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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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Glory to God, all the regular street outreaches went ahead this week - although shorter than usual.

Last week, Tuesday's outreach was super busy.  But this week it was incredibly slow.  I think I went for half an hour before getting into my first chat.  It made me think of my last half decade of full time street ministry.  I think in that whole time, there have only been 2 outreaches where I didn’t talk to anyone, and both of those were in my first year.  When you think about that, it’s amazing that there is so much opportunity to share the gospel.  It’s limitless.  And, more often than not, the conversations I get to have are really special.  And yet, even when they are not, the gospel is still amazing and the power of God for salvation.  I wonder how many of those ‘regular’ chats I’ve had, that have led to salvation.  God knows.  And even if no one is saved, it’s still worth it, to make known the great God of the universe, of his justice and his mercy.  What a privilege!

So, I was standing there, looking like a dork – a crazy old man, next to a brightly coloured flip chart.  People on the buses going past would stare.  When a couple of young guys went past.  I tried to engage them.  One of them turned his head and stared at the flip chart and made a comment.  But they didn’t stop.  But about ten minutes later they came back, going the other direction.  His mate blasted past, but his curiosity got the better of him, he wanted to do it - to his friends surprise.  And it was a really good chat.  He followed along with the logic of what I was explaining, and it seemed to really make sense to him, but there was a problem.  They were Muslim, and he knew what I was explaining was Christian.  Yet, he was open to reason and so I was able to labour with him about the gift of Jesus in spite of the cost of accepting him.  He got to a point where he had enough to chew on for the moment, and they decided to move on.  He gladly took a tract.

Friday’s outreach involved one of those special chats.  It was hot!  But bearable in the shade.  Roger was with me.  The busking festival has started now, so there were a lot of people out.  Our usual spot at the Bridge of Remembrance was taken by buskers, so we moved down to the corner of Cashel and Colombo.

Roger set up his flip chart (I didn’t bring mine).  But I was quickly into my first chat using Rogers chart.  A young couple passed - I asked if they wanted to do it.  She said, no and moved on, but he said, “yeah, actually”, and came over (to her shock).  She joined him, and we had a good gospel chat.  Glory to God, I had even gained engagement from the girl, because considering their time, I gave them an out expecting them to take it, but she said they had another ten minutes!  After the chat, they left with tracts.

I decided to let Roger use his own chat, and to get off his ‘patch’.  Everytime I glanced his way, he seemed to be busy in a chat.  And I had other opportunities too.  But, then I fell into my ‘special’ chat.  I crossed over to the shade on the other side of Colombo to hand out some tracts.  There was an older gentleman sitting in the shade.  I could tell he was watching me, and so I offered him one.  “Is that religious?”, he says.  “Yes, it’s about Jesus”.  “What a load of rubbish, it’s not logical!”, he says.  He had a loud bark, but I could tell he wouldn’t bite, and so I sat and engaged him.  I think he was very surprised by this!  I had to spend a fair amount of time listening, and I wasn’t able to deal with everything he was saying, but I was able to interject at times and challenge him.  I had to be patient, and work to keep him calm, but to my joy I was able to touch on the law and the gospel with him.  We were even able to talk about personal things - in spite of his very broken worldview (which centred on self happiness) he was really nice!  We talked for maybe 30 minutes before I think he’d had enough.  We shook hands before he moved on, refusing a tract.  He is 85 and has a bad heart.  He knows he is going to die soon, so during the chat, not only was I reasoning with him, but pleading with him on the urgency of accepting God’s mercy.  Please join me in praying for God to have mercy on Barry!

Saturday’s outreach (Riccarton) involved a long chat with two young girls.  They were waiting for the SoYo to open.

And then on Sunday I spent 30 minutes in the city again.  I had a couple of shorter chats, before bumping into one of my regulars that I’m praying for.  It was great to catch up with him.  I tried to swing the conversation to deeper things.  “Yes, I’ve been thinking about it, but I don’t want to talk now - maybe we could catch up sometime and have a long chat”.  No problem with me!  He remembered which church I went to, but I gave him my personal email.  The ball is in his court.

Thank you for your continued prayer for Operation 513.  May we continue to be faithful in preaching the gospel on the streets and online, and always open to correction.  Glory to God alone!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 17th 2024 from 1300-1500

Praised and thank God moving Edwin Qin Hao to join ne today at Sunnybank when Johnny is away back to Taiwan for a month. It is always good to serve the Lord as a team. Thew physical condition (weather) today was excellent, sunny but not hot or wet but the Spiritual atmosphere was low. This was in total contrast with yesterday where the Physical weather condition was bad but God's glory was over the mission field at the bus stop that, almost every single one appeared open and receptive to the Gospel proven by many willing selfie photos with me. Today, it was a different picture with a higher-than-average reject rate and some conversations also linger not long enough for full gospel message sharing. Despite of the not so favourable environment, Both Edwin and Hung still had many divine appointments made with particular persons for a longer and fruit bearing conversation.

1) I was attracted to approach a Mum and daughter combination of senior age from Guangzhou as I overheard them speaking in Cantonese but they were very sceptical to double check who I am. Eventually, they still took a tract to read when their bus came.

2) Then I approached a young man but we were immediately interrupted by a phone call. I waited for a long while but could not but give up eventually( )

3) Then I turned to a Korean lady sitting on the bench who came for vocational college. Surprisingly she holds an extreme anti-god and or anti-religion viewpoint, but I was moved to still manage to alert her being a good person but not perfect is not good enough for offsetting our imperfection aka sins. She still showed a cold stone heart to reject anything from God.

4) Next, I approached Amy who is a Kiwi of Indian origin and has no religious pursuing faith. However, she was drawn to the gospel sharing and admited every one need Jesus as she felt the salvation package devised and implemented by God through Jesus is all sensible and logical. She promised to read the tract and reflect on the full gospel message with Jesus as the central figure.

5) Next, I was led to catch up with a lady? from Lanzhou , Gansu where my God daughter used to live. I basically share my life witness seeing God's work still being visible in Lanzhou with the Memorial Hall built for William Bolton. She admitted she is aware of all those I shared with her and seemed very moved even without the gospel message shared when her bus came. God for sure will make everything work to convict this lady whom I deem is the chosen or elected one for salvation.

6) Next, I tried to approach Two high school girls from different country. Again, the timing was not right and I did not even have time to start the gospel sharing, but both of them eagerly took the tract to read. May the Will and Plan of God for them be accomplished.

7) Then I approached a mainland middle age woman She was rejective initially, but I tuned down to stay tune for a friendly chat and eventually shared her the full Gospel and surprisingly she had no sign of rejecting the content and logic of it. Even better she voluntarily took a tract at the end. So you could see the obvious work of God to soften her heart and turn around her mind to listen to the gospel.

8 ) Fraser whose Grand Father was a Catholic Christian as such he has heard about Jesus and the gospel before. But he stayed at a distance from God as he thinks God is not fair why making some people be born into very poor caste like in India. I remarked to him that being poor physically may not be the worst thing int he world, rather it often time is a disguised blessing that poor people who more often is also poor in the spirit as such they are easier to humble themself to receive the gospel and be saved by Jesus. He found my view point very interesting and realistic. At the end, he appeared moved to turn around to take the Christian faith more seriously and thanks for my sharing.

9) Then I was led to catch up with a young man from Mainland China who claimed he has chatted with us before. Before I could check and follow up on her faith status, he interrupted me and asked me to introduce a suitable Chinese Church for his friend, which I felt the Holy Spirit enlightened me that he himself is actually the one who wanted to look for Chinese Church. So, I named three churches including SDBC, SIC and CCCB Coopers Plains for him to choose. He told me he just lives behind Pineland Plaza of which the nearest church is SIC.

10) Last but not the least, I spent the longest time to interreact with an ABP Australian Born Pakistanis who was brough up in Mackay then come to do Uni attending Graffith in Brisbane. He looks much mature but just of 25 years of age. He is a Muslim by birth and seems to have a bit but limited knowledge about Islamic teaching. But thanks to Siddique, I presented him another picture of Koran that show favouritism to Christianity and Jesus. I keep stressing that all other faith guide and brainwash people that we can try to become a better person or sin less to gain more certainty to be accepted by God. I pointed out in clean cut assertion that better is never enough as God demand perfect. And all human realize and accept we are not perfect and will never be able to return our sinful life back to perfection apart by the redemptive grace of Jesus. I stressed therefor it is important not only to accept and worship a mono-God head, but to admit and accept Jesus is the only way to save us by being our Savior taking over the eternal sin punishment. He was very patience to let me make my conclusion though not readily fully accepted by him, but he clearly has got the message and hopefully reading the tract afterwards will let God to convict him in a miraculous way.

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

I had all the reasons to skip going to Toowong today. First, it was a heavy rainy day (60%) with non-stop torrential rain the whole morning. Although there was a forecasted dry period in the early afternoon, but the rain had never stopped completely but just got eased up every now and then. Second, Johnny has gone back to Taiwan for a month, so I am left alone to do all committed regular outreach. 3) I tried to invite a couple of street outreach co-workers to join me but all of them became unavailable. Nevertheless, I still felt greatly burdened to go. God was good and really made an one hour window of dry period at Toowong and provided several Kairos moments for me to reach out to several persons with fruit bearing result as recap below: -

1) I was clearly led by the Spirit to approach a 2nd year student Zhou? from Shenzhen . He was surprisingly open and was keen to have a long chat with me on Christianity as he has many Christian friends as such, he has considerable amount of knowledge on the Bible especially about Jesus. He even claimed he sensed that I was the one sent to talk to him about gospel and salvation. Thus, I chipped in many additional biblical knowledge related to God's mega dual Kingdom and Salvation projects and How God kept revealing His plan and mission through the Bible. At the end, Zhou seemed to have been moved and have the conviction to accept Jesus which I promised to pray for him in this regard. So, this divine appointment along readily justified the reason I felt burden to come to Toowong against all odd and unfavourable factors.

2) Next was a rare PHD student from Myanmar. He was surprised I greeted him with Shingalabarand was interested to know I had been to Yangon for street outreach. The bus anyway interrupted out conversation, but I believed our brief divine encounter may serve a purpose to draw him nearer to become a believer.

3) Next, I was led to catch up with Eric a local Aussie from Townsville but is a cross breed person with a British dad and an Indian mother,

Not long after we started our conversation, he indicated he is a Christian as such I quickly switched to test for his assurance of salvation. His answer is that He may have 100% assurance of salvation that virtually means he still has no 100% assurance of salvation. But his answer to the 2nd question is right understanding it is all because of what Jesus has done dying for us to take our place for the eternal death punishment. I encouraged him to get connected with Power to Change for continuous spiritual growth,

4) Emma another local Aussie with the nutshell of the gospel shared. She is non-religious but appeared open and receptive to the gospel.

5) Then I was led to meet with Chai the Korean who came as a tourist visiting friends. Surprisingly, he is a non-believer despite majority of Koreans have turned Christians. Nevertheless, he also showed openness to the gospel with good interaction with me.

6) Lastly, I tried to approach an old Aussie Lady, but could not manage to have a meaningful chat as her bus arrived almost immediately.

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Happy New Year!  The writer took a week off over new year for a camping holiday.  But this week it was back to the normal outreach schedule (finally)!  So, outreaches on Tuesday afternoon (Riccarton), Friday afternoon (city), Saturday morning (Riccarton), and Sunday afternoon (city, with Mike and Binu).  Tuesday’s outreach was very busy (good, but exhausting), Friday’s outreach was a bit slow, Sunday was good, but Saturday’s outreach stands out in my mind the most so I’ll start there.

I had my flip chart, and as soon as I set it up and prayed, 3 people passed, one of them obviously interested in what the ‘good person test’ was all about.  All I needed to do was say, “would you like to give it a try?” and the conversation was going.  It was a short chat, but the law and the gospel was explained.  They had a Greek Orthodox background.  They left with literature.

But what made the outreach interesting was the next chat.  An older lady passed and I offered her a tract.  She looked interested and took it wanting to know what it was about.  From there we fell into a very deep conversation.  There is something about being able to open up with a stranger where you might not otherwise do so.  Anyway, this lady had knowledge about Christian things, but didn’t understand what Christianity was at its core.  She knew about hell, and (rightly) feared it.  But she only knew about God’s justice, not also his mercy.  Sadly, she was actually very hardened to the gospel message.  I explicitly shared the core of the gospel 4 times through the chat, before it started to scratch that hardness.  She really wanted to talk, and process things she struggled with in her life (which is fine, I was happy to listen), but she needed to slow down a bit and process the answers too.  I had to interrupt a few times and work at swinging the conversation as gently as I could.

Sadly, in the middle of this conversation, and completely out of the blue, a man (or was it a woman?) stopped and spewed some really hateful things toward me and God, who I was representing.  It was especially jarring because of the fact that I was in the middle of the conversation with the lady.  He was using angry and filthy language, and right in front of the two little children who were with him – who seemed completely oblivious to the way he was acting.

I said I would be happy to talk to him, but that at the moment I was in a conversation, would he mind waiting.  He just continued with his hatred.  The lady I was talking with wasn’t leaving.  Again, I asked him to wait, and he said, “this is a public place, I can say what I want!”.  I simply responded with, “yes, but we should treat people without hate but with respect”.  I think it shamed him a bit, because it was obvious what his agenda was, and it was clear how hypocritical he was being.  So he decided to move on, but not without firing a few more shots.

I was shaken by the suddenness & intensity of the attack, but I quickly recovered, the lady was still there, and we went right back to our conversation.  Afterwards, I actually felt encouraged, although I do my best to be gentle, respectful, and loving - people don’t like the truth, and I don’t want to compromise that truth just to please people!

Going to Friday’s outreach, it was slow.  I didn’t have my flip chart, and it was hot.  I wasn’t really getting any decent chats going.  I decided to wait for a few minutes, and if nothing got started, I would head home early.  As I was leaving, I was putting a rubber band back on my tracts when a guy passed in the other direction. I asked if he wanted one, and lo and behold, I fell into a great gospel chat with him!  He was extremely open, and so the ‘presentation’ went quickly, as he grasped the concepts so well.  He made a profession.  I told him to start reading the Bible from John,  and  asked where he lived: Chievot (up north).  I didn’t know any churches up there, so I gave him some tips on how to find one.  I left him in the hands of God, but he knows how to get in touch if he wants to.

I can’t really remember any specific conversation from Tuesday’s outreach, but I was very encouraged by how busy it had been.  A great way to start the year off!

It was great to have Mike and Binu join me this afternoon in the city.  Both Mike and I had our flip charts up.  I had many opportunities to engage people with the gospel.  Mike was in a chat as I left, he sent me this: “That last chat was really good, they were both into works based salvation, and the gospel was good news to them both”.

So great to be back to my normal schedule.  Feeling tired, and so looking forward to a day off tomorrow, before getting back into the harvest next week.  Please continue to pray for the Op 513 team here in Christchurch.  May the church grow in gospel activity to the glory of God alone!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 10th 2024 from 1300-1500

Today, only Johnny and Hung were available and we both got many divine encounter chatting opportunities to share His words and testimony. It was a really dramatics and drastic day of street outreach. The weather changed like roller coaster from extreme heat high noon, to stormy flash flooding rain falling, to quiet cooling aftermath then back to a big sunny and shiny great dry afternoon. No matter in whatever circumstances, God's great presence can be sensed when he orchestrated His elected persons to be reached by us for some life changing chats. When I look at the gospel targets list, I just found out to day all of them are mainly from Mainland China except a girl born here but with a father from Hong Kong. It was very rare that for the same day, I could have reached out to the hardest people for gospel yet all with very promising result. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) First I was led to catch up with a skinny guy by the name of Chan? from Jie Yang , who claimed to be a Catholic Christian by family heritage. . As typical Catholic Christian, he was lack of assurance of salvation . He was appreciative for my clarification of genuine redemptive grace that we have been saved 100% by the time we received Christ as our Savior.

2) Next was a matured lady from mainland. . She was all open and welcome for a gospel chat and was willing to take a tract when the bus came a bit premature before I finished the full gospel.

3) Next I caught up with Wang from mainland China to work here as an IT person. He just lived near around the Sunnybank shopping mall and wandered out to do shopping but got stuck at the bus stop when the weather turned dark with a sudden severe storm pondering down torrential rain causing flash flooding and bus stop was turned into a big splash site. Thus, God let us have the longest chat during the storm and through my gospel sharing as well as my own life testimony, ? Wang could see the presence and the work of God in his own life that God has brought Christian friends living with him here now in Brisbane and his wife back home is also a Christian as such he proudly showed me to his wife through a video call that he had made friend with a pastor. He only has one practical hindrance for him to become a Christian and I ensured him that this is a personal decision between him and God so he should feel free to make this important last step of faith that God has already planned long time for it and NOW is the time.

4) Then I chatted with an ABC girl who claimed to be an atheist. Nevertheless, she still reluctantly listened for the full gospel.

5) Then I was led to catch up with a young girl Wang? from Changsha , because of this geographical connection, she opened her heart to tell me she has committed mental health issue and is now under treatment before she can resume her study plan here. The Gospel does give her light and hope that she will be set free from both her illnesses as well as the bondage of all depression from sin in flesh.

6) Lastly, I caught up with two black and white girl that does not look like Chinese, but the black girl Chelsea is actually daughter of a Hongkonger father but PNG mother while the white girl Brigette is a local Aussie. Curious enough Chelsea is a Christian while Brigette is a non-believer. I first treated her issue of lack of 100% assurance of salvation and used this to evangelize her non-believer friend with good result. The joyously took selfie group photo with me to show appreciation for our good chat.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday January 9th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Street outreach Ministry at Toowong was resumed to day after two week of suspension. People flow was still low due to Uni Term Break period. But Johnny and Hung still got many fruit bearing divine conversation with obviously elected individuals by God, even including the hardliner group of Mainlander Chinese. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung: -

1) God led me to approach three UQ 2nd year IT students from Indonesia. God moved me to share first my testimony including my change of value system from personal career success to God centred missional life. I was an Economics major undergraduate but later in my first and only career was transformed to become an IT senior system analyst management personnel. They were also surprised to guess me wrong as age 50-60 despite I am already 71 years old. They were very impressed how my faith have enhanced my life both spiritually and physically. They are thrilled to get a tract from me to find the answer how we can receive life of eternity and we all joyously took a group selfie.

2) Next was an UQ student from Cambodia of Buddhism. I emphasized all religions are good but none except Christianity addresses the issue of sin. Even the Buddha admitted he was not perfect and he also needed a Saviour. He was open and receptive to the gospel message.

3) Then I was led to have a long chat with a scholar Dyas from Sri Lanka who is a PhD post scholar in Electronic Engineer. So on one hand he is a very rational minded person which find my presentation of gospel very logical and he show great humility to humble himself to admit the gospel is an important message that needed to be proclaimed. He also was happy to take a selfie with me and promised he will pondered deeply to make his last step of action faith.

4) Lastly, I approached a girl who pretend she does not speak Chinese. Nevertheless, I still manage to share the gospel to her in English though she listened just half heartedly.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 3rd 2024 from 1300-1500

Praise and thank God for a fine weather after consecutive days of non-stop flash flooding rain, the four of us, 3 from the Sherwood Methodist Church, namely Johnny Qin Hao and Shu Yi, teamed up with Hung from CFC to do our regular street outreach at Sunnybank. The effect of team work orchestrated by God was prominent. For several occasion, God moved us to render back up supports for each other when approaching a particular person from a certain home town or language group area of one of our team members. i.e. Qin Hao from Kweilin and Hung from Hong Kong. We also thank God to move and empower us to have full commitment joining this outreach team especially for Shu Yi, who has never absented from and week during his School Summer Holiday Term break. She may be going back to work next week so pray for God continuous anointing her with the heart to keep preaching gospel in here day to day life even though not be able to do it on the street until next school term break.

1) Unknown Asian man not willing to chat but still manage to share the purpose of my approaching for a chat and the Spirit moved him to take a tract to read by himself, hopefully with the enlighten of the Spirit.

2) Then I was led to approach another mainlander middle aged lady who surprisingly was very open and receptive to listen to the full gospel and took a tract.

3) Martin an Anglican Christian whom I met before, greeted me but just barely able to have a brief catch up before his bus came. But miraculously, he returned to Sunnybank to fetch a lost item and we met again at the bus stop. This time I had more time to carry on with the diagnosis of his assurance of salvation which he failed only about 80%. He was thankful for my clarification and voluntarily took a tract again to revise on the sharing and teaching for his benefit.

4) I was led to connect with a HongKonger by the name of Fu?. He admitted he is a Christiaan but has been away from church for a while. His church in HKG is called 611. He also failed upon my test of assurance of salvation. . I anyway apart from clarification of the gospel and real meaning of salvation, I also shared my personal testimony to encourage him to return to walk with God to grow towards spiritual maturity.

5) Next I approach two girls one is cross breed from Thailand and another was a Korean girl. It was a pity after brief rapport building chat, the bus arrived. But both were willingly to take a tract to read in following up on my brief introduction of gospel.

6) Rejected by a group of mainlanders from Northeastern China, whom I had mistaken as Johnny's friend of the church. Even though they rudely rejected me, I still thanked God for this pre-matured approach that might still serve His purpose to this group of arrogantly youngster.

7) Next came two ladies from Kweilin Guangxi to visit relatives here . One who did all the talking with us is by the name of Pang?. Once I found her home town, which is same as Qin Hao, I referred the two ladies to Qin and they talked enthusiastically. When I overheard from their Kweilin dialect that they have Christiaan In-Law relative, I was moved to jump in to guide the conversation to challenge for conversion as God has already targeted them and intend to bless them through their Christian relative. I trusted God gave me to urge to stress the need of salvation for whoever that admitted themselves are not perfect. The team work were proven working very well.

8 ) I approached another Mainlander male wearing a T Shirt of Mixed Martial Art . Though I was still rejected, I believed God has his plan for this guy.

9) Then I was led to chat with an Indonesia lady who looks more like European or Middle East Woman. She is a Muslim, but she remained open and willingness to listen to the gospel and hear the way Christianity stood out from all other religions. She also took a tract to supplement what she heard from me.

10) Finally Edwin referred me to two Cantonese speaking people who happened to be also Hongkongers. . Obviously, they were both non-religious, and rejected me in the first go, But I tried to use Hongkonger identity to keep the conversation alive doing my personal testimony. At the end, they ask for pardon to carry on with their own conversation on other important personal matter. They again also willing to take a tract to supplement on what I had shared with them,

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  2 major street outreaches this week: Boxing Day tract outreach, and then the usual Friday afternoon outreach in the city.

Boxing day is a great day to give out tracts, as there are HEAPS of people out shopping for bargains.  Sophie, 2 of Sophie’s younger siblings, and Martin joined me in Riccarton in the morning.  And then Mike and Martin were with me in the afternoon in the city.

Over both outreaches, we gave away well over 500 tracts, including the last of the Christmas tracts.

I wasn’t focusing on conversations, and yet, many conversations naturally occurred.  I encountered a guy who was in the same year as me at high school.  And I was able to have a brief conversation with a guy I worked with 20 years ago.  I had an Indian guy stop and talk about how people are missing the meaning of Christmas: Jesus.  We connected via Instagram.  There was an older guy who wasn’t interested in a tract, but he felt compelled to talk to me about how he couldn’t fathom how a universe so complicated could come from nothing (like this was a fresh revelation for him), I was able to touch on the law and the gospel with him, yet he was more interested in my testimony, which I shared.  He again refused a tract as we parted ways - he is in God’s hands.

The boxing day outreach is such a joy.  Even if many tracts went in the bin, many more are silently speaking (or waiting to speak).  This outreach will be a regular on the schedule from now on.

I was feeling tired for the Friday afternoon outreach in the city.  Roger, and later John joined me.

I focused on handing out tracts.  This led to one interesting conversation with 2 guys.  1 talked, the other only listened.  It was a short conversation, but a special one.  They guy had obviously been thinking on spiritual issues.  I was able to succinctly share the good news of the gospel.  They had to go.  Interestingly the silent guy was now also interested in a tract.

I decided to head over to Cathedral Square.  The usual flock of sheep (Christians) and goats (Hecklers) was there.  Steve the Atheist was there - but he doesn’t like me, so I went to talk with Nick.  Yet, Steve couldn’t help himself from giving me a piece of his mind.  Nasty stuff, I said nothing in return.  As I was talking to Nick, a kerfuffle occurred, I looked up to see Steve flip backwards in his wheelchair, he landed on his head!  It was an accident, but he was livid.  He spewed abuse at the perpetrator: “and you can’t come to my house any more”.  It was like listening to an upset kid in the playground.  So sad to see such bitterness.  Thankfully he was okay.  I still pray for him.  And I know other Christians are too.  Apart from the grace of God, that is me.

Roger and John had good chats (we discussed in debrief over drinks at the cafe).  Roger had 2 very special chats.  The first was a long chat with a doctor who works at the hospital - Roger is hopeful to be able to follow up on the chat.  But the 2nd was with two young ladies.  At the end of the chat, one of them told Roger this: “This morning, I was reading the gospel of John in the Bible, and I asked God if he would provide someone today to explain more about what she was reading”.  Roger was the answer to that prayer!  Wow, was that encouraging!  We head out each week, praying that God would use our feeble efforts.  God answers prayer!  We get to be involved in the wonderful work that God does!  Soli Deo Gloria!!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 27th 2023 from 1300-1500

We rested for Toowong on Boxing and resume regular street gospel outreach today at Sunnybank. Praised be to God that Shu Yi had been called and moved to join us on regular basis during holiday period. So, again Johnny Shu Yi and Hung were teamed up to day and God did introduce sort of Team Work amongst us. The Spirit put on our heart to care for those elderly and weak people first instead of rushing towards gospel. A local Aussie senior person was approached by Shu Yi to help him out to find a certain bus route that he may need to go in the near future. He just wanted to come to Sunnybank to find out where the bus stop is. Shu Yi helped him out in the first instance but his desired route was not found on the schedule sheet at the bus stop where we do outreach. Finally, the senior Aussie man resort to asking the bus driver for the info. The bus driver also took all the trouble to stop the bus and came out from the bus to use his own iPhone to search and located the bus stop of the desired bus route of that elder man called John. I thought I knew the location of that bus stop so I volunteer to walk him up to that bus stop. While we were walking, I of course took the chance to test for his assurance of salvation. As a senior Anglican Chrisitan, he has 100% of assurance of salvation but when asked why, he said it is because of his Christian family upbringing and he has been a good Chrisitan member of the church. With this answer, it exposed that he really may not fully understood the basic doctrine of salvation that we are saved by grace through faith and not by our own good deeds. Anyway, then we arrived at the bus stop and to find out tit was not the one that the bus driver indicated. I immediately knew it should be the other one just near MacDonald at Time Square. Since John was out of breath after walking for a while, so he needed a good rest staying at that wrong bus stop. I promised to find out the right bus stop and take photo of the bus schedule for him. Finally, I did my job but when I returned to that wrong bus stop. John disappeared, most likely getting on to the bus at that "Wrong" bus stop to go home. Anyhow, I still trusted God may have a better plan for John in lieu of my premature help. God always makes all things work together for the benefit of those who seeks and obeys Him.

Apart from those episodes, we all have numerous divine opportunities to reach out to people that were apparently elected by God to chat with us. The first target from Hunan China just arrived at Brisbane and he has never heard of the gospel but Johnny had a long chat with him leading to fruit bearing result. Anyway, recap below is the Battle Log of Hung for today: -

1) First was a Korean who is a non-believer despite 75% of the Koreans has become Christian. He stayed put to listen to the gospel and took a tract at the end.

2) Next was a UQ student from Yinchuan, Ningxsia( ) She said she has been approached many times by Johnny and Shu Yi lately. She is still sceptical about any religion and she was curious to know id we are paid to do so. ( ) I rightly explained to her that our passion is not monetary driven, or not even charity driven, but mission driven to share the gospel to alert all people especially those self-labelled as "Good Persons" that no one are safe but all people in the human race are all doomed for the punishment of help as long as we are not perfect. I reckoned the Spirit did touch and moved her heart in a short moment when the bus came. She asked for another tract to read despite she said she got several already. Pray that God's purpose and plan for her will pan out according to His Will for her.

3) Then I caught up with a mainlander female who claimed to be a Buddhist. I stressed to her that Buddhism and all other religion are good but only good at guiding people to be a good person, yet none of them address the issue of sin with a solution. The bus came at that time and she took a tract to read.

4) Next is John the Anglican as I shared about him above. It is the team work between Shu Yi and Hung to serve this elderly man first about his secular need to find the right Bus schedule information, then his real understanding of salvation.

5) I was led to chat with another couple with husband called also John from Philippine. He passed the assurance of salvation test and I Introduced Kairos to him.

6) Then, God miraculously brough a Sichuan Chengdu young lady to me as such I could share my personal witness of helping out to the Schuman earthquake disaster relief. She is an UQ and knew that I am an alumnus of Master of counselling. I even shared about the mechanism of the Chrisitan counselling course for healing the hurt and distortion of one’s emotion because of early life traumatic experience. She was drawn into the stories especially the rationale of the counselling rehabilitation technique. In the end, she appeared open and receptive to the gospel and took a tract to revised what I shared with her.

7) Next came another Filipino couple of Catholic background but seemed to understand the salvation well, they were keen to keep chatting with me but a bus came and they ran to find out if this was their route, if not they would come back for me. Unfortunately, it was the right bus for them, so they waved me good bye.

8 ) Next was a UQ student from mainland China, who was a bit too nervous to chat but still took a tract.

9) Then I caught up with an ABC of Taiwanese origin. He is open but our conversation again was interrupted by the quick arriving bus.

10) Finally I caught up with yet another Taiwan young man of grade nine. His maturity is beyond his real age. And he remained open and receptive to the gospel.

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