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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 Toowong on Tuesday April 815th , 2025 from 1030-1200

After a hectic Monday attending the memorial service of Lily's husband Joseph Tam, I start a new week of regular street outreach to day with Johnny at Toowong. It was a fruitful team work again with intermittent rain, but not affecting our opportunities of outreach. The leading of the Holy Spirit was apparent leading me to approach someone who had rejected Johnny but God created another window opportunity and moved me to head up to approach that guy once again and eventually achieving His purpose. Please refer details in Battle Log below: -

1) An USA exchange student who claimed to be Christian but only has 90% certain to go to heaven. Half explained and conversation was cut short by bus arrival.

2) Then a Kiwi migrant of non religious background but was open and receptive to the gospel message.

3) Rejected by a young lady who was busy in texting.

4) Next I was led to a crosse breed girl with Mum a Chinese , She is non religious but was totally open to the gospel message admitting everyone including herself need Jesus to cleanse our imperfection in our sin corrupted human nature.

5) Then an Indian lady not mind chatting but pardon as she needed to make a call to deal with some urgent matter.

6) Next is Lee from Penang who is non religious. Again he find no fault in the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect we need a Savior like Jesus.

7) Allan who rejected Johnny may be lacking interest in religious matter. But I observed he just missed his bus and felt a bit pissed off. The Spirit instantly gave me the flash of thought that, he would have missed another opportunities to hear the gospel and I was given this privilege to be a messenger to do this. So I introduced myself expressing exactly this same thought which successfully attracted his attention and interest to see what he would have missed. The timing was perfect and I finished the full gospel sharing convincing him don't miss the chance of not getting disqualified for the Kingdom of God and be deprived of the eternal life offered by Jesus through His sacrificial death. What a turn around of the whole situation by the divine power and guidance of God through the work of the Holy Spirit.

8 ) Then I seldom approach two persons Claire and Olivia together who are both UQ and two fair dinkum Aussie. I used these slang to show them that they are not yet dinkum enough to be called Aussie, and like wise they can become a fair dinkum Christian accepting Jesus through the gospel message. They were happy to ponder upon this important life issue.

9) Then I was led to a tall guy in red to share him a quick Message of the core of gospel and he appeared very ok and receptive.

10) Lastly, I was led to approach Frank from Ghana who is a Christian but lacking assurance of salvation. I clarified the issue just in time before the bus arrived.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 8th , 2025 from 1030-1200

The decision to advance the Street outreach earlier to 1030 paid off. We spend less transit time to and from Toowong and there is a peak queuing time at 1130 and there are ample people turn up rate at the bus stop. Recap below is my Battle Log

1) I was moved to approach a young man from Beijing 北京 but live at outskirt near Tianjin 天津who came to study IT 電腦. He has a rational mind and appeared receptive to the gospel message.

2) Marley was the next and he declared himself an orthodox Christian but has no assurance of salvation. Yet he was rejoiced to have it clarified.

3) Then Jack is a local Aussie of 3rd year. He is non-religious yet open to the gospel message with good receptiveness.

4) Dario a local Aussie but of Italian original. He is a Psychology student. He is a non Christian but theological in mind and know how use bible to communicate his view point against Christianity. But he could not find loophole in my way of presentation of gospel message and show willingness to pursue Christian faith.

5) Next is Fung 馮 from Guangzhou廣州. He appeared a bit nervous 緊張 to engage conversation with me. But after a rapport building effort he appeared relax and more open to the gospel message，但之後髿馳接受道理，也知有He is also aware of Power to change and promise to pursue Christian Faith.

6) Last but not the least was Marty a local Aussie of the physiotherapy Department. She is non religious as well but the move of the Holy Spirit also led her very open to the gospel message and end up completely receptive to the salvation of Jesus.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 1st , 2025 from 1030-1200

Today is the first time I served with Johnny again as a team after his long vacation break. We both were moved to advance our ministry time to 1030 instead of 1330. It helps to avoid the peak traffic before and after the outreach. It also spare us from the high noon scorching heat during summer at the concrete base bus platform. Most importantly, we can outreach to a slightly different group of people who go to UQ in the morning. The people flow seems to be more numerous than then afternoon period. Both of us had many meaningful and long conversation that hopefully will bear ripen fruit in His time. Recap below is the Battle log of Hung: -

1) Daren, an Indonesia born Chinese of Catholic Christian background yet lacking 100% of assurance of salvation. He appreciated my clarification and now confidently declares he has 100% assurance now. He also enlightened me on a query, how come Indonesia the largest Muslim population country has an extraordinary high percentage of 20% Christian ratio. It is because all Chinese do not want to become Muslim , so they all turn out to be either Catholic or protestant Christians.

2) August a Brisbane based young man who is non religious but very open and receptive to the gospel. He admitted no one including himself not perfect and now understand it will lead to eternal separation form God and indefinitely disqualified to be heavenly citizen. I advised him to ponder and make his last step of faith. If he has any query, either look for me here every Tuesday or seek helps from Power to Change.

3) Next was a girl from Shanghai上海姑娘，basically, she felt insecure to chat with stranger on religious matter有不安感 even though she still remained polite to listen to the full gospel .

4) Then i chatted with a UK girl who is non religious, but she was open enough and admitted the gospel is rational model to lead to the conclusion that for human who are imperfect with sin, then we all need the salvation of Jesus as our Savior.

5) Then I caught up with an Indian girl from Deli who studies Computer Science at UQ. Time was too too rush and her English not so good so only a nutshell of the gospel was briefed with a tract.

6) Then caught up with Daisy another Scotland girl from Edinburg. She is non religious but very soft hearted and receptive to the gospel.

7) Then had a medium long chat with a Sri Lankan who was completely open and receptive to the Gospel.

8 ) Hsu許from Taipei,Taiwan台灣，who is non religious 無宗教 but still managed to share the full gospel講完。

9) Last but not the least, I did follow up chat with an elderly from Beijing who had a long chat with Johnny. When Johnny turned to chat with his wife, I caught up with the husband and touch based on some issues on sin and how human in flesh can never deliver ourselves from the bondage of sin.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Mar 25, 2025 from 1030-1130

It was an overcast day with intermittent sporadic rain and I still have to serve solo waiting for Johnny's back after his recovery from coughing resulted from his overseas vacation trip. I also decided to serve the scheduled street outreach ministry a bit earlier so I can go to have Birthday celebration Yumcha with Ivano for lunch. All these adjustments helped me to have a dry period to serve with rain both before and after my street outreach.

More miraculously, I was forced to park for the first time on the roof at floor 9 at Toowong. God did not just spare me from rain on the street for outreach , also when I had to walk in open air on the roof top for my car. If rain came that time, I will have no where to hide.

The people flow at the bus stop was lesser than the afternoon time. I anyway still got all gospel conversation divine appointments turning out to be all fruitful ones. Recap below is the highlight of them.

1) Gabriel from Filipin is a fresh grad student of Engineer. He migrated to Australia at the age of 6 month, so he is readily almost a fair dinkum Australian now of the age of 19yrs old. He is from a Catholic Family but seldom read and study the Bible. So it was no wonder he failed the test of Assurance of salvation with only 80/90% certainty. He was pleased to hear the clarification from me and was thankful to be able to become a fair dinkum Christian who is saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

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2) Next was Miss Zhou周 from Wuhan武漢. She comes to study for Education教育.As a Mainlander, she is the rare ones who is willing and daring to listen to the full gospel. I encourage her to ponder when back home to accept Jesus, and get in touch with Power to Point people is she still have any faith related questions,

3) Daniel has a complicated identity. He is of Italian origin but dual Nationality of Aussie and New Caledonian. He is of Catholic background as well and his understanding of faith is also unclear but it was a pity his bus came and we could only leave it to other time in our next divine encounter.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Mar 18, 2025 from 1030-1130

Johnny is yet to be back, So Hung continued to do solo outreach at Toowong at an earlier time than usual. The Bus stop were less crowded than the usual noon time. There were a group of 5 to 6 Mainlander students that I was not moved to approached as they tended to be avoidance especially when they have compatriot Chinese around that they do not want to be seen to appear receptive and open to gospel. Apart from the Mainlander groups, all other people groups are comparatively open and friendly for getting a chat. Recap were the three highlight conversations.

I was led to approach Harry from Bundaberg as he was nearest to the big group of Mainlanders. He was a bit shy but still polite and friendly enough to engage into a chat with me. He was from a Christian family, but upon checking his assurance of salvation, he is not sure at all even if he is a Christian. So I virtually has to share the full gospel to him once again which he was very appreciative and receptive to help him affirming his faith in Christ alone.

Then I turned around to chat with a Filipino lady who is a Griffith student coming to meet a friend in UQ. Her family was of Catholic background but she herself is non-religious. I was able to share her the nutshell of the gospel as her bus came pretty fast.

Then I was led to approach an Indian girl who studied engineering. She was friendly and open for gospel sharing and appeared also very receptive. Again time was not enough but just the nutshell of the gospel and with a tract.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Mar 11, 2025 from 1230-1400

This was a rare near fruitless day of street outreach despite the weather of Brisbane has returned almost normal with bright sun shine after the mass destruction of the cyclone Alfred. I could hardly engage in a full gospel conversation. People used all sorts of excuses, like being on the phone, having chatted before, or simply straight ignorance if not blunt rejection. While I pondered upon the poor outreach effect, a terms suddenly rang the bell in my mind, which is complacency which we heard very frequently during the approach and after landing of the Cyclone Alfred that people are strongly urged to not losing complacency even though the wind and or rain might not have picked up very severe in some area.

In retrospect, I could observe a general spiritual warfare status of complacency amongst common people who lead a "Good Person Life" Perhaps the weather condition has returned to normal too quick and too smooth, the sense of crisis situation are in general being blurred in most people mind as such they focus more on the present temporal thing rather than the eternal spiritual destiny.

Nevertheless, I basically approached people from Vietnam, several Mainlander from China, Local Aussie from Mackay and Philippine. I had a comparatively long conversation with the last two persons though without apparent immediate effects.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Mar 4, 2025 from 1230-1400

Because of the imminent approaching Typhoon Alfred, I set off earlier to do the regular outreach at Toowong as well as hospital visit to Ivano at PA.

Basically, there were many fresh Uni students amongst those was Lisa from Johor of the Western Malaysia. She dressed typically in Muslim woman code, but was still friendly and open enough to let me share her the full gospel.

Another long conversation was with Liam from Perth WA. He comes to study at UQ to accompany his girl friend a Canadian of Palestinian origin. He is non religious but have a free mind set open to discussion of Christianity. At the end, he shares the view that no human is perfect as such we all need to address this imperfection or sinful status in the human nature.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Feb 25, 2025 from 1230-1400

I served my roster duty street outreach at Toowong by myself again today. It is the beginning of the academic year of UQ, so I was given chance to connect with students of all Year from all cultural background including Local Aussie, Italian born Chinese but does not speak Chinese, Indian migrant and a longest conversation with a Catholic Christian of UK descendant.

1) First greeted mysteriously by a friendly local Aussie for a short chat before the bus arrived.

2) Next with an Italian born Chinese from Rome but of non-religious background.

3) Nic an UK and European mixed of Catholic background but gave me a perfect answer on the two diagnostic question about Assurance of Salvation. Building on his perfect understanding of Jesus' redemptive work, we chatted over half an hour about all doctrinal issues.

4) Last but not the least a full gospel sharing with an Indian migrant of Hinduism background. She was skeptical initially but become more convinced and receptive to to the logic and effectiveness of Jesus redemptive grace.

   

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Feb 11, 2025 from 1230-1400

I serve my roster duty street outreach at Toowong by myself again today. It is the Orientation week of UQ, so I was given chance to connect with several fresh first year students from Indonesia, China and India etc. There were mixed responses with both friendly and open chat to reluctant connection or even blunt rejections. That is really part of the training by God to deal with all sort of situation knowing God has played His part in all these divine encounter, if not appointments. Recap below is my Battle Log: -

1) First approached a fresh first year student David from Indonesia. He was the only one did not bury his head in the smart phone texting. He is a Muslim but holds very open mind about other religion especially Christianity which is the 2nd largest in Indonesia. His view about Jesus is comparatively assertive than Muslim of older generation. He showed appreciation for our chat by taking a photo with me.

2) Next was Joelle From UK, who is a 2nd year student. We built rapport quickly because of my UK business involvement and later the post graduate study experience. She also show openness to religious issue and receptiveness towards Gospel as such she also took a selfie with me.

3) Third came a first year fresh student girl from Beijing. She showed uneasiness toward the chat on life issue and reluctance all the more into Gospel. After a brief sharing of the nutshell of the Gospel, she found excuse to join with her friend to end prematurely the conversation.

4) Then my approach to another Indonesian young man was failed he simply walk off from my approach.

5) Yet the next outreach to a fresh first year student from Calcutta of India was quite all right. She appreciate the sharing and took a tract when her bus came.

6) Then there was only one guy left at the bus stop, but he was occupied by his phone conversation. I thus call for the day to go to visit Joe Tam.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Feb 11, 2025 from 1230-1400

It was an extremely hot day. Johnny advised me to start first and he joined me just a little bit later. It was yet another fruitful day that we were led to outreach to many least reached people groups we rarely encounter like Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia. Johnny also got some interesting conversations. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) A lady UQ student from USA of Egyptian origin and Muslim faith initially tried to avoid me by standing at a distance from the bus stop. But the scorching sun forced her to come under the shade of the bus stop as such I finally could approach her. It ended up a success to share her the full gospel which seemingly was receptive to her.

2) Next was an Indonesia man but of no religious background. He also appeared open and receptive to the gospel.

3) Then Johnny referred a family of three from Hong Kong to me. They seemed to be receptive to religious issue and admitted they are Christian but eventually found out they are of Mormon faith. They were trained to mislead people to think they accept Jesus as God and our savior but they actually does not accept trinity and regarded Jesus as a saint or at best a lesser god.

4) Next I connect with another Indian but our conversation was aborted as I helped him to find out that he was actually on the wrong direction of the bus route as such he needed to go the bus stop on the other side of the street heading to CBD.

5) Then I approached yet another Indonesian who use excuse of being on a phone call to decline my approach.

6) Next were a pair of Local Aussie girl. I use the Aussie slang fair dinkum to start the conversation but interrupted by the bus arrival.

7) Next I was led to approach a matured man Sophia from Southern Jordan. We connected well despite his English level is too basic that took him lone time to get a message through. But the Christian love was expressed and conveyed to him.

8 ) The last Local Aussie I approached was a very young man but appeared arrogant as such very reluctant to have a chat on religious issues. In stead I use fair dinkum slang to get the conversation going.

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