Battle Log

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• Toowong (QLD) Team
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Toowong Team (QLD)

Meets 1:30-3pm every Tuesday afternoon at the Toowong train station on the 2nd floor and splits into two teams, one at the main entrance of Toowong Tower on Sherwood Road, another at the foot of the pedestrian bridge across Benson Street.

Contact Johnny Hsieh for more information.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 26th, 2024 from 1300-1500

2 Timothy 4:2 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 2

There was incessant soaking rain whole day, but it did not deter our burden and commitment to preach the gospel to the lost souls. Rather the rain kept every one crowded under the bus stop booth. The number of chats were more than usual though many were brief and short. Amongst all these divine appointments, there were a couple stand out ones with persons from Mainland China but their hearts were extraordinarily softened and open for the Gospel. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) Aden from Northern California is church going but not sure if he is a Christian. He is a person of righteousness coming to UQ for Study of Conservation. He listened the nutshell of the gospel and appear very receptive to the need of salivation by Jesus as he admitted human are bad beyond redemption exerting all sorts of damage to the nature out of selfishness and self-centeredness.

2) An Unknown country guy listened but not willingly hearing the gospel message and took no track at the end.

3) An UQ Lecturer lady claimed she had had a chat with us and was not interested to chat any more.

4) Three mainlanders with one from Suzhou who alone was willing to chat but was shy of making assertive expression about what he heard as two other mainlander friends were besides.

5) An India young lady with no umbrella as such whole body was wet and felt uneasy & embarrassed. Spent needed time to show my empathize but then no time to share the gospel but she willingly took a tract to read, so God still has His way for this Hinduism person.

6) Sarah is a member of CCCB English congregation. She is from Singapore and has 100% assurance of salvation. She took many tracts from me to give away to her gospel caring group possibly her classmates in UQ.

7) An Aussie young man chatted many times and did not feel

like chatting any More.

8 ) Then I was led to have a long chat with Hu ? from Kwai Lin he has just come to Australia for half a year He actually already did his undergraduate in Singapore . With so many years of overseas living experiences, he appeared very open and receptive to the gospel admitting every one including he himself is not perfect as such we all need Jesus. Recommend him to look for Power to Change if he wants to pursue the Christian faith.

9) Then a quick chat with a young man from Xinjiang and he took a tract as his bus arrived right away.

10) Then I was led to approach a young lady by the name of Lee ?from Guangzhou , her Cantonese is no good but willing to chat in Mandarin. She studies Marketing and showed great openness top listen to the gospel.

11) Masa an Iranian young lady who has been in Australia for 1 year studying Management. Despite still of Muslim background, but she also is very open to the gospel and is also aware of the quick and phenomenon growth of Christianity amongst the Iranian in overseas. She also showed open and receptiveness to the gospel especially to Jesus as our Savior and our Lord God.

12) Sarah an American girl from Midwest Illinoi for Medical study with a first degree in Biology back in USA. Time was not enough to find out if she is a Christian, but nevertheless still share the nutshell of the gospel and giving her a tract.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 19th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was yet another typical day of outreach. We were led by the Spirit to approach people randomly but actually with the predestination of God. They were either people we met before for a follow up chat, or first timers or first timer as led by God. Amongst all these people, I did catch up with an local Aussie girl of Irish descendant who has never heard of the gospel before as there is not Christian in her own life circle. So, the tasks entrusted to all Christians to reach out non-discriminatory is with a reason. There is still someone who has never heard the Gospel out there waiting for us to be the messenger passing on to them the voice message they need to hear.

1) Clair a Scottish descendant local Aussie girl who claimed she has never heard the gospel before. She shared the view that as long as we are not perfect in our human character, we are subject to judgement after death as such there is urgent need for all the good but not perfect persons to repent and seek salvation from Jesus. It is very weird for anyone who will have no Christian friend or Christian influence in their life circle, but God let this happened to show us there is really the need to keep reaching out to look for those least reached lost souls.

2) Arian the Iranian lady in full Muslim dressed but turned out to be a very open and receptive Gospel hearer. I concentrated in sharing the full gospel that met full consent by Arian. I just fell short of asking if she is readily a messianic Christian as God did great thing converting a lot of Iranian when they go overseas as refugees.

3) Danny an Indonesia first year UQ students. He was also open for chat about religion and seemed to have no negative opinion against Christianity. Time was not enough for me to finish the full gospel but he took a tract to read.

4) Then I caught up with JJ a Filipino of protestant background. whom I met few weeks ago on 27/2. Last time, I actually did finish my diagnosis on his assurance of salvation. He has 100% assurance but the reasons is not yet 100% because of Jesus redemptive work. Finally, it was all cleared that his assurance is not from how good and obedient he has been but 100% because of the redemptive work of Jesus.

5) Then I was led to have a long chat with Amelia who is an ABC Christian with Parents from mainland China. They once were all church going but not any more now. and She is lack of assurance of salvation because of the wrong idea that she has to behave good enough for heaven. I pray that after my clarification, she will revert back to trusting in Jesus and alone.

6) John is a Catholic Christian of Irish descendant. He has spiritual pride and is 100% sure he can go to Heaven but because of his goodness in leading a good Christian life style. It was a pity he did to want to go on with the conversation as such I failed to clarify with him the truth of salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone.

7) Liam a Kiwi but Filipino Catholic Christian. Again, he did not have assurance of salvation and thanks for my clarification.

 

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday March 12th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

After a couple of rainy days, it turned sunny and scorching hot in the early afternoon at Toowong. The bus stop was turned into a mini furnace by the radiating heat from the concrete platform. People tended to become impatient and reluctant to have a long chat. It was under this tough condition that we still endeavoured to do our best to work with God sharing Gospel to whoever the Spirit led us to approach. Because of the heat and quick arrival of bus, our chat had also been cut into scattered pieces. The upside was that I could have more smaller chats up to 10 as recap below: -

1) Ishrite from Bangladesh, polite to listen but his hear was elsewhere. Just did my best to share the full gospel as he was at end of the long queue.

2) Rammish an young lady from India who claimed herself not a Christian and non-religious but her mind set and conduct really bears the image of God. She was open and positive to the Gospel. She deemed she did not mind or even preferably to listen to the gospel from a more Christian point of view. she knew God look into our heart and mind not just judging us by external expression of behaviour. In this connection, she confessed no one will be perfect and avoid the judgement of God even though we conduct a crime free life. She thus also accepted the need of every one either good persons or bad persons inclusive, for Jesus’ atoning salvation. So, she by my standard, is readily a Christian. Pray that God will move her to make the very last step of faith to accept Jesus as her Savior and Lord of life. Finally , she thanked for our passion to share the gospel to her and many others by the move of the Holy Spirit.

3) Then I was led to approach a Local by Aussie who was impatient bit still polite and let me share more than half of the gospel message.

4) A young man by the name of Yuan? from Taichung without any religion as such he is not very serious about faith matter but he was still polite enough to listen to the full gospel.

5) Then I tried to chat with another Local Aussie girl who has caught with a red nose, I tried to convince her it was OK for me to chat with her by keeping a safe distance. But she still felt too weak to have mood to listen to the gospel so she still politely closed our conversation for her to rest.

6) Aron surprisingly is from Turkey. We quickly built rapport but his bus came almost instantly. I could not but just handed him the tract and pray for next useful encounter and for this reason, he agreed to take a selfie photo with me.

7) Then I was led to meet up with a rare Christian girl Ms Duan ?from mainland China who is from Beijing Her parents are still non -believers but her grandmother is a pious Christian so in China, she attended both 3 self-Church and home churches. Her bus came also fairly quick, But I have managed to help her establish her 100% assurance of salvation.

8 ) Jack a young local Aussie from NSW who is humble and open for the gospel and took a tract afterwards. He is a very promising seed of the gospel.

9) Next was Mr. Zhu ?from Mainland China He claimed We have chatted with him several time and he was very impressed that we keep doing this every Tuesday to show that the gospel is really a precious gift from God. Even though he has not yet made up his mind to accept Jesus, but he is all convinced that everyone need the salvation of Jesus.

10)Finally, just had time to touch base with an Elderly in1 min before his bus arrive.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday March 5th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Today, Winnie was not available as she has a doctor appointment. Only Johnny and Hung teamed up to reach out to the UQ student majority crowd at the bus stop off Toowong Village connecting to UQ. There was always a long queue in the beginning through which we could catch up with a couple of people while they were waiting for the bus. Afterwards, we still can access to those arriving at the bus stop intermittently. Today general impression was that more mainlanders were present. It was half, half in terms of willingness to listen, not to mention to respond in an open and natural way. For us, we were simply led by the Spirit to approach and connect irrespective of the response. We always believe, God is in charge to use us to get across the message to His elected ones. At the end, I was able to catch up with an old gospel outreach co-workers for mutual edification. Recap is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) At the end of the long queue, I was led to approach a girl from Beijing . she has been in Australia studying at UQ for 2-3 years already . She was polite and showed genuine willingness to listen to the gospel and took a tract at the end . I trusted that she has been exposed to the gospel many times before and her heart has been softening gradually by the Spirit through each new gospel opportunity.

2) Next I was led to approach a young man with the same name as mine "Hung" from Taoyuen , Taiwan. He has been here for 6 months. And he seemingly is a non-religious person. But he showed interest and openness to listen to the gospel and took a tract afterwards.

3) Then next was a young local Aussie girl wearing a work uniform as a sort of part time educators in a child care. She was friendly for a chat but her bus quick arrival spoiled our conversation.

4) Then next came a mainlander who claimed to be a Christian but quickly exposed that he is just a fake Christian pretending to be saved to gain carnal gain for dating a Christian girl. He even boasted about this to ridicule that there are many fake Christians like him to fool around for self-indulgence.

Irrespective of his attitude, I still tried my best to share the full gospel to him which was not interrupted by his bus. .

5) The Spirit surprisingly connected me with an Indonesian Christian. He was proud to tell me that there is 15% of Christian in a Muslim country like Indonesian . Again, it was a pity I did not have enough time to diagnose on his Assurance of Salvation.

6) Finally God led us to catch up with an old Gospel worker friend retuning to server here.b

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday February 27th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was so good to have the Old Toowong Triade Gospel Squad be reunited after half a year of separation. Johnny rejoined Hung and Winnie as soon as he returned from Taiwan. team of three joining force very timely to catch up with the new influx of students in the beginning of a new Academic term. The queue for bus was so long that it turned the corner reaching almost towards the end of the side street. Despite the bus frequency are still high as usual, we all got very long conversation finishing the full gospel with good result. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) I was led to approach JJ from Flippin who quickly identified himself as a protestant Christian despite there are many y Catholic background Christian in his bigger family circle. I thus switched to test his assurance of salvation which is spot on 100%. I encouraged him to do outreach in the campus perhaps to be affiliated with Power to Change.

2) Then I caught up with an ABC Malaysian Chinese. He speaks very little and limited Chinese despite he is all Chinese face looking. And he declared himself an atheist. He admitted he could not find and fallacy or loophole in the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect, we are all liable to go to hell with those known bad guys like Hitler. Only through the atoning grace of Jesus can we be saved by grace through faith. Yet, his heart is still too hard to humble himself to receive Christ as his Savior.

3) Billy & Anna are both Hongkonger, but they actually are from North Eastern China but moved to HKG for study over 7 years than came over to Australia for University study on Business Management. They both listen to the gospel patiently and admitted they have heard the same many times before. Possibly because the long-term influence by atheist in China, they are not too drawn to religious teaching. But perhaps the 7 odd years of life in HKG still played an effect of yearning for freedom and being set free from many visible and invisible bondage from the background they were brought up.

4) Lucy is a local Aussie girl but with mixed blood of Netherland. She is very sociable and talkative and appeared open to the gospel message despite she is non-religious. She was basically convinced to admit that no one is perfect as such we will be held responsible for our short coming in our human character even in the meantime, we have done a lot of good work. I suspect she might have missed her bus at least once to allow the conversation to carry on.

5) Zach is a young man living in the North of about one hour train traveling time. He is non-religious but similarly he seemed to have been touch ed by the gospel admitting everyone good or bad, we all need the redemptive grace of Jesus.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday February 6th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Today, I had to do solo Street Gospel outreach. In the beginning there were overwhelmingly heap of people because of the first Semester week. I could only started by catching up with the last person in the long queue for bus. Then gradually the main influx period is over and I was left with few people around, but overall speaking, the divine intervention and election was still obvious. God led me to catch up with 3 to 4 Biochemistry and medical science students which are supposed to be the elite students who choose this medical related subject as the first degree and their springboard to finally be admitted to the Medical School of UQ.

Pray that the gospel message would help them aware that they are students of excellency but in God, they have to learn to humble before God for His salvation by grace. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung

1) Mary is from Kiwi and was born there in a Chinese origin family. She was the first Biochemistry Medical Science student God had led me to meet one after the other. Her parents were from Mainland China ,so they are not religious. Yet Mary admitted she heard the gospel many times before. And she confessed the gospel message is self complete without any internal contradiction. It is all sensible and logical for any good by non-perfect person to ask for help from Jesus as our Savior.

2) Luke a local Australian Born Indian, also doing the Biochemistry Medical Science. He appeared open and receptive to the gospel message.

3) Then next was Holy again a local Aussie girl very friendly for a chat. She also showed openness and receptiveness to the gospel.

4) Then I connected with a young man from Tianjin, China. . He has been with UQ for 3 years doing engineering study. . He is willing to chat and voluntarily took a gospel tract.

5) Next was a Korean girl called Dabbie was who slightly indifferent to the gospel though still open for a chat.

6) James another local Aussie whose mother is Filipino and father an Australian. He is also doing biomedical science. He is not as open as Luke but still politely listened to the full gospels

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday February 6th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Thanked God that the weather turned much cooler without the radiating heat. Winnie still could join me today but not next week Feb 20 while Johnny will come back only after Feb 24. But we thanks God for every opportunity that we can serve with God as well as serving as a team. As usual, it was a fruitful outreach effort as ordained and empowered by God. We may encounter rejection from time to time. But if our meagre effort to preach the gospel to a non-believer for the first time sowing the seed, our reward in the heaven will be great. We do thanks God for the privilege being blessed be a blessing.

1) Aussie young girl volunteered to take photo for us when she saw we did the selfie. I took this chance to compliment her as a very good person but still need Jesus and asked her to read the "Are You A Good Person Tract."

2) My first approach was an Aussie lady at the bus stop. She was nice to respond to my catching up brief chat but eventually she declined my invitation to have a chat with the excuse of being busy in texting but perhaps the underlying reason was that she was not interested.

3) Next, I was led to catch up with an Australia Born Indian who is doing Engineering at UQ. Both himself and his parents were born her in Brisbane. So they are not that bounded by their traditional Hindu faith but rather comparatively open to the gospel which he found no loophole to query. I promised to pray for him and if he has any query, I suggested him to join Power to Change in the UQ campus which he agreed.

4) Then I was led to approach Zheng ?from Shandong , China. He comes to study nursing which shows he has plan to stay in Australia as male nurse is not popular in Mainland China. He also disclosed he has been Christian since young back in China . Their family belong to a certain house church branch and he is now attending CCCB- St Lucia I thus switched to test his assurance of salvation which he failed to have 100% certainty. After my clarification, he thanked and promised he will pursue to know God and the gospel better through Bible study and attending the ACTIVITY OF POWER TO CHANGE. He felt comfortable to take a self fie with me.

5) The I was led to approach Chen who is from Nanjing and came to do high school study at the Gold Coast. And now he is admitted to do medical study at UQ. He admitted it was the first time he heard the gospel and he also could not find any fault or query about the gospel and admitted that every one need salvation from eternal death punishment of sin. I also advised him to join Power to Change for pursuance of God and the salvation accepting Jesus as his Savior.

6) Then I caught up with a HongKonger who came just for a few weeks to do speech therapy. . He seemingly is a non-believer despite he has Christian relatives and friends. He anyway still listened to the full gospel and promised to pursue and contact Power to Change.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday February 6th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

It was a scorching hot high noon weather worst for street outreach. The radiating heat dissipated from the concrete pedestrian path and the road made the bus stop feel like a furnace. Despite of the extreme situation, Winnie and Hung still were given many divine appointments with non-believers. For Winnie, a couple she met last time took the initiative to greet Winnie to allow her to do follow up encouraging them to look for church in St Lucia. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) Rejected by two women, one young and one old. Both were supposed to be local Aussie. It reflected the local territorial spirit is so low that most people don't like gospel and any religious matter.

2) Next I was led to chat with a man who is an alumni of UQ. The bus came too quick but he still managed to take a tract.

3) Francisco, a Chilean non believer, but is a chosen one who react favorably and positively to the gospel understanding and appreciating all the points and issue addressed. So he really felt all good and ready to be a Christ follower. He loved to take selfie with me and took a tract to revise on my gospel presentation.

4) Freda, a girl from Sweden doing the psychology subject greatly related to my Master of Counselling course dated back in 2008. She was all rejoice and all open for a chat. It was a pity her bus also came too quick. But she took a track and promise to read and looking forward to meeting me next week, God's willing.

5) Another atheist man from Toronto Canada. He behaved a bit arrogant but still softened to listen to the gospel though with a lot of question.l

6) Spencer, yet another local Aussie who had no argument on the points raised in the Gospel, but still taking no tract at the end.

7) Last but not the east, I was led to approach three Arabic from Dubai. They looked like a mature big brother with his two younger brother and sister. The elder brother quickly identified himself as Muslim. I initially tried to present the issue of sin in a non-religious context. But the eldest Muslim brother kept quoting Koran but not in the official format to deny Jesus as God. I shared some view of Siddique that The earlier writing of the Koran actually gives favorable comments to Christianity and Jesus. But that eldest man kept just repeating his brain wash points that there is only one god and no trinity, and that Jesus is not god. I anyway stood my ground to conclude that Jesus is one of the God head of the triune God as such He is God having equality by substance, by power, and by authority on par with God the father and God the Holy Spirit. Only Jesus has the authority and power to die for us and taking our place to receive the eternally death punishment originally due on us but not they are all forgiven. That was not even mentioned in Koran. Anyway, we set back agreed on our differences and move on. I do pray the two younger ones will be easier to humble themselves to receive Christ as their Savior and Lord of life.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 24th 2024 from 1300-1500

Thanks God, Qin Hao was able to team up with Hung to do this committed regular street outreach at Sunnybank. The Heat wave returned after a downcast day yesterday. But the grace of God was sufficient as the temperature was still reasonable not that hot as usual because of the ecology setting around the bus stop with many shaded areas created by the building and the trees around. In term of outreach, it was a day of mixed result. The negative experiences however were from the those who declared themselves Christian. They behaved very erratically hash with suspicious mindset to resist any discussion on religion as if they are gentile or non-believers. I can only pray that God may have further alert message to wake them up from the self-cozy feeling illusion.

On the upside, there were good and mutually building conversation that bring encouragement to both parties. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach Daniel a Korean atheist but he behaved very open and non-judgmental to listen to the full gospel with positive reaction. He thanked me sharing the gospel message to him which he found sensible and logical. It was really a minor miracle for an atheist to have such positive reaction towards Gospel.

2) Then I moved on to approach a young man form Taiwan. He quickly reviewed he is a church goer though not yet a believer with a hidden implication that he has heard of the gospel and I should not waste time on him. Of course, I took no risk but still share him the gospel and pray that all the obstacle preventing him to make the last step of action faith will be removed.

3) Then I turned to my right to chat with a woman from Taiwan. She quickly identified herself a Christian, but when asked about her assurance of salvation, she got nervous and refuse to listen to my clarification on those misunderstood area about salvation.

4) Then I spent a longest time to chat with Mr Ho ? from Hong Kong coming here for visiting relative. He has great interest to listen to my personal testimony as many things and people mentioned were known by him. He shared that he once attended church but no more. I nevertheless encourage him to give it a go to pursue God that will be the only source we can secure inner peace and joy to live a victorious life despite of the objective environment has turned rough. He appreciated our conversation and took a selfie with me on parting for his bus.

5) Then I caught up with a Vietnamese young man who comes for Taffe study. The conversation did last long enough for full gospel but he was moved to take a tract.

6) Then I was led to chat with a mum with a young kid daughter who are from Taiwan to accompany her husband from for a special job in the Aero space avionics industry . She was very nice and friendly to listen to the gospel and took a tract afterwards.

7) Then I met with a Korean mum with three very children one adolescent and two young kids. She displayed rare temperament of critical mindset and behaved very unfriendlily and refused to have any discussion on religion. I could only attribute it to lack of patience in dealing with three kids.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday January 16th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Despite of the week-long heat wave alert, God gave us a window of overcast but dry weather with cool temperature best for street outreach. Praised the Lord Winnie was able to rejoin the Toowong team today though with unpredictable delay due to stomach pain. So, I started solo first and Winnie rejoined me about 20 minutes later. Both had great outreach opportunities leading to many fruitful gospel sharing conversations. Recap below is the Battle of Hung. (**By the way, I have to take next Tuesday off as I need to accompany my wife for a specialist consultation appointment to determine if a spinal bond operation is needed to enlarge the shrink spinal cord tube)

1) First rejected by a non-Chinese speaking man with an excuse he was fully into his music listening happy hour. I still suspected he is a Mainlander just pretending non-Chinese to avoid a chat. One day in future, he might regret on his such decision to ignore the gospel.

2) Next, I was led to approach an Indonesia girl who appeared very open for a chat but her bus came right at this very moment but she still earnestly took a tract to read.

3) Then I was led to approach a local Aussie woman who seems to be an atheist but she was still happy to have a friendly chat but no tract.

4) Then next cam a very interesting gospel conversation with a young man from Anfai who claimed that he had listened to the gospel message many times from many of his Christian friends in UQ. He even has attended many of those Christian fellowship meeting but he insisted his heart has still not yet been touched by the gospel message to react. He sarcastically advised me to look for someone else to share the gospel. But I was moved not to let him go yet switching the topic to share my personal testimony to showed that God has different timing for every elected person.

5) Next I was moved to approach a mainlander girl whose Grand pa and Grand Pa in law are all pious Christians in China yet her parents and herself are all fair dinkum atheists , despite she admitted her grannies are godly person with great personal life witnesses. ,She was not too keen on religious issues, but she was still opened for chatting for considerable time.

6) Then God gave me a middle-aged mainlander man by the name Zhou? from Shangdong to have a long chat. Initially, he showed definitely no interest to chat and claimed he has a very established view on religious matter consideration atheist is the most sensible choice as he is convinced there is no proof of existence of God more so from scientific point of view. I did not push to convince him there is a God, but use apologetic approach to explain the scientific ground of the 6 days creation story and supplement with my personal testimony. God also helped making him missed his bus to have long enough time for me to share the gospel and the creation God. Finally, he came back to his sense to check why the bus did not turn up and I leave him the space to ponder on what I had shared with him. He also willing took a tract.

7) Chris a Chilean but not a religious person yet just falling short of declaring himself an atheist. Yet my sharing of the gospel had aroused his sense to pursue spirituality and admitted every one need Jesus. He willingly took a tract and a selfie with me.

8 ) Last but not the least was an Indian girl who responded to the gospel with Christian's language such as trusting in Jesus who love the sinner unconditionally. I even thought she was readily a Christian but her status was somewhat like the Anfai guys who has absorbed a lot of head knowledge about God, Jesus and his salvation but not yet reaching the opportune time to surrender to receive Christ. Nevertheless, she was happy to take a tract and too ka selfie in a hurry to catch her bus.

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