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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Nov 15th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

It was a new period without Johnny who has gone back to Taiwan. Just Hung and Winnie keep partnering at Toowong. It was a scorching high noon with temperature shooting up to over 33C. Thus, the heat had played a negative factor that turned people off for any long conversation. Nevertheless, under such hardship background, God still let us to have nonstop conversations with people of all nations, i.e. Serbia, India x 2, Mongolia, local Aussie, Mainlander Chinese x 4. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) First was a lady from Sichuan, , we connected immediately when she knew I had been the earth quake disaster relief team in Sichuan. It was a pity there was not much time for gospel, but she was happy to take a tract with a briefing of the nutshell of the Gospel when the bus arrived.

2) Pac is from Serbia but have been in Australia for 20 years. He is a Christian but not church going. Upon testing he was diagnosed lack full assurance of salvation. He appreciated for my explanation. I recommended him further to join activity of power to change to boost his spiritual life again.

3) Then I approached a tall girl from North Eastern China. She was opened and willing to interact even on religious issues.

4) Then I approached a "girl" but noticed that she has a male voice. "she" anyway was on the phone but was still polite enough to let me know she is not available for chat for the time being.

5) Then I caught up with a man from Jiang So small town. He basically was also receptive to the gospel message.

6) Bateman is from Mongolia doing undergrad. He said he heard the gospel before but he is more in favour for Buddhism. I asserted to him Buddhism and all other religions are good but none can address the issue of sin. He took a tract after we finished and the bus came.

7) Covina is an Indian of Hinduism background. He though being a good person is fine enough and was surprised to know that it is not good enough to wipe clean our sin. He is opened to listen the full gospel.

8 ) Then I approached a young man from Luoyang, Henan China . He was welcoming and receptive initially, but the scorching high noon sun just dried up his patience so I could only left him with the tract.

9) At the end I connected with another Indian Pahoa who was a willing listened but again the heat of the scorching sun got him flatted out. He was too tired to continue on the gospel sharing. So, we finally let go and finished for the day.

 

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The Canterbury A&P Show (a farming event where people buy / sell all sorts of things from tractors to food, as well as having displays and a carnival) would be the biggest and longest (3 days) show we attend (by hiring a site / stall) to share the gospel mainly via flip chart and conversation.

And it happened this week: Wednesday (with a team of 6), Thursday (team of 6) and Friday (team of 18!) - Friday being the big day as it’s a public holiday with LOTS of people.

Volunteers to run the site represented a total of 5 churches (Redemption Church, Beckenham Baptist Church, Grace Baptist Church, Riccarton Community Church & LIfe Church) from around the Christchurch area.

The support from Christians was super encouraging.  So thank you to all that gave up their time to serve God by telling people about Jesus!  Also, many thanks to all those that were praying for us on the front lines during these 3 days!  Without the power of the Holy Spirit, our effort is truly in vain.  All the glory is Gods!

So, let me give a summary of the 3 days.

Day 1 (Wed) was hot!  God, through the organisers of the show, decided to give us a little tree outside our site which cast some nice sun shade through the day - that was a real blessing!  The team of 6 was busy all day sharing the gospel with all sorts of people, including many school groups.  I can’t remember all the conversations I had, but 2 memories from that day stand out.

First was an opportunity to engage in conversation with 3 Roman Catholic Friars.  1 of them was a priest, the other 2 were ‘just brothers’.  It was the priest that I conversed with, 1 of the ‘brothers’ listened, and the other didn’t want to engage.  It was interesting that the priest tried to claim that the Catholics teach justification by faith alone, where their official doctrine does not teach such.  And this was betrayed in his initial description of how one gets to heaven.  So I challenged them on this and had opportunity to share the law and the gospel in the process.

Secondly, 2 of my daughters: Julia and Dani were helping run the site today.  My fathers heart was overjoyed in seeing their willingness – no, eagerness – to be involved and share the gospel!  They worked together, and I think I heard Julia say they had 10 gospel conversations throughout the day.  3 of those conversations were quite challenging – and so with 2 of them, they were able to pull Greg in to help, and the other one they got me involved, where they listened to how I dealt with the man's objections and learned.

Day 2 (Thu) was cloudy, which actually made it easier than the day before in the heat – the sun in NZ is harsh.  Four conversations stand out.

Firstly, an older gentleman came right on to our site and seeing one of the camping chairs we had set up, came right in and sat down!  It turns out he was trying to get back to his car and was in pain in his hip. :(  So, I focused on helping him with that first.  I knew the St. Johns ambulance service had a presence at the show and they had a little cart to help get sick people from a to b.  So I asked one of the security guards to call up the ambulance cart for me - which he did.

As I was in discussion with the gentlemen, I tried to turn the conversation to spiritual things - but he instantly shut me down: “I don’t want to talk about that, I might be facing death soon”.  I find that interesting, because it’s exactly for that reason that I DO want to talk about it!  But I respected his wishes and talked of other things till the ‘cart’ came.  As he was leaving, he thanked me for the assistance I had given, and so in response, I offered him a tract.  He took it and shook my hand.  I hope he reads it!  He is a farmer from down south (Waimate), please pray that he does!

At the end of a day, when the site is quieter, certain people seem more willing to approach and engage, including another older gentleman – not our most common demographic.  It was a fairly standard gospel conversation, but he asked about why there is suffering and evil, which we were able to discuss and I was able to give him the biblical answer.  He left with a tract, but he sticks in my mind, I’m praying for him too - please join me!

The 2 other chats were with kids.

In the first one, I asked her to go and check with her parents if it was okay to chat about Jesus.  She did, and was soon back saying it was okay!  So, I gently took her through the law and the gospel.  She quickly grasped what I was explaining about Jesus, and she admitted, without any prompting from me, that before the chat she would have been going to hell because she was trusting her good deeds, but now she is trusting only in Jesus' sacrifice so will go to heaven.  She joyfully received a Bible.  Later, she went past again with her Mum, and she turned to give me a beaming smile and a wave.  What a privilege to serve God and others in this way!

In the other one, about 5 kids came up to the chart and wanted to give it a go.  Their parents were not far away, so I sent them to check if it was okay.  They came back smiling!  All good to go.  So, I shared the law and the gospel.  I didn’t need to go heavy on the law, as I could see that one of the little girls had a sensitive conscience and seemed deeply convicted by me simply asking if they had ever disobeyed their parents!  So I swung the conversation to the good news of Jesus!  At the end, I gave them 2 tracts (2 families were represented), and told them to give them to their parents and to discuss it further with them.  They ran off to do just that!  One of the Mum’s looked up at me, and so I went over.  She thanked me for the way I had gone about it, getting their permission, etc.  I was so encouraged!

Lord, save those kids, and their families, for your glory!

Finally, day 3, Friday.  It was WINDY!  I’ve never done evangelism in so much wind before!  We had to be holding the flip charts at all times, otherwise they went crashing down!

So, a team of 18 active evangelists (not including vital family support!) running the site throughout the day.  And it was so busy!  We had 6 flipcharts, and at least once all 6 flip charts were in use + 1 mini flip chart!  It was good having such a large team, as it gave people good opportunities for breaks and rest.

The day is a bit of a blurr, I can remember many great chats, some of them quite hard, including one with a Maori guy who viewed Christianity as white man imperialism.  I really had to work to disconnect the message of Jesus (which is universal) from his world filter.  I think I succeeded, because he hugged me at the end, out of respect, considering how hard he was coming at me (which was not nasty, just forceful).  We had kids who were mocking, including 3 girls whom I’ve talked to before during a Riccarton outreach.  But also many many chats with open hearted people as well.

In summary, that would have to be one of the hardest outreaches I do, just purely based on the amount of hours of evangelism.  But it was so worth it in seeing so many Christians encouraged in evangelism, and so many unbelievers hearing the gospel!  Again, all the glory is to God alone.

To rest, I didn’t do any street work on Saturday, or today (Sunday).  But on Tuesday, I did do the regular Riccarton outreach with Jermaine.  It was a bit of a slow start, but it ended up becoming quite a busy outreach with 1 stellar conversation in particular.  But I’m out of time to talk about that.

Thanks so much for your support and prayer!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 9th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

We were overjoyed to have Joe re-joining us after a period of his overseas trip. It was a pity he messed up the time and came an hour earlier to do solo. I was barely OK to meet with him for a short while then he had to leave for his own work from home office hour. Johnny missed meeting Joe, not just this week but for a long time to go as he will leave for Taiwan on Friday. SO, in a sense God is good to move Joe to re-join us to take the place of Johnny so that we still can manage to form a team.

Again, Johnny experienced many gracious divine appointment meeting new and old people with good fruit bearing result. As for me, it was a normal day with mixed result of blunt rejection or opened mind opened arm reception. Of course, there were even more gracious kind of conversation started with initial reluctance of even rejection but through the work of the Holy Spirit, the gospel message still could be conveyed to the gospel target elected by God. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung>

0) I first approached a lady for a short chat before I caught up with Joe. The bus came too quick to get her away.

1) Mzra an Indonesia young students whom Johnny had contacted before. But he appeared still very polite to let me follow up on his understanding and perception of the last conversation as well as the tract. Basically, he tried initially to uphold the Islamic teaching but later he did find difficulty to discount the sensibility and logicality of the gospel especially about the treatment of sins. He was in obvious struggle, so I left him to the hand of God to bring eventual conviction to the truth of the salvation of Jesus.

2) A mainlander from Hebei Boding was waiting for friend as such I had a long time chatting with him. His initial reaction was blunt rejection but I changed my tactics ) sharing with him my Chinese travelling experience to Beijing doing Walk on the Great Wall for charity. I led on to share about counselling for earthquake victim in 2008 and how the Counselling class can help people to fix their character changing life issues by means of the grace and power of God. He basically was moved by all these lives changing testimony and become receptive to the gospel at the end.

3) Then God led me to approach a young man by the name of Chung from Canton.?. He came to do visual design at QUT , and was opened enough to take in the gospel message in quite receptive manner.

4) Then I was led to approach a Filipino middle-aged lady who was also receptive to the full gospel message and took a tract.

5) Then I had a long chat with a Chinese descendant named Chan from Cambodian who is Cantonese speaking. He declared he is a Buddhism follower But was willing to listen with good responses.

6) Then Sister Chang eventually turned up and this time God allowed enough time for me to clarify the confused understanding of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christa.

7) Then I was led to approach Mr Yang from Canton. ? He came 10 years ago and was shocked by the aggressive way of Mormon . Now he came again but was conscious to avoid Mormon. He is not yet a Christian but is open and receptive to Christian gospel.

8 ) Lastly, I was led to approach a young man from Somalia called Ali and declared himself a Muslim. But he is still very open minded to listen to the full gospel with the stressed on the work of Jesus dying for our sins.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Nov 8th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

Today was the last day Johnny was to serve with us at Toowong as he will leave for Taiwan on Friday till February next year. By the grace of God, both Johnny and Winnie got many chances to share the Gospel while I had mixed result to have a few long and fruitful chat but also straight rejections or initial reluctance. Recap below is my Battle Log.

1) A person from Taiwan just got the tract as the bus came

2) Rejected by two

3) Caught up with a Local mature Aussie who was not religious but still opened enough for discussion and took a tract.

4) Rejected by an elderly lady with excuse having a cold.

5) Approached two ABC whose parents are from mainland. They were still ok to have a chat with nutshell of the gospel shared.

6) Thomas is from , China?who had met both Johnny and me recently. I had a long chat to follow up on his understanding of the message we shared last time and explained in the tract. He studied IT at UQ and I asked him to feedback if he found any loophole in the logic of the gospel that we shared and he agreed that it is all sensible and logical and showed great willingness to pursuit.

7) Then I was led to approach an elderly Aussie man with army background wearing a poppy flower. Thanks God allowing enough time for me to use many Army analogies to finish the gospel that otherwise he would have rejected using excuse of not a religious man.

8 ) Last but not the least a caught up with a man from Suzhou who initially rejected to chat as we had many chat before and he thought he had heard enough. But the Spirit softened his heart and ended up revising once again the gospel message with a receptive attitude showing his full understanding of the message I repeated this time.

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It was great to have a week off last week, but it was also great to be back to work this week. :)

On my holiday, I found time to buy a new cap!  As per the picture, the old one was due to retire!  Unfortunately, it doesn’t fit as well - but, oh well, I’ll get used to it.

So, all the usual outreaches this week.  Roger and I were in Riccarton on Tuesday afternoon.  Andy, Roger, Daniel, John and I in the City on Friday afternoon.  I was on my own on Saturday lunchtime, and Susan and I on Sunday afternoon.  Plus all the online work.

Tuesday’s outreach in Riccarton was rather slow for me, unfortunately.  Yet, on the other side of the road, Roger seemed to be in non stop chats!

Yet, I was still able to have 2 solid chats.  The first felt like a bit of a set up: in hindsight, the girl was a little too enthusiastic at the start, and it soon became very apparent that her mind was set and nothing would change it (except the power of God).  She was in fact there to teach me something.  I spend a lot of time listening.  I interjected appropriately, and I’m sure I explained the law and the gospel (I can’t really remember now).  But I do remember deciding that the wisest course of action was to end the conversation.

But, the next conversation had a stark contrast.  It was with two high school girls.  It was ‘text book’ in the sense that they didn’t resist the logic of the gospel, instead they seemed to really embrace it.  They were classic church goers who thought good deeds would get them to heaven.  When they came to understand the gospel, one of them used the term, “mind blown” multiple times.  They agreed they would be going to hell before the chat, but they were now professing faith.  It was encouraging.  They both took bibles, with tracts marked at John.

Friday’s outreach was hot, but busy, and the 2 hours went fast.  Due to the heat, I ventured over to the trees next to the bridge of remembrance and approached all the people sitting in the shade.

I had an interesting chat with an older guy with a very new age outlook - believed in reincarnation and karma.  I reasoned with him, and I could see he was challenged, but he had to get going so I wasn’t able to ‘complete’ the chat.  Initially he rejected a tract, but as he was going, he accepted one.

But before that, at the start of the outreach, a lady took great interest in Rogers flipchart, and I was next to it, so we fell into a long chat.  She wanted to talk about political issues initially, but I was soon able to go deeper into issues of religion.  We had a great chat!  She had a very Christian background, even went to a church, and could very well be a Christian, but there were some critical concepts she hadn’t been fully able to process yet.  I didn’t push it, because I know some of these things take time to process.  She left with a tract, and directions to my church.  She was actually a tourist on holiday from Germany, I’ve said it before in recent reports, but it’s so good to have the tourists coming back!

I had a follow up chat with a young busker.  The first time I shared the gospel was without the flip chart, but this time he saw the flip chart and wanted to know what it was all about.  When I asked him if he had ever lusted for someone, he said, “no”.  It turns out he is ‘asexual’.  I’ve never encountered that before.  He claimed to have zero sexual desire.  Anyway, he also had zero desire for the gospel.  He seemed to understand it, but just seemed completely unimpressed and uninterested.  Oh well, he is a nice guy, God willing I will see him again and be able to continue the chat.  Please pray that he starts to feel conviction for his sin.

After the outreach, the team went for some cold drinks in a cafe where we had some great discussions about soteriology and the practice of evangelism.

Saturday in Riccarton was a reasonably busy outreach.  I had good chats with a Christian, and a Hare Krishna, among others.  But the highlight chat was the last one, and it was a rather grievous one.

Two young asian ladies went past earlier, and they accepted tracts.  But later they came back and were keen to do the good person test.  One of the girls did all the talking (well, most of it; I tried to include her as much as possible).  The main girl expressed disgust at Hitler (good), but as the conversation progressed, she was becoming subtly resistant.

Eventually she changed the subject and asked me about abortion: “is it okay for a girl who has been raped to have an abortion?”  That’s probably the most common question I get in regards to this issue.  Today I tried to address it differently, so I said, “Good question, I’ll answer it only if you answer my question first: if a girl has sex for pleasure, but then gets pregnant which is simply an inconvenience for her, is it okay for her to have an abortion?”  With a completely straight face, she said, “yes”.  Interesting, so I switched the baby for a toddler.  There was no convincing her.  She is blind, her worldview is based around self, and nothing but the power of God will change it.  So, I went back to the gospel.  I ended up ending the chat, as she just wasn’t open at this stage.  But the chat grieved me, as many of them do, when I see how idolatrous people are.  God, have mercy!  We don’t deserve it, please have mercy.

Sunday’s outreach was slowish.  I handed out a lot of tracts initially. I had an interesting encounter with a young couple - the guy said he already had one of the tracts - so I asked if he had read it.  He had, he even knew the title: “how we know God exists”.  They didn’t want to stick around, so I asked why he would go to heaven, he said, “because I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins”.  I was surprised he gave that answer, he must have really been paying attention to that tract.  So, I ended up discussing the change that will occur as a result, and asked if he had a bible.  They didn’t and were keen for one each.  They also took contact cards for my church.

At the end of the outreach, I had a good chat with a young man who was keen to chat, and didn’t really fight anything I said, but who was dearly counting the cost of the gift of Jesus.  We discussed homosexuality for a while.  He wasn’t willing to accept the gift at this stage, but he seemed to appreciate the chat.  He left me with a firm handshake.

Thank you so much for praying for this gospel ministry.  Next week is going to involve 3 long days of special outreach at the Canterbury A&P show: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.  Praise God, we have 3 solid teams; 1 for each day.  And about 15 people for Friday, which is a public holiday and very busy.  Apart from the power of God, our effort will be in vain, so please be praying for us on these 3 days, that many would hear and understand the gospel, and that God would be glorified in that, and the way we conduct ourselves (faithful, yet with gentleness and respect).
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 2nd, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

It was a tough day, facing a lot of rejection and indifference. Nevertheless, it was a test of faith for us the blessed messenger to pass on the blessing to other people, same and or cross culture likewise. It was a day of mixed result, but also a day of submission exercise. Recap below was my Battle Log.

1) Three mainlanders ; The first was single but appear very cocky and refused bluntly?the latter is a couple appeared a bit better with minimum politeness. They are from Suzhou but still cling to declining for any more conversation.

2) The second I approached is a Hongkonger couple. They however claimed that they know the gospel and decline to have any more conversation

3) Then I was rejected consecutively by an Indian woman.

4) Then by the grace of God, I caught u with Jade a local Aussie girl who has heard the gospel before but she still was willing to listen and was engaging quite well into our conversation. She indicated her understanding of the gospel and promise to ponder further.

5) Then God led me to catch up with a cute follower the Five in One I first spent time to build relationship and connection letting her to share about her faith in the cult and tried to pick up points to show their faulty teaching.

6) Then I faced another round of rejection first by an old Chinese woman then a western people. ; ;

7) Then I had a comparatively long chat with an elderly woman from HKG 55 years ago. 55 I tried to keep her interest by telling my personal salvation witness as well as the gospel.

8 ) Then I chatted with a man from Shandong who has just finished Uni here major in Database Science. He actually is leaving Australia to do a PHD at Ireland. He showed great interest in Christianity and attended a local Aussie Church at Woolloongabba. He has not yet made the last step of faith and I hope our conversation would push him over the line to receive Christ.

9) Madam ? from Hong Kong and was led to Christ by her daughter. Both of them are attending the Hope Church of Malaysia English speaking background. Her knowledge in the Bible is shallow and her faith is a bit young to have good enough understanding to establish assurance of salvation. She thanks for my sharing of the gospel anyway.

10) Have a chat with siter Chang and pray continuously for her real understanding about salvation.

11) Then I approached a Muslim lady who asked for more tracts to hand out to her friends.

12) Helen a member of SDBC yet have a faulty understanding of salvation by grace through faith. So despite she has 100% assurance of salvation, yet it was built on the wrong understanding of good deeds. Time was not enough to correct all her wrong thinking about faith and Christ.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Nov 1st, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

It was yet another amazing day full of amazing grace. After one full bright sunny day yesterday for a Brisbane historic and cultural tour,

there were overnight storm lingering the whole morning while we was doing Bible study. But the sky suddenly turned dry again good for street outreach. Yet spiritually, it was a day full of despise and rejection. However, God's grace was sufficient for us to keep doing our job in a steadfast manner. We were unmerited people but God still used us to convey His blessing to people He elected to stop and listened to the gospel. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) The first I approached was a girl from Mainland. She rejected the gospel with a big gesture like facing electric strike bouncing off dramatically.

2) Then I was led to approach a big guy Locky from Melbourne who listened attentively with a smile and took a tract at the end

3) I was led to connect with an Indigenous people from Carine but not yet a Christian. He was interested to know my past involvement with the indigenous people in the outback as such he showed great receptiveness to the same gospel that have already evangelized his own people.

4) Another two rejections. One is an Aussie and one from mainland China.

5) Then I was led to connect with a couple from Xian西安夫婦，who were amazed to find out I visited their home town on a mission. So we started a chat with interactions and finally, Gospel was shared. God obviously must have a plan for them.

7) Lydia from Jie Jiang 浙江，who claimed we chatted before. I asked if she understood the purpose or message of the tract then she could not fully articulate so it gave me the reason to revise the gospel all over again with her until the bus came.

8 ) Then I followed up on a lady who declined to chat with Johnny. I tried a softer approach asking her where about in China. She only indicated she is from the middle kingdom of China 中原 which I guess is Henan Changzhou.，河南鄭州. Eventually she got a tract when the bus came to end our casual chat.

9) Then I caught up with a young man from Czechoslovakia 捷克. But I could only manage to give him a tract 單張 as his bus just arrived.

10) The I faced yet another two rejections by first two mainland girls and then one Aussie longhair young man.

11) Finally, I chatted with a Church going old man, but I did not have time to test his faith status and assurance of salvation.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday September 26th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

Thanks God, Gary re-joined us to day despite he still has kids not well needing home car attention. It was again a testing day of ministry. While we had many good conversations even with the Mainlander Chinese that use to show rejection and indifference, but most of them today were quite opened and receptive. Yet on the other hand, God still allows some intentional gate crasher to disrupt our ministry. God also led two Mormon elders to approach me which I used to not approaching them directly any more, with or without a hidden agenda, I did do my best to test their faith against Christian core ground of faith as per the creed. Surprisingly they agreed them all. Obviously, it is almost impossible for a heretic group to correct all their false theology and complying 100% of the protestant faith and doctrine. So, they might have been trained to give false affirmation of their faith which is even an eviller doing. In, it demonstrated it is always a spiritual warfare that we cannot be apart from God for any single moment. We can only remain in Victorious ground in His strength and in His Name. Recap below is my Battle Log.

1) Jack, a Malaysian English-speaking couple, who claimed themselves atheist. But God still had softened their heart to have an open discussion on the gospel which at the end they cannot deny an iota of its truth and sensibility.

2) Eason quickly identified himself as Christian but lack of assurance of salvation. I briefly clarified it in 1 min before the bus arrived.

3) Mike a young man from Liao Ling, who said having a conversation with me few months ago. I asked if he still remember the teaching of the tract as well as my sharing and he said yes. I revise the nutshell of the gospel and he did show full and clear understanding. So, it is just about time that God will move him to make the last step of faith to receive Jesus Christ.

4) Then I was led to approach a Korean girl who claims herself an Atheist. I still tried to share the nutshell of the gospel to her though the bus quick arrival did not allow me to finish.

5) Then I was led to approach another mainland girl Li 李，from Xian西安。She studied social work but she said there is general lack of social justice sense and awareness in China as such there is almost no place for the profession of social worker in China.社工，She this comes to UQ to do a new degree on Education. 教育She was fully opened to the gospel as she realized good deeds are far from enough to change the society and oneself. So Christianity is a new appealing avenue for her to rediscovery true humanity in God.

6) Then God led me to approach a Vietnamese Chinese diaspora 越南華僑originally from Qiao Zhou祖藉潮州，He recognized us doing preaching of Gospel here 認識我們在傳教which he shows respect. But it is a pity the bus came to cut short our conversation.

7) Bido looks like a Palestinian but was very opened to chat. The bus came and he took initiative to take a tract and hope we can have another chat in future.

8 ) Two Mormons elder Chai and Elder Deng 柴長老。鄧長老 approached me as if we met before. Actually, they might have learned our present on Wednesday and tried to impose spiritual disturbance to our work. I simply wasted no time to learn any more about their Mormon teaching but challenged them if they accept Trinity, and if that Jesus is on of the person of the god head that he is not a lesser god but of equal; substance, power and glorify amongst the triune god. The we are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone, that none of us can earn the salivation by our good deeds, not even the two years of service that all Mormon have to commit. They amazingly all confirmed agreement which is the tricking point. It seems that now they are trained to acknowledge everything we said to misted us that their heretic teaching has now been rectified. It is just another trick of those cult and heresy.

9) Another Arabic looked person chatted with me for a while and he seemed to be a Christian addressing me as brother when bidding farewell

10) Jo another Kiwi but a PNG by birth claimed to be a Christian but has no assurance of salvation.

11) Then a faced a most difficult person whoever who is a self-righteous person who though he has thorough knowledge of the Bible but mixed everything up as a non-believer. He is the first person I have ever quitted on him wasting me no more time on a stone heart.

12) Approached yet another Gospel target yet just the bus came though he was not a willing listener.

13) Then I approached a person who read the tract immediately. He was yet another PNG person from a Christian family but not yet a Christian. He fully understands no one is perfect and we all need the salvation by Christ.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Oct 25th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

Praise be to God that the weather turned fine after a round of early morning rain. As usual, Johnny , Winnie and Hung teamed up to reach out to mainly UQ students at the Bus Stop 14. We skipped the rush hours with people lining up in long queue for the several bus to come to pick them up. After that, the inflow of people returned to normal, which is just good fit for us to quickly finish the gospel sharing. There were as usual people that we met before. Some like to keep on with a follow up chat, some may say it is enough for the time being. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) Ah Fai 阿輝，from Hong Kong, recognized me immediately telling me that he met me the first day he arrived at Brisbane to UQ. He said he really had no interest to discuss this issue at the moment possibly because of the pressure of study. Nevertheless, I change the approach to let him talk more about his new life here and subtlely returned to the gospel life issue which he showed interest to listen on.

2) Another local Aussie Girl also said she chatted with me before and was not interested to go over them again. I anyway still managed to drag on a short while to leave some reinforcement of the gospel message.

3) Then I turned to two girls possibly Filipino who both took the tracts but showed great indifference. I nevertheless still finished the sharing of the nutshell of the Gospel.

4) An African man who got the tract but declined to chat possibly was occupied with some personal matter.

5) Nina an Indonesia girl who also recognized me right away. I was excited to share with her about the Tin Ore refinery project that God is calling Eric to engage and used it as platform for cross cultural frontier mission.

6) Tim an Australian Born Vietnamese who was very receptive to the Gospel message. His parent came to Australia at young age so, they are both very opened minded people as such Tim also appeared very open to gospel message.

7) Oliver a Cambodia young men who also appeared open minded and receptive to gospel and willing to take a selfie photo with me.

8 ) Jeffrey is from Hong Kong and quickly identified himself as Christian and indicated he is also joining Power to Change. He said he is a new convert but I nevertheless still checked on his assurance of salvation which he failed. I took the liberty to clarify the concept and theology for him.

9) Lastly, I approached a Singaporean Youngman who claimed he has no interest in religious issues. I still chatted with him for a long time about his life and his experience of serving 2 years as army. I still managed to chip in a lot of gospels message in our conversation.

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What a wonderfully tiring week of outreach!  We had another A&P Show this Saturday, this time in Rangiora, north of Christchurch.  And all the other normal outreaches were still running: Tuesday in Riccarton, Friday and Sunday in the city, and Online work as well.  Glory to God alone for enabling it all!

The Rangiora A&P Show was amazing.  I have some testimony that rings of the sovereignty of God!  There was a team of 8: Andy, Ollie, Glen, Angelica, Joffy, Vinil, Greg and myself.  All but Greg were members of Redemption Church.  We had a half and half mix of experience, so good to see more Christians getting involved in this way! :)

So, now to the testimony.

Firstly, I was showing Glen and Angelica how the flip chart works, when 3 young guys walk up and want to know what it’s about.  It was a great opportunity to demonstrate the use of the chart for real!  Early in the conversation it became apparent there was a language barrier.  It turns out the guys came from Brazil, and spoke Portuguese.  Amazingly, Angelica is from Colombia and speaks Spanish (similar to Portuguese), and so she played a pivotal role in translation in her very first flip chart chat!  That was so encouraging.  One of the guys was doing most of the talking.  (I tried to include the other 2 as much as possible.)  But at the very least, he was grasping the gospel by the end of the chat.

Soon after Andy got into a chat with a Polynesian lady, she had two young boys with her, yet in spite of their distraction, the lady was very engaged in the conversation.  Andy tells me that she heard the gospel, but when he was going through the “6 people” page of the flip chart (which is designed as a check to make sure people understand the false ways to heaven, and the only right way to heaven) she said, “oh, I thought it was Jesus AND my good deeds to get to heaven”.  Andy was able to clarify that, no, it’s Jesus alone.  She came to tears!  All these years she had been subtly misunderstanding the gospel, and this awakening moment was very emotional for her!  The power of the gospel!!  Andy invited her to sit down, and was able to continue with some more checks - she was now indeed understanding.  Glory to God.

By this stage, the site was getting busy, and all the flip charts were busy.

An old highschool friend passed by!  It was good to see him again.  I’ve shared the gospel with him many times, and he has been resistant to it, even though he would consider himself a Christian, he is very liberal leaning.  Yet, it was good to catch up.  :)  His young adult daughter was with him. She is studying at University, I asked her what she thought happened after life and we quickly fell into a really good gospel conversation!  My highschool friend listened to the whole thing!  It turns out she had a good grasp of the gospel, and is even a professing Christian.  I had a few question marks, which we discussed.  Yet another very encouraging conversation.

The highlight chat of the afternoon was with two brothers.  The first brother walked past, and I noticed him, but he didn’t look interested.  I saw him walk past again.  And then 5 minutes later he approached me.  He was armed for an intellectual fight (a nice one)!  He used big words on me, some of which I didn’t understand (e.g., inductive logic and deductive logic).  I was honest when I said I didn’t know what those terms mean, and asked him to explain them - which he did.  Eventually, he brought the conversation to his presuppositions.  I knew what that word meant!  He was baiting me to go to presuppositional apologetics.  But it was the early afternoon, and I was mentally exhausted. I didn’t have the energy for it… but I knew someone who would be keen, and he was right next to me: Andy.  I pulled Andy into the conversation, and then gently stepped back so that Andy could continue the conversation.

Andy, this guy's family was hanging around, and so I decided to engage one of them: his brother.  He told me his family was all Christian, except his brother (whom Andy was now engaging).  Fascinating!  We talked about church, before I decided to check: “So, what do you think you have to do to get to heaven?”.  His response was, “keep the 10 commandments”.  “Interesting”, I said, “would you like to check out the good person test?”.  He was keen.  So we fell into a straight forward gospel chat.  He was full of “Ooo’s” and “Ahh’s” as he came to grasp the gospel!  He agreed that if he died before the chat, he would have gone to hell, but now he was professing faith in Jesus alone to get to heaven.

So, while one brother was resisting entry to the kingdom of God, the other was entering it!  That is so biblical (Jesus said he would divide families, for example).

This just scratches the surface, so many wonderful chats had by the whole team.  The morning and early afternoon were so busy.  I took about 15 minutes to have my sandwiches before getting back into it!  I was at it for 7 hours, grateful that the late afternoon wasn’t as busy.  But, so worth it!  Glory to God alone.

Tuesday’s outreach in Riccarton was awesome.  Roger couldn’t make it, but Jermaine was able to join me.  It had been a hot day, but as I set up my flip chart, the rains came hard!  Once Jermaine arrived, I decided to put the flip chart back in the car and we just went freestyle.  We both had great opportunities to have chats, including some follow ups, as we went up and down Riccarton road, sticking to the shelters.  I gave away 3 bibles on that outreach.  It was great to be able to catch up with Jermaine over hot chocolate afterwards too. :)

Friday was a very slow outreach in the city, especially for me.  But it was great to see Andy and Roger having some good chats.  Daniel was there as well, faithfully handing out tracts.

And I’ve just come in from Sunday’s outreach in the city.  Great to have Mike and Susan with me.  Again, some interesting opportunities,  I don’t think I really got to have a full gospel conversation, but some ploughing was done with some partial sowing into the soil.

And that’s about all the energy I have left for this report!  I’m going to have some Online chats now, to finish the day.

Thank you so much for reading this far, and supporting this ministry in prayer!  God bless.
 

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