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On Saturday, the team got to share the gospel in Brisbane city, encountering all kinds of different people.

One stand out conversation was with two young guys - Zane who was Mormon and Darcy who was Catholic.

Zane started off by telling me about the Mormon idea of 3 levels of heaven. I avoided that topic and instead showed them through God's law that we have sinned and deserve hell. But Zane the Mormon was adamant that good works paid for bad works.

So I asked if a criminal did 5 crimes and then did 10 good things, would the police ignore their crimes? The Catholic guy was getting it, but the Mormon didn't want to budge. Even when going through the gospel, Darcy the Catholic was like, "I will believe in what Christ has done for me!" while Zane the Mormon dug his heels in saying, "I will never change my beliefs."

So I said, "Think of Islam, Buddhism, and every other religion besides Christianity, they teach doing good fixes bad actions, but we've seen how that doesn't work. So if a religion teaches that, they are wrong."

Both Darcy the Catholic and Zane the Mormon (surprisingly) agreed. And Zane said, "But Mormonism is Christianity."

I then said, "They are many churches around, but if a church teaches that good works paid for bad works, they are really aligning themselves with Islam and every false religion, rather than Christianity."

At that, the penny seemed to drop for Zane the Mormon, and he realized that if his church is teaching what every false religion teaches, it can't be right. We chatting further and in the end, both actually came to profess to trust in Christ alone for their salvation.

All glory to God!! Please pray for them both. We meet each Saturday and Sunday nights in King George Square for evangelism, join if you can.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday March 23, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

Gary re-joined us today arriving early and started with me and Amy first and later joined by Johnny making a team of four for reaching out at the Bus Stop. Praise and thanks God blessing Amy with many conversations helping her to become more well versed in the skill as well as catching the moving of the Spirit to find the right words to respond to questions or even challenges from the gospel listeners. In the mean time, God also allowed some aggressive hecklers to disturb or even attacked and interfered our outreach work but gave us wisdom and perseverance heart to withstand those hardship and adversity. In general, both Johnny and Amy had some very good conversation leading to close conversion status. Recap below is my Battle Log:

1. Madam Lin a senior woman from Indonesia came visiting her daughter in Melbourne than her son in Wishart Brisbane. She claimed to be a Christian but she was diagnosed without assurance of salvation. I checked if she attended Steven Tong's Church in Jakarta, and she said no. That has explained why she is still not well versed in basic gospel and salvation doctrine. I took longer time to help her get a better understanding of the core gospel message. She showed great appreciation of my teaching help.

2. Then I approached a couples of boy and girl friends Isaac and Rebecca. They were not keen to chat, but my friendship first tactics had kept them from bluntly rejecting me but instead listening on till I shared with them the full gospel.

3. Next I approached two Chinese ladies from Mainland China. Only the one sitting next to me Miss Huang interacted with me though with some degree of reluctance. The other one was not paying full attention but God moved Amy to chat with her. I gave a brief rundown of the nutshell of the gospel to Miss Huang. But she responded that she only believes in Science. Then I gave her another rundown of the Creation Account, showing how it harmonize with all the natural law created by God. before the bus came.

4. Then we caught up with Christian sister madam Li, 李姊妹 a member of the Logos Brisbane Church and BCCMA Choir members. Amy had a chat with her about her friend circle. I basically concern more about her assurance of Salvation.

5. I approached another Indian girl but she was not at all welcoming for the chat. But I still apply the friendship first tactic to keep the conversation alive till I finish the nutshell of the Gospel just in time before she met up with here friend.

6. Florence is a Singaporean Aussie with Chinese look but speaks only English. Initially she appear very skeptical to have conversation with a stranger, but my friendship first tactic sharing my life journey earned her interest and attention that led to eventual sharing of the gospel. However, I found out that she is already a Christian, but as usual, she does not have assurance of salvation which I managed to gave her a full clarification.

7. Finally I followed up on a Chinese from Guangzhou 廣州 that Gary handed him a Chinese tract. I accidentally pick up his accent as a Cantonese speaking person. So I quickly share him the nutshell of gospel before the bus came very fast.

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday March 22, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

It seemed to be yet another day of outreach at Toowong, with again only the three regular team members of Johnny, Winnie and Hung. But God worked in mysterious way that each time, the people we met and can have a chat are all divine appointments by God through the Holy Spirit. Some are smooth sailing while some are hard yard facing initial rejection but mission power always take place to turn around the situation allowing Gospel to be shared with ultimate results in God's Good Hands. All we need to do are to faithfully submit to the guidance of the Spirit to work with God with total dedication and commitment of our all. It is more so an important narrow path for obedient Christians to grow in grace and in knowledge of God in our life long Christian Walk.

Recap below are the Battle Log of Hung and Winnie as usual: -

1. An Indian girl from Singapore rejected Winnie, but God led me to have a chat with her in a softer way by sharing with her my own testimony. It turned out that she responded very positively to the Gospel admitting Jesus is the only way to take our place to receive punishment of our sin.

2. Then another young man from Shanghai reject Johnny but still I was moved to approach him using friendship chat to break the ice. I use my only testimony that even as a Sichuan 2008 earth quake disaster relief volunteer, contributing my effort to help out needy person to have peace after the traumatic experience, I am still just a good person but not a perfect one that can be right with God for heaven. I still need Jesus and that was the message I have been preaching in China and up till nowadays on the street of Australia. He was impressed and took a tract to read and ponder on his own situation.

3. Richard was a person of "faith" but seemingly not of orthodox Christian faith. Yet, I managed to spirituality clicked with him first to gain the trust to share the gospel message that he initially thought he had no need to listen.

4. Then I approached Trever who was very willing to have a chat on faith with me. Yet we were interrupted by a very aggressive Aussie lady who threated to call the Security and later the Police. So with such disturbance, our chat was cut short. But Trever still thanked and show appreciation for our effort to share the message we thought is important for everyone to listen.

5. Ormat a French Catholic PhD student of UQ was delighted to chat with me with an opened mind, humble and friendly manner. Despite his Catholic background, he is very receptive to the orthodox Christian Gospel message admitting we are all imperfect sinners and every one need Jesus.

6. An Aussie girl of new age background who does not believe in trinity yet still heard the gospel. She likes many atheist or Sect, who do not accept Jesus is God or taking him just a lesser god , questioned about the efficacy of Jesus work on the Cross. So obviously here mind is still blinded by the evil spirit as such she could not receive the revelation by the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, Gospel was once more time shared with her as seed sowing though still on a hard ground.

Battle log of Winnie

22/3/22，Toowong

今天陽光普照，非常炎熱。很多等巴士的學生，都躲入樹陰下。感謝 神的带领，讓我遇到很多不同地方來的學生傳講福音及解释救恩。

1. 印度少女，Peggy。講了一半福音，巴士來到。她願意閲讀單張。

2. 香港青年，Sorda。他的父母是天主教徒。但是他没有跟父母去教會。我解释天主教與基督教不同之處，跟着傳福音给他，以及講述信了主耶穌後，基督徒的生命會慢慢不斷的改變。他聽完我所講的説話，願意悔改信靠主耶穌，找教會。

3. 澳洲少女，Jessica & Lara。Jessica 是基督徒，明白救恩。Lara 説是聽過耶穌名字。我從新講解福音给她。講完，巴士到達。

4. 泰國來的青年，Peter。他的父母是佛教徒。我解释佛教與基督信仰的分别。跟着傳福音給他。他説會閲讀單張及想清楚基督的信仰。

5. 三位中國少女。Amy，May & Anne。當我講完福音，巴士來到。

6. 澳洲少女，Silvia。當她聽完福音，她説會閲讀單張及想想基督的信仰。

7. 中國青年饒學生，廣洲來的。當他聽完福音，他説會閲讀單張及想清楚基督的信仰。

8. 中國青年男女，不願意留下名字。男子願意聽我講的每句説話，但是女子側面向着我。我除了講述福音，還解释為何每年都有復活節及聖誕節。講完巴士來到。

9. 中國少女，Grace。我除了講述福音，還講及復活節和聖誕節。她聽後，她説會閲讀單張及想想基督的信仰。

10. 中國少女，不願意留下名字及聽福音。我只有给她單張，希望她能閲讀。

11. 中國少女，Betty。講了一半福音，巴士到達。她説會看單張。

12. 印度來的青年，Danny。當他聽完福音，他説會想想基督的信仰。

感謝 神的帶領，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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It was encouraging to see Amy settling well with street outreach that she once  felt hesitant to join. She now even introduced her friend to come along to have a taste of working with God through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Pray that it will bring a renewed understanding of God's Great Commission in a contemporary context of new mission land scape ""From Everywhere to Every where"that every lay Christian can have a go to reach out to people of all nations that God has already brought to our door step living with us in the same community. And we have an advantage of not needing to learn their language, but rather they have to integrate into the new host country by learning the local language there, which in Australia case, is English. 

While doing God's works under the call of Great Commission, we do not just spread the gospel to the end of the world meaning reaching out to each and every least reached people groups, we ourself in the meantime will be polish and nurture to grow in spirituality toward maturity and ultimately perfection as promised by God per Eph 4:10 making us a masterpiece of God's own workmanship. In the process, we will be made the light and salt of the world that is the motto of Operation 513 referring to Matt 5:13-15. May more people be drawn to grow this Christian outreach army.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday March 16, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

Praise and thanks God Amy brought along Kally to join us today to get a taste of Street evangelism outreach which is by nature difficult if not impossible by us the unmerited people but by grace through faith, we could see the work of God through the Spirit to give us enough divine encounter appointment to chat and share about the gospel. Facing rejection is normal and a good practicum for us to identify with Jesus who also faced a lot of rejection at His time. It helps building steadfastness and perseverance in our renewed Christian walk. Today, God seems to have arrange a Malaysian day for me to have caught up with three Malaysian of three religion background, namely Muslim, Buddhism and Christian. Please read my Battle log as recap below: -

1. Monas, a Malaysian Muslim young man, who appeared very polite and quietly listened to my sharing of the Gospel. He said he has heard it before but have a big question mark why sin has to be punished but not simply being forgiven by the mercy of God. If so, God is not really merciful at all but must have someone be punished. It was a very good question that reflects the major difference between Christianity and all other religion. It was a pity I did not have time to explain as the bus came right at this moment. Only Christianity shows the two contrasting characters of God being the loving kindness aspect and the wrath of God against sin. To uphold his righteousness requirement, He cannot let sins unpunished. So God will hold every human being accountable for what we have done and the verdict is eternal punishment of dead or the wage of sin is death eternally. Yet the mercy of God reflects on his sacrificial love by sending His begotten son to die for us taking over the punishment of our sins on his shoulder to create the atoning effect. I pray that I can meet him again sometime in the not so long future.

2. Leo from mainl and大陸，immediately recognized me as we had a chat last week or not so long ago. I tried to refresh his memory on the message and test how well has he received this salvation package offered by God to him. It was a pity the bus came right at this moment.

3. An India Hindu lady by the name of Pratima was very polite and appeared very receptive to the full gospel message that she is willing to believe. I asked her to read the tract again at home and pray to God to guide her to make the last step of faith.

4. An Korean lady asked for directions to the city in exchange for the direction to heaven. She had already rendered a listening ear to me but the bus came at this critical moment to take her away.

5. Kevin the 2nd Malaysian of today who is from KL. Despite he and his family are of Buddhism background all their life, but he is able to keep a very open-minded attitude to appreciate the biblical truth.

6. Joy is the 3rd Malaysian I met today and she declared herself Christian but totally lack of Assurance of Salvation. I took the chance to explain to her the three-fold salvation package in the past, the presence and in the future and the full gospel of justification, Sanctification and glorification in the end.

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

We praise and thanks God for moving Rev Kiateck Tan to join Johnny, Winnie and Hung today despite his three BST interns did not turn up again for this street outreach. There is always need for more labor to serve on the harvest field.

As a result of the beginning of a new term of UQ, we saw heap of people lining up in long queue for the bus. If the bus had not come that frequent and stopped only for a short time to take up queuing passengers, we could have too overwhelming number of people that we cannot handle. But God is good, the four of us were able to manage to pick up just enough people to share the gospel. God also sent a couple very serious Muslim with apologetic mindset to engage in great debate with first Johnny and later joined by me. They actually were trained to pick on Christians to challenge their faith. All we can do is to stand our ground and use the orthodox version of Bible to debate with the Muslims who are skilled at using out of context quotation and sometime even twisted facts to reject the trinity and deny Jesus as the Son of God.

Actually Kiateck had also approached some lay Muslims that they were more opened minded and less argumentative.

Recap anyway is the Battle Log of Hung followed by Winnie: 0

1. I had the longest chat with Chan陳 a HonKonger who is in his 2nd year of Uni with UQ. He initially told me he once was but no longer now as a Christian. But after clarification, his parents are church going people 香港父母是上教會的基督徒both in Hong Kong and now here in Australia. And he has never been a Christian but simply just went to church with his parent in HK, 自己不是，曾隨家人上教會but no more perhaps with the excuse of concentrating on Uni study現已離開教會. Despite of this near atheist background, he appeared to have piece mill knowledge of the Bible thru his past Sunday School learning. But God obviously has touched his heart and opened up his mind to find light shedding truth about the deteriorating nature of human beyond redemption by our good deeds and see the need for Jesus redemptive grace to take our place to receive the punishment of sim originally due on us. He was delighted to know he could be God people right away by accepting Jesus as his Saviour and Lord of his life. Therefore is very close to conversion, 接近信主 as such he was happy to take a selfie with me as a memory of this divine encounter that possibly might have led him to Christ in no time.一.

2. The 2nd person I approached pretend he does not speak Chinese假裝非華人.But I then shared with him in English that he cannot reject, 但仍勉強聽 so reluctantly he had to listen to my sharing of the gospel in full and took a tract at the end.

3. I then took over from Johnny to do apologetic debate with a learned Muslim, Mohammad. He is very argumentative and was trained to twisted Bible facts to misled green and lay Christens who are not well verse in the Bible. For instance, he said Mary is never married and had no husband. Even the Catholic dared not claim Mary has no husband but simply claimed she has never had sex with Joseph her husband after giving birth to Jesus. So, his way of apologetic was very rough and easy to tackle and clarified. It was a pity the bus came and I invited him to look for us next week to continue with a apologetic exchange.

4. Then I approached two Chinese students one appeared very cautious and skeptical but still listened. The other was more opened and listened with a receptive heart. So the seed of Gospel was sown on different ground and up to God to reap the fruit.

5. Then I caught up with Ellen a modern urban girl look like us the HongKonger, but she is actually from mainland China Jiang Xi Nan Chong. 山西南昌. When I knew she is a year 2 UQ students so I asked had you been able to go home during vacation and the answer is no. Because of pandemic, all Chinese students got stuck here so most of them have home sick. I show my empathy and gained her trust for a very smooth full gospel sharing which has impressed her very much as she can see the ugly side of human nature especially what is happening in China the Communist regime. Pray that the Spirit will move her just a step from her final salvation.

6. Myer a Nepalese UQ students. She was originally very rejective and firmly declined my approach for any chat about Christianity. I nevertheless identified with her that ever since the earthquake taking place ten odd year ago, Christianity has gained significant ground through first charity and disaster relief work. Unknowingly, the Spirit put off her fire of antagonism and listened submissively all I have to share with her about the nutshell of the gospel. Though at the end she still reject taking the tract, but the seed of Gospel has obviously been sown.

7. My last personal approach to a girl from Suzhou was very promising as I can identify with her as a rare visitor of her home town even before she was born. Yet the Bus came and all I can leave with her was the tract. 蘇州女沒時間

8. Last but not the least, I joined Johnny to have very vibrant doctrinal debate with another Muslim who is a father of a young kids. It was weird to have loud conversation when his child was asleep in the pram. This person was even more well learned in the Muslim version of the OT bible raging fierce debate to reject trinity and the divinity of Jesus. It was a pity we already ran out of time and had to leave, I anyway stay till the last minutes and also invite him to come back next week for more apologetic exchange.

Battle Log of Winnie on 15/3/22 at Toowong

今天街上很多青少年學生在等巴士。但是很多人都不願意聽福音。感謝 神的帶領，讓我可以遇上很多基督徒和非基督徒，解释及傳揚福音。

1. 中國來的 UQ 男學生，Jeremiah。

2. 中國來的 UQ 女學生，Jessica。

他們聽完福音後，會閲讀單張，及想清楚基督的信仰。

3. 兩位澳洲少女，Hanna，基督徒。 Elle ，未認識主耶穌。我解释救恩给 Hanna，傳福音给 Elle。 當我講完福音，巴士到達。

4. 菲律宾女士 Rachael，解释救恩。

5. 中國少女 Alice，當我講了一半福音，巴士到達，她説會看單張。

6. 兩位中國少女，Leslie & May。當我講了一半福音，巴士到來，她們説會看單張。

7. 中國青年，不願講名字，無神論者。不願聽福音。所以我只是説，神愛世上每一個人，每人死后將會有審判，願 神祝福你！我便離開。

8. 中國少女，Jane。基督徒，不明白救恩，我解释给她。

9. 中國少女，Lily。我從亞當，夏娃，開始講，罪一代，一代傳留下到我們，跟着講福音。她説，會看單張及想清楚基督的信仰。

10. 香港少女，Ella。天主教徒。我解释天主教與基督教不同之處。她説在天路旅程中，會犯罪。我解释给她，以及救恩。她很開心聽到這信息，她明白了。

11. 澳洲男士，Glen。看他樣子生病了，我説，為你禱告好嗎？他説好。我講了重要福音给他，巴士到，他衝忙上了巴士。之后我為他禱告。

12. 中國少女，Amanda。當我講完福音，她説會閲讀單張及想清楚基督的信仰。

13. 澳洲少女，Lisa，基督徒，相片中。不明白救恩，我解释给她。

感謝 神的帶領。願今天聽到福音人仕，認罪悔改，回轉歸向神。阿們！感謝讚美主！

 

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I collect snippets from all the text gospel conversations I have online, and I’ve just been through a few of the recent ones - very encouraging!  I’ll include some of those snippets (as pictures at the end of this report).

I’ve been meaning to write this report for a few days, but I just haven’t had time.  Been busy gearing up for selling the new gospel flipchart that I mentioned in my last report.  We have also been able to restock our gospel tract supply.  If you are in NZ, you can get those tracts for free here (just pay shipping).  And, of course, we have been as busy as ever ministering the gospel on the streets of Christchurch and online.

On Sunday, the outreach was a bit slow.  And it was super hot!  And yet, God provided opportunities.  I spoke with a Satanist.  He was a lovely guy, and we had a nice friendly chat.  At one point, he smiled and said he self identified as a lama!?  I didn’t let that distract from my opportunity to take him through the law and gospel.  I can’t remember the exact details of the conversation, but I remember I didn’t have too long with him, he needed to get somewhere.  But he did accept a tract with a smile.  Near the end of the outreach, a guy was attracted by the flip chart.  He said he was a Christian, and even showed me a tattoo of the crown of thorns on his arm.  But when I asked why he would go to heaven, sadly,  he said, “because I’m good”.  I was able to take him all the way through the flip chart, and then point him to a Bible.  Sadly he was resistant about getting connected with a church.  He has much to think on.

The Friday outreach was very interesting.  It was encouraging to have a small team out.

I was showing one of the newbies how the flip chart worked when I noticed a guy approaching that I’ve had numerous opportunities to talk about the gospel with over the years.  I smiled and said hello.  He exploded.  Profanities.  I remember him using the term “Christian Satanist”.  And he was loud.  People all round stopped to stare.  I ignored him, and suggested that the other Christians do the same.  He continued down the street, swearing and cursing us.  Sadly, he decided to come back, still yelling.  I decided to walk off to try to draw the heat away from the rest of the team.  It did the trick, he followed me, and then he ran past me and got in my face.  He screamed for me to look at him - so I did.  He had some spittle on his face.  I looked him in the eyes as he said what he wanted to say.  He was so angry, his false teeth slipped out, and then he quickly sucked them back in.

By this stage, I noticed others coming.  I turned to say it was okay, but a guy, someone I’ve never seen before, who had a nice jacket on, told the guy to leave me alone.  The guy started abusing him.  He wasn’t phased, and just told him to leave - which he did.  My saviour turned to look at me, and asked if I was okay.  I smiled, and said I was fine.  Then another guy, someone I’ve never seen before, came to check on me.  I felt so honoured to have members of the public come to my help!  Thank you so much!  The angry guy continued to rage down Cashel Mall.  I had to keep my distance for about 5 minutes before he finally stopped his shouting and moved off.  I had the opportunity to apologise to a few bystanders who were staring down the street - I asked if they were okay.

There would have been a time when I would have been a blubbering mess after that.  But on this day, I didn’t bat an eyelid, straight back to work, sharing the gospel.  I’m grateful for the work God is doing in me to be able to handle this better.

And not only that, the outburst led to gospel opportunities.  A guy came to talk to me, and I was able to share the gospel with him, afterwards, he mentioned that he had seen what happened.

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got to say for now.  I guess what I want to say is, you may read these reports and think of all the wonderful conversations I get to have.  And I wanted to write this report to show the reality of it.  It’s often slow and hard work.  But, it’s such wonderful work!  I get to tell people, over and over, about Jesus!  I want to encourage you to get involved.  Step out and share about Jesus, wherever God has planted you.  Put in the hard yards, and watch God work, in his timing!  Step out and share the gospel :)
 

 

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

Hurrah, God moved and called a new blood to join me and Johnny, the Street outreach squad at Sunnybank. She is our new Pastor Amy Lin Yao. I did not push her to join me right away, even she has done the Kairos Course. She initially was not so sure if she can deliver her duty as the Pastor of CFC by joining me right away on the street. Because she must have observed that my Street gospel ministry have not brought too many additional members to the church. Yet, God finally enlightened and moved her to join me today at Sunnybank. It is after all one of the measures to outreach to people that God may lead us to meet with each other.

The weather is still warm but much better than yesterday which was scorching hot with hot wind. I briefed Amy in the beginning that at the bus stop situations, our gospel conversation will bound to be short and frequently interrupted by arriving bus. So, we must adjust ourself to share the core of the gospel in shortest time frame, and leave the result to God. But our God of humour gave Amy a special divine encounter with a senior man of atheist background. He was there actually waiting to meet with his wife to take bus home, but arrived a bit too early as such they chatted for almost an hour, which is very rare in this bus stop situations. God made use of Amy’s likeability gift to let the senior man felt at ease to share his heart out with Amy which in turn let Amy gained the opportunities later to share him the Gospel. The affinity or approachability character of Amy really give her an edge to approach even some difficult persons. In short, I could see God really handholding Amy to get adapted into this challenging Street Outreach ministry with a very good beginning. I pray that she will hold on steadfastly when God let hers encounter more reject and despise from some stone heart persons that will not intimated our drive but encouraged us to grow in faith by hop and bound.

On the other hand both Johnny and I had our fair shares to preach the gospel to many people of different nations. Recap below is my Battle Log: -

1. First, I approached an old Cantonese Couples 老廣東 from Hong Kong. They were not keen at religion but I rightly tell them it is a life and death issues more significant than any form of religion that everybody should take heed of it especially people like them and me whose days are numbered on this earth. I was able to carry on to share just the nutshell of the Gospel before the bus came.

2. 印度Ire a mature young Indian lady who appeared very friendly to chat about religions. After I rushed through the core of Gospel, she was impressed and promised to think deeply at home by reading the tract.

3. Then I caught up with Marty who claimed that I had spoken with him before at Toowong. He claimed he is a Christian but I nevertheless still went thru the nutshell of the gospel and test for his assurance of salvation which as expected , he failed. Thanked God I still have just enough time to clarify with him why eh should have 100% of assurance of salvation.

4. Tim is Australian born but his parents are from Gambia , West Africa. He appeared very confused with his own faith status claiming he flip flop between Catholic and Christianity. So unsurprisingly, he failed the test of 100% assurance of salvation. Again, just in time for a clarification before the bus came.

5. Ashin is a young Indian girl professing Hinduism. But again, like Ire, she appeared very opened mind to listening to sharing of the gospel. And she also admitted that the doctrine of save by grace through faith in Christ is sound and logical to accept.

6. Then I caught up with a Hongkonger couples who has just returned back from HKG to Australia in the capacity of an Aussie Citizen. They avoided attributing the return to the Hong Kong deteriorating social and economical status. Then the bus came and I could only left with the husband a tract. Pray that we may meet again here.

7. Two Christian Aussie girls let me shared with them the whole gospel as if　they had not heard it before but then declared both are Christians after I finished. When I tested for their assurance of salvation, they utterly had no idea how to answer. So very apparently, they are the typical nominal Christians who have no assurance of salvation. I use all my force to clarify why but it seemed to have offended them by exposing their weakness or ignorance. Both left on the excuse they found out they are on a wrong bus stop that God did nothing wrong to bring them here for a chat with me.

8. Liu from China is a very rational mind young man from Mainland China but he also found the gospel sensible and logical despite of his atheist back ground. He promised to ponder taking a both rational decision but by faith to accept Jesus as his Saviour and Lord of his life.

9. Lastly, I caught up with another two girls from China coming here for study. They were polite to let me share though not with a real genuine interest. But God’s election was apparent to let them stop and listen until the bus came.

10. I almost missed out another Senior Hongkonger who initially pretending he did not under English or Chinese (Mandarin). But later on I found he is a Cantonese speaking person. He is totally non-interested in anything religious at all. But I just showed him the action love by helping him to find our the right bus stop for him to go to Garden City which is around the far corner on Zemina Street off Time Square. He found to too troublesome to go there so he changed his mind to go home directly. I anyway still earn his trust and was able to share the nutshell of the gospel to him.

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

The revived street outreach after the subsiding of Omicron was interrupted last week by the general road block caused by flash flooding. Though some of the road block is still in place , but access to Toowong is ok as such the three regular team mates Johnny, Winnie and Hung can reassembled again. The weather was extreme hot up to 35C, yet it could not hampered our eagerness for outreach. We all could meet many UQ students especially fresh undergraduate. Majority showed openness to have a chat without only a few exceptions. So God is good.

Hung battle Log

1) I was First rejected by a Chinese guy, and the Spirit did not move me to keep pursuing.

2) Girl from Northern Europe did not reject my approach but showed indifference all the time when I shared the gospel.北歐女生顕現冷漠

3) Then I approached an Indian guy who did not show keen interest to chat initially, but just let my conversation go on with gradually increasing degree of interaction. His interest was aroused and he finally took a tract and promised to ponder on the foundation of gospel message I shared with him.

4) Gwen, a Chinese look girl from Brunei possibly of Muslim background but was very open for religious conversation and appeared very receptive to the gospel message.

5) A Big fellow refused to chat with Winnie, but the Spirit led me to approach him on a friendly chat basis. I basically used my testimony of planning to do a Master of Counseling to minister to the family counseling need of my own church members but after a year of study, I found out from the course about code of conduct than a Counselor cannot have dual relationship with patient. So I cannot serve my own church member but must refer to others. It seems that my purpose of doing the degree was tarnished. But God made no mistakes to let me use this Counseling student identify to join the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and there by opened up a 7 years period of China ministry. I bring back the discussion to the issue can we really planned and have full control of our own life. Can we be sure to be a good man all our life without any blemishes. If not, shall we need to face the consequence of our imperfect decision making that led us to face judgment after death. So virtually, I still brought the big fellow back to my first question and he is responding very sensibly now when the bus arrival ending our 10 minutes or more conversation.

6) A Catholic Christian ask me to save my gas as he is a Catholic. Then I tested for his assurance of salvation which failed utterly. Yet he just showed an indifferent attitude could not be careless if he really understand the meaning of salvation.

7) Then God led me to approach Nadim an Malaysian Muslin that Johnny already have a good and successful chat leading him to understand the salvation and even has invited him to Sherwood Methodist. I basically reinforce don the assurance of salvation with encouragement to follow Jesus and learn God through Bible study at Church.

8 ) Rowland a Singapore young man with very opened mind and showed genuine receptiveness to the Gospel.

9) Olive a polite Aussie girl paying genuine attention to the Gospel message I shared and admitted that it is all logical and sensible to know we are sinners and we all need Jesus.

8/3/22 Toowong Battle log of Winnie

感謝 神的帶領，讓我遇上很多不同國藉的青年男女，傳講福音。

1. 台湾來的青年 UQ 學生，Tony。聽過耶穌名字，當我問他有説謊嗎？他説没有。我再次問他，你生存到现在，曾经有説謊嗎？他説有。我説，説謊是罪，于是给他單張看看，甚麽是罪？我從頭説一次福音给他，他聽後，會想清楚基督的信仰。

2. 印度青年，Mahana，穆斯林。我解释基督信仰是三一神。耶穌也是神，祂有大能掌管天下。信靠祂的人，罪得赦免。我給他看看單張，甚麽是罪？

3. 澳洲青年，Ric。當我講完福音，他説會想想基督的信仰。

4. 日本少女，Gloria。初時她不願意聽福音及不接受單張。當時我問她，如果緊急情况，妳大聲叫救命，没有人來救妳，妳會怎樣做？她没有回答。于是我便傳福音给她。我説， 人不能做的事， 神可以做到。祂會馬上來救妳。我們不知道明天會發生甚麽事情？但是，信靠耶稣，罪得赦免，有永生的盼望。她説會想清楚基督的信仰及閲讀單張。

5. 馬來西亞來的青年學生，William。當我講完福音，他说會想清楚基督的信仰。

6. 澳洲少女，Elsy。當我講了一半福音，巴士到達，她説在巴士會看單張。

7. 印度女士，May，穆斯林。我解释基督信仰是三一神，耶穌基督也是神。她大有能力掌管世界。

8. 澳洲少女，Betty。當我講完福音，巴士來到。

9. Brain & Sam，中國青年。我也是問到他們，如果緊急事情發生，你們大聲呼求救命，没有人來救你們，你們會怎樣？他們没有回答。我説人不能做的事，神一定可以做到。跟着傳福音给他們。我們不知道明天將會發生甚麽事？但信靠耶稣，罪得赦免，得永生。他們説會考慮清楚基督的信仰。

10. 澳洲兩位少女，願意聽福音，當我講了幾句，巴士來到。她們说會看單張。

11. 中國青年，Brian & Steve。他們聽完福音後，願意悔改，信靠耶穌為救世主，找教會。求主带領他們前面的路。

11. 印度藉少女，Mira，澳洲 Rockhampton 出生的 UQ 學生。當她聽完福音後，她願意悔改，信靠耶稣基督為救世主，找教會。

12. 從加拿大來的青年 UQ 學生，Matt。當他聽完福音，願意悔改，信靠耶穌基督為救世主。找教會。

願今天所有聽到福音的人仕，悔改，信靠耶穌，以及找到適合他們的教會，永遠跟隋主，奉主名求！阿們！感謝讚美主！

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday 23/2/2022 from 1300 to 1500

After 7 weeks of rest because of both the Omicron outbreak and my medical treatment issues, we returned to the Sunnybank Street outreach field today with the three regular team mates, Johnny, Gary and Hung all turning up. The human flow was tended to be much less than normal. But all of us still got ample of chances to share the gospel to people of all nations. Gary as usual bought along his big signs to attract attention of both the pedestrians and the car drivers. We had a fruitful resumption of ministry and finished it in time just before the projected afternoon rain fall. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung: -

1. A Chinese Mum caring a young daughter, but still willing to listen to the Gospel I shared and took tract home. At least the nutshell of the gospel has been covered when the bus arrived. 中國母親和女兒光聴

2. Catherine a Catholic background Filipino Christian, yet has basic and correct understanding of the gospel with hundred percent of assurance of salvation. She appeared humble to listen though at time might seemed a bit impatience.

3. A Chinese young lady from North-Eastern China東北姑娘，She was very polite有礼貌 showing courtesy to listen to the gospel and admitted it is sensible and logical that she may ponder to pursue.

4. Ash, an Algeria Muslim parent but of atheist background. He became Christian in Australia and is now attending a Baptist church in the park with the boy scout hall. Yet he only has 50% of assurance of salvation, so I had to rush to give him a clarification which was just in time before his bus arrived.

5. Then I followed up on a Chinese senior person that Gary had contacted. It was Mr Li who claimed to have a chat with me here before. Then I recalled he was invited by a friend to attend a local church which happens to be Ruth Liao 廖牧師church with the Wesleyan Denomination.李先生，He is from Shen Zhen 深圳so he understands a bit Cantonese but could not speak. Unfortunately, he only have 50%of assurance of salvation that need my clarification.解釋. He thought he is readily a true Christian as such kept asking me to share with others. Of course, I stayed put to get him know that his lack of 100% assurance of salvation is a loophole that Satan will attack him that it must be addressed and clarified.

6. Paul, a Filipino initially reject ed my approach but while I chose a friendship approach, he then changed to become a good listener of the full gospel.

7. Christie and his girlfriend seems like a couple. They react friendlily to my approach with high chance that they are Christians. But time left was too short to elaborate on the gospel as the bus came almost instantly.

8. Jerry from China has some Christian friends but has never heard the gospel formally. He was very attentive and serious this time to take in the gospel message and promised to ponder at home for a faith action.

9. A tall guy who is an Australian born Vietnamese showed good interest to the gospel. I could only manage to share him the nutshell as the bus also came too quick.

10. Finally, I caught up with two girl named黃 & 李 who are from the southern part of China. 南方大陸人.The showed reluctance to listen to my sharing of full gospel.勉強聽完整福音 Pray for God’s follow up work.

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