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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday May 27th , 2025 from 1030-1200

It was still a comparatively more fruitful mission field than Sunnybank. Apart from one single rejection by an Korean guy, all others including those from mainland China were showing openness and receptiveness to the gospel message.

1) First. I was led to approach a young lady from Shanghai, coming to study Commerce as a first year student. She was all willing to listen to the gospel and show receptiveness thanking me at the end.

2) Next was still a girl from mainland China, but time left for long chat was not much. Nutshell of the gospel was shared anyway.

3) Then I was led to catch up with an Aussie young man from far North Qld. He was non religious and not care too much about life after death. But he still remained open and appreciative for the full gospel sharing.

4) Next was Elf from Netherland but already called Australia home like me. She also declare Christian fairly quick so I switch to ask her the two diagnosis questions about faith. Her answer to 1st Q is perfectly 100% though the 2nd question was half certain about the redemptive work of Christ dying for us and yet focusing only on God's love but not His wrath against our sin.

5) Then approached a Korean who is not a Christian and bluntly showed no interest at all to chat.

6) Then caught up with Hayden who is from Grenville of the Sun Shine Coast. He is also non-religious but paid full attention to the gospel message showing full openness and receptiveness at the end with a selfie showing his appreciation for sharing such important message with him.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday May 21st, 2025 from 1030-1200

Returning to Sunnybank for regular weekly street outreach after two weeks of Interstate mission to Coober Pedy via Adelaide, the situation was the opposite of yesterday outreach in Toowong. Despite I already waited for a longer arriving schedule of the next bus, my time for sharing of Gospel were still in main insufficient and incomplete. . And none of my gospel targets today showed the same eagerness to the gospel message and all left in a hurry when the bus arrived leaving no chance for any decent selfie. It was a clear lesson for me that God is the only one in control of everything including their responses and readiness timing to receive Christ. We just do our part to be His messenger speaking aloud the prophetic voice to persuade people to repent and return to God through Jesus Christ redemptive and atoning grace.

1) Led first to approach a Young man studying in UQ from Chongxin重慶. Rapport was built because of my Sichuan earthquake disaster relief role in Counselling. He was impressed I took all the troubles to go back to China and serve there intermittently for 7 years after the earthquake by conducting counselling class mainly at those government controlled 3 self churches. Time was not enough for full gospel but just a nutshell shared with my testimony.

2) Next was a Hongkonger mum already migrated to Australia with kids doing high school. She actually live in the Northside and is attending the Kedron Brisbane Cantonese Church even though she is still a non believer. She cannot tell the church name but can tell Rev Zivah Lai's name. Again, only have a few minutes with her for the nutshell of the gospel.

3) Next is a lady from Thailand that I chatted many times before. 泰女 Just a friendly greeting and polite reminder of the gospel message and let her to be moved and touched by the Spirit through such repeated divine encounters.

4) Then I turned to a guy next to me who is from South Korea.南韓 He is also a non-believers. Shared a bit more almost full gospel but still finally interrupted by the arriving bus.

5) Then I was led to reunion with an ABC of Muslim faith possibly from her Australian dad and her mum is from Taiwan. Basically continuing on our conversation last time to reiterate the facts that every one who are good but not perfect all needs Jesus. She did not show great rejection of Jesus's name as those elderly Muslim people. So her mind basically is still open and impartial with good inclination to admit the need of salvation by Christ and Christ alone.

6) Last but not the least having the longest conversation with a man around 60 from same home town of Chairman Mao in Hunan. He is just visiting relative but live a mundane life. I tried to address his loneliness issue chatting a lot about Hunan and things happening in China and finally came to he gospel. His heart was softened by friendship so full gospel was shared before his bus come. His willingness to take a selfie with me was finally trashed by his need to rush to catch the bus. Otherwise, it was a good chat and fruit bearing divine encounter especially for a mainlander.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday May 20th , 2025 from 1030-1200

First time back to the street at Toowong after the Coober Pedy First Nations people mission outreach in South Australia. Despite doing solo, it was a fruitful day with all the people I approached either all hearing the full gospel or going through a salivation assurance diagnosis process for Christians. The results were all positive signified by the willingness of all gospel targets to take a selfie with me showing their appreciation for the precious message that may lead them to receive the blessing of Eternal life through Jesus Christi. Recap below is the Battle Log:

1) Mr Cao曹 from Nanjing 南京is not yet a Christian but his wife is. He is very consciously aware of the many cross of Christian church in his suburban area in Nanjing. My sharing of the full gospel was helpful for him finally to align the understanding of salvation that his wife has been professing. It would be a strategic timing for him to make his last step of action faith to receive Christ as his savior.

2) Jair is from India to study criminology. She plans to stay after finishing Uni. She was quite open to Gospel and appeared receptive to the message that every one who is not perfect need Jesus to make us sin free again.

3) Ivan 0f Indian ethnicity but was born in Kenya, His parents was originally from Deli of India and family religious tradition is Hinduism. But as a Biotech major student, he was a very rational minded person and appeared very open as well as receptive to the Gospel sharing which has established that as long as we are not perfect in our human character, we all need a Savior to cleanse our sin.

4) Next was Roberto from Madrid Spain of Catholic Christian background. He did not have full assurance of salvation though as good as 99%. After explanation, he realized 99% is still not good enough to understand our salvation is 100% the work of Jesus who took our place to receive the punishment of sin.

5) Then it was Daisy from a Filipino migrant family who was born here. She proudly claim she has 100% assurance of salvation but for the reasons of her good work. This is the typical erroneous understanding of atoning grace offered by Jesus that readily qualified us to regain the heavenly citizenship the moment we received Him as our Savior and Lord of our life. She was very appreciative for my clarification.

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday May 7th, 2025 from 1030-1200

Today was the 2nd day I have to serve solo at Sunnybank while my regular Gospel Outreach team mate is away. More over, I will also have to take a break next week as I also will be away for First Nations Mission Trip to Coober Pedy in SA together with the Chinese South Australia Christian Church ministered and led by Rev Robert Li.

Today outreach was good with long enough chats for full gospel as recap below the four most stand out ones: -

1) First was with a lady by the name Ng吳 migrated to Australia for 10 years. She is non-religious, but because of our Hongkonger tie, she was open and patient enough to let me share her the full gospel.

2) Next was an Eyes Optometrist 眼科student in her 4th year from Korea> She was also non-religious but appeared open and receptive to the gospel.

3) Then it was Jack migrated from Brazil at young age to Australia. He received Christ in 1982 in Perth , WA and once was a fervent Christian like what I am doing. But because of bad witnesses of many Church members, he flatted up and now claimed taking a long break from any church activities. It served as a reminder for me or any Christians that Spiritual attack can subtly ruin your faith and kidnap you from God, especially if your faith foundation is not good.

4) Daisy is ABC with Mum from Mainland China and Dad also an ABC. She is non-religious and is now a 2nd year Science Uni student. She was exceptionally open and receptive with a soft heart for the gospel and thanks for the good news that she may ponder to pursue in His time.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday May 6th , 2025 from 1030-1200

I will be doing outreach by myself for two months while my team mate is away. Today is the beginning of this solo mode at Toowong. By the grace of God, I made several meaningful chat with people from everywhere with two stand out ones. One was from Shangdong who was polite by a bit timid at the beginning, but turned out a bit more open and willing to listen to the gospel sharing. The 2nd one was from Columbia coming here for English study at the city. Initially, he tried to avoid with the Excuse of not speaking English but once I found out he is coming to study English, I encouraged him more so shall grasp hold of every chance to have more practice. Gospel was shared though not without difficulties.
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I love the winter months.  For me, all the special outreaches have been completed, and I can get back to a normal routine - I love routine!  Like clockwork, I can get out and share the gospel, both on the street and online.  Routine helps with discipline, and without discipline we simply won’t get done the things we need to do, like: personal devotions: time reading the Bible and prayer, family devotions, church gathering, and, of course, intentional evangelism!  So, if you don’t have a routine, build one!  Set regular times during the day where you do the things you need to do - no matter what.  Just think, no Bible, no coffee!  Just do it! ;)  Oh, and if setting a routine like this is new to you, start out small and grow.  E.g., Maybe start with reading the Bible for 10 minutes and prayer for 5 minutes each day before, or while you have your morning brew (and then increase gradually from there).  Or, maybe join a church outreach once a month, instead of every week - to begin with.  (Your church has some kind of outreach, right?  If not, talk to your elders, maybe you can start one!)

 

In March, I was doing some online evangelism training with Fran.  She lives in NZ too, and she just so happened to be coming down to the city I live at the beginning of April, and so we organised for her to join a street outreach.  On Friday the 4th, she joined Roger and I on a sunny afternoon outreach on Cashel Mall.  We had a great time having gospel conversations and giving away tracts.  Roger had his flipchart going, and Fran was able to see how it worked.

 

Fran was interested in getting a flipchart for herself, and since I have 6 of them, and only use all 6 on special outreaches, I said she could borrow one.  This she did, and took it back with her up north.

 

Well, much to my encouragement, Fran has been able to lead her first street outreach where she lives, with others in her church joining her, and using the flipchart.  I’ll include the photo she shared, and here is what she said:

“Today I took the Are You a Good Person flipchart into town for the first time. I managed to get a few people from my church to come along too. I was quite nervous as I usually only share the Gospel online. However, there were a few people praying for today and God answered. The flipchart drew quite a bit of interest and I ended up having six good chats, three of who had never heard the Gospel. This is now something I intend to do regularly. God is so good”

 

My prayer is that God would continue to raise up labourers like this, from amongst the churches, who will be in it for the long haul.  Jesus sacrificed his life for us.  I now want to sacrifice my life for his glory.  Be encouraged to use your gifts to the best of your ability!  He is worthy.

 

The only special outreach for the month of April was the Easter outreach.  For a very long time I’ve been leading hot cross bun and gospel tract outreaches over Easter weekend.  But, I just didn’t have the energy for it this year, and I didn’t want to drag people out that didn’t want to be there.  Instead, my wife, son in law, and a couple of friends spent 2 hours in Riccarton giving away Easter eggs and tracts.  All I needed to do was go to the supermarket, buy a few packs of eggs, grab a pack of tracts and go.  I had a good time.  Although people were a bit suspicious of why we were giving away chocolate, we ended up giving them all away.  May God use our feeble efforts for his glory!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday April 30th, 2025 from 1030-1200

Teamed up with Johnny again with only one or two more outreach opportunities before his another prolonged overseas trip. We serve individually as guided by the Spirit but every now and then, we realized actually God is moving us to deal with different persons that are best for each of us to approach. Or sometimes, let a single target being approached by both of us on after another creating a team work dynamics and exchanging info about the targets. Today was more or less of the first type of team work. Recap is the battle log of Hung with Chinese from Mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore as the majority targeted outreach group which if course was by the election of God through the orchestrating work of the Holy Spirit.

1) First approach was locked up on a young man from Guangzhou who however could speak beautiful Cantonese which is a bit unusual. Used this as the ice breaking topic before sharing the full gospel with good receptive response.

2) Then caught up with a PHD student of UQ for 6 years on politics from Singapore. Quickly built rapport basing on some breakout news of the acute comments by the ex-Prime minister wife of Singapore against an important political figure. It gave me lead to bring the conversation back to the gospel reinforcing the common sense consensus that there is no perfect righteous human as we are all fallen sinners beyond redemption. On the premises, even a PhD candidate agree we all need a Savior to make us clean again from the bondage of sin.

3) Next I was led to catch up with a couples with wife a Christian from PNG then the husband a Sikh form India. I first chatted with the Christian wife and tested that she has 100 assurance of salvation but for the wrong reason apart from Christ sacrificial death and atoning grace. While clarifying her faith understanding, I took the opportunity to share the gospel to the Sikh husband assuring that Sikh is good as a religion and the teaching is heavily focus on the righteousness of god. But Sikhism and all other religion failed to address the issue of sin. Pray that the couples will be moved and enlightened by the Spirit to embrace the same faith and same God one day, better sooner than later.

4) Then another Kairos moment to reach the die hearted Mainlander , but this mom from Tsingtao accompanying her son to do high school here was well prepared to be exposed to real faith which is the seed bed of democratic thoughts. She appeared super open and receptive to the gospel.

5) Then I was led to a young lady who claimed to be an ABY or Australian Born Taiwanese. Her dress was with a MUSLIM LOOK but appeared also open and receptive to the gospel message.

6) Last but not the least, I entered into a long conversation with a senior lady from Beijing北京大媽，she was waiting there for her husband that had gone shopping by himself. It gave me a long period of at least 345 min to have a long chat first of life in Beijing and now in Australia and eventually sharing first my testimony before finally leading into full gospel message. Perhaps because they have now migrated to Australia, therefore she appeared open and receptive to the gospel without losing her nerve at all.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 29th , 2025 from 1030-1200

Teamed up with Johnny for yet another very full and fruitful period of Gospel proclamation ministry. Reached many people from different Nations (people group) with variating kind of responses. No matter what was the initial reaction, majority cases we can see the change of heart due to the apparent work of the Holy Spirit. One typical example, my last gospe3l target initially rejected Johnny, the Spirit moved me to have another go. His initial reaction was still very rude, and antagonistic but the Spirit guided me to chat around soft topic and eventually lead to the topic of peace giving me a chance to differentiate the peace in flesh and peace in Christ. I even earned a selfie ending that was unexpectable in the beginning. God is good and it is always the Spirit at work via we are just the vessel or messenger of God's words.

1) First approach was brief with a 2nd year student of health food subject.

2) Next with a Singapore lady who studies marine science. She was OK for a chat and ended up listening the full gospel

3) Then Danelle an Indian Catholic Christian who has only 60% assurance of salvation but with a correct answer to 2nd question about pure faith in God about Jesus atoning grace. Misconception clarified and happy to take a selfie as a memory.

4) Next is a Chinese couples with the man a postgraduate from Guangzhou. 廣州研究生. Despite a mainlander but appeared open to the gospel message.

5) Next was a Catholic Christian young man from mainland China which is rare. Yet his answer to the 2 diagnosis question indicated he do not understand the meaning of salvation yet turn hostile when he found that his concept about Christianity was not correct and then refuse to have any more discussion.

6) Local Aussie decline chattery listen to Music

7) Next was the 2nd Singaporean who was eager to have a chat but no time as bus arrived very quickly.

8 ) Next were two Indian girls but again conversation cut short due to arrival of their bus.

9) Josh an Indian from Southern India who appeared very open and receptive to the gospel as such he was delighted to take a selfie as memory about our divine appointment in Christ.

10) Then use Japanese to catch up with Sean from Osaka Japan. Built good rapport through my Japanese living and working experience drawing his interest to know about Jesus and listen to the full gospel sharing with receptive outcome.

11) Sili Pam a senior person above 70 from Thai. He initially rejected Johnny's approach. God moved me to nevertheless approach him despite his arrogant attitude. As mentioned, eventually he softened down bit by bit and I could have the chance to share gospel to him in a subtle manner. He now can differentiate peace on earth which is conditional to circumstances and true inner peace due to life changing effect in Christ.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday April 23rd, 2025 from 1030-1200

Today, I teamed up with Johnny again to serve at Sunnybank. In terms of effectiveness of gospel sharing, it was a day of barren result as majority of the gospel target, mostly from mainland China , showed consistent despising and rejective attitude towards faith and gospels. Mainlanders are really a people of grave lost souls. We can only try our best to keep penetrating gospel message to them. On the contrary, even Buddhism follower from Thailand held more open and objective mind for gospel. Recap is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) First approach to a Skeptics ABC with parent from mainland China, she did not give too much positive response or feedback and appeared hesitant to even tell her name.

2) Next is possibly an ABV of Vietnam origin. She is possibly of Buddhism background but still show open mind and willingness to listen to the Gospel with positive feedback admitting no one is perfect and we all need a Savior to cleanse our sin.

3) Then next is a Mainlander from Fuzhou福州. who showed great contempt for Gospel in the capacity of an Atheist.

4) After repeated negative experience, I was led to approach a funky girl with heavy make-up. Actually Johnny admitted later he purposely avoid approaching her. I also only was led to approach her when she is the last left at the bus stop. But to my surprise, she is the most fair dinkum Christian the passed my assurance of salvation test with 100% faith to go to heaven and all because of Jesus. It was a great lesson that we should never ever judge someone by their appearance and dress.

5) Next I was lewd to approach Siri a Thai girl from Bangkok of Buddhism background. She claimed I chatted with here once, but she did not turn me down but listen patiently my full gospel sharing once more time. She obviously was moved like the Vietnamese girl and become more appreciative of the gospel message. She also confirmed she has been watching us over the years to share gospel here with people of all Nations which was appreciated and admired by her.

6) Then came another indifferent Atheist from Mainland China who heard but not really listening to the gospel message.

7) Finally I caught up with another Mainlander girl with similar negative and unwillingness to listen to the gospel message.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 22nd , 2025 from 1030-1200

I was serving alone today at Toowong as Johnny was not available. It proves to be a good timing to do outreach at this earlier time slot of 1030 to 1200 that there are always ample opportunities to preach the gospel to people of all Nations.

1) I was led to Charlie a Qut student but lives in St Lucia. He is non religious but all open to the gospel message and agreed its logic that every one need a Savior to make us clean again without the bondage of sin.

2) Next was a lady Li from China, who is first year of UQ. She was a bit nervous in the beginning but open up good enough to listen to full gospel admitting the message makes sense that as long as no human is perfect, we all need a savior to take our sin away making us clean again as a new creation.

3) Then I caught up with Pamphon an Indian, as a Hinduism followers, he believes in Heaven and Hell and said Heaven is on earth which align with the New Heaven and New earth being the New Jerusalem descending on to the earth. He ended up showing great receptive to the gospel of Jesus redemptive and atoning grace taking our place to received the punishment of eternal death.

4) Next is a Mainlander from Hangzhou杭 who appeared very resistance and skeptical though polite enough to listen to the gospel and agree all the logics.

5) Then had a long chat with a Jakarta Muslim Mum minding her infant baby. She completely took in the points that religion cannot address the issue of sin. As long as we admitted we are a good person but not perfect, we all need the help from a Savior who must be a perfect human being but also a perfect God that he willingly took our place to receive the eternal death punishment but mean time he rose from death on the 3rd day to prove that he has conquered the power of death and defeated Satan.

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