Battle Log

Page 2

Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 . . . 291

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday September 30th, 2026 from 1030-1130

Another Jubilant day of Gospel Outreach by Chinese Churches Christians. Carol of the Great Commission Church joined Johnny and Hung who used to be serving together at Sunnybank though just across the street and the Pedestrian Bridge with Shelia and Vivian. God also made Xiao Ni of SIC and Leanne of CFC also passed by to give us support in spirit. We spent quite sometime in catching up with Carol. We also demonstrate the way we share gospel to Shelia and Vivian that they have little experience on street one on one outreach but just tract handing out etc at public Park.

It anyway was a significant day that the Great Commission Church is making the move to do day to day one on one outreach.

I basically had lesser time for my outreach but still manage to share full gospel consecutively to two mainlander from Dalan. They both were surprisingly very open and receptive to the gospel. All praise and glory be to God.

---

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep 29th 2026 from 1030-1130

Hurrah, today Yuen Hang again teamed up with Johnny and Hung to do Bus stop at Toowong. God led us to have fruitful chat with people from different nations including Hinduism and Islamic Muslim. Many of them showed very softened heart and one of the Indonesia Muslim that Johnny approached even was moved to willingly accept Christ on the spot. God is doing great work at end time showing His formidable mission power to move evn the once die heart anti- Christianity people to submit to Christ.

---

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday September 23rd, 2026 from 1030-1130

Hurrah!, Finally a member of the Great Commission Church of Australia Vivian Leong turned up to day to team up with Johnny and Hung to do street outreach. She did not present herself upfront but watched us how to do outreach besides or near us. Actually Johnny first noticed here and had a long chat with her. At that time, I only thought she was one of the gospel target. But later on, I noticed that her eyes had never stopped following both of us. So eventually, I came to my sense that she actually came with the intention to meet and serve with us to do street outreach. It was a real jubilant moment that finally we see God's work in the Great Commissioon Church who once moved Carol to serve with us for more than one and a half year. And now, Vivian is moved to join us. She shared that her first attempt was delayed by another ad hoc ministry at Inana. She actually came once in July but seeing no body there. It was rare that I did not turn up but now I recalled I was absent for three Wednesdays in July to do my third chemo therapy on July 1,15 and 29. It explain why Vivian see no body in July with me in the hospital Sunnybank Proivate and Johnny overseas.

In general, today was not a best day of outreach encountering many rejection or reluctant to chat. However, still many were reached including some one from Japan, Taiwan, China, India, Korea, Singapore etc.

We are also thrilled to do Park outreach with the Vineyard Disabled Gospel Choir from Taiwan together with Johnny and Vivian on Oct 5th. Looking forwards for a great day of Gospel outreach to people of all Nations as led by God at the Calamvale District Park

---

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep22nd 2026 from 1030-1130

Today Yuen was not available, only Johnny and Hung teamed up at Toowong. It was a fruitful day as well. God led us to share the gospel to people of many nations, including Aussie, Indian, Canadian and Mainlander Chinese and majority of them appeared very open and receptive to the Gospel. Almost none of them can deny the facts that any person, no matter how good we are, we are all not perfect but have fallen short of God's glory as such without Jesus atoning grace, we all are destined to lose our eternal heavenly citizenship. They all find it beyond argument that without a perfectly Crime free record, we cannot apply;y for migration. Likewise, without a 100% sin free certificate , we all are condemned to hell. Jesus is the only way to take our place to account for our sin. It was again a good dau of God's harvest.

---

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday September 16th, 2026 from 1030-1130

Today,I teamed up with Johnny after his prolonged overseas cruises trip to South America than crossing the south Pacific Ocean back to AUstralia via Auckland. God moved Johnny to have a long apologetic conversation with two Chinese Ladies doing street booth display for JW. It seemed that the Spirit did move and enlightened the two JW Chinese ladies to find biblical basis for the Triune God,

I basically also had a good day with majority approaches successful, either sharing the gospel to non-believers and reinforcing the 100% assurance of salvation for Christians. People contact including a South Sudan Christians boy, a Aussie + Chinese couples non-believers but appeared open minded and even accepting my invitation to the Vineyard concert. Then have chatted with several Chinese from both Mainland and HKG, also a couple non-believers from India. They all were open to listen to the gospel and accepted mu invitation to the Vineyard concert.

---

A mixture of warm and cold spring weather this week.  Roger and Graeme were in Riccarton on Tuesday.  Andy & I were in Riccarton on Thursday.  Roger, Andy, John Boyce, and I were in the city on Friday.  And Julia and I were going to head to the city on Sunday (today) after our church gathering, but with heavy rain, we did some Duo chats online instead.

 

So, in Riccarton on Thursday, Andy camped out at one corner, while I did the same at the corner a block down.  We were both busy with chats.

 

2 chats stand out in my mind.

 

First, 3 guys from the local boys' high school went past.  I offered tracts, and one of them seemed to recognise me.  He stopped the group and encouraged his friends to talk to me.  It turns out I’d talked to him another time (but I don’t remember it) - and later in the chat it became clear that he had remembered the gospel message I had obviously shared with him.

 

But based on his encouragement, I was able to have a great chat with all 3 of them.  They were all in different places regarding their thinking, but because they were open to the conversation, I seemed to juggle it well.  In the end, one of those guys took a gospel of John.  I don’t hand those out willy-nilly- only when I have a level of confidence that they will actually read it.  The fallback is to encourage them to get a Bible on their phone.  And to my amazement, the other 2 pulled out their phones and showed me their Bible apps!

 

It’s so encouraging to be able to minister freely without having to worry about follow-up.  Not that follow-up is not important.  But God has to change a heart before they will really want ‘follow up’.  And the gospel is the power of God for salvation.

 

The other chat that stands out in my thinking was with another high school-aged guy.  I think he may have been Filipino.

 

When he saw me, he didn’t shy away.  It was like he was very keen to chat.  He had a Christian background, so he knew the lingo.  And yet, he was articulating a very works-based understanding of salvation.

 

At one point, he said, “I must trust that Jesus died for my sins”.  But I knew something wasn’t right, and so I asked, “How do you trust that?” and he responded, “Well, at the very least you should keep the commandments!”

 

And so, going from there, I slowed down to show him some of the commandments and see how he was going with keeping them.

 

Also, early in the conversation, he would make claims, but it seemed like he was just making his theology up on the spot.  It was just whatever seemed right at the moment.

 

So, I had the joy of ministering to him by slowing him down and backing the conversation up so we could work through the logic of the gospel.

 

A key series of questions for him was: “So, before this chat, what did you think you had to do to get to heaven?”, and then, “So, where would you have ended up?”, and then “But now that we have had this chat, how do you understand you will be able to get to heaven?”

 

On Friday we had some annoying rain.  But it didn’t stop us from having chats.  John Boyce is a natural at starting and keeping conversations to share the gospel.  It’s a joy to watch him go.  Andy and Roger seemed busy too.

 

The standout chat for me was a very short one.  It was with an older couple.  Neither of them believed in God, and yet the gentleman wanted to clarify: I’m not an atheist; I’m a Presbyterian.  John Knox would turn in his grave to know people would say such things!

 

But the reason the chat was so good was that they both went to ‘evil and suffering’ as their argument against God.  Glory to God, I was able to take this argument and explain why God allows it, and in fact uses it for good, and in the process explain the law and the gospel.

 

Seed planted!  May God use that conversation to place a crack in the hard soil of their hearts and let the seed germinate.  God can do it!

 

It was a joy to be able to spend an hour and a half with Julia (my daughter) in shared online outreach this afternoon.  We will continue to work together in this so she can get up to speed ready for the Schoolies outreach in November.  It’s such a joy to see her struggle and yet her desire to push through it for the glory of God.

 

As we step out in seeking God’s kingdom first, He will meet our needs.

 

Thank you for your continued prayer!

 

---

It’s going to be a short Battle Log tonight!  It’s been a bit of a tough week for me.  But I feel like I’ve come out the other side now!  And I think I’m a better person for it.

 

On Friday, there were four of us out on the city streets: Andy, Brian, Roger, and me.  But I didn’t feel up to any gospel conversations.  So I just sat in the sun and enjoyed its warmth on my back and took photos of the others hard at work!

 

On Sunday, my daughter Julia joined me in the city for some flipcharting.  We had lunch together first, at Riverside Market.  So nice spending time with her.  She is going to join me for the Schoolies outreach on the Gold Coast in November, so she is going to join me on Sunday afternoons to get back up to speed.

 

We had to be patient to get a decent chat, but it finally happened.  4 young people walked up to the flip chart and wanted to give it a try.

 

Julia and I had preplanned that I would handle the first chat, so she could observe to get up to speed.  And then she would start getting involved after that.

 

It was a great chat.  2 of the young people were doing all the engagement, while the other 2 just listened.  It was so wonderful seeing them wrestle with the concepts in the law and the gospel and ask good questions.  For one girl in particular, the gospel seemed to have an impact: like it was the first time she really understood it!  What a joy.

 

Sadly, we didn’t get to have a 2nd chat.  But we have agreed to role-play at home to practice for next time.

 

We finished off the outreach by walking down the mall, boldly but politely offering tracts to strangers.  Many were accepted!

 

We went for a hot chocolate together.  Family and evangelism - what a wonderful mix!  The simple pleasures of life!

 

---

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep15th 2026 from 1030-1130

What a fruitful day pf street outreach with all three of us the regular and committed team members. We almost face not rejection, every one we approached was a God elected divine appointment that all showed openness to hear the full gospel and show receptive intention to pursue further through Power to Change. Basically we approached people of different nations ie Indian, Indonesian, Mainland Chinese, local Aussie, etc.

I also took the chance to invite them to the Vineyard Gospel concert at City Tabernacle Baptist Church and Chinese Christian Church in Brisbane St Lucia Chuinese congregation on 3/10 and 10/10 respectively.

---

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep 8th 2026 from 1030-1130

Hurrah, Toowong team reunited again today. It was just right to take care of long queue at the bus stop. All of us had many divine appointment chatting to people whose heart were prepared and opened. For me, it includes a mainlander from JieJiang, a Malaysian girl from KL, an Indian guys and several short chats. God even gave me wisdom to approach a mainlander girl who had rejected Yuen, I usd the Vineyard Gospel Concert flyers to invite her to attend as an Arts appreciation program and successfully connected with her for a brief chat. God is good always.

This full team status may not hold too long as Johnny need to return to Taiwan because of family members sickness that need long term roster duty to care.

---

Andy, Roger and I were in the city on Friday afternoon this week.  Nice sunny day.

 

I headed down to the corner of Cashel and Colombo when a young guy went past in a way that suggested he was keen to talk.  I then recognised him as the guy who had been talking to Roger a couple of weeks earlier.

 

He stopped when I engaged him.  Very agnostic.  An intelligent and polite guy, but very keen to debate.

 

I made a few mistakes in this conversation.  I allowed myself to follow his setup hypotheticals in the hope that I could reason with him.  But he was actually completely closed to reason.  Instead, I should have stuck to the script (building/builder, law, gospel) - and disengaged if he wasn’t willing to be reasonable.  I did end up starting in this way, but after some debate, I weakened.  I think I ended up casting pearls before swine.

 

I hope to learn from this exchange for the future.

 

I did finally disengage, and he moved on.  Soon after, he came back wanting a gospel tract (to dissect, I’m sure), but I freely gave him one.

 

Having been the second time we have encountered him, I’m hoping to see him again, and maybe it will turn into more of a long-term chat.  If so, I’ll stick to the high ground and disengage if the tricks come.  May God humble his heart.

 

Soon after, I fell into a chat with a guy from Germany - an IT consultant.  I used to work in IT, and so we had some common ground for me to build some rapport with.  He also had a bit of a religious background, Catholic.  I was able to share the gospel with him.  There was part of him that seemed to understand what I was saying, and yet, there was a part of him that seemed blind to what I was talking about.  It wasn’t hitting home at all.  So, I decided not to push through all the checks, but to wind the conversation up.  He had received a tract at the start, and so he left with that for future consideration.

 

When I turned around after finishing that chat, there were 2 Police officers standing fairly close to me, watching.  Lately there has been a heavy Police presence in central Christchurch.  There are a lot of ‘streeties’ around, and I guess there has been trouble.

 

The Police in Christchurch are friendly, and I’m always polite and respectful with them.

 

I continued trying to hand out tracts and engage people.  But I have to admit that I felt mildly disconcerted with them so close and watching.

 

Eventually they moved on.  But when they did, they walked right past me.  There was nothing unusual about that, because I stand right in the best spot to catch all the street traffic.  So, I just thanked them for their service.  I know the Police have to deal with a lot of the dark side of life, and I’m very grateful for them.  And I’m also very grateful that we have the freedom to proclaim Christ.

 

Soon after, I had a young man stop as I handed him a tract.  It was clear that he had a Christian background, as he knew much of the lingo.  But it was also clear that he hadn’t grasped the gospel.  With a few brief questions, I could see light coming into his thinking, not only about the gospel, but also that he was currently a false convert.  It was one of those short and sweet chats.  It was obvious he needed to be somewhere, but that brief exchange of words seemed very impactful.  Glory to God.

 

I did have one more short chat with two young people who were trying to look different from the rest of society.  One of them seemed very intelligent with the few words they said.  But the more the other talked, the more they contradicted themselves with regard to logic and truth.  I reasoned with him twice before it became very clear they were not interested in logic and truth.  I was tired, and so I just gave my name and extended my hand: “Thanks for sharing your thoughts”.  He seemed a bit surprised, shook my hand, and moved on.

 

Salvation is ultimately a work of God.  May he use our feeble efforts to make blind eyes see by changing hearts.  Thank you for your prayers.

 

---

Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 . . . 291

---