we reached this contentious, her bus came.

3) Then God moved both Emily and me to catch up after she finished with her engagement with Shu Ji to preach the gospel to an India woman as shared above. I was surprised she noticed me, but she confirmed she saw me sharing gospel with another lady at a distance. It definitely is the manifestation of mission power to draw her to affiliate with us and hopefully will join our gospel outreach team next week.

4) The I chipped into the conversation of three boy that again amazed me that they are cross breed of Vietnamese and Pilipino. They behaved a bit playful, but I still managed to share them the nutshell of the gospel with tract given to them.

5) Then I was greeted by a stranger Chines old lady with a mast. She identified herself as Madam Che ? the member of the CCCB Coopers Plains . She was simply moved by the spirit to render me and the other two gospel warriors the Support as a sister in Christ. We only chatted for a short while as her movement is restricted because of a lame leg. She needs to get up earlier to catch the incoming bus.

6) Zane is a local Australian who travelled overseas with his mum at the age of 14 for world exposure. He has Christianity influence by his grandfather. Again, it was the work of the Holy Spirit who moved him to stay put skipping several bus to keep chatting with me. Although he confessed, he is not yet a believers, but when I shared the gospel and other related Bible story event, he basically was aware of most of them as such it was pretty effective to reconstruct the Biblical World View and God's mission to the world through the incarnation of Jesus Christ to come and die for us. Apparently, his heart has been softened and prepared to absorb all the teachings that God wants him to know and make an informed decision to accept Jesus as his personal saviour. We took a selfie and I prayed in heart for his imminent last step of action faith to accept Jesus as his personal Saviour,

7) Then I bumped in two MacGregor State school kids. They are both pure and open hearts for the gospel. They also took track to revise for what I shared with them.

8 ) Then I was led to approach yet another Mainland China Male. Surprisingly, he was also very open and receptive to the gospel. Since I could manage to share the nutshell of the gospel, he voluntarily took tract to read and ponder on the issue of Sin I stress him to reflect.

9) Last but not the least I caught up with Mia an Indonesian lady from Jakarta. She is a tradition Muslim following the dressing code for a Muslim woman in the public. But she did not shy away from chatting with a stranger male. She has totally not disagreement to the gospel shared, but when asked if there is similar kind of message related to forgiveness of sin. She thought there is but could not be sure which proved by the explanation of Siddique in the past few days that very little Muslim really read and understand the Bible. At least there was no sign of hatred of Chrisitan and Jesus but an open mind to listen to the Bible.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 19th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Hot, hot, hot, but I made use of the earth's climate nowadays, versus 6 days creation and the subsequent global flood to illustrate the almighty creation God and his dual project plan as per Gen 3:15b. In general, it is a tough time for street outreach there. Apart from the heat including both the direct sunshine and indirect radiating ground heat, the holiday period also played big impact to have drastically reduced the people flow. Nevertheless, God was in His sovereign control, both had regular chance and divine appointment to reap harvest for the Lord. Recap below is the Battle log of today Toowong outreach.

1) Sam from Bristol of UK is a QUT aerospace avionic student like my youngest son. We clicked and he totally was with the gospel and appeared very receptive and ready for the last faith action to accept Jesus.

2) Met Ray again but with the aggressive guys, it seems that he had strong mind of rejection of all regions and all god. Pray for next time alone with Ray.

3) Elle the Muslim girl from Malaysia yet appeared very opened for sharing of faith issue. I asked her if there is equivalent teaching in the Koran on Jesus atoning death to take away our sin. Surprisingly, she said yes, but the bus came and no time to verify.

4) Then met the Bangladesh boy again alone with the boy thinking his mum was at home, but surprisingly she was around at the bus stop. Anyway, still managed to do a revision on the gospel message.

5) Then I was moved to approach the girl that both Johnny and Hung had chatted before. I Talked with her about the creation using this to illustrate the almighty power of God in creation and redemption. She seemed to have been amazed by my sebific version of the 6 days creation.

6) Then I caught up with a Singapore PhD candidate of Indian origin. She was very open and receptive to the gospel message.

7) Harry a Canadian but Arabic origin young man. He was very outspoken non-religious person just short of self-claiming to be an Atheist. But at the end of the gospel sharing, he admitted all I shared is logical and significant.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

It’s going to be another shorter report for this week.  I was fully intending to do a full week on the streets (4 outreaches), but I only ended up doing 1!  Tuesday’s outreach was cancelled due to rain.  And then on Saturday and Sunday I just didn’t have the energy.  I’m recovering from a cough.

And so, Friday afternoon’s outreach to the city was the only outreach for the week.  A good one!  We had a team of 4: Andy, Roger, Greg and myself.  Roger had his ‘patch’, which is his flip chart on the corner.  Andy did walk up (he basically spent the whole outreach talking to the guy pictured).

There were lots of people out and about.  I think a cruise ship was in port.  Greg and I paired up.  We had 2 great chats.

The first was with a lady who I didn’t think would stop, but to my surprise she did.  I sensed that I wouldn’t be able to follow my usual script, and so I ended up going a little softer than usual.  I started out by asking her what was important about Christmas for her, and I let a conversation develop from there, swinging it as I could.  Her husband joined the conversation, and I thought that would end it, but it didn’t, he even became involved.  To my joy I was able to backtrack on to the ‘script’ and take them through the law, and then touch on the true wonder of Christmas, that God would incarnate (I didn’t use that word) to save wretched souls like us.

It turns out they were from Brisbane, and so I was able to talk about the Schoolies outreach I had been involved with recently.  We parted on good terms, and they left with tracts.  Great chat!

The next chat was with a young man going past.  I used the same tactic of starting with Christmas (we were standing right beside a Christmas tree).  I could sense I wasn’t going to be able to have a long chat with this guy, he was eating a pie – he looked like he was on a break from work.  He thought there would be nothing after we die, and so going from there, I was able to present the logic of an afterlife, the law, and then the gospel.  Another great chat.

Greg decided to go to the Square to see what evangelism was happening there, and so I spent the rest of the outreach on my own.  One significant chat was with a young couple.  She was very resistant.  She said her parents were Scientists and Atheists, and she was an Atheist too.  I gently reasoned with her, but she dug her heels in.  For someone scientific and logical, she became very emotional in her arguments.  I didn’t push and in the end I decided to move on as she wasn’t open at this stage.  Her boyfriend had been pretty quiet through the chat, and he had received a tract at the start, and had been reading it.  We parted ways with a handshake.

The rest of my week has been spent in online evangelism.  It feels really good catching up on TikTok DM conversations from over a month ago.  Looking forward to eventually being able to start on the growing pile of new requests.

I’ve also been enjoying training a young man to join the online team.  He is smart, and passionate, and it’s so refreshing seeing him face his fears to proclaim Christ!

God is so good in allowing us to have so many opportunities to represent him!  Please continue to pray for the team in NZ, Australia, and Worldwide.
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 13th 2023 from 1300-1500

Praised be to the Lord, Peace Xu over came all the hustle and bustle of her multi-role life caring for her families’ clan, her business and personal commitment on Great Commission, taking all the trouble to bring her Mum and two nieces to join our Sunnybank Wednesday outreach. Today, Johnny and Shi I were both not available because of personal reason, so originally, only Edwin Qin Hao will join me , but now with Peace. I was moved this time to spend time with Peace Niece and Mum first.

is the daughter of 13 years old of Peace sister Xiao Sin. She is a lovely girl though still not 100% adapted to local school life working hard to brush up her English, which supposed to be an easier attempt for her as she is the only Chinese in here school as such, she can only speak English all day. I totally identified with her hardship in local adaptation and integration which myself and my sons all had experienced before. Then I led her to see that there is another greater goal for all of us, especially the so called "Good Person" that we must be fully aware of our status as a human being that we are good but not perfect. We committed nitty gritty of trivial sin every day though they are not punishable by law. Yet God will hold us responsible for all the sins we had done after we die and will subject to punishment of eternal dead or forever separation from God and our loved ones who are with God already.

But the grace of God has already provided for us a life line, that is to accept Jesus as our Saviour to take our place to receive the punishment of our sins as that the moment we accepted Jesus, the moment we will be granted the free gift of eternal life.

Jia Chee was very attentive with open minded and appeared very receptive to the gospel. I encouraged her to ponder what i shared today with her, and make up her personal mind to step out for this last step of faith accepting Jesus as her saviour.

Next I turned to Peace Mum and share about my life witnesses after receiving Christ as my saviour. We discussed about what is true peace and what is fake sense of security depending on 3rd party safety measures. I use my own experience of Bladder cancer that God have not only healed me completely, but the inner peace from Jesus because of the assurance of salvation carried me through and over all the hurdles brought by the Bladder cancerous tumour.

I indirectly hinted her that Kwan Yun Chiang my famous ancient Chinese historical hero was just a human. He was once invincible but finally he also could not avoid being defeated and imprison. So, it is meaningless to worship Him who cannot even saved himself. Thanked God I found that Peace 'mum didn’t feel too flat up with our consecutive sharing of Gospel and life testimony. We pray that God will move to convert Peace Mum and Jia Chee.

Last but not the least, God moved me to catch up with both Elials and 17 years old young man from Congo, and Heaven also a seventeen-year-old girl with a Vietnamese father and a local Aussie Mum. In this connection, she quickly declared her a Buddhist because of her Vietnamese father. They any way are really the chosen couples and the elected ones for my comprehensive and extensive gospel sharing. There seemed to be no generation gap between us that they were drawn to listen to my sharing of the Gospel and testimony of my redeemed life at the cost of skipping many of their arriving bus. They at the end were amazed to notice that I am 71 but not 51 years old as they guessed. We found commonality in our world view that we all are no Jag tribes and God protected us to be immune from Covic for ever.

Initial Heaven felt as a Buddhist follower, she has been guaranteeing a way to go to heaven, that is the reason she was named as Heaven. But after hearing the full gospel message emphasizing that we are all good but not perfect person, then she realized no human being has any exception for needing Jesus to be our savior. Even Buddha himself cited this need in one of the ancient Buddha wall sculpture picture.

As for Elials, he admit he is a Christian, as such fully agreed on all I shared to them about the gospel message. But upon diagnosis of his assurance of salvation. He failed. But it was a comparatively easy job to rectify his misconception as such, now he admitted he should now have 100% of assurance of salvation simply because of the 100% effective redemptive work of Jesus taking our place to receive the punishment by dying on the cross.

So it was yet another fruitful day for the three of us, Peace and Hung and Edwin who close our outreach today with a prayer.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 12th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Today was another very hot summer day, UQ is currently in graduation mode with ceremony held for different departments and discipline one after another throughout the week. Student flows is diminishing, but God still provide many divine encounters for us to preach the gospel as usual and many were first time listeners. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach Daksh, an Indian of the faith of Zain. after learning form him the what -about pf Zain, I direct him to think if there is anyone perfect in the world and he said no. Then I asked him how Jain resolved the sins we all have committed in our earlier life. We will still be held responsible and subject to eternal dead punishment. No matter how hard we tried, we are bound to be a non-perfect human being. So any religion are good to restrict people to do bad but good things instead. But it provides no solution to past sins. Then I introduced Jesus as the only saviour to set us free from the bondage of sins and make us clean again. He at the end was convinced that pure self-perfection by any human being is not feasible or practical. Good persons, bad guys, as long as we are not perfect, we all need a Saviour like Jesus. He was thankful for our chat and took a selfie at the end.

(*) Jainism is an ancient religion from India that teaches that the way to liberation and bliss is to live lives of harmlessness and renunciation.

The essence of Jainism is concern for the welfare of every being in the universe and for the health of the universe itself.

Jains believe that animals and plants, as well as human beings, contain living souls. Each of these souls is considered of equal value and should be treated with respect and compassion.

Jains are strict vegetarians and live in a way that minimises their use of the world's resources.

Jains believe in reincarnation and seek to attain ultimate liberation - which means escaping the continuous cycle of birth, death and rebirth so that the immortal soul lives for ever in a state of bliss.

Liberation is achieved by eliminating all karma from the soul.

Jainism is a religion of self-help.

There are no gods or spiritual beings that will help human beings.

The three guiding principles of Jainism, the 'three jewels', are right belief, right knowledge and right conduct.

The supreme principle of Jain living is non violence (ahimsa).

This is one of the 5 mahavratas (the 5 great vows). The other mahavratas are non-attachment to possessions, not lying, not stealing, and sexual restraint (with celibacy as the ideal).

2) Next, I was led to chat with a Singaporean Indian origin person. He was very open for the Gospel and took a tract to see the full version of Gospel.

3) Then I was moved to greet John a good old person. He was surprisingly open for chatting of life issues.

4) Weiss, a very slim and small built Norwegian girl. We had a good chat why she as a Norwegian is so uniquely thin and short. Just the rapport was built and even no time for sharing of Gospel, she delightfully took a tract to read. Perhaps she is readily a Chrisitan as Norway is a Christian country with many legacies of mission to the East.

5) Then I was led to catch up with a Westernized face girl whom actually is a Han girl but lives in Ning Sha. She came to do her Master degree on TESOL and is preparing to return to Chine to open English language school helping people to pass the Englis test for migration and overseas study. I still managed to share the full gospel to here and leave a tract. She showed interest and paying full attention to the Gospel.

6) Then I caught up with a Guy from Jiangxi whom I had caught up before. It was a pity his bus came far too quick.

7) Order is a Nepal student to UQ doing a summer Honor program. He claimed to be nonreligious worshipping no God. On the one hand he admits there is no perfection in the world. But in the meantime, he opines, there is no unique definition of perfect. Every one sticks to their own version of standard so that they all feel good to be the one approaching perfect. I led him to think is standard is to be set by individual, it rightly shows we are far from perfect as such we all need the redemption of Jesus, who is the only perfect person to die for our sin and coop to take our place to receive punishment of our sin. The bus came by that time, so though we don’t have time for a conclusion, but I did feel that God will forward

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Okay, this is a place gap report between the Schoolies outreach and my first full week back in NZ.  My family joined me in Aussie after Schoolies and we had a holiday.  I got back Wednesday morning, and I’ve done 1 street outreach since then: Friday in the city.  But, before I left Aussie, I joined Ryan, Paul, and the team for the Sunday evening outreach in King George Square (pictured).

My whole family took part in the outreach.  And I paired up with my beautiful wife: Ruth.  We had a number of false starts (although no chat is in vain!) before getting into a good chat with a young man from the Philippines.  This young man didn’t seem to have any concept of sin, he talked about sin like it was normal, and then wondered why things were going wrong in his life.  So, through the chat, I had to labour on the law to try to resuscitate his conscience.  By the end of the chat, I think he was understanding the gospel.  And he seemed to really appreciate it.  So much so that he was willing to take a copy of the gospel of John and start reading it.  He also left with a tract.

It was so good to be with the Aussie team!  But, it was very good to be home again.  I got straight back to work on Wednesday, and my focus for the week was trying to catch up on TikTok direct messages.  There are way too many messages for me to be able to get to them all.  At this stage I’m ignoring new requests.  Instead, what I’m trying to do is focus on completing on going gospel chats.  Some of which have had no response, probably since the Philippines trip or even before.

But I’ve also been having Ome and Monkey chats online.  1 very special one was with a young man in the Solomon Islands, it was even on live stream.  He had a click moment during the chat, and said “my mind is blown” as he grasped the gospel.  This was part way through the check questions.

It was great to be back on the streets with the usual crew on Friday at the Bridge of Remembrance.  Andy, Roger, Greg, and John were all with me.

I was paired up with Greg initially.  We had a chat with 2 young ladies.  They went to a Christian school, but articulated works for salvation.  I went through the law and the gospel with them.  It wasn’t a long chat.  But about 15 minutes later they came back and wanted to ask about “LGBT”.  And so we discussed that with them.

We had a number of other chats before wrapping up the outreach.  Roger and I had a good catch up over coffee / hot choc afterwards.

Christmas is in the air, and I'm looking forward to distributing Christmas tracts over the next few weeks!  Thank you so much for keeping the Christchurch Operation 513 team in prayer.
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 6 29th 2023 from 1300-1500

We were over joy to have Shu Yi and Qin Hao rejoining us making a strong team of five. Originally, we could have even a bigger team of 6 or even 7. But Peace could not come in the last minutes because of ad hoc need to take care of her Father-in-law after dental treatment resulting in unceasing bleeding. Pray that she will have peace and composure to carry her Father-in-law over this unpredicted aftermath of a simple dental procedure.

Nevertheless, for the five of us, it was both a tough and fund day. Tough was referring to the scorching hot high noon sun. Fun was the ever presence of God guiding us to work as a team to match language choice amongst our gospel target and the complementing chat with same people by the team members achieving added effect to sowing the seed of gospel message to our target people of all Nations. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) I was led to chat to a family of four from Malaysia that Johnny had approached briefly first. I just saw the father explained to his teenage children the message of the Gospel tract. It aroused my interest to ask if they are Christians and if they understand the salvation perfectly as such if they have assurance of salvation. The answer of the father was a bit ambiguous that they had obtain the same tract in Malaysia which is impossible as I know OPN 513 has never ministered to Malaysia. But the father changed his wording that similar kind of tracts have been commonly being handed out in Malaysia. He did not confirm he is a fair dinkum Christian but perhaps a seeker or kind of God fearer. I compliment the KL people who can usually command at least 7 languages and dialects which is exactly the case to that Malaysian family. The bus came at that time. I pray that the tract will serve its purpose for that family if they really use heart to read it.

2) Then I was led to a Sri Lankan man that Shu Yi has approached but was declined to chat with her. I anyway was moved to make another approach and the Spirit this time softened his heart to have a long chat with me allowing me to share the full gospel. The ice breaking avenue is genuine identification with his ethnicity and open up the chat box on some softer matter, like his purpose of visit. Actually, he accompanies his wife to come to do a Master degree study at UQ and has just arrived for a few weeks. His initial hesitation to chat with Shu Yi may be ethnic custom driven that he should not chat with a stranger lady. But his attitude to the gospel was open and receptive taking a tract at the end to read.

3) Then I was led to catch up with Sunny from Hong Kong. Initially he was hesitant to respond in Mandarin because of the HKGer Complex. I explained to him we speak Mandarin here very often because majority of Mainlander of Mandarin speakers cannot speak Cantonese. Once clicked and rapport established, his reaction to the gospel was positive and receptive. He took a tract of course at the end.

4) Marco was a local Aussie and I used again the fair dinkum Aussie slang to draw his interest and attention. The conversation went on very delightfully, and I was able to start the gospel sharing but only half done when his bus arrived. But when he replied and told me his name, he used the gimmick that he name is same for the Arch Angel, that I urge him to find the answer from the tract that if he could go to heaven meeting God and the Angels there. He was overwhelmed with joy and took a quick selfie before he got on to the bus.

5) Next was Mr Xu from Taipei , he came only on business so our encounter was very special. He was open to the gospel message which I more or less finished sharing it. He rush boarding the bus without taking a tract.

6) Then I was led to approach Melany who is a local Aussie from Cairns but now got to study at the Griffith Gold Coast Campus. I told her every Thursday; I pass by her Uni to Australia Fair for street outreach. Then she told me she is a Chrisitan and answered my first diagnosis question confidently with100% assurance of salvation. But when asking the 2nd question why. She showed a completely wrong understanding of salvation by grace through faith alone. She claimed her assurance is form his compliance to the Bible teaching and service at the church. I cross check if she is of Catholic background and the answer is positive, so no wonder she has such fatally wrong fake assurance. She anyway thanked and appreciated for our friendly conversation and took a selfie with me wearing a big asserting smile ,

7) Last but not the least, I was referred by Qin Hao to chat with a HKG family of three with the wife coming to Australia to study at Griffith while husband with the daughter are accompanying family members. We spent time in catching up with current affairs in HKG but then left no time in gospel. But the husband still took the tract and promise to have a good look at it.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 5th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

It was not a good day for street outreach. The sun was scorching hot. The Uni is in Holiday period. But God still answered our prayer to give us both many gospel outreach opportunities in amazing way. We were led to chat with a Bangladesh family with Johnny chatting to the Mum behind the bus shelter in the shade and with Hung chatting to the son in the front under the sun. The Young kids once prematurely rush on board an wrong bus, with God's timely alert to the Mum to drag the son back down to the bus stop, as such both the Mum and the kid had a long enough time for us to share the full Gospel until their right bus arrived. Moreover, all the mainlander I approached today were all open heart and open mind. So, the harvest is really ripe despite the environmental factor was not friendly to our outdoor Open air evangelism ministry. Rec p below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach a UQ girl from Guangzhou , who has been in Brisbane for a year. . She claimed she never met us but for this first encounter, she appeared open minded and willing to listen . It was a pity her bus came too quick for me to finish but I anyway gave away a tract to her.

2) Then I caught up with an UQ faculty member who was ok to chat but his attention was still on the forth coming bus as such not interacting too deep with the gospel message. He anyway took a tract to read when the bus came.

3) Then I caught up with a Nigeria girl. I started asking her the Christian revival status in Nigeria, but she seemed to be ignorant about it. And I could just start the gospel sharing but then the bus came. She also took a tract.

4) Then I was led to approach Chiu? from Urumyti of the Inner Mongolia . To my surprise, He was very open minded and respond to the gospel positively. I asked if he found any fault in the argument of way to address sin. He surprisingly answered there is not fault in the gospel message and show no reluctant to accept Christianity as his own faith by the grace of God. I referred him to connect with Power to Change group in the campus in case he accepted Jesus.

5) Then God miraculously teamed up Johnny and Hung to preach the Gospel to the mum and the son respectively. They are from Bangladesh and the kid is in grade 6. Originally, the kid mistaken the number of the bus and jump the gun to get on board the bus without his mother. Thanks God the Mum noticed it quick enough to drag the kid back down to allow us to have a long Gospel sharing time. Praised be to God, despite they are of Hinduism background, but they both showed no resistance to the Christian faith. In particular, when I asked the kid if there is any mechanism in Hinduism to address sin. He was too young to know but I encouraged him to share with his mun afterwards so that the Spirit may touch their heart to receive Christ together. And he is the only son of the family in contrast to big sibling i.e., his father has 6 sisters. So I thing by God's Will, their whole family will be brought to Christ very soon.

6) Then I was led to approach a PhD student from USA to first UK in Bath, then coming here to do his PhD on chemistry. We had a long ice breaking chat and his response was good. Yet his bus came very quick but he still delightfully took a track to read.

7) Next was to a Local Aussie Lady who declined us politely.

8 ) A young man ? from Da Tong , Shanxi took initiative to greet me and claimed we just met last week or the week before. He appeared not rejective to the Gospel and pray for divine encounter next week.

9) Jenny a Chinese origin from Cincinnati USA is now doing undergraduate in UQ. She was open but time again was not enough.

10) Arjun is a Hinduism follower from Nepal. But he considered himself a Hinduism by birth but he had no idea how does Hinduism address sin. So he is very open to the gospel message I just shared and accept it is a very rational way to deal with sin, designed by God

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 29th 2023 from 1300-1500

It was a new day of grace that God let the sun out with a warm and dry weather good for street outreach. More so, we have Rev Samuel Chiu joining us the 2nd time to do street outreach. He was now completely adapted to the street outreach setting and has become very bold and swift to approach people of all Nations for Gospel sharing. His English is excellent and effective for chatting with English speaking people. Johnny and Hung were all amazed at God's power to have moved and empower Rev Chiu to become a gospel warrior sharing gospel fearlessly to whoever coming to the Bus Stop. In a word, all the three of us had many fruitful conversation leading people to Christ or just in short of the last step of faith.

1) I was led to approach Christine a local Aussie girl whom Edwin once approached in the previous week. She was readily moved and with heart softened to receive Christ but was still blocked by a wrong concept that she is still not good enough to become a Christian. But she treasured the gospel message so she keeps the tract folded in her small lady wallet and showed it to me to support she is readily taking the gospel message seriously. I did not know the issue blocking her but the Spirit moved me to share along that line and finally get to the point that no one can wait before they become a better person to become a Christian. Rather no one is perfect enough to deserve the eternal life which is by grace trough faith given to us as a gift at the cost of Jesus paying the price of His life to die for us taking our place to receive the punishment of our sins. So, all she need to do is to simply admit herself a sinner beyond redemption by self-perfection, but surrender her life to accept Jesus. Then the eternal life as a gift and heavenly citizenship as a new identity will be granted to her. She was over joy to finally understand the points of the gospel and I urge her to take the last step of faith action to receive Christ when she had to leave to board the bus.

2) Next was a Mainlander up for summer term class. He just took a tract to read and pray for future encounter.

3) Then I approached a Korean girl who claimed we met before. But her English level is a bit week to make the communication a bit difficult. Nevertheless, I still managed to revise the nutshell of the gospel with here.

4) Orchard a Nigeria Catholic Christian who has 100% assurance of salvation but the reason he believes is his obedience to follow God's rule so it was utterly wrong to think that his salvation is dependent on his good work and or faithful service in the church. It was good I could clarify and correct his wrong understanding of salvation.

5) Then I caught up with an old lady from Shanghai who has migrated to Australia. So she is comparatively open minded for Gospel thought most time was spend in build rapport with her.

6) was once a gospel target I met at Sunnybank and brought him to CFC twice. He has now settled down at BCAC as it is the nearest church that he can go on foot. I encouraged him to seek not only secular job for living but spiritual work for spiritual life growth.

7) Next was an Australian born Vietnamese abv. As an Australian, she was comparatively open for the gospel which I could manage to share half of it when her bus arrived. She took a tract anyway.

8 ) Two Cantonese speaking matured age woman just fooled around to disguise their nationality and avoid serious or genuine gospel chat. One as non-believer simply walked away, leaving one self-claimed Christian to chat with me, but her biblical knowledge is very weak but instead she challenged my gospel sharing is not orthodox. I suspect she actually is from a Sect or a nominal Christian without much spiritual intake.

9) Two local Aussie lady but one of them behave and spoke in very arrogant claiming that she is readily a Christian and learn all about the faith for 20 years and she did not want to hear anything form me. But upon testing of her assurance of salvation, she answered only 90 % which obviously showed that she is not yet a well learned Christian theologically speaking. Despite my clarification and explanation, she seemingly simply intended to disregard them all.

10) Last but not the last I caught up with Johnson and fallen back Christian from Hong Kong, coming here for working holiday. He was brought up from Christian school and once attend church regularly, but in the recent years, he has stop attending church and feeling a bit alienated from God. Thanks God using me to rekindle his faith in God through going through the Bible to prove that God in above time and space and everything like creation, redemption are all in h=His Good hands. Pray that God will move and lead him to Christ if he has not done so before yet and find a spiritual home to kick off his journey of sanctification by discipleship training.

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