Battle Log

The Battle Log is the place where reports from each of the Operation 513 evangelism teams are posted.

It gives you a brief idea about what occurred during the outreach and some of the highlights.

Even though there is not a report from each team on the Battle Log every week, all these teams do meet according to the schedule (usually weekly).

So please keep them in prayer and consider joining one if it is in your area.

Christchurch (NZ) Team

Last month I wrote about a multi-’coincidental’ encounter with a man during our week of outreach in Dunedin.  Well, I have a follow up report.  He found me on Facebook and sent a friend request.  I initially deleted it, but then I suddenly realised who it was, so I sent him a friend request, which he accepted.  He messaged me, and we have been able to continue the gospel conversation, mainly focusing correctly interpreting various passages of scripture.  When doing street evangelism, you don’t often get to do a lot of follow up, so this has been nice!  God is good!

 

I haven’t done an A&P show for a while now, but it’s been so encouraging knowing others are picking up the slack.  Daniel led an outreach to the Mayfield A&P Show this month.  Mike & Sam joined him.  Good work guys!  Also, Brian and Laura have been leading outreaches to various A&P shows in the area – at least 3 in recent times.  Great stuff!

 

It’s been such a joy reviewing the photos I took this month.  Some of them bring back good memories of gospel encounters.  I’m not going to have the time to talk about them all.  And I’ve probably forgotten some really good ones.

 

I was down at the corner of Colombo and Cashel one Friday afternoon.  I was with John when 2 kids, on Lime scooters, came up to me and stopped.  One of them said, “Hi Glen, how are you?”  When he saw my look of unrecognition on my face he said, “My name is Charlie, you talked to me a few years ago in Riccarton”.  That was super encouraging to have him remember my name after all that time!  But I checked, “so, if you’ve talked to me, can you remember why you can go to heaven when you die?”  He thought about it for a few moments before saying, “Because Jesus died on the cross” - good answer.  And so I followed up, “do you believe that?”.  And then his defenses slowly started to rise, he said, “Well, I’m not sure if it’s real”.  From there, we went into a discussion about how we know it’s real and why we reject it: ultimately out of a love of sin!  Sadly, at the moment, Charlie and his friend are rejecting Jesus at the moment.  I challenged him on the urgency, he may not get another 2 years to consider, he needs to accept the gospel now.

 

On a Tuesday, in Riccarton, I was pounding the streets handing out tracts and striking up conversations when a group of high school age kids passed.  I usually don’t have the energy to take on a large group (there were at least 10 of them), but I ended up in multiple conversations with them on the street corner.  Some of them were trying to shock me by how bad they were, some were mocking, but some were listening.  You know you’ve got their attention when the hard questions come out.  One kid in particular was doing that.  It’s pretty hard to hold multiple conversations all at the same time, but I somehow managed it - I’m not sure how effective my words were, but these kids were engaged enough to sit down and listen to the few snippets of gospel that was coming their way.  I was very encouraged.  During the conversations, tracts were handed out to most, if not all, those kids.  Sadly, as they left, I noticed a spread of finely ripped tract on the pavement.  I picked it all up and put it in the bin, but I rejoice, because even if one discarded the good news, maybe another will keep it, and one day read it.  The gospel is the power of God for salvation.

 

So many other wonderful opportunities over the month.  The last one I’ll mention was from last Tuesday.  Three young lads came past, they all went to different local churches, yet they weren’t clear on the gospel.  It was a fairly short chat, but a wonderful one, because you could see these kids really processing the gospel in a fresh way.  I challenged them to read John, Acts and Romans - don’t trust what a crazy old man, with a grey beard is saying, go to the primary source - your soul is at stake!  It turns out these kids were friends with Andy’s son!  It’s a small world; you just don’t know what God will do with your feeble efforts; step out in faith and talk to someone about Jesus today.  All glory to God alone!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 11th 2026 from 1030-1130

Praised be to God for turning a new page of Street Outreach partnering with a team of four from the Joyce Meyer Ministry Group. They have planned to come every 4 weeks with a team of 4 but only three of them turned up today, namely Jason, Peter and Su. They actually are not novice with prior experience. It is part of the design of their ministry development program to do street outreach and we are honor to be picked to partner with them. We did not spend long time to introduce ourself nor great lecture on the technical how aspects. A very natural team spirit quickly built amongst us through mutual trust and respect that all we do and serve is to follow the guidance of the Spirit to seek one on one divine appointment for a chat. Even Su who claimed to have least outreach experience was at ease to follow the flow of guidance to connect with people. She actually was moved to connect with Ann, who usually arrived half an hour late after doing evangelism somewhere else. The clicked and Su followed Ann to venture away to seek new gospel sharing opportunity. I also saw good nature of Peter, keep rendering care and help to people around apart from doing the gospel sharing by words by expressing it out by work of love and care. So, I really rate high for this lovely team that they had been serving with the awareness of the presence of God as such they empty themselves and free their mind to do whatever the the Holy Spirit lead and guide them to so. Jason was even moved to pray for the gospel target about an issue frustrating him recently.

It was a great team effort in display to day amongst us and with God by our side.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 11th 2026 from 1030-1130

Today , I started first while Ann and Johnny joined me later subsequently. It was a mixed result day with many rejections but also a few very good chat leading to very close acceptance of Christ. Johnny and Hung also had some divine led vision sharing for future new ministry opportunity. May God’s Will be done as He guides us along to work out His plan for His Church and His servants.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Mar 10th, 2026 from 1030-1200.

Today Johnny rejoined me during a break to come home before setting off for another long cruise trip. And the result of today was examplenerily fruitful with non-stop divine appointment of Gospel chats leading to open and receptive result. Two stand out chat with a Hinduism beacjground Australian born Indian, and a secularized Italian youngster all show pure faith in Christ right after the gospel dissertation in the most child like form. Also Hung was approached by a Hong Konger girl whom he met last week and she approached Hung to seek continueation of our chat but interrupted by the quick arriving bus. So everything seemed all so amazingly smooth.

Johnny and Hung also showed team spirit receiving same inspiration on a specific ministry development opportunities. It was a day of blessings with cup overflowed.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 4th 2026 from 1030-1130

Today, Edwin was occupied with Church home group ministry and Jo will do CBD instead this week. So finally only Hung and joined by Ann later to do the outreach work there at the Sunnybank Bus stop. It was a quite smooth sailing day for Hung. I first met up with a very familiar guy from Mianland but verey opened minded and receptive to the Chrisitan value. We chatted about the left trend endangering nomal family life while Trump and his team and like minded people collaboratively endeavouring to turning around the mind set of people to Chrisitan traditional value. Then the Spirit led me to have chatts with an Indonesia Chrisitan who is hlaf Chiense and Indoinesai. He claimed to have assurance of salavtion of 100% but only because a God answered prayer blessing their family, or his mum to give birth to yet another sister after being declared impotentcy. He was glad to have his concept rectified trusting in Jesus alone as his saviour. Another chat with a mainland young man was also very amazing. He was extremely open and receptive as well to the gospel. All in all, it was a productive and fruitful day of being on mission with God as guided by the Holy Spirit.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Mar 3rd, 2026 from 1030-1200.

A noraml singleton outreach. Have sevetral chats with HKG girl chatted before and Mainland guy from Wuxi ,Jiangsu, then an Aussie girl. The Maga advertisement LCD screen did give away some very inspirung message.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Feb 25th 2026 from 1030-1130

Today, Ann could not come due to skin infection being under treatment at QU2 emergency ward. So only Edwin, Jon and Hung teamed up to serve. For Jon, it is still a challenge for him to get coinversation only in English but not in neither Mandarin or Canitnese. He actually also joined the OPN 513 team on Sunday at CBD where he got more gospel opportunity in English.

As for Edwin, he served as usual in a whirl wind style getting connected with as mnay people as possible for normally quick and short chat. But today, the Spirit guided him to have a prolonged conversatikon first with a Chinese lady on Wheelchair and then joined by her husband and Edwin switched to have anther long chat with him.

As for me, it was also a day full od divine drama. First I was recognized but three persons that I have chatted before. They all took the initiative to apporach me and render words of encouragment. Then I was led to help a Korean senior persons to look for a place near by but requries 12 min walk. I showed him the direction but eventually chose toi walk with him half way making sure he will not have gone astray. I then share and test about his assurance of salvation along the walk. Back to the bus stop, I also had many fruitful chats with non-beleivers from Mianland, and an orthodox Christian girl form Montenegro who needs to have her assurance of salavtion clarified. It was a joy to be the messenger of God assuming the role of Priesthood for people of all Nations.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Feb 24th, 2026 from 1030-1200.

I served singleton as usual lately to day at Toowong. It was a more fruitful day in terms of quality of chat. Apart fropm still a few fragmented and incomplete chats, there were several full gospel deliberation with percerving postive feedback. It helps the gospel targets established the awareness of consequece of imperfect life infested with sins, as such there is a confirmed needs for a saviour to be an agent to cleanse the record of our sins to zero by His atoning grace. It was so satifiying that even a mainlander lady showed openess and receoptiveness to the gospel. The power of the gospel is great.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

February is the last month of summer in NZ, and it also marked the last special outreach of the season for us.  Andy & I headed to Dunedin for outreach during O-week, or ‘Ori’ (university orientation week) in conjunction with Cornerstone International Bible Church, Shane Louie of OAC and a team he had gathered.  Our focus for the week was between the Museum Reserve (close to the university) and the Octagon (which included a major bus stop hub, and the main shopping area: George Street).  There were many opportunities to engage with students, but also people of all walks and seasons of life.

 

There was a lot of rain.  It was so heavy on Tuesday that Andy & I were forced to spend our time in our cabin in online outreach instead.  But the other days of the week were spent pounding the streets and talking to people face to face.  I’m going to let the pictures do most of the talking, but I’ll give one story.

 

On Wednesday, at the end of the day's outreach, I was tired, so I reverted to handing out tracts on George Street.  A guy noticed what I was doing and came over to accept a tract and talk.  He said he had just talked to a Christian guy and really disagreed with what he was saying.  It didn’t take long to confirm that he had talked to Andy!  Andy was at least a kilometer away outside the Museum Reserve, so it was quite a coincidence that this guy bumps into me soon after.

 

Anyway, I was able to continue the conversation, but he quickly became frustrated with me too - as soon as I started talking about the fact that our work can’t save us.  You see, his background is Bahá'í which tries to respect all religions and spiritual writings, and yet contradicts the clear teaching of the Bible by saying that we are saved by our effort, rather than by grace.

 

I didn’t make too much more progress in the conversation, due to his resistance.  But, I was able to challenge him: “if you respect all the writings, you should read the book of Romans in the Bible”.

 

The guy eventually moved on; we parted on good terms.  And, later, I was able to encourage Andy on how I was able to follow up on the conversation he had started.

 

On Friday, we spent the morning in outreach to the Bus stops and the Octagon, before heading back to the church facilities to pick up our car and start the drive back to Christchurch.  As we were driving out of the city, Andy noticed a Dominos Pizza and suggested we stop for lunch, but then I noticed a Pizza Hut just ahead, and recommended that.  It just so happened that there was a park right outside, and there was no traffic behind, so we could safely take it.  We went in and ordered some pizza to takeaway - we wanted to hit the road and get home to our families.

 

As we were sitting in the car, we decided to eat a few slices first, and as we were eating, who should walk by?  The same guy we had both talked to on Wednesday!  He noticed us, and came over to say hi.  Coincidence?  We were able to offer him pizza and continue the chat.  Amazingly, he said he had started to read Romans.  And then he asked if I could take his number, which I did.  So I’m still in contact.  The ball is in his court, he knows how to reach me if he has questions.  Yet, he is ultimately in the hands of God who is seeking and saving the lost.  He won’t lose any of his sheep!

Thank you for continuing to pray for our street and online work.  Without the power of God, our feeble efforts are in vain.  All glory to God alone.

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Feb 18th 2026 from 1030-1130

Today, Jon was not available so only Edwin, Ann & Hung were present for the Sunnybank outreach.

It is a different kind of team work. Ann tend to have long chat with target for relationship building and connection before evangelization. Edwin work like whirl wind, sweeping through to catch up with every one and share the nutshell of the gospel. Ha ha, however today , he encountered a lady who was keen to ask questions. It held up Edwin for a good 20 mins or more.

It was good to work with God through the Spirit from divine connection with the elected ones, engagement into conversation and sowing the seed of Gospel.

 

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