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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep 916, 2025 from 1030-1200

Johnny was still occupied with home renovation as such I did solo street outreach again this week. I prayed to God to see if any conversation would lead to the Charlie Kirk assassination and the world wide up roaring impact bringing revival leading people especially youngsters to flood into church and received Christ.

God answered my prayer to have several deep talks with one specially on his opinion of the Charlie Kirk phenomenon. He is not a fan of Charlie and was misled that he was spreading hatred and causing division, But he at least still preserves a basic sense of humanity condemning the violence way to settle difference in opinions. I pointed out to him that Charlie Kirk exactly condemn this mentality and I carefully redirect his understanding on the mission and noble goal of Charlie that he exactly advocated and promoted equal and open dialogue to settle difference or else the world will end up in riot and violence even for irreversible division. I went on to share the gospel that the twisted sinful nature of human nature can only resort to Jesus's salvation by grace through faith which he appeared open and receptive to the gospel message.
Another long chat with a PNG mixed blood high school youngster of Catholic background but professes clear assurance of salvation. It is not because of his family influence but peer teaching by protestant Christian with clear biblical teaching.
It is clear that a big awakening movement needed to be and is about to happen as the continuous influence of Charlie Kirk Campus and high school ministry to bring them back to the biblical based way of life and thought.
There were a few more fruitful chats with mainlander and other people groups all seemingly having all been touched by the Charlie Kirk saga.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Sept 10th 2025 from 1030-1200

Doing solo at Sunnybank with majority of gospel targets from Hong Kong and Mainland China too. All of them are non-believers. They are migrants for many years, so still got few chance to hear the gospel. In general, their feed back were open and receptive though still lacking the urgency because of comfortable life here in Australia. One is a retired chef, moving from Sunshine coast to Brisbane. Their top priority is to enjoy a retired life. I anyway also took the chance to invite them to the Peace and Hope Concert on this Saturday in the evening at the Hope community church. They all showed interest to attend, hopefully not out of politeness. I also had chance to approach local Aussie lady, who also appeared open and receptive to the gospel message and also promise to attend the Peace and Hope Concert. I ended up also handing out left over small poster of the concert at the local shop across the road of the Salvation Army Church venue where the Concert will be held.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep 9, 2025 from 1030-1200

Had to go solo again due to Johnny's unavailability because of home renovation/maintenance. It was a warm Spring morning that people seemed waking up from a slack luxurious winter sleep over. Had got a couple of good chats. First with an Indian young man who claimed to had chatted with me before. He was migrant from New Zealand but now settled in Australia. He however surprised me that he has a special fond for Hongkong that he goes every year in the past consecutive years. I expressed my sadness for not being able to visit Hong Kong as freely as long time ago. since the pass away of my parents and key sibling all left HKG for overseas new settlement. Touched briefly on his impression and understanding of the need of Jesus for all good persons which he gladly agrees.

Then have another longer chat with a local high school girls. She was impressed by my argument that as long as we are not perfect, we all should have lost the right for the heavenly citizenship unless relying on the help of Jesus to make our record clean again.

Other chats were more causal and brief. I also call for the day earlier than usual.

   

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I can speak in tongues!  It’s true!  See the pictures for proof.  One of them you will see a snap shot of a TikTok direct message conversation in Arabic.  I don’t know Arabic, and yet I was still able to communicate the gospel (or at least start a gospel conversation).  All this, thanks to modern translation software.  It’s so great.  Whoever it was said, “there are no Christians around me, and I have many questions”.  I responded with, “Sure, what’s your first question?  Also, why can you go to heaven when you die”.  And we went from there.

 

Technology can be used for so much bad, but it can be used for so much good too.  E.g., Roman roads brought the destructive might of the Roman army, but it also brought the gospel.  The printing press has enabled the propagation of destructive ideas, but it also brought the gospel.  The Internet, same thing.  Social media, same thing, Translation software, same thing.  Let’s use these tools for God’s glory, and push back against evil with the most effective weapon we have: the gospel!  His Kingdom come, and His will be done, on earth as in heaven.  Hallowed be His name!

 

This month has been great.  No special outreaches, just regular, routine outreaches: Street work, Online work.  Face to face chats, chats via text.  Training - one on one, both online and on the streets.  All glory to God, what a privilege it is to be able to serve Him and others in this way.  Please keep us in prayer!

 

The other pictures were selections from the month.  Many of them are “spot the gospel chat” style, with many different chats happening at the same time in them.

 

On the Friday just been, there was a spring-like feel in the air.  Nice sun, but a gusty wind.  Roger didn’t set up his flip chart, but Brian and Laura did.  There were heaps of school kids out fundraising for something, and I noticed many of them were having gospel chats with our team as well! (as per the pics)

 

I had plenty of good chats, but the one that stands out really felt like a divine appointment.  I was at the corner of Colombo and Cashel, handing out tracts, when a young man went past.  He took one and I was able to get a conversation started.  He had a fairly good gospel understanding (which is unusual), and yet he was lacking some clarity.  I laboured to sure that up.  He also had some personal struggles that I was able to bring some biblical advice to.  It turns out he had been sitting in the Cardboard Cathedral in contemplation just before our conversation - then he heads down the street and bumps into me!  There are no coincidences!  Is what we are doing effective?  Absolutely!  The gospel is the power of God for salvation (Romans 1:16)

 

On Saturday, I was very encouraged to have Toby join me again.  He’s a member of the same local church as me.  We were at the corner of Riccarton and Rotherham.  I set up my flip chart, and we had a very very busy 2 hour outreach.  The highlight was being able to talk to multiple groups of school aged kids, including one group down from Nelson for the weekend.  Also, it was so good seeing Toby getting involved and giving it a go!

 

Also, on Tuesday, Roger, Sam and I were in Riccarton in the late afternoon.  Two stand out chats come to mind: the first was with a young guy walking past, I gently asked, “Excuse me sir, can I ask you a question?”  It was almost like he had been waiting for me to ask, knowing what I was going to ask, and really wanted to talk: “Yeah, sure”.  We had a 15 minute chat, where I was able to present the law and the gospel to him, and then work through the suite of check questions.  At one point he made this comment “No one has explained it this way before” - I think the gospel was starting to click with him.  He had been reading the Bible in the Old Testament, so I encouraged him to try again, starting with John.

 

Later, at the same spot, a guy came out of a store and walked past, I offered him a gospel chat.  “No thanks!”.  I responded with, “No problem, have a nice day”.  But he had to stop at the crossing till the light went green.  Because I was there too, he turned and made a comment about the weather.  We fell into a friendly chat, and when the light went green, I walked with him to continue the chat.  I was able to ask what he thinks happened after life, and it turns out that he is agnostic.  We kept chatting and walking, but I wanted to test his interest.  I decided that I would stop walking, and see if he would stop too.  He did!  We continued the chat, which was mainly apologetical in nature. He didn’t stay for too long, but when I offered him a gospel tract the 2nd time, this time he took it.  I was encouraged.

 

Soil ploughed, seed scattered.  God will bring the increase, in His timing.

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Sept 3rd 2025 from 1030-1200

It is a pity that after the street outreach time at Sunnybank is changed to 1030, it clashes every now and then with Johnny's own church's ministry on week day. Today, he again had to lead and speak at a home group.

My outreach time was shredded a bit as I also need to deal with a CCCOWE ministry trip arrangement for next year. Nevertheless, I was led to have a long chat with a elderly man from Somalia who has migrated to Australia since 2015. Yet his English is still very basic as such I had to intentionally speak in more simple English. At least I managed to make him aware of the fact that good deeds would not count in gaining salvation but trusting in Jesus alone to be our Savior. I also chatted with an Australian born Malaysian young man, he is non-religious but was open minded for gospel sharing. There were a few other short chats before I called it for the day.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Sep 2, 2025 from 1030-1200

After a slightly tiring Walk the Wall yesterday, I was a bit empty in energy as well as in mind as such I forgot to bring my iPhone to the street outreach. Thanks to Johnny he still was able to take a couple of phots for me, especially for a very interesting and important chat that was imitated by an fallen ex-Catholic. He overheard my gospel sharing with an Indonesian Islamic lady and felt that my passion of evangelism was driven by my insufficient or incorrect knowledge about the Christian God. He purposely skipped his bus and sat down with me to challenge me if God is all knowing that human will sin against Him, why he still bothered to create human that is destined for eternal death in hell. My apologetic feedback went this way; Yes God is all knowing, as such he knew the fallen angels are all beyond redemption even given chance for them to repent. Actually , the rebellious angels turned Satan have been defeated and casted down to abbyid of the earth before 6 days creation where it was a place of all darkness without light. God gave them a chance to seduced and tempted human which He created in His 6 days creation. His fore knowledge knew that with free will human may fail momentarily to the temptation of Satan and sinned against God, but through the agape love that God has shown to human even when they have all become enemy of God, to the extent even sending His begotten son to be born to die for us on the cross and descended to hell to make himself available to be our Savior taking our place to receive the punishment of eternal death. So through His all knowing character, He is certain that fallen human will eventually be moved by the sacrificial love of God and be benefited by His atoning grace to reconcile with God and resume the unfinished development of mutually loving relationship between God and Human into eternity.

I complimented this guy for his eagerness to get his mystery about God and His mission clarified by rational and fair dialogue. He was glad for this chat and indicated he would like to chat with me if God let us meet again.

I had many other interesting dialogue, for example, with an Australian born Sri Lanka girl who happened to be also a Catholic Christian but lacking assurance of salvation. Then a chat with an Indian matured age man who enlightened me with a knowledge that the Caste system was invented by the British, but I questioned him why the highest caste is all the Priest or Brahman,

a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood. He shocked me saying actually it was not true, in every social class, they all should play the role of Priest which aligned with the Biblical teaching of Priesthood of all Believers. In retrospect, I think I should have asked if he is readily a Christian.

Anyway, it was a very interesting and fruitful outreach.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday August 27th 2025 from 1030-1200

Today Johnny was able to join me in Sunnybank to do street outreach under marvelous early Spring like weather condition despite we are legitimately still within the late Winter period.

God ble3ssed and used Johnny lately, leading him to share gospel with many non-believers who surprisingly responded to receive Christ right away after the gospel sharing. I also got many follow up opportunities to chat with some one we met and chatted before. Another amazing thing was God led us to meet repeatedly with people from Uzbekistan that we never came across before in the past years. Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein. Islam is the predominant religion of 94.7%, and most Uzbeks are Sunni Muslims. So, it was very precious Kairos moment for us to share Gospel to them. In general, the gospel targets we met today including even those from Mainland were all open and receptive to Gospel with a couple of them even not minding to take selfie with me. So, mission matters and God's sovereign power counts.

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It was a warm Spring liked end of Winter day. The fresh and sunny weather gave every one at the bus stop a fresher and cheerful mood. God led us to have conversation to both new people and some having chatted before even last week. It gave us chance to do follow up check to reinforce the message that all good person as long as not perfect, we all need an external agent to save us from eternal disqualification for a heavenly citizenship. All those who heard the gospel all appeared receptive and affirming the rationale that all the good persons, as long as they are not perfect, all need an external agents , who is Jesus Christ, the Son of God to incarnate as a perfect human being but not belonging to the fallen human race, to come and die for us as such in hell he took our place to receive the eternal death punishment to set our imperfect sin record straight and cleaned without sin anymore.

Pray that all who heard the gospel will be led to Christ by God's gracious election, in His time.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday August 20th 2025 from 1030-1200

Today was rainy and I was again serving solo at Sunnybank. General mood of people was not good. Just managed to have a few meaningful chats with a Hongkonger and a young man from

Uzbekistan in Central Asia that I have never met before. Mainlander in general are still the hardened heart people for outreach. I anyway caught up with a young girl who was approached before here by either Johnny or Edwin for some follow up chat.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Aug 19th, 2025 from 1030-1200

Despite of the extraordinary winter chill, it was another big day of street outreach at Toowong by Johnny and Hung teaming up to be on mission with God. Majority of the gospel sharing faced friendly and open heart reception. God used us to share with both non-believers from Muslim, Hinduism , Buddhism and even atheist background and Christians from both Catholic and protestant camp. It was so good that even people of other religions and even atheist now accepted that all human are not perfect as such we all lost the right to be the people of the divine Kingdom again unless we can let a perfect human to be our Saviour, taking our place to receive the punishment of our sin as such our sins are all pardon with record reset to zero. It makes those repentant persons to become a new Creation because of Jesus redemptive grace through His atoning death. As for Christians, majority do not have 100% assurance of salvation, but all felt so grateful, once clarified that despite we are all not yet perfect, but through the effective work of Jesus dying for our sin, we all have 100% certainty that the God's people identity have been granted back to us. On this foundation made through Jesus redemptive work, God can kick off His sovereign life transforming work in our life through the work of the Holy Spirit. Overall speaking, many street outreach targets were willing to take a selfie with me to symbolize their affirmation to the gospel message and appreciation for our heart to share them the truth of God in terms of His dual Kingdom and Salvation Project and the ultimate consummation of the heavenly kingdom on earth into the new heaven and new earth eternal status.

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