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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 19th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Hot, hot, hot, but I made use of the earth's climate nowadays, versus 6 days creation and the subsequent global flood to illustrate the almighty creation God and his dual project plan as per Gen 3:15b. In general, it is a tough time for street outreach there. Apart from the heat including both the direct sunshine and indirect radiating ground heat, the holiday period also played big impact to have drastically reduced the people flow. Nevertheless, God was in His sovereign control, both had regular chance and divine appointment to reap harvest for the Lord. Recap below is the Battle log of today Toowong outreach.

1) Sam from Bristol of UK is a QUT aerospace avionic student like my youngest son. We clicked and he totally was with the gospel and appeared very receptive and ready for the last faith action to accept Jesus.

2) Met Ray again but with the aggressive guys, it seems that he had strong mind of rejection of all regions and all god. Pray for next time alone with Ray.

3) Elle the Muslim girl from Malaysia yet appeared very opened for sharing of faith issue. I asked her if there is equivalent teaching in the Koran on Jesus atoning death to take away our sin. Surprisingly, she said yes, but the bus came and no time to verify.

4) Then met the Bangladesh boy again alone with the boy thinking his mum was at home, but surprisingly she was around at the bus stop. Anyway, still managed to do a revision on the gospel message.

5) Then I was moved to approach the girl that both Johnny and Hung had chatted before. I Talked with her about the creation using this to illustrate the almighty power of God in creation and redemption. She seemed to have been amazed by my sebific version of the 6 days creation.

6) Then I caught up with a Singapore PhD candidate of Indian origin. She was very open and receptive to the gospel message.

7) Harry a Canadian but Arabic origin young man. He was very outspoken non-religious person just short of self-claiming to be an Atheist. But at the end of the gospel sharing, he admitted all I shared is logical and significant.

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It’s going to be another shorter report for this week.  I was fully intending to do a full week on the streets (4 outreaches), but I only ended up doing 1!  Tuesday’s outreach was cancelled due to rain.  And then on Saturday and Sunday I just didn’t have the energy.  I’m recovering from a cough.

And so, Friday afternoon’s outreach to the city was the only outreach for the week.  A good one!  We had a team of 4: Andy, Roger, Greg and myself.  Roger had his ‘patch’, which is his flip chart on the corner.  Andy did walk up (he basically spent the whole outreach talking to the guy pictured).

There were lots of people out and about.  I think a cruise ship was in port.  Greg and I paired up.  We had 2 great chats.

The first was with a lady who I didn’t think would stop, but to my surprise she did.  I sensed that I wouldn’t be able to follow my usual script, and so I ended up going a little softer than usual.  I started out by asking her what was important about Christmas for her, and I let a conversation develop from there, swinging it as I could.  Her husband joined the conversation, and I thought that would end it, but it didn’t, he even became involved.  To my joy I was able to backtrack on to the ‘script’ and take them through the law, and then touch on the true wonder of Christmas, that God would incarnate (I didn’t use that word) to save wretched souls like us.

It turns out they were from Brisbane, and so I was able to talk about the Schoolies outreach I had been involved with recently.  We parted on good terms, and they left with tracts.  Great chat!

The next chat was with a young man going past.  I used the same tactic of starting with Christmas (we were standing right beside a Christmas tree).  I could sense I wasn’t going to be able to have a long chat with this guy, he was eating a pie – he looked like he was on a break from work.  He thought there would be nothing after we die, and so going from there, I was able to present the logic of an afterlife, the law, and then the gospel.  Another great chat.

Greg decided to go to the Square to see what evangelism was happening there, and so I spent the rest of the outreach on my own.  One significant chat was with a young couple.  She was very resistant.  She said her parents were Scientists and Atheists, and she was an Atheist too.  I gently reasoned with her, but she dug her heels in.  For someone scientific and logical, she became very emotional in her arguments.  I didn’t push and in the end I decided to move on as she wasn’t open at this stage.  Her boyfriend had been pretty quiet through the chat, and he had received a tract at the start, and had been reading it.  We parted ways with a handshake.

The rest of my week has been spent in online evangelism.  It feels really good catching up on TikTok DM conversations from over a month ago.  Looking forward to eventually being able to start on the growing pile of new requests.

I’ve also been enjoying training a young man to join the online team.  He is smart, and passionate, and it’s so refreshing seeing him face his fears to proclaim Christ!

God is so good in allowing us to have so many opportunities to represent him!  Please continue to pray for the team in NZ, Australia, and Worldwide.
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 13th 2023 from 1300-1500

Praised be to the Lord, Peace Xu over came all the hustle and bustle of her multi-role life caring for her families’ clan, her business and personal commitment on Great Commission, taking all the trouble to bring her Mum and two nieces to join our Sunnybank Wednesday outreach. Today, Johnny and Shi I were both not available because of personal reason, so originally, only Edwin Qin Hao will join me , but now with Peace. I was moved this time to spend time with Peace Niece and Mum first.

is the daughter of 13 years old of Peace sister Xiao Sin. She is a lovely girl though still not 100% adapted to local school life working hard to brush up her English, which supposed to be an easier attempt for her as she is the only Chinese in here school as such, she can only speak English all day. I totally identified with her hardship in local adaptation and integration which myself and my sons all had experienced before. Then I led her to see that there is another greater goal for all of us, especially the so called "Good Person" that we must be fully aware of our status as a human being that we are good but not perfect. We committed nitty gritty of trivial sin every day though they are not punishable by law. Yet God will hold us responsible for all the sins we had done after we die and will subject to punishment of eternal dead or forever separation from God and our loved ones who are with God already.

But the grace of God has already provided for us a life line, that is to accept Jesus as our Saviour to take our place to receive the punishment of our sins as that the moment we accepted Jesus, the moment we will be granted the free gift of eternal life.

Jia Chee was very attentive with open minded and appeared very receptive to the gospel. I encouraged her to ponder what i shared today with her, and make up her personal mind to step out for this last step of faith accepting Jesus as her saviour.

Next I turned to Peace Mum and share about my life witnesses after receiving Christ as my saviour. We discussed about what is true peace and what is fake sense of security depending on 3rd party safety measures. I use my own experience of Bladder cancer that God have not only healed me completely, but the inner peace from Jesus because of the assurance of salvation carried me through and over all the hurdles brought by the Bladder cancerous tumour.

I indirectly hinted her that Kwan Yun Chiang my famous ancient Chinese historical hero was just a human. He was once invincible but finally he also could not avoid being defeated and imprison. So, it is meaningless to worship Him who cannot even saved himself. Thanked God I found that Peace 'mum didn’t feel too flat up with our consecutive sharing of Gospel and life testimony. We pray that God will move to convert Peace Mum and Jia Chee.

Last but not the least, God moved me to catch up with both Elials and 17 years old young man from Congo, and Heaven also a seventeen-year-old girl with a Vietnamese father and a local Aussie Mum. In this connection, she quickly declared her a Buddhist because of her Vietnamese father. They any way are really the chosen couples and the elected ones for my comprehensive and extensive gospel sharing. There seemed to be no generation gap between us that they were drawn to listen to my sharing of the Gospel and testimony of my redeemed life at the cost of skipping many of their arriving bus. They at the end were amazed to notice that I am 71 but not 51 years old as they guessed. We found commonality in our world view that we all are no Jag tribes and God protected us to be immune from Covic for ever.

Initial Heaven felt as a Buddhist follower, she has been guaranteeing a way to go to heaven, that is the reason she was named as Heaven. But after hearing the full gospel message emphasizing that we are all good but not perfect person, then she realized no human being has any exception for needing Jesus to be our savior. Even Buddha himself cited this need in one of the ancient Buddha wall sculpture picture.

As for Elials, he admit he is a Christian, as such fully agreed on all I shared to them about the gospel message. But upon diagnosis of his assurance of salvation. He failed. But it was a comparatively easy job to rectify his misconception as such, now he admitted he should now have 100% of assurance of salvation simply because of the 100% effective redemptive work of Jesus taking our place to receive the punishment by dying on the cross.

So it was yet another fruitful day for the three of us, Peace and Hung and Edwin who close our outreach today with a prayer.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 12th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Today was another very hot summer day, UQ is currently in graduation mode with ceremony held for different departments and discipline one after another throughout the week. Student flows is diminishing, but God still provide many divine encounters for us to preach the gospel as usual and many were first time listeners. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach Daksh, an Indian of the faith of Zain. after learning form him the what -about pf Zain, I direct him to think if there is anyone perfect in the world and he said no. Then I asked him how Jain resolved the sins we all have committed in our earlier life. We will still be held responsible and subject to eternal dead punishment. No matter how hard we tried, we are bound to be a non-perfect human being. So any religion are good to restrict people to do bad but good things instead. But it provides no solution to past sins. Then I introduced Jesus as the only saviour to set us free from the bondage of sins and make us clean again. He at the end was convinced that pure self-perfection by any human being is not feasible or practical. Good persons, bad guys, as long as we are not perfect, we all need a Saviour like Jesus. He was thankful for our chat and took a selfie at the end.

(*) Jainism is an ancient religion from India that teaches that the way to liberation and bliss is to live lives of harmlessness and renunciation.

The essence of Jainism is concern for the welfare of every being in the universe and for the health of the universe itself.

Jains believe that animals and plants, as well as human beings, contain living souls. Each of these souls is considered of equal value and should be treated with respect and compassion.

Jains are strict vegetarians and live in a way that minimises their use of the world's resources.

Jains believe in reincarnation and seek to attain ultimate liberation - which means escaping the continuous cycle of birth, death and rebirth so that the immortal soul lives for ever in a state of bliss.

Liberation is achieved by eliminating all karma from the soul.

Jainism is a religion of self-help.

There are no gods or spiritual beings that will help human beings.

The three guiding principles of Jainism, the 'three jewels', are right belief, right knowledge and right conduct.

The supreme principle of Jain living is non violence (ahimsa).

This is one of the 5 mahavratas (the 5 great vows). The other mahavratas are non-attachment to possessions, not lying, not stealing, and sexual restraint (with celibacy as the ideal).

2) Next, I was led to chat with a Singaporean Indian origin person. He was very open for the Gospel and took a tract to see the full version of Gospel.

3) Then I was moved to greet John a good old person. He was surprisingly open for chatting of life issues.

4) Weiss, a very slim and small built Norwegian girl. We had a good chat why she as a Norwegian is so uniquely thin and short. Just the rapport was built and even no time for sharing of Gospel, she delightfully took a tract to read. Perhaps she is readily a Chrisitan as Norway is a Christian country with many legacies of mission to the East.

5) Then I was led to catch up with a Westernized face girl whom actually is a Han girl but lives in Ning Sha. She came to do her Master degree on TESOL and is preparing to return to Chine to open English language school helping people to pass the Englis test for migration and overseas study. I still managed to share the full gospel to here and leave a tract. She showed interest and paying full attention to the Gospel.

6) Then I caught up with a Guy from Jiangxi whom I had caught up before. It was a pity his bus came far too quick.

7) Order is a Nepal student to UQ doing a summer Honor program. He claimed to be nonreligious worshipping no God. On the one hand he admits there is no perfection in the world. But in the meantime, he opines, there is no unique definition of perfect. Every one sticks to their own version of standard so that they all feel good to be the one approaching perfect. I led him to think is standard is to be set by individual, it rightly shows we are far from perfect as such we all need the redemption of Jesus, who is the only perfect person to die for our sin and coop to take our place to receive punishment of our sin. The bus came by that time, so though we don’t have time for a conclusion, but I did feel that God will forward

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Okay, this is a place gap report between the Schoolies outreach and my first full week back in NZ.  My family joined me in Aussie after Schoolies and we had a holiday.  I got back Wednesday morning, and I’ve done 1 street outreach since then: Friday in the city.  But, before I left Aussie, I joined Ryan, Paul, and the team for the Sunday evening outreach in King George Square (pictured).

My whole family took part in the outreach.  And I paired up with my beautiful wife: Ruth.  We had a number of false starts (although no chat is in vain!) before getting into a good chat with a young man from the Philippines.  This young man didn’t seem to have any concept of sin, he talked about sin like it was normal, and then wondered why things were going wrong in his life.  So, through the chat, I had to labour on the law to try to resuscitate his conscience.  By the end of the chat, I think he was understanding the gospel.  And he seemed to really appreciate it.  So much so that he was willing to take a copy of the gospel of John and start reading it.  He also left with a tract.

It was so good to be with the Aussie team!  But, it was very good to be home again.  I got straight back to work on Wednesday, and my focus for the week was trying to catch up on TikTok direct messages.  There are way too many messages for me to be able to get to them all.  At this stage I’m ignoring new requests.  Instead, what I’m trying to do is focus on completing on going gospel chats.  Some of which have had no response, probably since the Philippines trip or even before.

But I’ve also been having Ome and Monkey chats online.  1 very special one was with a young man in the Solomon Islands, it was even on live stream.  He had a click moment during the chat, and said “my mind is blown” as he grasped the gospel.  This was part way through the check questions.

It was great to be back on the streets with the usual crew on Friday at the Bridge of Remembrance.  Andy, Roger, Greg, and John were all with me.

I was paired up with Greg initially.  We had a chat with 2 young ladies.  They went to a Christian school, but articulated works for salvation.  I went through the law and the gospel with them.  It wasn’t a long chat.  But about 15 minutes later they came back and wanted to ask about “LGBT”.  And so we discussed that with them.

We had a number of other chats before wrapping up the outreach.  Roger and I had a good catch up over coffee / hot choc afterwards.

Christmas is in the air, and I'm looking forward to distributing Christmas tracts over the next few weeks!  Thank you so much for keeping the Christchurch Operation 513 team in prayer.
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 6 29th 2023 from 1300-1500

We were over joy to have Shu Yi and Qin Hao rejoining us making a strong team of five. Originally, we could have even a bigger team of 6 or even 7. But Peace could not come in the last minutes because of ad hoc need to take care of her Father-in-law after dental treatment resulting in unceasing bleeding. Pray that she will have peace and composure to carry her Father-in-law over this unpredicted aftermath of a simple dental procedure.

Nevertheless, for the five of us, it was both a tough and fund day. Tough was referring to the scorching hot high noon sun. Fun was the ever presence of God guiding us to work as a team to match language choice amongst our gospel target and the complementing chat with same people by the team members achieving added effect to sowing the seed of gospel message to our target people of all Nations. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) I was led to chat to a family of four from Malaysia that Johnny had approached briefly first. I just saw the father explained to his teenage children the message of the Gospel tract. It aroused my interest to ask if they are Christians and if they understand the salvation perfectly as such if they have assurance of salvation. The answer of the father was a bit ambiguous that they had obtain the same tract in Malaysia which is impossible as I know OPN 513 has never ministered to Malaysia. But the father changed his wording that similar kind of tracts have been commonly being handed out in Malaysia. He did not confirm he is a fair dinkum Christian but perhaps a seeker or kind of God fearer. I compliment the KL people who can usually command at least 7 languages and dialects which is exactly the case to that Malaysian family. The bus came at that time. I pray that the tract will serve its purpose for that family if they really use heart to read it.

2) Then I was led to a Sri Lankan man that Shu Yi has approached but was declined to chat with her. I anyway was moved to make another approach and the Spirit this time softened his heart to have a long chat with me allowing me to share the full gospel. The ice breaking avenue is genuine identification with his ethnicity and open up the chat box on some softer matter, like his purpose of visit. Actually, he accompanies his wife to come to do a Master degree study at UQ and has just arrived for a few weeks. His initial hesitation to chat with Shu Yi may be ethnic custom driven that he should not chat with a stranger lady. But his attitude to the gospel was open and receptive taking a tract at the end to read.

3) Then I was led to catch up with Sunny from Hong Kong. Initially he was hesitant to respond in Mandarin because of the HKGer Complex. I explained to him we speak Mandarin here very often because majority of Mainlander of Mandarin speakers cannot speak Cantonese. Once clicked and rapport established, his reaction to the gospel was positive and receptive. He took a tract of course at the end.

4) Marco was a local Aussie and I used again the fair dinkum Aussie slang to draw his interest and attention. The conversation went on very delightfully, and I was able to start the gospel sharing but only half done when his bus arrived. But when he replied and told me his name, he used the gimmick that he name is same for the Arch Angel, that I urge him to find the answer from the tract that if he could go to heaven meeting God and the Angels there. He was overwhelmed with joy and took a quick selfie before he got on to the bus.

5) Next was Mr Xu from Taipei , he came only on business so our encounter was very special. He was open to the gospel message which I more or less finished sharing it. He rush boarding the bus without taking a tract.

6) Then I was led to approach Melany who is a local Aussie from Cairns but now got to study at the Griffith Gold Coast Campus. I told her every Thursday; I pass by her Uni to Australia Fair for street outreach. Then she told me she is a Chrisitan and answered my first diagnosis question confidently with100% assurance of salvation. But when asking the 2nd question why. She showed a completely wrong understanding of salvation by grace through faith alone. She claimed her assurance is form his compliance to the Bible teaching and service at the church. I cross check if she is of Catholic background and the answer is positive, so no wonder she has such fatally wrong fake assurance. She anyway thanked and appreciated for our friendly conversation and took a selfie with me wearing a big asserting smile ,

7) Last but not the least, I was referred by Qin Hao to chat with a HKG family of three with the wife coming to Australia to study at Griffith while husband with the daughter are accompanying family members. We spent time in catching up with current affairs in HKG but then left no time in gospel. But the husband still took the tract and promise to have a good look at it.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 5th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

It was not a good day for street outreach. The sun was scorching hot. The Uni is in Holiday period. But God still answered our prayer to give us both many gospel outreach opportunities in amazing way. We were led to chat with a Bangladesh family with Johnny chatting to the Mum behind the bus shelter in the shade and with Hung chatting to the son in the front under the sun. The Young kids once prematurely rush on board an wrong bus, with God's timely alert to the Mum to drag the son back down to the bus stop, as such both the Mum and the kid had a long enough time for us to share the full Gospel until their right bus arrived. Moreover, all the mainlander I approached today were all open heart and open mind. So, the harvest is really ripe despite the environmental factor was not friendly to our outdoor Open air evangelism ministry. Rec p below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach a UQ girl from Guangzhou , who has been in Brisbane for a year. . She claimed she never met us but for this first encounter, she appeared open minded and willing to listen . It was a pity her bus came too quick for me to finish but I anyway gave away a tract to her.

2) Then I caught up with an UQ faculty member who was ok to chat but his attention was still on the forth coming bus as such not interacting too deep with the gospel message. He anyway took a tract to read when the bus came.

3) Then I caught up with a Nigeria girl. I started asking her the Christian revival status in Nigeria, but she seemed to be ignorant about it. And I could just start the gospel sharing but then the bus came. She also took a tract.

4) Then I was led to approach Chiu? from Urumyti of the Inner Mongolia . To my surprise, He was very open minded and respond to the gospel positively. I asked if he found any fault in the argument of way to address sin. He surprisingly answered there is not fault in the gospel message and show no reluctant to accept Christianity as his own faith by the grace of God. I referred him to connect with Power to Change group in the campus in case he accepted Jesus.

5) Then God miraculously teamed up Johnny and Hung to preach the Gospel to the mum and the son respectively. They are from Bangladesh and the kid is in grade 6. Originally, the kid mistaken the number of the bus and jump the gun to get on board the bus without his mother. Thanks God the Mum noticed it quick enough to drag the kid back down to allow us to have a long Gospel sharing time. Praised be to God, despite they are of Hinduism background, but they both showed no resistance to the Christian faith. In particular, when I asked the kid if there is any mechanism in Hinduism to address sin. He was too young to know but I encouraged him to share with his mun afterwards so that the Spirit may touch their heart to receive Christ together. And he is the only son of the family in contrast to big sibling i.e., his father has 6 sisters. So I thing by God's Will, their whole family will be brought to Christ very soon.

6) Then I was led to approach a PhD student from USA to first UK in Bath, then coming here to do his PhD on chemistry. We had a long ice breaking chat and his response was good. Yet his bus came very quick but he still delightfully took a track to read.

7) Next was to a Local Aussie Lady who declined us politely.

8 ) A young man ? from Da Tong , Shanxi took initiative to greet me and claimed we just met last week or the week before. He appeared not rejective to the Gospel and pray for divine encounter next week.

9) Jenny a Chinese origin from Cincinnati USA is now doing undergraduate in UQ. She was open but time again was not enough.

10) Arjun is a Hinduism follower from Nepal. But he considered himself a Hinduism by birth but he had no idea how does Hinduism address sin. So he is very open to the gospel message I just shared and accept it is a very rational way to deal with sin, designed by God

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 29th 2023 from 1300-1500

It was a new day of grace that God let the sun out with a warm and dry weather good for street outreach. More so, we have Rev Samuel Chiu joining us the 2nd time to do street outreach. He was now completely adapted to the street outreach setting and has become very bold and swift to approach people of all Nations for Gospel sharing. His English is excellent and effective for chatting with English speaking people. Johnny and Hung were all amazed at God's power to have moved and empower Rev Chiu to become a gospel warrior sharing gospel fearlessly to whoever coming to the Bus Stop. In a word, all the three of us had many fruitful conversation leading people to Christ or just in short of the last step of faith.

1) I was led to approach Christine a local Aussie girl whom Edwin once approached in the previous week. She was readily moved and with heart softened to receive Christ but was still blocked by a wrong concept that she is still not good enough to become a Christian. But she treasured the gospel message so she keeps the tract folded in her small lady wallet and showed it to me to support she is readily taking the gospel message seriously. I did not know the issue blocking her but the Spirit moved me to share along that line and finally get to the point that no one can wait before they become a better person to become a Christian. Rather no one is perfect enough to deserve the eternal life which is by grace trough faith given to us as a gift at the cost of Jesus paying the price of His life to die for us taking our place to receive the punishment of our sins. So, all she need to do is to simply admit herself a sinner beyond redemption by self-perfection, but surrender her life to accept Jesus. Then the eternal life as a gift and heavenly citizenship as a new identity will be granted to her. She was over joy to finally understand the points of the gospel and I urge her to take the last step of faith action to receive Christ when she had to leave to board the bus.

2) Next was a Mainlander up for summer term class. He just took a tract to read and pray for future encounter.

3) Then I approached a Korean girl who claimed we met before. But her English level is a bit week to make the communication a bit difficult. Nevertheless, I still managed to revise the nutshell of the gospel with here.

4) Orchard a Nigeria Catholic Christian who has 100% assurance of salvation but the reason he believes is his obedience to follow God's rule so it was utterly wrong to think that his salvation is dependent on his good work and or faithful service in the church. It was good I could clarify and correct his wrong understanding of salvation.

5) Then I caught up with an old lady from Shanghai who has migrated to Australia. So she is comparatively open minded for Gospel thought most time was spend in build rapport with her.

6) was once a gospel target I met at Sunnybank and brought him to CFC twice. He has now settled down at BCAC as it is the nearest church that he can go on foot. I encouraged him to seek not only secular job for living but spiritual work for spiritual life growth.

7) Next was an Australian born Vietnamese abv. As an Australian, she was comparatively open for the gospel which I could manage to share half of it when her bus arrived. She took a tract anyway.

8 ) Two Cantonese speaking matured age woman just fooled around to disguise their nationality and avoid serious or genuine gospel chat. One as non-believer simply walked away, leaving one self-claimed Christian to chat with me, but her biblical knowledge is very weak but instead she challenged my gospel sharing is not orthodox. I suspect she actually is from a Sect or a nominal Christian without much spiritual intake.

9) Two local Aussie lady but one of them behave and spoke in very arrogant claiming that she is readily a Christian and learn all about the faith for 20 years and she did not want to hear anything form me. But upon testing of her assurance of salvation, she answered only 90 % which obviously showed that she is not yet a well learned Christian theologically speaking. Despite my clarification and explanation, she seemingly simply intended to disregard them all.

10) Last but not the last I caught up with Johnson and fallen back Christian from Hong Kong, coming here for working holiday. He was brought up from Christian school and once attend church regularly, but in the recent years, he has stop attending church and feeling a bit alienated from God. Thanks God using me to rekindle his faith in God through going through the Bible to prove that God in above time and space and everything like creation, redemption are all in h=His Good hands. Pray that God will move and lead him to Christ if he has not done so before yet and find a spiritual home to kick off his journey of sanctification by discipleship training.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Nov 28th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

The beginning of this week outreach was not ideal. The whole day it was heavily overcast weather with torrential rain in many suburbs. However, the grace of God was sufficient to give Johnny and Hung a window of light or no rain period around the Toowong Bus stop. Moreover, the University has just finished the academic term. There were much less student flows form and to St Lucia Campus, but we still were given many chances for good outreach. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung

1) First I was led to approach a Mainlander UQ girl who lives at the college of the Religious Department of UQ, because she told me the Uni is readily in term break long Summer Holiday that tricker my question why she still went to school and she said her student hostel is at one of the College of the UQ Religious Department despite she is a non-believer. Thanks God she was comparatively open for a chat as most of the other Mainlander students were not around. So, I was able to share her the full gospel. Towards the end of sharing the same guy in the past three weeks who was motivated to challenge soke of the points in Gospel turned up which I managed not to deal with him but finished my sharing with the Mainlander lady. They nevertheless started interacting with each other and the bus also just arrived by that time. I do believe the result was positive and God will follow up on this divine encounter.

2) Rejected by several Mainlanders before I was led to chat with a very open-minded Muslim lady who claimed she is not bounded by ritual law wearing Hejaz. She claimed she heard one of us sharing the gospel before, apparently she did not feel rejective but rather has remained open-minded and found my refreshing sharing sensible and logical that only Christianity address the issue of Sin and the way treated people with sin is both just and loving kindness that we, as sinners must be held responsible for our sin to receive the due eternal death punishment, but the loving kindness of God promise to whoever repent and seek Jesus as our saviour then our sins will deemed to have been punished and the record of our sins is set to zero, allowing God to reconciled with us as a new born again person with a clean sheet of sinless status because of Jesus. She was the rare Muslin who appears receptive to the idea that Jesus is the saviour in the capacity of the Son of God. She gladly took a track again to help her digest the gospel message when her bus arrived.

3) Then I was urged to approach an English middle age lady whose facial expression showed she was in pain because of illness as such she had no mood to chat but still, I got her consent to chat with her so she might not be too drawn to the feeling of pain but may divert her attention to other matter. Even though she clearly showed she is non-religious or can be considered as an Atheist. But I was still able to manage to share the gospel as a cross-cultural concept of a life issue of sin. After presenting my gospel in a strict non-religious sense.

4) Then next I was led to approach a lady works at Cole, She appeared a but sceptical initially but after I started sharing, she appeared receptive to the gospel though I only shared half the way. She took a tract to read and ponder afterwards.

5) The I was attracted to an elder man Patrick looking a bit pale and searching his bag for something, possibly the go card. I showed my care and asked if he needs help. Then I was moved to chat with him about his life and health. He told me he is a cancer patient having diagnosed with a lymph cancer at the neck which was a spread out from the cancer of the pancreas but he was now healed after several rounds of chemo. He just walked from Wesleyan hospital to Toowong village and then came to the bus stop to connect bus to home in St Lucia. We got connected because of our identity as cancer patience and though I have not yet been able to touch upon the gospel, but Patrick was given the awareness that life is too fragile and beyond our control, we must treasured the time God gave us to do the real meaningful thing and achieved the ultimate goal of life. I pray that our next meeting will lead him to the need of Jesus for giving us life of eternity.

6) Then I was led to connect with a young man from the mainland that I had chatted before. Through refreshing the gospel message, he seemed to become even more open and more ready to receive Christ as his saviour.

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2023 Schoolie Surfers Paradise, With Operation 513 team from 1615-1715

Christine, Alvin and Hung teamed up to join the Schoolie Street outreach ministry at the Cavill Avenue of the Surfers Paradise. The OPN 513 team were already there spreading out all having their gospel target. I could only tap on the shoulder of Ryan and Glen to let him know I had arrived. Then quickly I reunited with Christine and Alvin who came by another car. I was not a smooth sailing outreach experience, luckily it only happened to me and Christine with Alvin walking elsewhere. While we were trying to share the gospel to someone, a local Aussie seemingly with mental health issue and half drunken had kept interfering our conversation throwing to us endless no nonsense questions and yelled to stop us from sharing as he deemed we did not know Jesus. We had empathy on him because his suspected mental health issue and just tried to avoid him but he was determined to target me and Christine possibly because of our race. As far as I could see, he never dared or attempted to interrupt conversation of the OPN 513 team members which predominantly are western people. I even had to alert the police to keep and eyes on this guy. But he was determined to harass us till the end even when we ended by closing prayers.

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