Battle Log

Australia
Brisbane (QLD) TeamSaturday, 18 March, 2023
Special OutreachesThursday, 23 November, 2023
Sunnybank (QLD) TeamWednesday, 13 March, 2024
Toowong (QLD) TeamTuesday, 12 March, 2024
Toowoomba (QLD) TeamSaturday, 17 February, 2024
Myanmar
Myanmar (Burma) Short Term MissionsThursday, 20 February, 2020
New Zealand
Christchurch (NZ) TeamSunday, 17 March, 2024
Philippines
Philippines Short Term MissionsSaturday, 30 September, 2023
Worldwide
Online EvangelismFriday, 25 June, 2021

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).

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Sunday 17 March 2024

Posted by Posted 17 March 2024, 4:50 PM by Glen Richards. Permalink

Only 1 street outreach this week.  The others were replaced with online work due to weather (Friday) or other events (engagement party on Saturday, and baptisms on Sunday).  So, this is probably going to be shorter than usual!

 

Roger was with me in Riccarton on Tuesday.  Autumn is in the air, it is cold!  I wasn’t prepared for it, so we ended up wrapping up a little early.  Yet in the time we were there we had gospel opportunities.

 

The highlight for me was a chat with a couple of guys - high school age.  I was frustrated to hear one of them say that their English teacher has told them: “There is only 1 thing you can be certain of: that you can’t be certain of anything”.  Not only is that statement a contradiction (yes, I know they are trying to play on words), but it is completely untrue.  There are many things we are certain of (for example, that your house had a builder).  And it’s a subtle attack against God, who is certain.  I wish they would teach Logic at school, and they should maybe get this English teacher to teach it - he might learn something!

 

Anyway, I spent time with this young lad showing him how we can be certain, and proceeded to share the law and gospel.  It was a good chat.

 

So, this affords me some time to talk about the online outreach I did this week.  

 

First up: on Tuesday, I was paired up with Jack for the first chat on the live stream: a duo chat.  We were paired up with a young man from the USA.  He wasn’t very talkative, but he followed along.  And it was wonderful watching him smile as he came to grasp the gospel.  He made a profession of faith.

 

On Wednesday, 2 highlight chats were with 2 young ladies from Tauranga.  I think there was some Adventist influence, because the sabbath came up.  But I didn’t let that become a distraction from sharing the gospel.  They also made professions.  And then a chat with a young man from the UK - there was resistance from him, but he stuck around for 30 minutes as I walked him through all the check questions.

 

On Thursday I had a duo chat with Jone with a guy who said he liked the 10 commandments.  But, it was his own form of the 10 commandments, with a whole lot of exceptions built in so he could sin as he pleased.  We spent 30 minutes with him before his resistance went up a few notches and there wasn’t much point in continuing.

 

On Friday I had a great chat with a couple of guys somewhere in New Zealand.  Catholic school.  They were being silly initially, but they stayed around for 16 minutes for a complete chat.  Ended up being a good chat.

 

And then, because the rain was so heavy on Friday, I went over to Rogers place to get him set up for online outreach again.  I ended up having an amazing chat with a young man who lives in the same city as Roger and I!  He was in home detention (he showed us the bracelet on his ankle).  Sadly, he is only 13, and the reason for the home detention is because he was involved with a ram raid (driving a car into a shop to rob it).  I was able to share the gospel with him, and start moving through the check questions.  It was so good when he had a penny drop moment.  From that point on (as he saw how the gospel made sense) he was weighing up the cost - he knew his life would change, and he didn’t like that idea.  E.g., he didn’t want to go to church.  But he stuck around for me to be able to point him to the book of John in the Bible, and 2 good local churches close to him.  He is so bored being on home detention, I hope he will read it.

 

Speaking of Roger, I got a text from him earlier saying he had a great online chat with a drug dealer up north.  This is what I responded with: “That’s who we want to reach!  Go for the sinner and go for the worst!  May he start dealing: Jesus”.

 

On Saturday I had a fascinating online chat with a young man for 23 minutes.  He was working in London in a warehouse picking stock for orders.  His job must be so boring that he can do it and have chats online at the same time!  Anyway, he thinks about the afterlife “all the time”, and although there was some resistance as I took him through the law, he ended up understanding the gospel, and seemed impressed enough to start reading the bible for himself.  It was so fun chatting with him while he was automatically moved around the whole warehouse.  May God have mercy on him!

 

But not only do we have face to face chats with strangers online, we also have text chats via Instagram and TikTok DM.  This morning I had a great chat with an intellectual young Mormon (well, I assume he is young; and I’m pretty sure it’s a he).  He wanted to argue about baptism?  But that was a distraction, I focused on getting him through the law, and towards the gospel.  The more we chatted, the clearer it was how uncertain he was about things that are obvious (logical).  And he was resistant, he was fighting to take the conversation off on a tangent, but I wouldn’t let him.  I love him too much.  Even if he is resistant now, may his suppression be shaken for future gospel seed to take root.

 

I’ve also had the privilege of training 2 young men in online evangelism this week.  Both from the USA, and both so different in personality, and yet both passionate to share these truths with others.  It was wonderful seeing these young men getting their feet wet!  Glory to God!

 

So, yet another wonderful week of outreach.  The opportunity to engage people with the gospel is limitless.  Evangelism is as essential in our lives as prayer, reading the Bible and church.  I hope you are encouraged to get involved with the harvest!  All glory to God alone.

 


Sunnybank (QLD) Team

Wednesday 13 March 2024

Posted by Posted 13 March 2024, 3:54 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 13th, 2024 from 1300-1500

Today, Johnny could not come for personal matter, all other irregular street outreach team members were all not available except Ann, who joined me a bit later after I did my solo selfie as the pinned photo for today Battle Log. There were many opportunities for a chat though most were of very short ones because of the frequent bus arriving schedule as recap below:

1) A Lady from?? who, to my surprise, could not speak Cantonese, then I learned now that all the younger generation of people in Guangzhou are brough up only in Mandarin speaking environment. She was impressed with my extensive travelling and volunteer work experience in China; thus, she was very opened and receptive to the gospel message, which was abruptly interrupted by Lee with husband Billy to catch up with me.

2) Ah Lee & Billy, an ex-CFC cross -cultural marriage couples. They were overjoyed to have been able to bump in with me. Ah Lee may still meet me on the street every now and then, but Billy hasn't met me for over 10 years, especially after he got sick and stays most of the time at home. They blessed me with their token of action live gift and I invited them to come for CFC 27th Anniversary on 19/5.

3) Then I caught up with a young lady Wu from Xian, ??. She was surprised I had been to her home town several time and appreciated I shared the gospel to her though interrupted by the quick arriving bus. She took a tract any way.

4) Next was a young man from Vietnamese???but he could speak both Cantonese???and English.??. Again, the conversation was brief being cut short by the quick arrival of bus.

5) Olivia was born in Australia who seemingly has some Philippine blood. She was wise to reckon that no one is perfect, thus no one can go to heaven automatically. I didn't have to share the gospel as she already has the answer though I was not sure if she is readily a Christian. But she still took a tract to read on the bus.

6) Then I bumped into a young man Koo? from Taiwan???who claimed he chatted with one of us before. ???. I still did not give up but repeated the nutshell of the gospel to him till his bus arrived.

7) Then I was led to approach a Bhutan lady. I connected with her by showing off that I know her country has the highest Happiness Index. She thus listened to my gospel sharing but not fully concentrated and left without a tract when her bus arrived.

8 ) Then I was led to approach a Filipino Catholic Christian who has no assurance of salvation but having been clarified quickly before the bus arrived. She delightfully took a selfie with me and thanked for my clarification.

9) Lastly, I caught up with an Asian look lady who claimed not be able to speak either Chinese or English. She had been waiting for friend, not bus, but she still declined my approach for gospel sharing with the language issue.


Toowong (QLD) Team

Tuesday 12 March 2024

Posted by Posted 12 March 2024, 5:36 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday March 12th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

After a couple of rainy days, it turned sunny and scorching hot in the early afternoon at Toowong. The bus stop was turned into a mini furnace by the radiating heat from the concrete platform. People tended to become impatient and reluctant to have a long chat. It was under this tough condition that we still endeavoured to do our best to work with God sharing Gospel to whoever the Spirit led us to approach. Because of the heat and quick arrival of bus, our chat had also been cut into scattered pieces. The upside was that I could have more smaller chats up to 10 as recap below: -

1) Ishrite from Bangladesh, polite to listen but his hear was elsewhere. Just did my best to share the full gospel as he was at end of the long queue.

2) Rammish an young lady from India who claimed herself not a Christian and non-religious but her mind set and conduct really bears the image of God. She was open and positive to the Gospel. She deemed she did not mind or even preferably to listen to the gospel from a more Christian point of view. she knew God look into our heart and mind not just judging us by external expression of behaviour. In this connection, she confessed no one will be perfect and avoid the judgement of God even though we conduct a crime free life. She thus also accepted the need of every one either good persons or bad persons inclusive, for Jesus’ atoning salvation. So, she by my standard, is readily a Christian. Pray that God will move her to make the very last step of faith to accept Jesus as her Savior and Lord of life. Finally , she thanked for our passion to share the gospel to her and many others by the move of the Holy Spirit.

3) Then I was led to approach a Local by Aussie who was impatient bit still polite and let me share more than half of the gospel message.

4) A young man by the name of Yuan? from Taichung???without any religion???? as such he is not very serious about faith matter??????but he was still polite enough to listen to the full gospel. ?????

5) Then I tried to chat with another Local Aussie girl who has caught with a red nose, I tried to convince her it was OK for me to chat with her by keeping a safe distance. But she still felt too weak to have mood to listen to the gospel so she still politely closed our conversation for her to rest.

6) Aron surprisingly is from Turkey. We quickly built rapport but his bus came almost instantly. I could not but just handed him the tract and pray for next useful encounter and for this reason, he agreed to take a selfie photo with me.

7) Then I was led to meet up with a rare Christian girl Ms Duan ?from mainland China who is from Beijing ???Her parents are still non -believers???? but her grandmother is a pious Christian???so in China, she attended both 3 self-Church and home churches. ????????Her bus came also fairly quick, But I have managed to help her establish her 100% assurance of salvation.

8 ) Jack a young local Aussie from NSW who is humble and open for the gospel and took a tract afterwards. He is a very promising seed of the gospel.

9) Next was Mr. Zhu ?from Mainland China ???He claimed We have chatted with him several time???and he was very impressed that we keep doing this every Tuesday to show that the gospel is really a precious gift from God.??? Even though he has not yet made up his mind to accept Jesus, but he is all convinced that everyone need the salvation of Jesus.

10)Finally, just had time to touch base with an Elderly in1 min before his bus arrive.


Christchurch (NZ) Team

Sunday 10 March 2024

Posted by Posted 10 March 2024, 2:20 PM by Glen Richards. Permalink

Just got back from an awesome outreach in the city, but the whole week of outreach has been awesome - all four usual street outreaches ran this week: Tuesday afternoon in Riccarton with Roger; Friday afternoon in the city with Andy, Roger, and Ben; Saturday lunch time in Riccarton, and just now: Sunday afternoon in the city, with Thomas.

 

Casting my mind back to Tuesday, the highlight chat was with a group of 5 high school kids - Christchurch Boys High.  They already had a gospel tract, I guess from Roger over the street.  I saw them coming back, but Roger was already in a chat, and so they came over to me.  I smelled a set up, but I love these situations.  We got into a conversation, and the ring leader was being silly (no surprise).  I rolled with his jesting, but also answered the subtle questions he was asking.

 

As the conversation continued, his 4 friends started engaging in the conversation, which was great to see.  Eventually the ring leader realised he had lost control of the conversation - his response was to become outrageously silly, but by this stage, his friends were ignoring him, and one was even telling him to be quiet!  They all got to engage with the law and the good news of Jesus, and they all walked away with their own copy of the same gospel tract.  God is good!

 

Friday in the city.  It was great to have Ben with us.  Ben heard the gospel from a street evangelist up North, and when he moved to Christchurch last year, he encountered Andy on the street.  Well, Ben is now regularly attending our church and is even part of my home group.  He is getting baptised next week, but not only that, he is willing to come and join us on the street to share the gospel!  God is good!

 

Ben was paired with Andy, and Roger was running his flip chart, and so I went for a wander down Cashel Mall.  I had quite a few good gospel chats, but none with any real engagement from their part, and so they ended up being shorter chats.  That’s fine!  The law is still the law, and the gospel is still the gospel, they are powerful even without engagement - just maybe ploughing and sowing for a harvest later in time, by someone else.  All glory to God alone.

 

Anyway, Ben and Andy had had a string of conversations with tourists who were resistant - also not bad, still ploughing and sowing.  But, Ben joined up with me for the rest of the outreach.  We headed off down Cashel Mall, and the chat we got into was also with someone resistant!  Oh well.  It was a great chat, because his worldview was post modern: “The only thing I know is that I don't know anything”.  As soon as I said it, I pointed out his contradiction with “Do you know that?”, but in his suppression, he wasn’t willing to see it.  We sparred apologetically for a while, but then he started talking about all the things he knew, so I checked in again, “Do you really know it?”  I was able to touch on the law, and the gospel, but he wasn’t open to it.  Finally, for a third time he started talking about what he knew.  So I checked in again, “So, you know it, do you?”.  It hit home, I could tell by the way he cut his eyes at me.  It was at that point that I shook his hand, and wished him a good day.  There is no point in trying to reason with someone being unreasonable.  I think Ben was surprised that the conversation ended - I think he was enjoying it!  Yes, these discussions can be fun and interesting, but I don’t want to spend 2 hours arguing with someone who is resistant (at this time), when I could have conversations with others that are open (at this time).  God is in control.  And there is a time to move on.

 

Saturday in Riccarton, I had a number of good conversations.  I was beginning to wonder if it would be a slow outreach, when the first fish came on the line.

 

I ended up chatting with an American couple.  It turns out he was a PK, and she had recently been reading the Bible: the whole NT, and halfway through the OT (I think she said).  So there was interest there.  Yet, neither understood the gospel.  The engagement was very brittle, and as I was working to strengthen the engagement, it was broken when a group of guys interrupted.  They really wanted to talk to me.  So as the American couple moved on, I had no choice but to engage them instead.

 

But that wasn’t bad.  It was a great chat.  It turns out I had talked to one of them at the Canterbury A&P Show outreach at the end of last year.  I realised that they were Orthodox, and went to the local Orthodox church.  They had come to continue the apologetical fight.  They claimed to go to heaven because of Jesus, and not works, but then denied that with their explanations and interpretations of scripture.  I didn’t allow them to rest in their false hope.  I also ended up spending some time exposing Mark 10 (the rich young ruler).  They left holding on to their rejection of Jesus, but it was a good conversation, I hope to see them again.

 

I had other good chats too, including a long one with a young lad for Geraldine, and a short one with two young ladies - who wanted to argue about homosexuality.

 

It was great to have Thomas with me on Sunday afternoon!  He is from France and speaks French fluently.  Last Sunday, and on Friday, I spoke to people from France, and the lady from last Sunday didn’t have good English - so it’s great to have someone who can speak French.  Jordan cracked a joke before we left: “But you’ll end up encountering a German”.  Well, no French speakers today, but our last chat was with someone from GERMANY! Haha.

 

But the whole outreach was great.  The very first person I offered a tract to accepted it, and I was able to get into a good gospel conversation, an encouragement for Thomas (and an answer to prayer that Thomas would be encouraged).  And it went well from there.  Our next chat was with a young streetie.  She was open, but I had to really labour for her to see the gospel.  She had a click moment when I used the ‘sin again’ check.  And then she said something profound - I wish I could have recorded it: basically she said something like: “If Jesus does that for us, even takes our future sin, then I wouldn’t want to sin any more” - exactly!

 

By this stage, Thomas was warmed up (had shaken off the rust) and ready to get into his own chats.  Which he did (pictured).

 

We had other good opportunities as well, we even encountered some World Mission Society Church of God cultists - I had warned him they were rampant as we were walking in.

 

Anyway, I’ll leave it there.  I’m over time for this report.  But God is good in giving us so much opportunity.  May the lamb that was slain receive the reward of his suffering!

PS, I forgot to mention, in the first photo, there are 2 gospel chats happening.  But there are 2 school kids coming into the frame from the right.  Well, a few moments after I took that shot, I got into a good gospel chat with them.  God is so good!


Sunnybank (QLD) Team

Wednesday 6 March 2024

Posted by Posted 6 March 2024, 6:26 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

 

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 6th, 2024 from 1300-1500

Today, only Anne, Johnny and Hung were available. We had a good start, both Ann, Hung and Johnny had several long chats. God specially moved Ann and Hung to minister to the same Mainlander Mr. Tong from Zhuhai and originally from Liaoyang. We can have added long hours for chatting one after the other was because, he simply sat there to wait for his wife to do shopping. At the end, Mr. Tong did show sign of softened heart for the Gospel. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung: -

1) I was led to approach first a PNG Christian Lady by the name Nina, her faith and training of the Bible is spot on. She has 100% assurance of salvation. It matches with our common understanding and observation that PNG is a gospel revival country with many lay Christians trained and moved to spread out engage in cross -cultural mission. Many of them have come over to Australia. Nina was happy to take photo with me to witness this divine encounter.

2) Rejected by one Chinese guys

3) Joanne, an Australian born Taiwanese whom I eventually communicate in English. She is non-religious but was open and receptive to the Gospel despite of several interruption by incoming call.

4) Mr Tong? now migrated with family to Australia for 10 years ?????, who was from Zhuhai ?? and originally from Liao Yang??. Anne already had a long chat with him over half an hour, but I was moved to continue chatting with him sharing my testimony which he found interesting as he was fully aware of the background of Hong Kong where I was brough up. He seemingly was touched ??? by the wonderful work of God and thanks for our joint gospel sharing and testimony which he found very appealing to lead him to really think of accepting Jesus.

5) Then I was led to connect with another Taiwanese Mr. Shao? form Taipei, Taiwan ???He finished studying in UQ and now has applied for an agricultural research work?????. He claimed himself a Buddhist ???, ?????but appeared very open minded and humble to learn especially he was thankful for my clarification that Buddhism is not a religion as they worship no God head. He happily took a tract to revise on what I shared with him.

6) Next was a Local Aussie girl who is still student who is rare one not watching iPhone message. She appeared a bit quiet but polite and was willing to interact. She completely shared my gospel message that there is no one perfect as such we are all sinner subject to eternal death punishment in hell after we die. But through Jesus, the only way our sin is pardoned and record of our sin is set to zero the moment we accept Jesus as our Savior and Lord. So blessed are those who act like a child with a pure heart to be able to be welcome back to the heavenly Kingdom.

7) Then next was a Mainlander girl ????but too rush for full gospel but willingly took a tract. ??

8 ) Then I had a long chat with a girl by the name of Wang form Beijing coming here for her postgraduate Master degree study. ???????She also appeared very open and was all ears to listen to the full gospel till her bus arrive. ?? She also voluntarily took a tract to read afterwards.


Toowong (QLD) Team

Tuesday 5 March 2024

Posted by Posted 5 March 2024, 6:41 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday March 5th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Today, Winnie was not available as she has a doctor appointment. Only Johnny and Hung teamed up to reach out to the UQ student majority crowd at the bus stop off Toowong Village connecting to UQ. There was always a long queue in the beginning through which we could catch up with a couple of people while they were waiting for the bus. Afterwards, we still can access to those arriving at the bus stop intermittently. Today general impression was that more mainlanders were present. It was half, half in terms of willingness to listen, not to mention to respond in an open and natural way. For us, we were simply led by the Spirit to approach and connect irrespective of the response. We always believe, God is in charge to use us to get across the message to His elected ones. At the end, I was able to catch up with an old gospel outreach co-workers for mutual edification. Recap is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) At the end of the long queue, I was led to approach a girl from Beijing????. she has been in Australia studying at UQ for 2-3 years already ????. She was polite and showed genuine willingness to listen to the gospel?? and took a tract at the end???. I trusted that she has been exposed to the gospel many times before and her heart has been softening gradually by the Spirit through each new gospel opportunity.

2) Next I was led to approach a young man with the same name as mine "Hung" from Taoyuen , Taiwan.?????He has been here for 6 months. And he seemingly is a non-religious person. But he showed interest and openness to listen to the gospel and took a tract afterwards.

3) Then next was a young local Aussie girl wearing a work uniform as a sort of part time educators in a child care. She was friendly for a chat but her bus quick arrival spoiled our conversation.

4) Then next came a mainlander who claimed to be a Christian but quickly exposed that he is just a fake Christian pretending to be saved to gain carnal gain for dating a Christian girl. He even boasted about this to ridicule that there are many fake Christians like him to fool around for self-indulgence. ???????

Irrespective of his attitude, I still tried my best to share the full gospel to him which was not interrupted by his bus. ???????.

5) The Spirit surprisingly connected me with an Indonesian Christian. He was proud to tell me that there is 15% of Christian in a Muslim country like Indonesian ?????. Again, it was a pity I did not have enough time to diagnose on his Assurance of Salvation.

6) Finally God led us to catch up with an old Gospel worker friend retuning to server here.b


Christchurch (NZ) Team

Sunday 3 March 2024

Posted by Posted 3 March 2024, 4:02 PM by Glen Richards. Permalink

It’s good to be back on home turf.  2 street outreaches this week, both in the city.  On Friday afternoon I was with Roger and Andy.  On Sunday afternoon I was with Andy.

 

These outreaches reminded me of the wonderful opportunity for the gospel that we have.  We need to make hay while the sun shines, because we don’t know when God’s patience will run out.  But it’s also a joy!  We are saved by God’s grace – totally underserved.  And now he is willing to involve us in what he is doing.  The sacrifice of Jesus is the ultimate motivation - out of thankfulness of him, let’s get out and tell others about him.  The opportunity is limitless.

 

3 significant conversations come to mind from Friday’s outreach.

 

The first was with a young Filipino guy.  He had just arrived in NZ, and he was cold in his t-shirt and shorts - not used to our cooler climate.  His English wasn’t good, and so I had to slow right down when trying to share the gospel with him.  In fact, in the end, I had to give up.  He wasn’t engaging - maybe too overwhelmed by all the changes in his life.  He needs work, and so I invited him to my church on Sunday (he is staying not far) because I have Filipino friends there that he could make connections with, and who can share the gospel with him in Tagalog!  Sadly he didn’t come, but he has my contact details.  Pray that he would get established in Christchurch, be able to find work, and that I’ll be able to encounter him again - or if not, another Christian who can share the gospel with him.

 

The second was a chat that Roger had.  Roger brought me into the conversation, because the kid he was talking to had been recruited into the cult “World Mission Society Church of God”.  Once he’d heard the true gospel from Roger, he was keen to get out of the cult!  I pointed him to a good church close to him, and also gave him a gospel of John to read for himself, as well as my contact details.

 

The third chat was with a young man from China.  When he realised that I wanted to talk to him about religion, he was interested.  His English wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough for me to be able to communicate the gospel.  I got to learn about him too.  He is struggling with his course, and he is concerned he will have to go back to China if he fails, so he is studying hard.  Sadly, at this stage, he wasn’t able to see that his eternal soul is more important than his worldly troubles - as significant as they are!  Yet, he was willing to take a gospel of John, a tract, and my contact details.  I pray that his conscience was pricked enough for him to investigate further.

 

I give these details to show that we are reaching people, real people - people with struggles and trials, people who need to know the truth about God’s wrath and mercy.  This is real and significant and well worth our time to make the effort to make and take the opportunities we get to share the marvellous gospel.

 

Sunday’s outreach was great too.  It was wonderful watching Andy engage multiple groups of kids through the outreach.

 

My most significant chat was the very first one - it was short.  I sat down to get a drink and get some tracts out, when I realised the 2 guys I was sitting next to were a golden opportunity.  I was able to spark up a conversation with 1 of them.  He thought that ‘whatever you believe will happen after you die’ - so I was able to address that.  It turns out he had a Christian background, and so I asked what he thought he had to do to get to heaven.  Answer: be good.  And so, I went to the law - which had its impact.  And then I explained the gospel, in contrast to his false way to heaven of ‘being good’.  It hit home, and his response was to say, “I fully believe that”.  And yet, his earlier words totally contradicted that he did.  Rather than point this out directly, I went to a powerful check question: “before this conversation, what did you think you had to do to get to heaven?”  Answer: “be good”.  “And so”, I said, “if you had died before this chat, where would you have gone, heaven or hell?”.  He was fixated as he thought, and finally responded with “hell”.  And so I pleaded with him to change his mind.  Stop trusting his good deeds to get to heaven, and instead, trust that Jesus is the only reason you are getting there.  He thanked me.  He told me this conversation (only a few minutes long) was very significant.  His friend (from Sri Lanka) and he (Zimbabwe) were working on a ship, and were only in Christchurch for the day.  Opportunity taken!  God is so good!  May that seed produce fruit.  It’s not about our ability.  God can use our feeble efforts in spite of us.  Get out and share the gospel of Jesus!

 

I had other good chats.  But the one that sticks in my mind was the last one, with a young man who was convinced that the ‘building / builder” analogy was a logical fallacy.  I was able, by God’s grace, to show him that the opposite is actually a fallacy!  And then I was able to take him though the law, and the gospel, and a few check questions.  The truth is powerful!  Don’t be put off by intellectual sounding people and vain arguments.  Get out there and serve your king: Jesus.

 


Sunnybank (QLD) Team

Wednesday 28 February 2024

Posted by Posted 28 February 2024, 6:14 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday February 28th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was overjoyed to have Johnny back and Ann yeo also returning to serve regularly on Wednesday with us. So the team of four including Any and Hung from CFC had a good period of time of outreach. Today, God led us to contact more people from China, Taiwan & HKG etc than other people groups. Johnny was most blessed as such he was thankful for many uninterrupted conversations allowing him to share the full Gospel with fruit bearing result or at least good impact. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) I was led to approach a lady from Nanjing who actually has got PR status by means of her Husband Job employment here. ????????????did not have time for full gospel but she appeared open and receptive to gospel possibly because her status change becoming a citizen of Australia enjoying the freedom of speech and expression. She volunteered to take a tract to read the concluding message I tried to convey to her.

2) Next, I was led to approach Shen??from Shanghai???who study at the Brisbane branch of James cook. His heart was also seemingly quite softened, not blindly rejecting gospel. Again, did not finish sharing gospel but he was happy and willingly take a tract to get to the conclusion I tried to convey to him.

3) Another young girl ?? from North Eastern Provinces of mainland China, who was also willing to have a chat with me, our conversation was interrupted first by a phone call, them her quick arrival of bus But she voluntarily asked for a tract to finish off the knowing the message I tried to convey to her.

4) Next, I was led to approach a young man also from Guizhou ??Mainland China studying at UQ but is very sporty carrying a bag of tennis rackets. He has done 2 terms of study already, but seemingly adapting quite well to the campus life striking good balance between study and keep fit sport and exercise. He claimed to be a non believer but still show openness to listen to the gospel though finally without taking a tract.

5) Then for the first time I was led to approach a non-Chinese, actually a girl from Sri Lanka. She is non-religious and exceptionally not interested to listen to gospel. Nevertheless, she still took a tract at the end.

6) Then I was led to approach another Mainlander Guan? who lives in teh Northern part of Brisbane. He is not yet a believer but a seeker for a long while. He claimed he once attended the church of Rev Chang Fu Wah but stop going after the church moved to another place further north. Pray that our conversation and the tract will revive his pursuance of the Christian faith.

7) Finally, I was led to chat with an ABC Hongkonger girl Chan. She was waiting for her father and he arrived not long after I started chatting with her. But she still patiently let me share the full gospel to her in English and took the tract to read when her bus arrived.


Toowong (QLD) Team

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Posted by Posted 27 February 2024, 6:28 PM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday February 27th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was so good to have the Old Toowong Triade Gospel Squad be reunited after half a year of separation. Johnny rejoined Hung and Winnie as soon as he returned from Taiwan. team of three joining force very timely to catch up with the new influx of students in the beginning of a new Academic term. The queue for bus was so long that it turned the corner reaching almost towards the end of the side street. Despite the bus frequency are still high as usual, we all got very long conversation finishing the full gospel with good result. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) I was led to approach JJ from Flippin who quickly identified himself as a protestant Christian despite there are many y Catholic background Christian in his bigger family circle. I thus switched to test his assurance of salvation which is spot on 100%. I encouraged him to do outreach in the campus perhaps to be affiliated with Power to Change.

2) Then I caught up with an ABC Malaysian Chinese. He speaks very little and limited Chinese despite he is all Chinese face looking. And he declared himself an atheist. He admitted he could not find and fallacy or loophole in the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect, we are all liable to go to hell with those known bad guys like Hitler. Only through the atoning grace of Jesus can we be saved by grace through faith. Yet, his heart is still too hard to humble himself to receive Christ as his Savior.

3) Billy & Anna are both Hongkonger, but they actually are from North Eastern China ???? but moved to HKG for study over 7 years than came over to Australia for University study on Business Management. They both listen to the gospel patiently and admitted they have heard the same many times before. Possibly because the long-term influence by atheist in China, they are not too drawn to religious teaching. But perhaps the 7 odd years of life in HKG still played an effect of yearning for freedom and being set free from many visible and invisible bondage from the background they were brought up.

4) Lucy is a local Aussie girl but with mixed blood of Netherland. She is very sociable and talkative and appeared open to the gospel message despite she is non-religious. She was basically convinced to admit that no one is perfect as such we will be held responsible for our short coming in our human character even in the meantime, we have done a lot of good work. I suspect she might have missed her bus at least once to allow the conversation to carry on.

5) Zach is a young man living in the North of about one hour train traveling time. He is non-religious but similarly he seemed to have been touch ed by the gospel admitting everyone good or bad, we all need the redemptive grace of Jesus.


Sunnybank (QLD) Team

Wednesday 21 February 2024

Posted by Posted 27 February 2024, 11:01 AM by Hung Kwan. Permalink

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday February 21st, 2024 from 1300-1500

Praised be to God, Peace joined us today making a team of four, predominately from Christ's Family Church: Hung Kwan, Amy Yao, Peace and Ann Yeo. I am grateful to God moving Peace to make this unofficial commitment of joining the Sunnybank Street Outreach fortnightly. This is also a fruit of Kairos that so far there are many Kairos graduates or even those who is still just doing the course but readily are moved to join this Gospel revival movement of local cross-cultural evangelism. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit is evidently clear that the four of us all got our divine encounter with someone elected by God and at time team work was visible that Gospel targets were referred to another gospel preacher for better result. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach a lady by the name Pang? from Taipei, Taiwan ?? who is doing working holiday here. She is not religious but have a n open mind to listen to the gospel which she found sensible and logical. She loved to take a tract for further consideration and faith action.

2) Then I was led to approach Meng Gan??. a professional painter ???? from Tianjin, China and have got PR to stay here since 1993. I roughly recall he was one of those supporters for a family Qin from Tianjin with the son getting brain cancer. He received Christ during the process of medical treatment but eventually still be with the Lord. But the whole family experienced peace. The Painter Meng was one of the people in the Chinese community to support Qin in many ways. I thought Meng eventually also became a Christian, but I just did not have time to verify this as his bus just came and end our conversation abruptly.

3) Next I was led to approach a Taiwanese girl coming for study??????She took a tract as her bus came too quick.

4) Then I had a long conversation with a man from Hubei Wuhan ????. He responded to the question if a good person can go to heaven by stating as long as one has inner peace??, he will have no worries about any external environment. I took on to share the full gospel to him and the bus arrived.

5) Then I caught up with a lady Shinjuku from Tokyo, Japan. I shared my witness of making good friends with Japanese colleague in Tokyo to build rapport. And then I shared the nutshell of the gospel before her bus arrived and she thanked me also taking a tract to read.

6) Nest I was moved to approach a lady who was busy in texting on the iPhone, So I had to switch talking to somebody else first. However, Peace instead got the chance to start chatting with her but referring her to me when she noticed she is from Turkey. It was the sovereign power of God to lead me to end up chatting with her. Her name is Ozzie who actually has two nationalities of Bulgaria and Turkey. Thus, she is more an European like woman with an open minded who likes to travel around the world and so far already have visited 34 countries. She was delighted to find that I actually visited her home town at Izmir. Time left for the gospel is not much, but she seemed to be receptive to Christianity because of her Bulgaria life style background. She joyfully took a selfie with me and too ka tract to read on the bus.

7) Last but not the least, Ann first met and chatted with Emily from Beijing who got a job here on work visa. Ann already convinced her to have a go attending Church to pursue the true salvation of Jesus. I took on to share the full gospel with her which she responded positively to pursue and she took a "Good Person " tract from me to reinforce the gospel I shared with her.


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