Battle Log

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• Sunnybank (QLD) Team
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Sunnybank Team (QLD)

Meets 10:30am-12pm Wednesdays at the Sunnybank bus stop on Mains Road.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunny Bank on Wednesday March 10, 2021 from 1300 to 1500

Johnny could not come to day, so I had to team up with Martin and Andrew to serve on the West Side for mutual support. Andrew could also come at normal time of 1300 hour as his BST Evangelism class had a week off for BST student to do study for exam. Martin impressed me by his Apostolic Passion to insist coming to serve despite he suffered a serious fall last night at home. He would rather rest for his own church meeting than skipping the street evangelism which he considered more worthwhile to do as a team work to serve the Lord. We were all too busy in our own gospel chat as such we could not spare time to take photo for all the gospel conversation opportunities we got.

Andrew came early at normal time also had a purpose of meeting up with one of his BST Evangelism class student to mentor her for doing the 20 hour of practicum. It was a pity the lady did not turn up because of ad hoc personal matter. During my 1.5 hour stay, I only got 6 major conversation much less than the 10 I got yesterday. But a few of them were of rare long chat as recap below: -

1) I had a long chat over half and hour with Madam Chang from Guangzhou , China. 張廣卅原北京She could not speak Cantonese as she was born in Beijing with native country at Liao Ning 遼寧，the North East County. She worked in Government school before migrating to first New Zealand then to Australia, as such she did not need to speak Cantonese. After chatting a while, she disclosed she is a Christian receiving Jesus in Guangzhou. She lived in Sydney for 10 years before coming up to Brisbane also for a long long time. She is affiliated with International Christian Church but has stopped attending a long time because of Covid-19. Through our conversation, she is typically a nominal Christian without much growth in grace and in truth as such she failed all the diagnosis questions. I sort of gave her a brief revision on the major doctrine of Christianity and the way to differentiate Heresy like JW and Mormon. Lastly ,just found out she was once the Choir member of Aroma. I encourage her to join the BCCMA choir when we resume our choir practice at the new SIC church compound.

2) Sunny a Korean girl and Christian by birth. She has no understanding of the gospel at all. I was glad I made her understand her salivation was simply on credit of Jesus' atoning death on the cross to die and go to hell taking our place to receive punishment of our sins.

3) A Smart but skeptical Chinese young lady asked me up front what is my purpose of sharing this gospel tract to her. She suspected if I do this to recruit church member. After clarifying my purpose is simply conveying her this important but grossly ignored gospel message, she turn comparatively receptive to listen. But it was abruptly cut short possibly by a friend crossing the bridge to meet with her.

4) Rebecca is a lovely Aussie young Christian lady, but again she has no idea about salvation at all. It was good I led her to understand why she should have 100 % assurance of salvation simply because of what Jesus did for us by dying on the cross to redeem us from the bondage of sin.

5) Tony Yeung a Cantonese speaking Hong Konger who left Hkg early in 1969 and lived in New Zealand for 40 years before migrating to Brisbane Australia. It was a pity I was a bit carried away to share with him our common Hong Kong Memory that I did not have time to share the gospel though he seemed to be a sort of Christian and willingly took my Chinese tract to read at home.

6) Micky is Japanese wife coming to Brisbane with her Husband on business/ work. Initially, she did not show any interest at all to accept my gospel tract. I nevertheless kept sharing with her my story and testimony mingling with gospel message. The Spirit moved me to ask for her nationality which is Japanese. It gave me the chance to show off my standard Japanese greetings to gain her identification as friend of Japan. I was then able to give her not just the English tract but the few Japanese tract I have in my pocket. She was delighted to accept it as she could show off to her husband that she met a Japanese street evangelist in Australia. I only learnt she is pregnant after Martin took our photo and passed it to me. Pray that this divine encounter will serve the purpose of God in Micky's life.

Quoted below is the Battle Log of Andrew and Martin of OAC Ministry that is the long time Gospel partner of Street Evangelism

As is often the case at a bus stop, very often Sunnybank results in lots of partial conversations. On Wednesday, this was certainly the case, though there was one young man who stopped and talked for a long time, even skipping a couple of busses to keep talking.

Chris has no religious background but suspects that there may be a God. I shared in a simple way how we know that God exists and then explained what the Bible says about our afterlife. He then asked a few really good questions about the Christian faith and was willing to take both a tract and a gospel of John to read.

Martin has now officially joined OAC as a regular volunteer and so now from time to time, you will see some stories from him as well!

Martin chatted to James who initially said that he didn’t believe in God. Martin used an analogy from design to show that just as a car driving past had to have a maker, in the same way the complexity of our DNA or the human eye show that we too have a maker. Martin then swung to the conscience and took James through “the good person test” by using the moral law to show that we have sinned. James agreed that he would be found guilty by a holy and just God. Martin asked what God had done 2000 years ago so that we would not have to go to hell, and James correctly responded that God sent Jesus. He then took the time to share what Jesus had done for us on the cross and how we can be saved from God’s judgement by believing in Jesus and what he did for us. He then gave James a gospel tract and a book of John to read and reminded him of how important it is to figure out our eternal destiny since we don’t know when we will die. With perfect timing, just as they finished, James’ bus came!

Please pray for those who heard the gospel and please welcome Martin to the team! Please pray for him as well as he regularly joins me on the street each week for 3-4 outreaches.

           

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday March 3, 2021 from 1300 to 1500

After a scorching hot day at Toowong, great Storm wiped across Brisbane in the late afternoon and in the evening as such the suffocating heat was flushed away with a much cooler temperature left in the air even in the early afternoon of Wednesday. With such a fine climatic background, God used us today in great team work in multiple cases. At least three times, God used Johnny made the first approach and me to take over or doing a unexpected follow up with obvious divine purpose. Andrew as usual arrived a bit late at 2pm. Martin came at 1pm and we did commencing prayer together. Both are very faithful servant of God. They do street evangelism on Tuesday at Woodridge, Wednesday at Sunnybank, Thursday afternoon at CBD, Friday evening at King George Square. Andrew fortnightly also serves at Redcliffe. So we have four faithful servants serving as a team, with Johnny and Hung on the East side and Andrew, Martin on the West side. However, I may walk to and forth across the foot bridge if the gospel target are in a great hurry that cannot afford to stop and chat. That is basically the mode of Operation at Sunnybank. Recap below are my divine appointments for sharing gospel with 9 individual or group of people: -

1) An Aussie Girl 澳洲少女 in a rush but still managed to passed her the tract and shared her the nutshell of the gospel

2)  Mr Chang å¼µfrom Taiwan 台was willing to listen to my Gospel sharing, Actually, Johnny chatted with him the other day before. Just pray that the repeated message will eventually bear fruit in God's timing.

3) An Egyptians Mum and Son dressing in Muslim Gown and costume may appear hard for approach. But God opened door first for Johnny to help them out to locate the Clinic they are planning to visit, then my turn to help them find the fresh fish market. Two tracts about God's creation and the Good Person question were passed to them. While leading them to the super market, I could manage to share quickly the nutshell of the Gospel. I trust it will be very appealing to them as God had used us to show care and love irrespective of the faith and culture. They show great appreciation for our help and take it serious to keep and read the gospel tracts.

4) Alisa a high school student of kiwi origin who was not feeling very well but still let me walk her across the bridge to hear the nutshell of the Gospel and promised to read the tract and pray to God as moved.

5) Helen 上海，認真 is a middle aged lady from Shang Hai China. Unlike other mainlander, she took it seriously to hear the gospel and ask question when meaning was not clear. She was in a rush for shopping but she still manage to get full understanding of the gospel message considering her a person from atheist background. She genuinely will pray about accepting Jesus as here Saviour after our gospel sharing time.

6) Then came a JW lady 耶証的人that I might have met and chatted before. As I recalled she would ask if we are Christian. Last time I could manage to share her the full gospel and point out to her some wrong doctrine of JW. This time, she might have received warning to stay away from Christian so once she clarified I am a Christian Evangelist, she ran away to avoid me. I could only have pity for her and those JW people who are blinded by the JW teaching.

7) Dustin is from Ireland but seemed to be suffering from back wound that he could not stand straight to walk but have to use a trolley as his walker to walk. His face showed pain and suffering without hope. I anyway approached him as moved by the Spirit and used the excuse to help him push the trolley up the slope of the footbridge. While first showing my care and empathy for him. in the meantime, I share about the future hope for all sinners to be set free through the deliverance of Jesus that we will live a new life ultimately with everything back to perfection and good health. He happily received my tract at the end and feel more happy with someone even a stranger to care about him. I do trust that God has planted a seed of Gospel in his heart that will bear fruit one day.

8) Justin Chen é™³ chatted with johnny over 40 to 45 minutes. When I finished with Dustin, I bumped into Justin, and God moved me to ask him about the conversation with Johnny. He nevertheless told me he is still not moved yet to commit on Jesus and will maintain his own way of life while keep searching for a faith that will give him peace. I then asked why he could have such a long conversation with Johnny if he did not feel interested to pursue the truth of Jesus. He said he actually was interested to know why Christians are drawn to submit to God and the motivation power behind. I thus took the chance to share my testimony of salvation which impressed him very much. His mind was softened to see at least how God guide me step by step to draw nearer to him despite I was the same kind of rational mind person like him. I assured him that it was no coincident that he chatted with both of us for 45 minutes and then another 15-20 minutes. God must have a plan for his life to be changed. Later on, I learned from Johnny that his hesitation to receive the grace of Jesus' salvation is because he is a person of transsexual orientation. He feels he does not have strength to resist the temptation as such he choose to stay and hide himself in his own comfort zone. Pray hard for Justin that the mission power moment will happen on him in God's timing.

9)Then Madam Chang from Beijing 北京張女士 was first stopped by Johnny and she appeared interested to have a chat. But somehow she decided that she had to hurry away with another appointment. I was moved again to follow up with the unfinished chat and walked her across the foot bridge. Surprisingly , she appeared open and receptive to the gospel. I used the analogy of HKG returning back to China so that China can exercise the sovereign power to change or modify Hong Kong. Likewise, we must reconciled with God first by accepting Jesus's redemptive grace so that God can exercise His sovereign power on us again to transform us back to perfect. The analogy hit her spot on that she now think God resuming His sovereign power on our life is the right thing to do for delivering us from the bondage of sin but back to perfection. She rode her bike away joyously with good news in her heart.

今天南區的福音事工分別有遇到中美洲薩爾瓦多的天主教徒、山東濟南王女士、高雄來的UQ男同學 Justin、印度裔女生Yin,他們都聽到了福音，求上帝拯救。

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Operation 513 Battle log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Feb 24, 2021 from 1330 to 1530

Today Johnny could not make it so I started solo first until Martin and Andrew joined me a little while later. We stayed at the Western side of Main Road near the Bus stop. Basically, God let us experience different sorts of rejection or at least initial resistance, but at the end, God did give us patience to turn around some of the unwilling heart to chat and later on passing over the gospel message in a subtle causal talk manner. Recap below are my Battle Log:

1) A curious guy initially engaged in chat with me even though he showed that he was not interested and did not need God as he opined he is a good enough person. Unfortunately he spotted Martin taking photo of us and become an angry person aborting our talk. We did feel sorry for this hiccup up, but could only learn to take photo more carefully not interrupting the chat while doing our job to capture needed photo for the battle Log leaving real record of this divine encounter and remember it in a prayer.

2) Then I approached a Chinese girl from Hang Zhou. She is the typical atheist reaction simply declining to let me share gospel. Nevertheless, the Spirit gave me a gentle heart to stop talking about the tract but sharing mutual experience of Hang Zhou where I visited many years ago. My friendship approach melted her icy heart and I can subtlely share my life salvation experience with her.

3) A Chinese Buddhist middle age lady was originally approached by Martin, but her limited English trigger my intervention to take over the chat. I miss heard her saying she is a Christian or she did say this to decline the approach of Martin. I anyhow was managed to share exactly to here that all religion including Buddhism advocate to live and act like a good persons but does not address the issue of sin and how it can be forgiven with us accountable for the punishment of our sin.

4) A man gave me initial reception to let me share with him the Gospel, but he suddenly left amidst our chat as if he suddenly remember he has some urgent errand to do.

5) Then God led me to speak to three Uni student Tarrant, Brant and Moses who denied they are Chinese but soon afterwards, I noticed they are actually all youngster from Hong Kong who have great concern about the freedom status of HKG. I identified with them as Hong Konger and led into gospel as the ultimate solution for removing sins from our life as well as from this crooked world.

6) Then I chatted with Yam 任 from HKG 香港 again. She is a Christian but without assurance of salvation. I was glad I can clarify her problem of misinterpretation of the Bible bute pointing her to fully understand we are all saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.

7) Then I met again with another Mainlander Chinese from Canteon 廣東，He showed extreme open mind to listen to the Gospel till the bus came. 

8) Lastly I chatted with Sarah the Korean who also rejected me initially. I still held a polite manner to share about my testimony instead of the tract and the gospel. But after a while when we were more or less connected as friend. I actually shared her the gospel that once saved and transformed my life. Praise yee to God.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday February 17, 2021 from 1300 -1500

It was another day of grace and manifestation of Mission power. We left home with fine weather but a rainy start when we , Johnny, Martin and Hung assembled around 1300. Because of rain, Johnny decided to move over to the West side to station at the under covered Bus stop. We did get many gospel sharing opportunities. Then rain stopped and Johnny moved back to our usual position in the East side. I stayed at the West to render mutual support with Martin until Andrew arrived after two O' clock. He was excited about his debut lecturing at the Evangelism course of BST with 11 students but only on is registered for doing credit and all else are doing audition including Andrew's Wife. So this special Evangelism class is officially called the Trio Andrew Class of Evangelism as both lecturers and the only official student are all called Andrew.

Comparatively there are more opportunity at the bus stop on the West side of the bridge. But we still serviced faithfully at our normal position after all four regular members of Sunnybank are all present.

Recap below were the fewer than usual divine appointments I had within a shorter working time of one hour 15 minutes .

1) Tim and Stanley looks like Chinese but actually they are English speaking people from Malaysia. They both had Christian schooling background and many Christian friends. Therefore my gospel sharing was not the first that they have heard so far. Their rational mind all agreed in the logic and design of the salvation mechanism by God, and they do not deny there is a God, yet they just still have not been touched and moves to realize the urgency of receiving this salvation. Pray that my sharing will add a bit weight on their thought to ponder what if they missed the chance to receive Christ to got saved.

2) A mun by the sure name Yang 楊with a daughter 有女 from Hunan湖南 were both happy to chat with me after knowing I was once a frequent visitor to Changsha and Hangyang. I did not waste much time in friendship building but jumped right into the Gospel. The mum showed rare receptive attitude toward Gospel and promised to have a deep thought at home after reading the tract.

3) Long a Vietnam young man of catholic school background showed rational good understanding of the gospel but not yet moved and ready to receive Christ. He still holds the view that God may not exist. I Challenge him to prove that any thing visible is not being created but get into existence by itself. He of course failed and was tone down a bit of his atheist uphold. It triggered my thought on the effectiveness of those Christians school in presenting a complete version of gospel to their students. As Andrew shared with me one of the student of the Evangelism class of Catholic background admitted she may not have been genuinely saved by grace through faith. And she has be enlightened by Andrew's explanation of the gospel that she is happy to make a new start to accept Jesus today properly after Andrew's sharing of the gospel.

4) Ben a Vietnamese young man growing up in Hong Kong 香港越南人but now has migrated to Australia. Without knowing the details, Ben revealed to me he has mental health issue but he was completely open for the gospel.. 有精神病,但開放. I walked him across the bridge and share the full gospel to him until he reached the restaurant he planned to go. He showed eagerness to accept Jesus to be saved and hopefully in future when Jesus come , God will make him perfect again without any more illnesses or troubles in his life.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday February 10th , 2021 from 1300 to 1500

We were over joy to have Martin and Roobin joining us after a long pause because of the Covid-19. Martin used to come to Sunnybank very regularly before Covid -19. He joined online evangelism on Omegle and lately was invited to Melbourne to meet and serve with Martin Park. After returning, he is very eager to make appearance on the street apart from doing it on line. He started and team up with Roobin to Woodridge on Monday. Today Martin and Roobin joined us as a team. Andrew , our another regular team mate of Sunnybank Team could only come late after 2pm because of his new engagement as guest lecturer of Brisbane School of Theology that finishes on Wednesday at 1pm. We admire his fervent passion to keep coming despite of his overloaded and busy schedule. As usual I teamed up with Johnny on the East side near Sunny Park Shopping Centre while Martin, Roobin and Andrew served on the West side at the bus stop near Sunnybank Plaza. The whole team basically had many opportunities to engage into conversation. I was also too occupied to spare time to take photo for them despite I walked across the bridge 3 times to do Gospel sharing talking while I walked with the Gospel targets. God is always good to let us encounter various situation to train up our faith to trust and obey in whatever circumstances. Recap below were the main divine encounters God gave me: -

1) Karine a Thai girl studying at Griffith made no hesitation to stop and kind enough to let me share with her the gospel despite she is a Buddhist by family background. She listen with interest and appeared very receptive though still needs a bit of push from the Spirit to make the last step of faith to receive Christ. I asked anyway is there any reason she can name to reject Jesus offer of free gift of enteral life? She answered frankly that there is no reason to reject at all. She just could not rush an important decision like this. So I introduced her to join Power to Change at Griffith and take time as guided by God through the work of the Holy Spirit to make the final step of faith to receive Christ.

2) The I met up with Jean a fair dinkum Christian old lady who has the clearest understanding of the Gospel and 100% assurance of salvation. She is actually the Sunday School Head and she praise and thanks God for our street ministry.

3) Then came an Indian girl called Nadine who was in a hurry but graciously allowed me to walk with her across the bridge to share her the Gospel. She appeared receptive to the gospel message. I also gave her a card of Power to change to let her choose to pursue further as moved by the Spirit.

4) Ling From Nanjing with her friend were also in a rush but again let me shared as we walked across the bridge. She also responded well to the gospel and found no reason to reject the free gift of eternal life offered by Jesus Christ.

5) I caught up with a son and mum from China. Both appeared very friendly and accepted the tract right away. Despite the time left before the bus arrival was limited, I still managed to share the nutshell of the Gospel with them.

6) Finally I had a long chat with Sam who is a local Aussie with Italian blood. Our conversation was interrupted by Jenny the Kairos student meeting me to return a USB. I was glad God moved me to catch up with Sam to continue with our conversation. She was seriously misled by some Christians from Charismatic background that she will not be saved until she can receive the baptism by the Spirit resulting in ability to speak in tongue. Most Pentecostal denominations who advocate the importance of speaking in tongue still dare not claim it is a condition of salvation but over stressing its importance. She was so grateful to my clarifications that she now can claim she is 100% sure of her salvation and having absolute hope to continue on her life journey of Sanctification to be purified to return to perfection when Jesus comes again.

Battle Log by Johnny :-

Praise be to God, Operation 513 street evangelism team had 5 persons joining the today preaching at Sunny bank. as usual , God let many people stop and hear the gospel . One Aussie girl named Gakoda, she wanted to trust in Jesus Christ becoming her savior,after full gospel conversation . Please pray for her.

感謝天父上帝的帶領和祝福，513 福音團隊今天有五位弟兄出席，上帝一照往常的讓人停下腳步來聽福音，有一位澳洲女生Gakoda她聽完了福音之後我問她： 你願意相信耶穌基督成為你的救主嗎？ 她說： 我願意信耶穌。請為她禱告。

Battle Log by Andrew:

On Wednesday I began my guest teaching role at BST and then raced across to Sunnybank to join the team for outreach.

I first chatted with Corby who is from China. He struggled quite a bit with English (and I have minimal Mandarin) but despite this, we were able to work our way through the gospel message. He knew nothing of the gospel and was very grateful to me for sharing. He took a tract in Chinese and a Gospel of John to read.

Yu Fung is also from China. Even though he has no religious background, he believes that there is a God but that this God is not involved in the world at all. We spent a while talking through the gospel and I was then able to give him tracts in both English and Chinese and a gospel of John in Chinese.

Please pray for both these guys as they read God’s word and for all the others through the afternoon who took tracts and had short chats.

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Feb 3rd, 2021, from 1300-1500

After a gloomy overcast Tuesday, God gave us a sunny Wednesday afternoon. Again Johnny, Andrew and Hung team up on the East side (Sunny Park) to share the Gospel. God gave Johnny and Hung several gospel opportunity with some fruit bearing ones. But for Andrew, he had a record breaking long chat from the beginning to the end of our service hour meaning lasting over 1.5 hours. The hearer was a Christian, so possibly they had engaged in deep doctrinal exchange. For Johnny he had several success including with a Chinese Couple who are attending the Hope Community church but have not received Christ as they have not heard the holistic gospel yet. After the gospel sharing they joyfully have received Christ. For me, God gave me variety of gospel audience ranging from self righteous atheist , Christian without assurance and a young man from a Christian family as such having illusion he is a Christian already but actually still a nonbeliever. Details are recap as below: -

1) Laura is a high degree paralyzed lady but is still managing to be independent on her motorized wheel chair. She could not speak smoothly at ease so I chose to give her the tract first and ask her to read at home when she is fully settled down. I could not speak much as the bus came quickly for her but still I assured her salvation is from Jesus. The Bus driver did not see her as such I had to signal him to open the front door for releasing the ramp for her to board the bus. Laura thanks me for that little help in action love and pray that the tract will be a tool by God to convict her to receive Christ.

2) An arrogant lady from PNG believes in reincarnation as such she has all the time and 2nd chance to do good deed to compensate for bad deed. She thought God is just a referee to watch on the sideline how we play the game of life. Win or loss are in full control of us. I patiently counteracted her wrongful thought to show that our sin cannot be off set by good deeds and all human are sinner that need the salvation of Jesus. Pray that God will soften her hardened heart to accept the gospel.

3) Matt from China and Christian from USA took the tract but did not stop for a chat. So instead I walked them across the bridge to share the nutshell of Gospel which was regarded as sensible by them.

4) Jack and Briski from Thailand are high school students. They are both very receptive to the gospel I shared with them.

5) 尚恩 is from a Christian Family as such he also claimed himself a Christian. But he actually has no concept about gospel and lack assurance of salvation. More serious is that he actually has never been a Christian with a personal moment of repentance accepting Christ. So I encouraged him to read the tract and surrender himself to God and accept Jesus as his personal saviour and new Lord of Life.

6) A lady from Taiwan called Celine Ning凌 claimed herself a Christian after hearing my gospel sharing. Yet she failed both diagnosed question and seemed to have very little understanding about what a Christian should behave.基督徒觀念薄弱 Even worse, she has not been attending church since came here to Australia. So I gave her my recommendation and prayed that God will let us meet again for mutual edification.

感謝天父上帝的帶領和祝福，今天有許多人聽到了福音，祈求天父打開他們的心眼，讓他們因信耶穌，罪得赦免，得永生。其中有寧姓中國中年夫妻，蘇丹的Sono，還有三位本地青年人和台灣台北木柵的陳弟兄。請為他們禱告。

On Wednesday at Sunnybank, I had a few small chats with people, but one long conversation dominated the afternoon.

Jesse is 23 years old and had been raised “a bit religious” by his mum. He had also been connected to some churches and been baptised as a young adult years but had largely walked away over the hypocrisy that he had seen. He knew many of the right answers to the questions I was asking, but other things he said gave me the distinct sense that something was not right in his spiritual walk. We worked our way through the gospel and at each step, he affirmed the truth of what I was saying about our sin and what Jesus did for us. However, as we talked about the need to repent and surrender to Jesus, it became clear that this is where the problem had been. It was obvious that he was living entirely for himself and as such, there was a distinct lack of fruit in his life. At this point, I was able to challenge him about the fact that there was little evidence that he was saved and that there was a need for him to repent and trust in Jesus. He agreed and stated that he needed to very closely examine where he stood with God. I pleaded with him to not delay because he did not know the date of his death and he thanked me for taking the significant time to speak to him about this.

Please pray for Jesse that God would grant him repentance.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday 27/1/2021 from 1300 to 1500

It was a quieter day after a spirit anointed day yesterday. But God taught us to be patient and waited for His planned divine encounter opportunity to turn up. Anyway the three of us Andrew, Johnny and Hung still got our chance. For me, All apart from the last one, are divine appointment to train me to do not just the "talk the talk" but also the "walk the walk" . I had to show compassion to share the gospel to walk with the gospel hearer across the foot bridge as they all claimed they were in a hurry but did not mind me to chat with them while we did the walking across the bridge. S0, my six encounters were recap as follows:

1) After many many rejections in the beginning, a Chinese lady stopped to take the tract but immediately asked if this is from Jehovah Witness. Obviously she has been a follower of JHW. I took this chance not just sharing the gospel but hitting on the point that Jesus is God but he incarnated to live as a perfect man and died on the cross for us all taking our place to received the punishment of sin. I trust God will illuminate the darkness spot in her mind to realize Jesus is really the Saviour and the Lord of all.

Then came Ryan an middle aged Aussie. He was very polite and genuinely welcome me to walk and talk with him. He appeared very open and receptive to the gospel.

3) Then I Caught up with two Pakistanis Muslim Tafe students by the name Shani and Muneeb whom we met in Nov 4 & 18. This time they were with a third new friend but he had to hurry for work. I did pray that this was a stepping stone for me to meet them soon to have a proper chat again.

4) Woobi was a senior Hindu man lacking good English level as such having difficulty for communication. But the Spirit moved me to stay put to walk and chat slowly with him in simplest form of English about Jesus. At the end, he seemed to have fully understood who Jesus was and why he died for us and show great appreciation for my sharing. I did thank the Holy Spirit to urge me not to give up on this senior Indian man as perhaps he will hardly have another person willing and daring to chat with him.

5) Then God led another Indian woman by the name Myminya. She walked very fast but surprisingly accept my offer to walk and talk with her about the gospel. I was not sure if she really took heart to listen, but I nevertheless share her the gospel out of obedient to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

6) Then Teresa the Taiwanese student turned up to do here weekly bulk shopping for mailing back to Taiwan to earn her living and Tuition fee. She was happy I greeted her by name. Johnny anyhow took up to have some follow up chat with her while she was waiting for the bus.

7) 金輝 Fai Kim was a member of the EMP Methodist Church. He passed my two diagnosis tests about assurance of salvation. He actually was members of several other Chinese Churches before ending up at EMP methodist after home relocation. He was surprised to find that I have a wide inter-person network knowing all his past pastors as well as Mark Loi and Gloria Ling the current clergy of EMP Methodist. I think the reason God let us meet was to raise his awareness of the responsibility of all Christians to live out a mission oriented life sharing gospel in our social community circles.

Battle Log by Andrew: On Wednesday at Sunnybank, I joined up with Hung and Johnny to speak to people about Jesus.

Micah, Julian and their other friend are 17 years old and all called themselves Christians. I asked them why God should let them into heaven and they gave me a bunch of Christian clichés, but ultimately they were unsure of the gospel. They regularly attend a church where the Bible is barely referenced, and they admitted that there is not much fruit in their lives to suggest that they are living for Jesus. I walked through the gospel in depth with them and challenged them to consider Jesus’ words about false conversion. They appeared to grasp the gospel and so I called them to examine themselves in truth and make sure that they are saved.

Lucy is from Vietnam and has no real religious background at all. She was not sure that God exists and so I shared how we can know that he is real and why that matters. I then explained that we can only know who God is and what he wants from us if he has spoken to us and how the Bible is his way of speaking. I was then able to share the gospel with her in great depth and showed her why she needs to repent and place her trust in Jesus. She grasped the message well and confessed that if this is true, she is headed for hell, but I reminded her that since this is true, God is merciful and gracious and willing to save her.

Please pray for those who heard the gospel this past Wednesday.

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday January 20, 2021 from 1300 - 1500

Following Toowong, the official Street Evangelism at Sunnybank was resumed today. Initially, only Johnny and Hung were there to serve, then Col joined in half an hour later. The team of three was later being paid a visit by Rev Henry and Gloria of Bread of Life Church as a surprise support for the day. Basically the weather condition was superb in comparison to the high noon heat yesterday at Toowong. The general response was however not as good. But we all got some special divine encounters : Johnny chatted with a Buddhist background lady for a long time and eventually the conversation was extended with final good result. It was made possible by Johnny walking the lady to her appointed venue to meet friend at Market Square; Col had a very long chat with a seemingly very rational and argumentative Asian man; Hung met with a Catholic background man from El Salvador where Hung 's father once work there for ten odd years. God does work in His mysterious way to call and save His elected ones by His sovereign power, in His time. Recap below were the few Conversations that Hung had.

1) An Indian girl was lost for direction. I was able to show her direction to Market Square and in the meantime gained an opportunity to share here the nutshell of the gospel before she hurried away for her appointment.

2) After many rejections, God stopped an Espanol guy to have a chat with me. He was in a hurry but still let me share the message of the gospel tract with him. He quickly identified himself as a Christian. So I switched to diagnosis his assurance of salvation. He appeared to have 100% assurance of salvation but stopped short in telling me the reason he is sure going to heaven. Actually, as a Catholic Christian. He completely missed the point and thought it was all gained by his good deeds. He excused to end the conversation as he was really in a hurry, but before we were apart, he told me he is from El Salvador where my father once worked there for over 10 odd years. Because of this remote affiliation , he was happy to take a photo with me. God did send him back to have another short chat to wrap up on the real meaning of salvation by faith through grace in Christ.

El Salvador

3) Then I bumped in with two PNG young brooks from Sunnybank District Baptist Church. They were going to meet with other guys to have a basket ball game. But I still managed to checked upon their assurance of salvation. Again they have 100% assurance but took sometime to give me the correct answer of the reason of salvation was because of Jesus alone. Col actually later caught up with one of the PNG guy on the other side to have a long chat.

4) At the bus stop, I caught up with a Filipino lady. I managed to go through the assurance of salvation test with her but the bus arrival interrupted this attempt.

5) I met Teresa again a Taiwanese girl doing Postage of good back to Taiwan as a means of earning money for her study . Just encouraged her to keep pursuing the faith in Christ.

*) Teresa a Taiwanese student coming here to study but uses her spare time to do bulk purchase for shipping back to Taiwan. I met her on Sep 2, 2020 . She was first approached by Johnny, but quickly we recognized each other and continued on chatting along. She showed great interest in Gospel and asked me to have her more tracts to hand out to her friend. She bided me good bye and looking forwards to meeting me same time next week.

6) Finally I caught up with a Chinese basket baller minding him that the basket ball court may have been fully occupied by the PNG guys. He thanked me for the alert and I took the chance to have a brief gospel sharing with him which he originally declined to stop for Johnny. God has his way to stop anyone even with initial intention of rejection.

感謝天父把中國的鄧同學，印度的Anna Ryan帶到我面前，他們聽到了福音，祈求天父賜福給他們，讓他們真認識上帝，為自己的罪悔改來信靠耶穌得永生。

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday Jan 13, 2021 from 1300 -1500

It was an all time first for street evangelism evangelist like us to wear a mask and chat with people all wearing masks. Andrew invited me to join him to serve in Sunnybank as he anyway had to come to Brisbane South to work in the OAC office and I anyway had to do Narrow Band Light treatment getting pass Sunnybank thus we both made this our excuse to keep serving at this new wave of Covid-19 new virus mutation threat. We just let God to show us if outreach can still be effectively done with imposed restraints by the fear of people contracting the newly mutated virus. It was evidenced that God's work cannot be stopped despite of all those obstacles. Both Andrew and me got similar chances of conversation of different kind of people all wearing masks. Recap below were my chances of outreach which many of them were initial rejection to Andrew's first approach but OK for my 2nd approach : -

1) Two ABK Australian born Koreans missed the bus by just second. I misjudged that their next bus would come many minutes later. After handing them the tract , I wasted sometimes to understand their background but their bus came very quickly when I was about to start the gospel sharing. But considering their positive response and openness to the gospel message, I believed God certainly has His way to start working on them by letting them to read the tract themselves first.

2) The 2nd person was a Japanese man who rejected Andrew's initial approach. I nevertheless still was moved to have a 2nd approach checking if it was because of language problem. Miraculously, he opened up completely to chat with me and quickly let me know he is Japanese but his English is good enough for unhindered two ways communication. I was tempted to share a bit more about my Japanese experience to get identified with him as a Kansai Japanese from Osaka. So I ended up only having limited time for sharing the full Gospel.

3) My third gospel target was a Hongkonger(港人)，despite this coonection 縦如是，this person was very unwilling to open up for a chat.不願打開，He claimed he once chatted with some other OPN 513 colleagues, got the tract and read it with fair good understanding, so he did not want to waste time to go over it again. Obviously the was cheating himself and was as far away from Jesus before he read the tract. I anyway still chose to stay in a friendly mode to induce him to show me his real understanding of the gospel. I failed but still manage to brief him again the nutshell of the gospel( 簡述). Just pray for God's work to soften this man's stone heart.

4) Then I bumped into with Nanny Yim 嚴婆婆 who claimed she and her other family members are all Christians living in Cleveland area. I was surprised when she told me she once visited CFC and quoted a number of names that I did not recognized initially. I anyway first managed to stress the importance of assurance of salvation before the bus arrived. after a while , I finally came to my sense she referred to Amy Yim and her daughter Nicole who did once played piano for us. I pray that she may be moved to visit CFC again in His time.

5) A Couples Hong Kongers possibly still courting. It was a pity they were not friendly for an unhindered chat. It was weird to find out that the girl claimed herself a Buddhist while the boy friend claimed himself a Christian. He asked me in return whether I am protestant or Catholic Christian to show off his Christian knowledge. But his lack of Christian witness to not bearing the same yoke with non-believers already sold him out. I tried a bit longer to try to test out his understanding of salvation but failed as he turned to have his personal conversation with his girl friend.

6) Then God led me to speak to a Mandarin speaking young man from China. Surprisingly he was very open and receptive to the Gospel. He thanks me for the gospel sharing and promised to read the tract in detail when his bus arrive. It made my day for a positive result when I called off for the day to leave for my Narrow Band Light treatment appointment.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday January 6, 2021 from 1300 to 1500

Despite it was still the "New Year Rest Period" for Street Evangelism at Sunnybank and Toowong, I still went to join Andrew who decided to turn up after his OAC office work in the morning. We stayed together at the Bus Stop on the west side near Sunnybank Plaza, We both got many chat opportunities while having short break to allow us to take photo for each others. Today, God led majority of Cantonese speaking people to hear the gospel with a rare exception of an African man and a girl of Australian/Japanese cross breed. God definitely has His special plan and election of those to hear the gospel for their goodness sake. The weather was as hot as yesterday, but Andrew and I had no time to bother about the heat but concentrated on catching up with people for gospel seed sowing work as recap below: -

1) MY first target was an African man. He half jokingly asked me to not waste time on him but talked to some body else. Despite of this, I did not give up but relate to him as a person first to remove the self protection armor. Although full gospel had not yet been shared on arrival of his bus. Nut I was sure the love of God might have been impart to this man.

2) The Vietnamese old man was the person that the African man refer me to have a chat. SO naturally I caught up with him after the African man left. Despite he is a Vietnamese, yet he can speak perfect Cantonese as he had spent long time in Hong Kong. He is a man of rationality emphasizing that there is no absolute right or wrong as it is determined by the individual life perspective and personal experience. I pointed out to him that exactly because we all rejected God and live a self centred life, it appeared there is not absolute truth and rigid definition of universal core values. But God our creator did have set His law through the Bible. Failing to observe God's law will end up committing sin against Him which needed to be judged and punished. The Nutshell of Gospel has accordingly been conveyed this elderly Vietnamese man.

3) A family of three possibly from Beijing consisting of the Mum and an elder son called Siu Hwa and a much younger brother took their seat at the bus stop. Before they entered into their family chat, I intercept and talked to Siu Hua and he was quite open to talk unlike most of the people from Mainland China. The bus scheduled arrival allowed me 6 minutes to share the full gospel to Siu Hua who appeared very receptive. Pray for God's blessing for this family starting from Siu Hua.

4) Three High School (三高中) girls did their transit at his bus stop. Again I intercepted their conversation and was able to chat with the one sitting next to me. She is from Shenzhen (深圳的妹) who looks more simple and pure from her dress in compare to her two friends both in more fancy dress and made up. She showed good interest (有興趣) in the gospel message and indicated this is her first time hearing the gospel. I trust God will have further work on her then here friends while they are still in Australia ，

5) Then I met my next two targets who are both from HKG(香港二人)，Andrew jokingly said one of the guy looks like a mini Hung with same dressing of mine symbolized by our vest. (他郷遇故知) It was a pity we only have very brief time to chat but I left them each a Chinese Tract and English one.

6) Nina looked to have a western looking face profile. Normally young Aussie show little interest in religious topic. But she appeared very friendly and opened as such I was able to go through the full gospel presentation. Then she disclosed she actually is half Japanese(Mum) and half Aussie (Dad) and her father is a Christian, yet she has no knowledge whatsoever about the gospel, so obviously her father only keeps his faith to his own personal life without sharing with the wider public including his family members.

But I believe the divine encounter with this Aussie/Japanese cross breed girl will open up a new page of life for this young and beautiful girl.

7) Then after being Rejected by a Chinese woman, God let me catch up with another Chinese woman to chat. She appeared open to the gospel but it was a pity the bus came too quick to have interrupted the chat.

8) Finally I caught up with an arrogant and self-righteous old Chinese Christian also from Hong Kong. He use the excuse he is readily a baptized Christian to decline further conversation. I tried to use the two diagnosis questions to review his state of faith and assurance of salvation. Unfortunately, he refused to answer and reiterated he is all good. But I really have doubt if he is a fake Christian from mainland China but claiming he is from HK.

Battle Log for Sunnybank by Andrew: -

On Wednesday, Pastor Hung and I again headed out to talk to people about Jesus at Sunnybank and though there were several good conversations, it was the final one that was most encouraging.

Shung Hui is 21 years old from a Chinese background and shared that he had no real religious upbringing. He had heard a few things about Christianity before but not really understood why it mattered. I shared the gospel with him at length and he came to clearly see how Jesus’ death on the cross is the much needed answer to our guilt.

Larry only heard half the gospel before his bus came, but he was intrigued enough that he said that he would read the tract immediately once he was on the bus.

Voiter is 29 years old and from Poland, and like most, was raised Catholic. We took some time to make sense of the gospel and to show how God would be just in condemning us, but how he extends the offer of forgiveness to us because of the finished work of Jesus. I challenged him to consider the claims of Christianity because ultimately, we will all die.

Helen is 78 years old and has some Christian upbringing and beliefs, but trusted that she was a good enough person to get to heaven. We talked through the commands and we both agreed that if God is good, we were all in big trouble because we have all done bad things. I then showed why it makes no sense to hope in the good things we have done because those good deeds can never erase our sins. At this point she said that she just needed to hope that God would be merciful even though she could see no reason why he would. I then explained how Jesus’ death on the cross solves our problem and how God’s offer of forgiveness needs to be received. I showed that mere belief in God was not sufficient and that we instead need to repent and place our trust in what Jesus did for us. Though it was hard for her to consider, she admitted that there was a good chance that she was not saved but that from that moment she intended to no longer trust in her goodness but in the finished work of Jesus! I encouraged her to read John’s gospel and she said that she really wanted to do that as soon as possible.

Please pray for all those who heard the gospel and the many who took tracts. May God save many for his own name’s sake!

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