Battle Log

The Battle Log is the place where weekly reports from each of the Operation 513 evangelism teams are posted.

It gives you a brief idea about what occurred during the outreach and some of the highlights.

Even though there is not a report from each team on the Battle Log every week, all these teams do meet according to the schedule (usually weekly). So please keep them in prayer and consider joining one if it is in your area.

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 8th 2026 from 1030-1130

Today was a inter-parachurch day with team from Joyce Meyer, Jason and Sue, Johnny and Hung from OPN 513 but individually from Sherwood Methodist and Christ's Family Church respectively and finally Peace Xu my ex CFSC members and Kairos graduate now attending SIC much nearer to her relocated home from Northlake to Sunnybank.

It was an amazing grace experience for people from different Christian church and denominational background but we just serve the one same Christ and share the same one gospel to people that God has brought forth to us to minister.

Every team members all got very friendly long chat. This is extremely helpful for those fresh compatriot in street outreach like Sue and Peace. They all felt the presence and strength of God empowering them to do something that they may not think possible in their own force.

To me, it is a special Cantonese divine encounters, I consecutively was led up to chat with people who are Cantonese speaking whom actually are all Mandarin speaking peopled but all had lived in HKG for a long while getting used to speak Cantonese. They themself or their parents are from Mainland Chuna as such they are non-religious. But they all appeared open and receptive to the gospel.

I also once teamed up with Peace to chat with a Filipino Christian who very rarely have 100% assurance of salvation despite she was of Catholic background.

It was a day of harvest and all glory to God.

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We were on the streets of Christchurch for outreach, 4 days this week.  On Tuesday afternoon, Roger and Graeme were in Riccarton.  On Thursday afternoon, Andy & I were in Riccarton.  On Friday afternoon, Roger, Andy & I were in the City.  And on Saturday lunchtime, Corin & I were in Riccarton.

 

Roger gave me some details of their time on Tuesday.  What I remember is that a guy Roger was talking to made the comment, “You know, you guys really make some sense”.

 

Yes, the gospel makes complete sense, but people try to drown it with complexity and absurdity.  Why?  It’s because of our nature, which loves sin and so hates God.  It’s not that it doesn’t make sense; it’s just that we don’t like it (with that nature)!  So, why do we bother?  Because God is merciful, and changes hearts, giving us a new nature.  And the means he uses to do that is weak people like us, through our feeble prayers and our basic, yet logical, reasoning with people about the truth.  By his spirit, the simple gospel message is the power of God for salvation.  Only when God convicts and changes a heart will it truly make sense to anyone.  And so we persist because God is seeking and saving the lost for his glory.

 

On Thursday, I turned up to the outreach spot, and Andy was already there and already in a chat (pictured).  I didn’t wait for him and got straight to work.  It was a very busy afternoon of outreach for both of us.

 

I went around the corner to start my usual loop.  And it took me an hour to complete that first loop (due to all the interesting chats I got into on the way)!  And then it took me 30 minutes to complete my second loop.

 

My first chat was with 3 guys from Japan.  There was a bit of a language barrier, but they were engaged enough for me to share the gospel.  It took me time to build up to the gospel because it was obvious they hadn’t spent much time thinking about what happens after life before.  It was interesting observing their resistance, and yet their interest at the same time.  May this be the first furrow in their hearts, and may other believers have the opportunity to continue that work.

 

Next up, I had a huge group of high school-age kids cross the road in front of me.  I was able to hand out tracts, and one even stopped for a short chat.  Then another wave went past, and this time a young couple stopped to engage.

 

It wasn’t long before the deeper questions were asked: evil and suffering, and then homosexuality.  Honestly, the issue of homosexuality doesn’t come up much at the moment.  Not sure why, the fickle nature of the world?  But it turns out the young man had leanings this way.  And so we were able to work through it, starting with “How do we know what is right and wrong?”, and being faithful to the reality that homosexuality is sinful, yet Christ died for sin.  Those given a new heart, by grace, won’t continue in sin, and a practical discussion about that (life is short, life is not all about sex, singleness is a blessing promoted by the Bible, the true motivation and power for doing good).

Next up, I had a conversation with a man from Saudi Arabia.  Again, there was a language barrier, as well as resistance and openness at the same time.

 

I could go on, but suffice it to say, Thursday was a busy but blessed outreach.

 

It was great having Corin with me on Saturday.  She enjoys using the flipchart, and she has enough experience now to run it on her own.  I left her to it and worked on the other side of the street, so I was close enough to help out if she needed it.  Also, I need to protect her from myself.  I can’t help getting involved in gospel chats when I should be standing back and letting Corin experience and learn on her own!

 

Even though it was a slow outreach, I still managed to have a couple of solid chats of my own on my side of the street.  And later, Corin and I had a great chat with 2 young guys - one in particular seemed deeply challenged by the gospel (in a good way).

 

If we are patient in practice, anyone can get good at communicating the simple truths of the gospel.  May you be encouraged by Corin (see pic) to face those unreasonable fears and share the gospel with those around you!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday June 30th 2026 from 1030-1130

Today, Johnny teamed up with Hung after a long break to do street outreach at Toowng. Both got multiple opportunities to chat with people of all Nations though with some rejection as well.

For Johnny, he had a long chat with a lady claimed to be a lesbian, but Johhny expressed wisdom to accept her as a normal human being that we are all imperfect in certain aspect, yet explaining to her that homosexuality is hated by God yet He loves to save the sinner.

As for me , I have chance to shared with four Muslims Uq students getting them agreed that as long as we are not perfect, in theory we all go to hell and and our religion will not be able to make us perfect apart from Jesus. They have not objection  to this point and pray that God will move them step by step towards salvation. I share Gospel with a Japanese, an Aborigine people, and a Srilankan Buddhist people. They all appeared open and receptive to the gospel message.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday June 24th 2026 from 1030-1130

Today , I resumed doing street outreach at Sunnybanck with Peace, Edwin and Ann. They arrived at different time but we still formed a good team to swipe connecting with people of different ethnicity around the bus stop. Xu is getting more relax to enter into conversation with stranger. Edwin as usual made many fast approach. I personally had chats with first a local Aussie with a lot of grievance being imposed a restarted access to Mount Gravatt mountain view plaza. I serve as a comforter and guided him to be aware that no one is perfect so , we all need Jesus. Next was a Japanese, who was surprised to find I had rich Japanese living experiences, which gave me edge to enter into gospel. Then I was led to chat with a Shanghaese senior man using my Chinese travailing experience to draw him closer for gospel sharing. It was followed by a Chinese lady from Jiangxi Nancheong. She has got PR, and I used the need of security as a lead to introduce her the gospel of peace.

Limei and husband from BOL church also serve in Sunnybank by walking prayer and tract handing out predominantly to Chinese. They any way is the rare Chinese Church team who elevate the priority of Urban mission.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong on Tuesday June 23rd from 1030 - 1200

It was the first time I returned to do Toowong after 2 week sickness break. I was led to chat with people from HKG, Fu Jian China, Liao Ning, China, USA, Pakistan, Korea etc. Not all chats finished the full gospel but God certainly will follow up.

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It was a cold, wet, and miserable day on Thursday, so we decided not to head to the streets, and I worked online instead.  It was still an amazing day, because my first grandchild was born!  What joy!!

 

Friday was still cold, so we didn’t go out that day either.  But we did hit the streets on Saturday in Riccarton - Roger and Corin were with me.  And on Sunday afternoon, I spent some time on the streets in the city after my regular morning church gathering (by this stage, the Sun was out and bright).

 

So, on Saturday, we had two flipcharts up and running.  Roger had his up at his regular fishing hole at the corner of Riccarton Road and Rotherham Street.  And diagonally opposite, Corin was running a flipchart at the corner of Riccarton Road and Rimu Street.  And I floated in between, catching chats and handing out tracts where I could.

 

For me, the standout chat was a very short interaction.  A group of late teen guys went past, so I offered tracts and tried to engage them in conversation. They all pretty much ignored me, except one guy, who asked what it was about.  I said, “It’s about Jesus”.  He took the tract, but with his friends walking on, he couldn’t stop to talk.  I let him go.  But then, about five minutes later, he and one of his friends came back past in the other direction.  This time, I was able to get them to stop.  The kid who had taken the tract was very keen to chat, and so I started my usual gospel presentation.  Sadly, his friend was uninterested - more than that, uncomfortable, he split and left his friend with me.  I instinctively knew I had to be quick and give an overview of the gospel, and I decided to put my emphasis on grace, knowing that most people misunderstand this bit the most.

 

A moment later, I heard a shout.  It was his friend calling from down the street.  He had to go, but he turned and genuinely thanked me for explaining.  I could tell he was touched.  I don’t normally give out Bibles, but I had a copy of John in my pocket, and so I offered it to him as he left.  He stepped back and took it, thanking me again, and was gone.

 

What a joy and privilege it is to minister in the harvest field of the Lord and plant seeds for his glory!  May there be much fruit.

 

On Sunday (today), I went to my usual spot on the corner of Cashel and Colombo.  After prayer, I started handing out tracts and attempting to start conversations.

 

I had two wonderful conversations.  The first was with a couple of older teen guys.  One took the offered tract but wasn’t going to stop, so I said, “It comes with a question if you have a moment”.  It worked, he stopped, and from there I was able to keep the conversation going.  They both became engaged.  One of them went to a Catholic school, and so he thought he knew the drill.  They heard the gospel, and then I moved into checks, and then one of them started asking good questions.  In the end, they both received tracts and walked off with gospel seed in their hearts.

 

It was getting cold in the shade in my usual spot, and so I decided to cross Colombo to where the sun was on the other side.  It was there that I had my second chat of the day, again older teen guys - three of them this time.  Again, they were Catholic (or at the very least went to a Catholic school).  They were very forthcoming with Catholic vocabulary.  I simply stuck to the script in the chat, and they became engrossed as they came to understand the subtle tension between true faith and works.  The check questions did their job to start to cement the good news into place in their thinking.

 

They were impacted and appreciative.  It was a short chat, but as they left, they each gave me a firm handshake.  And of course they all also received follow-up tracts.

 

Our job is to plough and sow; it’s God’s job to bring increase, in his timing, and for his glory.

 

What an honour I have to represent Christ to people.  Please pray that we stay humble and faithful in this task before us.  All glory to God alone.

 

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I was not available as I had a Biopsy day surgery on that day, But praise be to God , moving all the other currently active ones to come and join Johnny who has just returned from a prolonged global cruises trips. THe four of them had formed a good team to keep this weekly street outreach at Sunnybank going in my absence. 

感謝天父上帝給我們有時間，有身體來傳揚主耶穌基督十字架上的福音。謝謝天父使用我們這不配的人來與主同工，祈求天父上帝祝福今天聽到福音並信靠耶穌基督的人。

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday June 10th 2026 from 1030-1130

Praised be to God having moved Peace to join the Sunnybank Street outreach on a regular basis. I was blessed to be with a team mate doing outreach supporting each other, especially in such inconvenient time of persistant soaking rain. I also took the interval with an empty bus stop after a bus came, to brief Peace on issue / questions we could ask those claimed to be Chrisitan to test if they have got 100% assurance of salvation. She applied this teaching right away and really help some Christians to regain such 100% of assurance of salvation due simply to Jesus Christ's redemptive grace alone.

As for me, it was also a wonderful day with the Spiirt leading me to chat with a Malysian Chinese lady following Bahai and an elderly Pakistanian Muslim that used to be hard for gospel with strong rejection of Jesus. But both appeared to be open and receptive to the gospel emphasising the need of all human for Jesus to cleanse our sin and reconcile with God.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong on Tuesday June 9nd from 1030 - 1200

It was a mixed weather day with mixed results for outreach. It weather in genetral was over cast and cold with intermittent dripping rains and short sunny intervals. It basically drove every one mad as such the gentral mood for a chat was in average low. But God's grace was sufficient as He firstly withold rains during my ministry time. The ground was still wet with scattered rain fall. God also guided me to have several effective cheat with a mainklander from Shanghai who is a nonbeleivers but still open for the gospel conversation. Then next was an Aussie who was open for a chat before the bus arrived. After that I had a longer chat with and Australia born Korea who claimed to be from a Christian family but seemingly without assurance of salvation. It follwed by several breif and interrupted approaches to an Indian girl , then ending with a Singpore young guy who was so indifferent to the gospel. All in all, God/s Will be done especially on those who were led to have a chat with me to day.

 

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This week, there were four street outreaches in Christchurch:

 

Tuesday: Roger and Graeme were in Riccarton in the late afternoon.  (By the way, Roger is continuing to lead the Tuesday outreach, while I switch to Thursday to start a new outreach on that day.)

 

Thursday: Andy and Corin joined me in Riccarton in the late afternoon.

 

Friday: Roger, Andy, John B, and Corin joined me in the city in the early afternoon.

 

Saturday: Corin joined me in Riccarton over the lunch period.

 

I’ve included a picture Roger sent me from the Tuesday outreach.  Graeme is in full swing!

 

As I arrived at the outreach location on Thursday, Andy and Corin were already there, and Andy was already into a chat (that went long).  So Corin and I decided to set up the flipchart on the other side of the street.

 

The flipchart can be great at attracting fish, but on this day, it was a bit slow - no bites.  I could see heaps of fish down a bit, by the bus stops, and so, I decided to leave the flip chart near Andy (who was still deep in conversation) and Corin and I moved out to where the fish were.  We put our tracts in our pockets and started to approach people.

 

We had a short chat with a couple of young guys, and then we found ourselves at the bus stops on the other side (I have a usual circuit I walk down both sides of Riccarton Road), where I got into a chat with a young Afghan guy.  It was a great chat.  He was a Muslim, so the conversation focused on the false ways: being good and asking for forgiveness won’t remove the punishment.  I had an opportunity to move to the gospel, and when I started talking about someone else taking our punishment, he became very adamant: Someone else can’t take our punishment.  And so I calmly replied, then we would all have to go to hell.  It was at this point that he started insisting that we would go to hell for a time, and then go to heaven.  But I pointed out that that wouldn’t be merciful. And then I showed him 2 Surahs from the Quran that say that hell will be eternal.  He was struck.  He took photos of both of my quotes so he could auto-translate them to read in his own language, and then he went very silent as he opened an app on his phone and started to hunt for some information.  He was so focused that my attempts to continue to talk to him were ignored.  That’s okay, we need to be patient.  Eventually, he gave up, and we continued to talk for a little bit more, but he hardened: “I will never stop being Muslim” – and apart from the grace of God, that’s true.  We parted on good terms.  And I’m glad he had received a gospel tract from me early in the conversation.  Maybe, under his initial hard exterior, his heart is softening?  I hope he keeps that tract.  When he is ready, it will be ready to tell him the gospel again.

 

Corin really likes the flipchart, and so, she left the conversation long before I finished to go back to it.  Later in the outreach, I snapped a shot of her using it on her own.  So good to see her growing in confidence.

 

I also encountered Andy’s daughter down at a bus stop.  She honoured me by introducing me to two of her friends from school, and the four of us were able to talk about the gospel and related questions.  It was so good!

On Friday, two of my chats stand out in my mind.

 

The first was with a Seventh-day Adventist leader.  He was excited to encounter people doing evangelism, but then, he became really angry when I started evangelising him.  He couldn’t give me a straight answer to my question: “Do you have to be good to get to heaven?”  Instead of reasoning with my argument, he started attacking me by saying I wasn’t listening to him (I was, I just wanted to talk about the deeper issue he was avoiding).  In the end, I had to walk away.

 

But then I encountered 2 engineers (1 mechanical and the other software).  With a technical background myself, I love talking to engineers – we seem to click when it comes to logic.  So, using logic alone, I was able to explain the gospel.  The mechanical engineer was humble enough to say he couldn’t fault the logic (very rare), but he wasn’t currently willing to accept it.  What a great chat that was!

 

The team had a robust conversation about “the sinner's prayer” over coffee afterwards.  Iron sharpening Iron!

 

Saturday was really warm!  It was like summer in the middle of winter!

 

I had a fascinating chat with a young man who was using very Catholic language, and yet he claimed to be going to a Christian church close to the university.  The longer the chat went, the more Catholic he seemed.  I was trying to work out where he had learned the language he was using (mortal sin, Eucharist, penance, etc), but he wasn’t willing to tell me.  It fascinated me that he was both engaged in the conversation and yet at the same time didn’t want to be there.  In the end, I let him go.

 

Corin continues to grow.  I took a couple of great pics of her sharing the law and the gospel with a young guy.

 

Glory to God alone!

 

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