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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday July 20th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

 

A fine morning suddenly turned gloomy and even started drifting rain after we started today at Sunny bank. Praise be to God that we had a full team to day despite of the less-than-ideal weather condition. Johnny, Gary, Amy and Hung assembled again at the Sunnybank Plaza side of Bus stop. In general, it is a harder mission field there in SB with higher rate of rejection. Nevertheless, we still had many good quality gospel conversations. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung Kwan.

1 ) 中國夫婦, 僅單張 A Chinese Couples, Chatted just a short while before the bus arrived. The husband still felt good to take a tract. I just went straight to the core of the gospel that everyone is imperfect as such we all need Jesus to pay for the price of our sin.

2 ) 基督徒女士.太短，得鼓勵 Then I approached a Christian lady and got encouraged to keep doing His work.

3 ) 生於廣州,81香港移民來澳Mansfield, An old lady originally approached by Amy but I took over and chatted a long while about memory of HKG. Finally, I still managed to share the gospel to them.

4 ) 香港基督徒夫婦，Another couples from HKG. The man is doing TAFFE and the lady Joey is doing Qut master degree. They are Christians and was used to attend 福臨 Church in HKG, now still seeking for Church. We referred them to the Living Water Church in West end.

5 ) 純聊天不願談福音改講見証Then I approached a Chinese lady who did not want to listen to the gospel. Instead I shared with her my life testimony which she showed appreciation for it .

6 ) Stella a member of the Antioch Lutheran Church who was first approached by Gary and then Johnny as he had many previous chat with her. Her understanding of the gospel is very clear.

7 ) 成都移民朋友，初不願聊, 四川地震拉關係 Then had a long chat with two ladies from Chengdu. They initially had no interest to chat about gospel, but I used my 2008 Sichuan Earthquake disaster relief work to identify with them so at the end I could share the full gospel to them with apparent turn of heart to become receptive because of the love of God exhibited in the Christian ministry I shared with them.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday July 20th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

A fine morning suddenly turned gloomy and even started drifting rain after we started today at Sunny bank. Praise be to God that we had a full team to day despite of the less-than-ideal weather condition. Johnny, Gary, Amy and Hung assembled again at the Sunnybank Plaza side of Bus stop. In general, it is a harder mission field there in SB with higher rate of rejection. Nevertheless, we still had many good quality gospel conversations. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung Kwan.

1 ) 中國夫婦, 僅單張 A Chinese Couples, Chatted just a short while before the bus arrived. The husband still felt good to take a tract. I just went straight to the core of the gospel that everyone is imperfect as such we all need Jesus to pay for the price of our sin.

2 ) 基督徒女士.太短，得鼓勵 Then I approached a Christian lady and got encouraged to keep doing His work.

3 ) 生於廣州,81香港移民來澳Mansfield, An old lady originally approached by Amy but I took over and chatted a long while about memory of HKG. Finally, I still managed to share the gospel to them.

4 ) 香港基督徒夫婦，Another couples from HKG. The man is doing TAFFE and the lady Joey is doing Qut master degree. They are Christians and was used to attend 福臨 Church in HKG, now still seeking for Church. We referred them to the Living Water Church in West end.

5 ) 純聊天不願談福音改講見証Then I approached a Chinese lady who did not want to listen to the gospel. Instead I shared with her my life testimony which she showed appreciation for it .

6 ) Stella a member of the Antioch Lutheran Church who was first approached by Gary and then Johnny as he had many previous chat with her. Her understanding of the gospel is very clear.

7 ) 成都移民朋友，初不願聊, 四川地震拉關係 Then had a long chat with two ladies from Chengdu. They initially had no interest to chat about gospel, but I used my 2008 Sichuan Earthquake disaster relief work to identify with them so at the end I could share the full gospel to them with apparent turn of heart to become receptive because of the love of God exhibited in the Christian ministry I shared with them.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday July 19th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

Despise the resurging of Covid19 cases, the three of us, Johnny, Winnie and Hung remained committed to do our weekly regular outreach Tuesday at Toowong. It seemed that UQ is still at term break, so there were less people flow at the Bus Stop 14. Nevertheless, all of us still have numerous divine appointments to share gospel to people of all different nations. Recap below are the Battle Log of Hing and Winnie: -

1 ) Hung first approach was directed to Nash from Middle East , he was friendly and opened to the gospel and asked for a tract after wards before boarding the bus.

2 ) Then I was led to shared with two Taiwanese tall guys. They were responsive and had much interaction while I shared them the full gospel. They delightfully took tracts to ensure pondering on the gospel message afterwards.

3 ) Raton is a local Aussie young man. He was very attentive to the gospel message and appeared very receptive with clear understanding. He showed appreciation by taking a selfie with me.

4 ) Then I was led to speak to two UQ young man both from Beijing , China separately and consecutively. The former one was much more receptive and admitted the needs for salvation by Jesus. Yet the next one who arrived a bit later took a totally different attitude to rationalize the imperfection of humankind denying the need for Jesus to die and pay for our sins. 兩中北京，一明理，一狡辯

5 ) Then I approached another UQ student from Singapore who quickly disclosed he is a Christian, yet without assurance of salvation. Just in time to clarify this misconception with him before the bus arrived.

6 ) Next came a Cantonese speaking person from Guangzhou, China.中國廣州Surprisingly , he was also very receptive to the gospel message and show desire to accept Jesus as Saviour.

7 ) Last but not the least, I was led to approach Elanor a Jewish girl. She however did not show rejection to Christ as the Messiah and indirectly admitted Jesus is the Saviour and Lord of our Life.

Battle log of Winnie:

19/7/2022 Toowong

感謝 神今天的帶领，雖然初時很多人都不願意聽福音，但是 神感動他們，讓我有機會可以向四位中國青年，七位中國少女傳福音。有兩次是兩位一起講的。

有一位中國青年，Iris。及一位中國少女，Rina。他們都願意到教會尋求更多真理。

一位中國少婦，推着婴儿车，初時不願意聽，但是 神感動她，她都聽了重要的福音。

兩位青年，Samuel & Kelvin ，從斐濟群島來的（Fiji) 基督徒。解释救恩。

一位男士從孟加拉來的。（Bangladesh）Adam Khan，穆斯林。我講及三一神。

感謝讚美主今天的帶領！

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I’ve been very encouraged to hear that people are reading these reports and are finding them encouraging.  Glory to God alone.  May you be encouraged for the evangelism opportunities that come up day to day, may you take those opportunities to swing a conversation to the deeper questions of life and share the gospel.  Maybe you would be able to join me on the streets some time?  I’d love to have you with me :)  Or maybe you don’t live in Christchurch and, like me, are desperate to see God glorified in your community and beyond.  Be encouraged to, with the support of your church, go to a busy local street corner and start handing out tracts (you can get them for free here, here, or here), and start conversations.  God will honour our obedience.  You might think you can’t do that.  Well, I used to think that too, but then I discovered I could do it, and you can too!  Be encouraged as you read about how my week, doing exactly that, went :)

The rain was really heavy on Tuesday, so I made the decision to stay home and work online instead.  But although it’s been cold, the outreaches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday went ahead.

John, Roger, Andy and I were in our usual spot at the bridge of remembrance on Friday.  I was first there, and I noticed some JWs there with their stands - I haven’t seen them out for a long time!  I went over to say g'day.  During the brief chat I let them know I was a Christian out to share the gospel - but I wasn’t going to try to engage them in debate.  I let them know we’d have our own stand up soon (Roger).  After a cheery farewell, I headed to the other corner and proceeded to actually attempt to engage people, and within a minute, I was into a gospel conversation with a young couple.  They heard the gospel, and took tracts, but they had to move on.  Romans 1:16 - I leave them in God’s capable hands.

By this stage Andy and Roger had arrived.  Roger set up his chart, and then I decided to go for a wander to see who I could talk with.  I had barely moved down Cashel Mall when two young ladies stopped to chat.  Apparently they had been at some protest in Cathedral Square.  Ignoring that, I swung the conversation to the most important issue: what happens after life.  One of them had studied religious philosophy and uni - so I asked her what Christians have to do to get to heaven.  I wasn’t surprised when she said, “be good” – wrong answer!  So, I corrected her, and then moved into the building / builder analogy.  She was impressed by that.  But, sadly, she wasn’t interested in continuing the chat and needed to go.  Both girls accepted tracts as they moved on.

I made it down to Colombo street, but the fish weren’t really biting down there.  I saw the two girls again, and they said the protest was over - so I decided to go in that direction.  I spied some people sitting on the seats on High Street, so I bee-lined over, the first guy didn’t want to chat, but the two guys further on were keen.  I had a long chat with both of them (I’d say they were high school aged on school holidays, and so had the time).  They both came to grasp the gospel, and even made professions - so I got them to consider the cost of the gift.  And pointed them to the Bible and a good local church.  I left them with tracts which gives them a way to get in touch.

The Square was fairly empty, so I made my way back to the bridge of remembrance, handing out tracts as I went.  I was pleased to hear that Roger had been busy in conversations.  And Andy and John were talking to a small group.  So good!  I was able to have a couple more conversations before the outreach ended in a time of prayer.

Saturday’s outreach was amazing!  The sun was out and melted the frost.  It was so good having Mitzi join me again in Riccarton.  I had the “good person test” flipchart up, and it attracted a lot of attention.

But first up, I had a guy come over and say, “Hi Glen!”  I didn’t recognise him, but he explained that I had talked to him and another lady a few weeks ago - I remembered.  They were keen to go to a church after that chat, but he said they hadn’t followed it up.  I was able to check his gospel understanding (he got it right!) and then I gave him a card for my church (he lives close) with my contact details on it.

After that it was busy.  My prayer was that Mitzi would have some good opportunities to see the whole flipchart used - and God answered that prayer multiple times :)

The outreach ended with 3 different guys standing around the flipchart in gospel conversation.  The first guy is a regular heckler, who has mellowed out a lot lately.  He is asking really good questions, which is a really encouraging sign that the Lord is working on his heart.  And, he wasn’t interrupting the gospel conversation I was having with the guy next to him - instead just listening and soaking it in.  The guy next to him was claiming to be Christian, who had been an Atheist a year ago.  As he left, he paid me a huge compliment.  He said he had learnt more in our 15 minute conversation, than 5 years of religious education at high school!  Glory to God alone - the gospel really is simple, and the Bible answers all the questions that need to be answered.  The third guy in the mix joined the conversation part way through.  He was happy to just listen.  He actually left first!  But not after telling me he was from the USA and currently at the uni in Christchurch and looking for a church – he also left with a contact card for my church.

Sunday was cold.  So good to be at my church gathering in the morning (sadly none of the people I talked to on Saturday turned up - but that’s okay, they are in God’s hands), and a shared lunch after, before heading back to the city for outreach in the afternoon.

It was a bit slow in the city initially.  When Susan arrived, we decided to move down the mall a bit to set up the flip chart.  I had an awesome follow up opportunity from the week before, and an epic chat with a trio of girls – one in particular was very engaged and followed the logic of the gospel perfectly.  She was stoked!  I had some other chats as well.  Glory to God alone for any eventual fruit from the ploughing, sowing and watering.

Oh, nearly forgot to mention, you can now purchase the large, 6 page flipchart here! :)

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday July 13th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

Today was another day of Grace. The weather was fine, though Gary still could not join us because of kids got sick at home that needed his care. The three of us, Johnny, Amy and Hung however teamed up to do His work assigned to us. The beauty of today was a perfect illustration of team work. There were many cross referrals to each other for people coming from same or similar back ground to achieve the best effect of having the gospel and testimony to be shared. The results were in general very fruitful, with many prospective connections built for follow up and invitation to join CFC was extended, up to God further work to move them to come.

We also received a cheering up greeting from a passer by drivers. Glory be to God. He even asked for some tracts to be handed out to his friends.

Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung: -

1 ) Daniel, a Student from Mauritius and was a good listener to the Gospel with a receptive mind.

2 ) Mr Yang 楊 from Quanzhou 廣州人 was first approached by Johnny but he referred Yang to me as he is Cantonese speaking and he took over my conversation with another Chinese ladies that we chatted before. Despite Johnny already having shared the gospel with him, he still was in the opinion that being a good person would be good enough for heaven 做好人便可，I tried to clarify this misconception with him but failed which was cut short by the arrival of his bus. 未明道理但車已來

3 ) Ramsey might be from Egypt but he was born in Sydney. Possibly he is a Muslim but he 100% endorse the gospel I shared with him. He claimed he also believes in the only one God of creation and knew that we are all sinners that are subject to judgement by God after death. Just did not have time to crunch out the area of differences between his Muslim faith and Christianity.

4 )Then Amy referred Jason Ni 倪嘉翔 to me after having a long chat with this young man from Beijing and then Auckland of New Zealand. He is an UQ student but live off campus at Uni lodge. He and his mother had been to church in Auckland and actually he studied Catholic high school in NZ so he is aware of Christian faith yet not a committed believer. Amy asked me to cut in was to introduce him to Power to Change. But I was moved to share the gospel once again with him and invite him to come to our church as Woolloongabba is the midway interchange bus terminal to Cleveland taking only 20 min to our church. Pray that our long chat will move him closer to the last step of faith. Amy said he was very drawn to have conversation with us as he had chosen to miss several buses but kept talking with us.

5 ) Afterward, I approach Antony from Nigeria who has also called Australian home. I only had time to share the nutshell of the gospel with him but I guess he is a Christian already considering the conversion rate to Christ is very high in late years in Nigeria. Our conversation again was cut short by the arrival of the bus.

6 ) A tall guy seemingly is a Chinese but pretended initially he does not speak Chinese but eventually still abruptly turned away from our short lived conversation.

7 ) Then I had a long chat with Elaine 以琳 of the ICC International City Church (the ex- China town Assembly of God Church) She is a good church goer but was diagnosed having no assurance of salvation. I took a long chat to clarify her mis-concept about salvation, introducing to her the three folds salvation plan of God that we first will 100% sure to have eternal life and getting our heavenly citizenship back by repentance and accepting Jesus as our personal Saviour and Lord of Life. Thence God will send the Holy Spirit to dwell in our heart to start the life transformation work by substance back to perfect and the sinless state. Ultimately even our body will be transformed back to illness free state. She appreciated my teaching and affirm she now should have 100% assurance of salvation.

8 ) Finally, Michelle an Australian born Vietnamese who has not faith affiliation. But she listened to the gospel with great interest and agreed it is all sensible and logical. I hope she does not have any burden on Buddhism considering she is born here as if she is an Aussie.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday July 12th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

It was still a fine sunny Winter morning but the weather turned down cast towards noon and drifting rains even started as soon as we started the outreach around half past one. The facts is, God manages to train us to do His work under all weather conditions, that we should still be commissioned to work with God in all circumstances. His grace is always sufficient for us so despite of the adverse weather with light rain, I had a smooth outreach divine encounter with 5 persons inclusive of Christians and Non-believers. All of them were very welcoming and friendly, receptive to the message and 4 out of 5 were willing to take a selfie photo with me to signify their endorsement for this divine encounter. Recap below are the Battle log of Hung and Winnie: -

1 ) Ricky was actually a Christian but he still willingly listened to my gospel sharing very attentively. After I finished, he then disclosed he is a Christian but has no assurance of salvation. Thanks God I still had time to clarify the holistic meaning of God's complete salivation plan and led him to rebuild 100% assurance of Salvation giving credit only to Jesus whose work to die for us all , the Sinners, is 100% efficacious to redeem us from the bondage of sin or eternal death.

2 ) Ainsley Was approached by Johnny. She said she is a Christian, so I asked if Johnny had tested her assurance of faith. She said yes and I used my 2 diagnosis questions to verify that she does has sound assurance of salvation. I just supplemented with more biblical basis of this concept or doctrine and no wonder she is from a bible upholding church. She also delightfully took a selfie with me.

3 ) Then God led me to approach Charles an UQ student from Bangladesh. He is a Muslim but he kept a very welcoming and open mind to listen to the gospel which he found so sensible and logical as such very receptive to the idea of the atoning grace that Jesus died for our sin. He thanked me and happily took a selfie with me.

4 ) Then I caught up with a Hongkonger Mr Liu. He is of Catholic high school background but not yet a believer. But I shared with him my testimony apart from the standard Gospel message which he can fully identify with me as a HongKonger. He also was please to take a selfie with me but it was failed as he had to rush for the bus. 廖香港非信徒願聴

5 ) The last one today I approached was Jenny a Filipino. She initially declined to chat but God soften her heart to let me make friend with her first and I ended up still sharing the full gospel with her. She is of Catholic background so she does not understand the gospel and don't know about salvation. At the end, she took the tract after I finished the sharing just on time upon the arrival of her bus.

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The end of another week of God’s amazing patience.  Another week where we were able to declare the great just and mercy of God.  This week followed the usual schedule: Tuesday and Saturday in Riccarton; Friday and Sunday in the Central City.

The details of Tuesday’s outreach are growing dim, but there were a couple of highlights.  It was great having Roger there with me :)  Roger’s persistence and energy encourages me!

My first interaction was with an elderly lady.  By the way she was walking, I was pretty sure she wouldn’t stop, but I offered her a tract as she went past.  To my surprise, she did stop.  She didn’t believe in God, but even if there was, she considered herself a good person.  I was briefly able to challenge her with the law of God which did its job well, and so she was listening when I explained about Jesus.  Before I knew it, she was on her way again (a couple of minutes max) with a tract in her hand.  I was encouraged, because the gospel is the power of God for salvation!

Soon after I had 4 teen kids stop.  2 guys and 2 girls.  It turns out the girls had done the flip chat 3 times before (I think they said 3), but they wanted me to explain it to the 2 guys.  After 5 minutes of discussion, they asked if I could turn my flip chart around so they could sit in the seats behind.  No problem! :)  They sat in the seats, and I sat on the pavement, explaining the gospel.  What a privilege.

The two guys were resistant.  One was giving silly responses, the other one asked hard questions – it was so good seeing the look of comprehension and challenge on his face as I did my best to answer him, and take him through the law and the gospel.

But it was actually the two girls that were really paying attention.  One of them in particular.  I was so encouraged to hear she had attended a local church, and they had given her a Bible that she was reading occasionally.  So, I was able to continue ministering to them, and encouraging them.

Later in the outreach, it was getting dark when I had a great opportunity to share the gospel with a young high school student who is planning to go to medical school.  Early in the conversation, a guy I had talked to before came past and stopped to listen, he then interrupted me and asked me not to condemn anyone.  But just at that moment, Roger appeared; I signaled for Roger to talk to the interrupter, so I could focus on the high school student.  It worked!  The high school student stayed, not to be condemned (he already is), but to hear of the mercy of Jesus.

Friday was wet, but there was an opening in the weather in the afternoon that allowed Andy and I to head into the city to minister the gospel.  We didn’t have flipcharts and so were mobile.  Starting at the Bridge of Remembrance, I decided to open air preach to those passing by.  I didn’t preach for long, maybe 10 minutes.  Early on a lady stopped to listen, and ended up talking to Andy.  My guess was that she was against what I was saying.  But afterwards, she came over to encourage me!

Andy and I headed down to Colombo Street, where we both had multiple opportunities to talk with people.  I was able to talk to a couple new streeties, as well as have a follow up chat with a streetie I had talked to last week - sadly, she is going back to court and likely prison next week :O  She didn’t want to talk for long, but she did take 2 types of gospel tract with her as she left me.

We moved on to the Square, which was empty.  We had a bit of a strange encounter with two guys that seemed to be on drugs sadly, we decided to move on.  At this point, Andy had to leave to go to a work function.  I ended up back at Colombo street where I had an intense conversation with another streetie to end the outreach.

Saturday had rain forecast to start part way through the outreach, but I headed out anyway.  I was so excited to have a member of my church join me!  It was so awesome to have her with me. :)  The outreach started a little slow, but that was okay, it gave me the time to explain the ropes.

But then two people went past, one of whom was a jogger.  I didn’t think she would stop and I thought the other person would.  But to my surprise, it was the jogger that stopped!  She had a Christian background, and was even attending a couple of churches.  But very early on it was evident she had deep questions.  She was struggling with the issue of injustice.  I did my best to answer her questions, as well as explaining the law and the gospel.

It was during that chat that I noticed one of my regular streeties.  When the jogger moved on, I was able to speak with him.  He asked me to pray for him, and a difficult situation he is dealing with - I was happy to do that.  And it was at this point that another guy stopped.  Turns out it was a fine young Christian man who had a chocolate bar for me!  When it rains it pours! :)  Anyway, I was able to continue the chat with the Streetie.  I was able to give him my #, and a contact card for my church.

The outreach continued, but the actual rain had arrived, and it was getting worse.  I moved the flip chart to a more sheltered spot, but the fish weren’t biting, except for accepting tracts.  So we decided to end the street outreach early.

The Streetie came back, and I offered him a ride back to where he was staying (it was on the way), and during that time I continued to minister the gospel to him.  He’s staying only about 500m from where my church meets, and I invited him along (sadly, he didn’t turn up).

So, now I’m up to today’s outreach.  It was so busy!  It ended up going for 30 minutes longer than usual.  I had 3 other Christians with me - which was so good!

I was explaining the flip chart to the 3 Christians when a guy stopped and expressed interest, he was keen to go through it!  And then a young family stopped to engage as well.  So there were now 9 people around the flip chart.  Well, a crowd draws a crowd, so 2 others stopped as well, and then another.  That’s a dozen!  I couldn’t hold them all.  As the family left, they took tracts.  But the original guy, and 2 others stayed to hear the law and the gospel.  It was so good!

Later, I was talking to a couple of Christians who had stopped when suddenly a group of Muslim boys stopped to do the flipchart.  It was a great chat!  I could see them understanding the gospel and being challenged by the truth of it, and also the cost of accepting it.  Only a couple of those boys accepted tracts at the end.

The outreach ended with a long chat with a couple of guys.  One was Presbyterian, but going to a Catholic school, the other was Atheist (although actually agnostic).

Those are just the highlights of the day.  But the thing I was aware of the most is how practical and applicable the book of Romans is.  My church is studying this book at the moment, and today the preacher taught Romans 1:18-23.  As I was on the streets today, I was so aware of how often I indirectly refer to what is taught in this passage, over and over in my conversations with people.  And also how powerful it is!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday July 6th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

Praise be to God that the weather dramatically turned fine with sun coming up over the morning overcast cloudy weather. I also thank God that my fitness and spirit remained high after this morning BCG Chemo procedure. Again, because of school holiday break, both Gary and Amy were not available so just Johnny and Hung teamed up as usual at the Sunnybank Plaza side Bus stop. Though unavoidably there were still a few rejections, but the warm and sunny afternoon weather light up the heart of most people to be willing to engage in a sort of chat with mixed results. Above all, even no one responded, the messenger would still be blessed for doing the bottom-line blessing kind of Gospel outreach. Recap below is the battle log of Hung: -

1 ) Will, a Muslim young African man, realized we are all sinners. But the Muslim view of sin is greatly different from Christianity. They classify sin into the category of Intentional, a bigger sin, and unintentional, a lesser sin. By repentance not doing it again will lessen the degree of sin and finally Muslim ask God, their Allah for forgiveness. I asked him how does Allah forgive our sin on what basis. Is there punishment or consequence of sin. Then Will could not answer as such seeing the difference between the issue of sin and how it is addressed. Bus came and Time up, but Will was so appreciative for the chat as such taking a selfie with me.

2 ) Jason a Singaporean of Buddhism background. He kept stressing that he is a Buddhist follower as such he does not need to hear the gospel. Despite of initial rejection, God still softened his heart to let our conversation going on. I made him realize Buddhism is actually not a religion as it does not have a God head. Then he started to follow me as well as the gospel which he finally took a tract to ponder more.

3 ) Taiwanese origin Filipino showed initial avoidance but was fully convinced later asking for a tract when the bus came.

4 ) A Chinese lady took a tract and reluctantly listened to the gospel without much facial expression till the bus came.

5 ) A local Aussie girl refused to talk about God but I still got a chat with her to guide her ponder about judgment after death. I divert to the issue of the Independent Spirit of most Australian that is the seed bed of atheism or anti- institutionalism. Through this mutual identification, her heart was softened to take in the gospel message and left with a tract.

6 ) It was likely a catholic Christian From Filipino saying god bless me at the end of our hasty sharing of the core gospel message.

7 ) An elderly appeared to be dumb, or a disguised to not talking still took in some gospel message that I still endeavour to proclaim it to him.

8 ) Sister Li李大姊，her time of transit between two bus was too quick to allow a to the point conversation. Johnny suggested me to find another chance to chat with her to test if she has really received Christ. 還未測試到是否已信主

9 ) Three very arrogant Chinese ladies pretended not Chinese speaking, but their lousy English betrayed them. So just had to let go for those who are determined to despise the gospel.

10 ) Juno, a mixed Samoa father and Afghanistan mother who knows the gospel very well though still a non -believer. I nevertheless still went through the full gospel with him and I have the gut feeling that he was a step closer to Jesus' redemptive grace.

11 ) I approached a Local Aussie girl and a tom boy Chinese lady. The Aussie girl was open to the gospel but the Chinese girl a bit reluctant. But only the nutshell was shared but they took both the Chinese and English tracts.

12 ) I approached two Chinese UQ students from Fuzhou. One is open and welcoming another try to avoid by getting her friend to leave doing shopping.

13 ) Then I caught up with Madam Zheng from Taiwan. 張台灣, we chatted a while on common history of Taiwan and Hong Kong 聊港台的事 which closely bound us together. I anyhow had no time yet to touch on the Gospel. Madam Zheng bet to meet with me again next week.

14 ) Johnny referred Mr Yan甄 who is from Quang Zhou and once worked in South Africa for three years.南非民工 During that time，Chinses pastor did approach him so he admitted he heard of the gospel before.有聴過福音廣東人. Pray for God continuous guidance and show off His Mission Power.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday July 5th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

It was a most chilling early winter afternoon with soaking rain making the outreach most unfavorable, yet the three of us Johnny, Winnie and Hung were not deterred to be excused for this committed outreach mission at Toowong. There were much less people flow. The keenness for people to response were hammered by the dull and cold weather. I purposely gave Johnny and Winnie the priority to approach who ever arrived at the bus stop. I had comparatively less chance to do a full conversion, which however was recap as follows: -

1 ) Natalie a UQ student girl from HKG. She responded to me gleefully and declared herself a Christian very quickly. I turned to test her assurance of salvation which she indicated only about 80 %. Thus spent time to clarify for her this misconception and stressed to her don't leave a foot hold to Satan to accuse her because of her status in flesh is still not perfect but she must cling on to Jesus who has 100% saved her and guarantee to her the heavenly citizenship the moment she received Christ.

2 ) Rejected or ignored by several

3) Then approached one girl from China who took the tract but was too busy to chat long as she was texting someone.

4) Another rejection

5) Approached a Lebanon man but only got the gospel sharing half done as his bus arrived.

6) A cheerful country boy Norm from Mission Beach, showed great friendliness to stop listening music for having a chat with me. He delightful accept the gospel and the tract and was happy to take a selfie with me.

7) Another Taiwanese girl who has no religious background but still listened to my full gospel sharing though without much eagerness.

Battle log of Winnie

感謝 神的帶領，雖然很多人不願意聽福音，但是重要的福音種子放在他們裏面，等待 神讓他們生根長大。

1. 日本少女，Suze。聽完福音後，她説會想想基督信仰。

2. 中國少女不願意聽福音，説，要和媽媽通電話。所以我講了幾句重要的福音便離開。我説，每人必有一死，死後會有審判。不論你有否其他信仰。

3. 馬來西亞少女，Lisa，穆斯林。我講述基督信仰是三一神。信靠耶穌基督，罪得赦免。

4. 中國青年，Smith & Frank。他們很留心聽我講的福音。Smith 很高興聽到這些福音，他們説，會看單張，想清楚基督的信仰。巴士來到，不能再談。

5. 澳洲青年，Thoran。初時不願意聽福音，他説已经收到很多這些單張，落地獄都冇問题。我説，每人必有一死，死後會有審判，無論你有否信仰。信者，罪得赦免，可以上天堂及看他生前，曾经有做過什麽善事，便得到神的獎償。某些宗教，信徒生前，做了很多不合乎神心意的事，在臨死之前，付出很多金錢來買票上天堂。但是基督信仰是免费的，只要信靠耶稣，罪得赦免。聖靈感動他，看他沒有反對我所講的説話。我説，如果你有時間，看看單張，甚麽是罪。

6. 澳洲少女，Alexia & Ruby。她們初時 也是不願意聽福音。我同樣説以上同 Thoran 所講的福音，可惜巴士來到，不能再談。

7. 印度少女，Muller。穆斯林，我講及三一神。

8. 印度男士，Hindu。我講述基督信仰，是三一神。信靠耶稣，罪得赦免，有永生的盼望。

9. 澳洲少女，Samantha。我講及福音和見證给她聽，講完巴士來到。

10. 澳洲青年，Scott。他聽過很多福音。我問他信了耶稣基督嗎？我説，我們是罪人，應該是死在過犯之中，不能够上天堂。但是如果我們信靠耶稣基督，祂為救贖我們，被釘死在十字架上，死後埋葬，三天後復活。我們的罪，被祂的寳血洗净，便可以上天堂了。有些其他宗教人仕，生活時，做了很多懷事，為想死後可以上天堂，在臨死前，付出很多金錢來買票。基督信仰是免费的，只要悔改，信靠耶稣。他説會想想。

11. 中國少女，Fiona & Lucy。Fiona 剛下巴士，等待 Lucy 來接她。我便向她們傳福音及講見證。她們聽後，説，會看單張及想清楚基督的信仰。

12. 澳洲夫婦，Later & Sam。他們不願意聽福音。我説，每人必有一死，死後會有審判。不論你有否信仰。不信者，已经被定罪。信者，罪得赦免，有永生的盼望。我勸他們有時間看看單張，便知道什麽是罪。

願今天所有聽到福音人仕，悔改，回轉歸向神。阿們！感謝讚美主！

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Yeah, a really action packed week of street and online outreach.  Just focusing on the street work, I don’t think I’ll be able to articulate it all to you in the hour I have to write this, but I’ll do my best! :)

So, I was able to make it to all four regular street outreaches this week.  Roger couldn’t make it on Tuesday, so I was on my own at Riccarton.  Andy, Roger, John and I were in the city on Friday.  I was on my own again on Saturday lunchtime in Riccarton, and there was a good team in the city on Sunday afternoon - a total of 6.

So, starting in Riccarton on Tuesday.  It was a dreary day.  Not raining, but it had been, and it was cold and grey.  The outreach started slow, and I was beginning to wonder if I should have stayed home and worked online, when a school kid turned up.

It was so funny, because he came to me out of pity!  He was so nice, a Christian who saw me standing on the corner of the street with my flipchart in the cold, and he decided he was going to hop off his bus and come to pray for me!  I let him do that, and then we had a brief chat where, of course, I checked his understanding of the gospel.  His initial answer wasn’t clear, and so I started to ask questions when he suddenly said, “It’s not because of my works, but because Jesus died on the cross for me”.  Good answer!  :)  We continued to chat for a bit before he had to head off and catch the next bus.  He left with a tract and a challenge to join me in sharing the good news of Jesus.

Not long after he left, I had 5 Christchurch Boys High School guys stop to chat.  The conversation was going well, where I was working on getting them engaged on the important topic of what happens after life, when suddenly a lady stopped and interjected herself into the conversation.  The things she was saying were abrupt, and everyone became uncomfortable.  Amazingly, the kids hung around for a bit.  But eventually they left.  I think the lady was happy, because she wanted to talk with me.  Sadly she was drunk.  She called herself a satanist.  She talked about her life, and all the terrible things she had done.  And then, amazingly, she declared how good of a person she was!  She wasn’t in a stable state of mind, and so I had to be very careful in how I said what needed to be said.  But I was faithful in explaining how she is not good, and how she deserves hell.  At this point she started talking about how she had just stolen things from Riccarton Mall!  She even showed me these items.  I told her she needed to take them back.  She refused, and then continued to talk about how unfair life is, and how all her problems were the fault of others.  So sad.  Thankfully the long chat came to an end.  I touched on the gospel, but she really wasn’t read for it.  So I gave her two types of gospel tract.  I was surprised when she accepted them, and tucked them into her bag.  God willing, she will eventually read them, when in a better state of mind.  She left.  But she came back at least 2 more times.  The first time it was to try to give me the things she had stolen - maybe out of conviction?  And the 2nd time, she interrupted another conversation I had started with an elderly lady who didn’t believe in God.

It was dark by the time the outreach finished, but I had other good opportunities, including a quick conversation with a couple of guys waiting for a taxi to take them to the airport.  They left with tracts

Friday’s outreach was very busy.  I was first there, and so I handed out some tracts and was even able to get into a good gospel conversation before the outreach proper even started!  After prayer, I decided to go off on my own for some walk up evangelism.  Starting at the bridge of remembrance, where I had a chat with a guy sitting in the sun, I moved down to Colombo Street, where I had a chat with a christian girl who was between churches and struggling with the issue of homosexuality.  Sadly, she basically said it wasn’t wrong, and after discussing it for a while, she wanted to move on.

I headed towards Cathedral Square.  And ended up bumping into one of my regulars.  Sadly, still pointing to their good deeds as the reason they are going to heaven.  I spent about 20 minutes labouring with him.  He was open and friendly, and wanted to talk, but it felt like what I was saying was falling on deaf ears :(

I made it to the Square and was able to have some more follow up with three streeties.  One of them is fairly new.  She thinks she is going to heaven because she has said sorry and asked for forgiveness.  She thought she was a good person, in spite of the can of booze in her hand.  I explained why I deserve hell, and it shocked her.  I was able to explain why asking for forgiveness can’t remove her punishment.  She engaged for a few minutes, but sadly the other 2 guys distracted her and she quickly switched off again. :(

I completed the loop and made it back to the bridge of remembrance, handing out tracts as I went.  Back at the bridge, I could see the rest of the team were all busy in conversations.  So encouraging!  And I was able to have 2 more solid conversations there as well.  The first was with a deep thinking young man who loosely called himself Bhuddist.  And the 2nd was with two young high school aged guys, who think about what happens after life all the time.

No real down time in that outreach - which was great!  But, annoyingly, I lost one of my gloves! :(  Oh well.

Wow, I’ve still gotta write about Saturday and Sunday’s outreaches, which were really busy, but I’m running out of time!  And I don’t want to bore you (does anyone actually read these?  Are they helpful?  Let me know, because I could just use this hour in more evangelism! ;) Haha ).

So Saturday, I was on my own, nice Sunny day.  Started out a bit slow, but then I got into a great chat with a young couple.  They heard the gospel, and then I started working through the guy's questions. He had grown up in a Christian environment, but had rejected it.  Suddenly, another guy joined the conversation, and ended up killing the chat :(  The couple left and I was left with him.  I vaguely recognised him, I’m pretty sure I’ve talked to him multiple times before (but quite a long time ago).  I was friendly, but he responded oddly.  He then became subtly passive aggressive.  He would ask unanswerable questions, and when I tried to answer, he would basically say I got it wrong and start again.  Frustrating!  He started to twist my words, and accuse me of being insensitive to his culture by the pictures on the flipchart.  I’d had enough, and I politely said it was time for the conversation to end.  I politely asked him to leave me alone and not touch my flipchart.  He wouldn’t leave.  I was really uncomfortable.  He sat across from me, the aim was to stop me from talking to others.  I said I was going to start filming him, and I did - it didn’t phase him.  Finally I said I was going to call the police.  He said, “go ahead”.  So I did.  I tried 105 (non emergency) first, but I couldn’t navigate the menu, so I had to call 111.  Finally, the guy left, just as I started talking to the Police!  The guy I talked to was really good!  He took details, and after a 10 minute call, I was able to get back to work sharing the gospel! :)  I was able to distribute tracts and had a great chat to end the outreach.

I’ve got 5 mins left and I still need to sort pics and post!  Sunday was amazing!  Chat after chat.  The highlight was a chat with a young guy (Catholic background) who was very engaged and stayed in spite of multiple interruptions.  He came to understand the gospel, and then was able to open up about being gay.  I was able to labour with him that their was hope for heaven for him, but that the reality was his life would change - he wouldn’t be able to practice homosexuality.  Even though we sin, we can be forgiven as a gift.  We parted on good terms and a good handshake.  He left with a tract.

I could write more, but I think this is the longest report I’ve ever written.  Today, in church, we read Matthew 9.  The last 2 verses say this:

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” 
- Mt 9:37–38

This is so true!  Come and join us out in the harvest!
 

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