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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday August 6th 2025 from 1030-1200

Today, I was alone again to do the street outreach with all my team mates not available. Sunnybank uses to be a heard land for gospel outreach, so I just aimed to take a soft approach to get connected first especially with Mainlander. And today my first target was from Xian. My past visits to Xian twice helped me to quickly build rapport and could transit to gospel sharing. Then I was led to connect with yet another Indian Christian. He actually approached me with a purpose to show his support and appreciation. He even donate $20 which is the first time people doing this on the street. I anyway accepted it and will donate to Walk the Wall to support Ivano. He is also the rare clear minded Christian that answer the two diagnosis questions correct showing he has 100% assurance of salvation and a good biblical understanding of salvation. Many other approaches were either not complete and ineffective.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Aug 12th, 2025 from 1030-1200

Today, Edwin was still not available due to car break down. So only Johnny and Hung teamed up at Toowong. It again was a fruitful time for us to reach out to non-believers from different cultures and other religions as well as Christians from different denomination/background. One good thing is Johnny asked me to get a name card of Kenneth from Power to Change so that people can approach them for help to pursue further on the ground/foundation we built.

As for me, today was mainly a Christian apologetic day. Apart from a few non-believers from Beijing and Hunan Changsha of Mainland China and one Muslim girl from Kuwait, I met Christians of different background, ie. born from a South Indian Christian family, Catholic, Orthodox and protestant from Baptist and Presbyterian background. Amongst all these 5 or six Christians, only one young girl professes the correct understand of faith with 100% assurance of Salvation in Christ alone. She actually came for a Christian conference held at UQ campus. So, the teaching of the churches seem to be far not clear and good enough to nurture all new converts to have the unshakable foundation of Christian bottom-line doctrine of faith.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Aug 5th, 2025 from 1030-1200

It was a day full of grace and surprised, especially for Johnny. He started off encountering strong resistance having been rejected for any chat for the first 4 to 5 person along the long queue for bus. He immediately resorted to a prayer of SOS, and then God showed Johnny His grace and the power of the Gospel, the following two gospel target all responded overtly and willing to receive Christ as their Savior on the spot, one is Asian from unknow place but very good in English, another is from Indonesian with some Chinese blood. Both genuinely repent and received Christ on the spot with Johnny witnessing and praying for the conversion. It was a miracle that only God can perform.

As for me, I was sort of smooth sailing with a clear pattern. Apart from the chats with first a local nonbeliever Aussie David and last an Indian Christian Danelle, all the rest are with Cantonese background people from Guangdong and Guangxi province. They were not behaving like typical mainlander taking an avoidance approach but all embrace the gospel with an open mind and receptive hearts. May all Glory be to God.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday August 6th 2025 from 1030-1200

Both Johnny and Edwin were not available to day so I was left to do solo, but also for a short period. It was because mild flu symptom of bleeding and running nose. Irrespective of all these minor restraint, I still can manage to share gospel with many with mixed result. There were blunt ignoring if not straight rejection. There were half hearted ones hearing without listening or abrupt aborting the sharing midway. By the grace, there were also a couples of open and receptive ones. For instance , with Charloote a local Brisbane girl studying last year at UQ for Art. She is a non religious non-believers, but she was polite and considerate to let me share her the full gospel and ended up admitting it is all convincing for every one goof or bad, as long as we are imperfect, we all need the grace of God to save us through the atoning death of Jesus. She promised she will think deep and make her personal decision to accept Jesus in her personal private space. Another long and fruitful chat was with a Shanghainese couples. Basing on the common affiliation with Shanghai, I virtually shared my life witness to him even without much religious vocab. All in all, it was a blessed morning to let me keep my commitment to live a life on mission with God.

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It’s been a month of gospel chats with those that have been open - praise the Lord, may his mercy be magnified.  It’s been a month of gospel chats with those that have been resistant - praise the Lord, may his justice be magnified.  Yet, it may be those that are initially resistant that end up accepting the mercy of God; and likewise, it may be those that are initially open that end up rejecting the mercy of God.  Who knows?  God knows.  But either way, he will be glorified in him becoming more known through our feeble effort.

 

Often when people ask me how the street evangelism is going, I’ll tell them about a recent chat I’ve had where the person was resistant.  In my mind, I’m just excited that I had the opportunity to talk to them, and bring glory to God in the process.  But then the person I’m talking to will misinterpret that into thinking I need encouragement.

 

Now, don’t get me wrong, I do need encouragement, and I need the prayers of the saints, as we all do.  But, I’m content in my labour, without that allowing me to become slack in my labour.  I have the sufficient encouragement of scripture and the sound theology that comes from that.

 

Our job is to plough, sow and water.  It’s God’s job to bring the increase.  It’s hard work, and yet, the burden is light.

 

And when you are persistent, then the reward comes.  Yes, there is a lot of rejection and indifference from those walking past, but then someone will stop and you will have a gem of a conversation!  And so, to you: reader, I want to encourage you!  Don’t go soul winning once and give up!  Make a commitment to go regularly, and be persistent, and before you know it, years will have gone past and you will have memory after memory of God honouring gospel conversations where those you talked to may have been resistant or open, but you know God was glorified either way.

 

The opportunity for the gospel is unlimited.  And it’s been very encouraging for me to have a couple of the young men from my own local church joining me in outreach this month.  Rovin has been joining me on Sunday afternoons, and Toby joined me on a Saturday afternoon.  I’m loving having you guys join me!  And, if you are in Christchurch, I’d love to have you join me too.  Get in touch.

 

Here are a couple of highlight chats from the last month.

 

I’ve been working on being more disciplined in my personal devotions, prayer and Bible study.  One of my constant prayers is that, in my evangelism, I’ll be faithful to the word of God, and not compromising out of fear of man.  And yet, I pray that I’ll be gentle and respectful in my communication.  Now Society is fickle.  In one season, a particular issue (e.g., gender identity, or climate change) will be hot, but then the next, it’s not.  I’ve been through seasons where everyone will be asking / challenging me about homosexuality, but currently, it’s not an issue that comes up often.

 

But, two Fridays ago, I got into a gospel chat with four young people from Perth.  They were all in different spaces, and most of them were not taking the chat too seriously.  But, as the chat progressed, one lady did become serious.  She initially denied that God is real, but as she came to realise that it didn’t make sense that God was real, she challenged me: “well, I wouldn’t be welcome at church”.  “Why not?”, I responded innocently.  She shot back: “I’m gay”.  Faithful, yet gentle and respectful.  My initial response was to play neutral, “we are all sinners” - which is true, and yet, I knew that wasn’t faithful, and so, I had to be honest.  “Yeah, homosexuality is a sin”.  The air became icy.  It was uncomfortable.  But we must be faithful.  The conversation continued for a bit, but there was no real engagement at this stage, and so it was natural to let the chat wrap up.  As the four young people moved on, I offered follow up tracts, 2 took one, and to my surprise, the girl who claimed to be gay took one.  From her own mouth, her reason for saying God is not real is because she is gay, and yet, I made it clear that that didn’t make sense.  God is real, we all know it, yet we suppress that truth because we love our sin.  If we humbly face the truth of our sin, then there is mercy and forgiveness - because of Jesus.

 

Later on the same day, an older man went past.  “Excuse me sir, can I ask you a question?”, I say.  He was initially surprised by my question “What do you think happens after life?”, and yet he stayed to talk.  Yes, although most have their head in the sand, many want to talk about this - esp. with someone who is safe: that is, a stranger.

 

It turns out this man was Jewish.  As we chatted, he felt he trusted me enough to confess that he was grieving the loss of a close relative in Israel, he was a soldier who had been killed in Gaza.  He, like everyone else, is trying to process the evil and suffering and reconcile it all.  Glory to God!  I was giving the privilege of ministering to him.  Sadly, he was resistant to the gospel - it was like all his reasoning ability was turned off.  And yet, soil was ploughed, seeds were planted, questions were answered.  Although he was rejecting the gospel for now, nothing is wasted: God’s mercy or justice will be magnified.  As the conversation wrapped up, I was again able to express my sympathy over his loss. He teared up again in grief as he moved on.  God, have mercy!

 

On the following Sunday, I had a wonderful chat with a young lady, very resistant at the moment, and yet she was challenged by the reality of God’s law.  She moved on before I could share the gospel (although she did take a tract).

 

As I looked up, a lady was sitting on the bench across from me and watching intently.  She recognised me, but I didn’t recognise her.  I approached, and it wasn’t long before I remembered exactly who it was.  It was a young lady that I’ve been praying for.  I had a long chat with her, maybe a year ago(?).  She had opened up about some very painful and difficult situations at the time.  Things were no different now, and so I was able to continue the chat.  Amazingly, in spite of all the terrible things that had happened to her, she had no conception of her own wrong.  She seeked to justify all she did, to the point of absurdity.  She insisted on her goodness.  So I patiently laboured with her.  Although she is not outwardly open at this stage, I know there is something in her that is honest about the things we were talking about.  I gave her a gospel of John to read.  Pray that she does.  I hope to see her again and continue the conversation.  Or maybe you will be the one to continue that chat?  Come join us in the harvest!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 30th 2025 from 1030-1200

Praise be to God, that the three Street Gospel Warriors , namely Johnny, Edwin and Hung, assembled again to team up to preach the gospel at the Sunnybank Bus stop.

It is a fine day for outreach though with mixed results. We faced many rejections or reluctant listeners, but in the meantime, God also led many willing souls to listen to the gospel with open mind and general receptiveness to the gospel message and the logic behind. For the former group, they were in majority people from mainland China or even including some Hong Kongers. For the more receptive groups, they includes people from Pakistan, local Aussie mature woman and young Aussie girl doing Uni study , and girl from Africa. May God Will be done through all these divine encounter and gospel sharing conversation.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 29nd, 2025 from 1030-1200

Johnny joined me again at Toowong after his overseas trip back to Brisbane. It was a fine day to Johnny as compares to the hot and timid whether in Taipei. Both had many divine appointments sharing gospel to people of all Nations including New Zealander, Mainlander Shanghai girl, Hong-Konger cap, Malaysia Girl , James from the Gold Coast and Carolina from Portugal. All of them appeared open and receptive though all of them are non-believers.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 23rd 2025 from 1030-1200

Hopefully, today is the last day I will have to do street outreach solo by myself and Johnny is coming back next week. It was though a very pleasant outreach experience having quality conversations with three open and receptive non-believers: first Adrian a half Aussie and half Japanese young man, than an Australian born Pakistan young man, and then an elderly Vietnamese lady who speaks good English having migrated to Australia for 50 years. They all were impressed by the logic of the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect in our human characters/natures, we are all subject to God's wrath and judgment unless we accept Jesus as our Savor taking over the punishment as well as consequence of eternal death or disqualification to rejoin God's kingdom. With such needs clearly established, all of them will ponder deeply to respond to the calling of God, in His time.

There were some other shorter conversations as such the gospel message was not fully preached. There was only one rejection of Gospel by a Congo couples. Nevertheless, all of these encounters should be regarded as divine appointments serving God's purpose in His Will and Plan.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 23rd 2025 from 1030-1200

Hopefully, today is the last day I will have to do street outreach solo by myself and Johnny is coming back next week. It was though a very pleasant outreach experience having quality conversations with three open and receptive non-believers: first Adrian a half Aussie and half Japanese young man, than an Australian born Pakistan young man, and then an elderly Vietnamese lady who speaks good English having migrated to Australia for 50 years. They all were impressed by the logic of the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect in our human characters/natures, we are all subject to God's wrath and judgment unless we accept Jesus as our Savor taking over the punishment as well as consequence of eternal death or disqualification to rejoin God's kingdom. With such needs clearly established, all of them will ponder deeply to respond to the calling of God, in His time.

There were some other shorter conversations as such the gospel message was not fully preached. There was only one rejection of Gospel by a Congo couples. Nevertheless, all of these encounters should be regarded as divine appointments serving God's purpose in His Will and Plan.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 22nd, 2025 from 1030-1200

Not sure if UQ finished the terms break. There were not many people flow but still managed to catch up with several persons including a longer chat with a Japanese girl, a couples from Taiwan and one from Mainland China. Others were just short chats interrupted by the arriving buses. Qin Hao was not available today due to academic appointment with Lecturer and Johnny is yet to come back by week end.

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