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.

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 16th 2025 from 1030-1200

Edwin teamed up with Hung today again to do street outreach. It was a fine day with warm sunshine. Yet the hearts of many of the people we approached were a bit cold and not receptive to the gospel. Nevertheless, there were still exceptions of several good chats experienced by Hung.

1) First with an senior man from Toowoomba who was just discharged from a day surgery at Sunnybank Private. It gave me to lead to stress life is vulnerable beyond our control that we must make the most important decision to straighten out the issue of our eternal being whether with God in heaven or apart from God in Hell.
2) Then I spotted a Filipino lady standing besides the dangerous spot at the bus stop where once a bus hit and smash on to a light post with its tail when leaving the bus stop. It again led to the issue of vulnerability of life that we must understand that all human will go to hell in doom day if our life is not perfect.
3) Then I caught up with another girl of Filipino dad and Aussie mum. She is very open and receptive to the gospel.
4) Last but not the least I spent the longest time with a Chinese Mainlander women who believes in fortune telling. She initially bound off to avoid me but the Spirit moved her to come back to me for a chat. I was led by the Spirit to spin around the conversation back to the gospel and showed her the only way to have eternal peace and hope is through Jesus.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 8th, 2025 from 1030-1200

It was a chill winter morning. People flow at the Toowong bus stop was low. I anyhow managed to chat with a couple of Indian origin people including a Singaporean and Islander plus first an Indonesian Muslim girl. They were all open and receptive to the gospel message from a non-religious point of view admitting that all human are not perfect though in general good, but has already been disqualified by the rule of zero record requirement on Crime by secular government and on sin by the spiritual heavenly kingdom. The only one can save us isSon of God Jesus Christ who incarnated as a perfect human being but not of the fallen human race. He died for us all and has vowed to take our place to receive the eternal death punishment of our sin, yet he rose from death three day afterwards showing he has conquered the power of death and defeated Satan as such he has the capacity to forgive our sin by issuing a sin free certificate that in effect clean our record of sin to zero making us a new creation to be right with God right away. This is a logical inference that no one can rebuke. Pray that those who heard this version of gospel will be moved to accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord of life.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 9th 2025 from 1030-1200

It was a good day for street outreach especially with Edwin joining me again reaching almost every one who come to the Bus Stop. For me, it was a special day for reaching out to seversl elderly mainlander males and or with their couples. Surprisingly they were all open and receptive to the Gospel and enjoyed the free chatting with me and ending up with selfie with me. God is amazing in His salvation plan for individuals.

I also had another chat with a Christian lady who is an ABC from Adelaide to come for a Christian conferences. Surprisingly , she does nit have 100% assurance of salvation which was clarified with appreciation shown by a selfie photo.

1) Approached an elderly lady from Nanjing sharing gospel half way then her husband and friends came to join her thus chatting switched to be with the husband.

2) Caught up with Cecil who is an ABC of Malaysian Chinese background but is from Adelaide to Brisbane for conference. Lack of 100 Assurance of salvation but clarified easily

3) First with a Mainlander male of my same age but was waiting for friends to bring a lady for dating first appointment. Good rapport build and that man has history of going to church but not fully understand gospel, later his friends came also with Christianity and bible knowledge though still a non believer. Through conversation, clarified a lot of their misconception on salvation and knowledge about Mormon and JW. Appeared a big step closer to accept Jesus.

4) Follow up chat with Mr. Chang from Hebei , Boding waiting for wife who gone shopping. Edwin had approached him with a quick gospel sharing. But I was moved to continue with deeper chat which really appeared making good sense to him and later her wife, so again they were happy to take selfie with me.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 8th, 2025 from 1030-1200

Today, I still did my Toowong street gospel outreach by my self instead of with Edwin who originally was free to come due to term break but suddenly became unavailable due to unexpected kid's medical appointment. I also had to cut it short because of my wife medical appointment in the noon time.

Nevertheless, I still had a couple of good and long enough chat with an Indian couples and a young man from Hebei. They were all open and receptive and shared the point I explained to them that even one record of crime will disqualify us for migration to Australia, likewise even just one sin record is enough to set us apart from God losing our heavenly citizenship. As long as we admit that we are not perfect, there is an established need for us to seek help from a perfect being which does not exist in the fallen human race. So it could only be Jesus Christ the son of God who came by virgin birth to incarnate as a perfect human but does not belong to the fallen human race. His mission as planned and prophesized by God as the offspring of woman will come to defeat Satan, by dying on the Cross to be the sacrificial lamb to take our place to receive the eternal death punishment of our sin. Thence the moment we accepted Him as our savior our sin is deemed punished and the record of our sin is reset to zero making us look as a sin free new creation to be right with God and be granted back our long lost heavenly citizenship. The three gospel targets all found no reason to repudiate this Gospel message or rationale to transform us back to a pure and sin free new creation to be right with God and become His children again.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Well, we are well and truly in winter's grasp now.  We’ve had to miss a few street outreaches due to weather.  But that didn’t mean we had to stop the outreach - online.  I still marvel at how much opportunity we have to share the gospel.  The opportunity is virtually unlimited.

 

Just yesterday, the Holy Spirit dropped me into the back seat of someone’s car in Auckland.  He was holding an implement I assume to be used for abusing substances for pleasure.  Later in the chat he did indeed light it up and start puffing from it.  I asked him what he thought happened after life and a conversation was away.  He didn’t take it very seriously initially.  At one point, he even reached over and pulled what looked like a little machine gun into view so I could see that he was a bad boy.

 

Yet, as the conversation progressed, I managed to trigger some serious reflection from him.  He turned to the issue of evil and suffering.  Why had all these horrible things been allowed to happen to him?  I’d say this is the most common question I get when a conversation breaks through silliness and superficiality.  I’m ready for it.  I have 3 answers that I usually give in order.  Answer 1) empathy, answer 2) people are responsible for their actions - they can’t blame God, and answer 3) God allows evil so he can demonstrate his justice (wrath), patience and mercy (Romans 9:22-23). In this case, my first answer: empathy caused the crack in his resistance, and he opened up to hear the law and the gospel.

 

It was interesting, because as I explained grace, he immediately articulated salvation by works back to me.  So I pushed back with grace.  The bomb hit, he understood, because he asked the classic question: “So, I can do whatever I want then?”  To solidify grace in his thinking, I affirmed his question, but then explained that, as a result of grace, we are now free from slavery to sin: the drunkard will put down his bottle, the wife beater will stop beating his wife.

 

He was provoked to confess that he had tried religion, but that it hadn’t worked.  As I asked for clarification, he gave up on me, reached out and skipped.  The Holy Spirit took me away.  I was sad by the sudden ending, but then I rejoiced.  I had been able to plant the gospel seed!  What happens to it is out of my control anyway, but my mission was complete.  Glory to God.  He can use that seed to magnify his justice, or he can use that seed to magnify his mercy.  Either way, God is glorified.  Our feeble effort is never wasted in God’s strong hands.  And so, I will never get sick of this hard, often repetitive labour.  I want to be anonymous.  I want to put my head down and work, telling the next person, then the next person, then the next person about Jesus!  Telling them about the wonderful gospel of Jesus!  And I rejoice in His glory.

 

On Friday, we (Andy, Roger, Brian, Laura, and myself) were at the Bridge of Remembrance.  A dreary day weather wise; I had my thermals on!

 

One special interaction stands out in my mind.  A young couple went past, and we got into a chat.  He was emotionless - indifferent to the conversation, and yet she was very engaged.  I could tell by the look in her eyes.  As she grasped the grace of Jesus, she said something that impacted me.  She said, “no one has ever explained this to me”.  As I write this, I’m considering my emotions.  Joy, that she came to understand about Jesus.  But then, anger.  Anger that she has never had someone explain this simple message to her.  She wasn’t resistant, she didn’t ask me any hard questions, I just stuck to the simple script.

 

Due to the dynamic of the situation, the conversation needed to be short - he wasn’t interested, and they obviously needed to be somewhere.  But in that short time, the seed had been planted.  I was able to point her to a Bible, specifically the book of John.  I could tell she was very engaged, because she articulated back to me which book in the Bible she needed to start with.  I was also able to point her to a church before they moved on.  In the hands of God.

 

Lord, help me to deal with my anger rightly.  Help me to be an encouragement to other believers in sharing the gospel.  Lord, may your church not be distracted.  Help us.

 

Two other conversations from the month stand out in my thinking, one was an online chat with two young guys who live in the suburb next to mine.  I said to my pastor just after, that even if I had 24 hours with them, I wouldn’t exhaust the need for biblical counselling in their lives; yet, gospel seed planted.  The other was a very short text chat with a guy, no religious background, the building builder analogy made sense to him and he opened up to hear the gospel.  He immediately expressed interest in the Bible, so I pointed him to John when he suddenly skipped; gospel seed planted.  But, I’m out of time to give any more details.

 

If you read this, can I ask 2 things of you: 1) join me.  We offer free training.  The opportunity beyond the opportunity in your everyday life (friends, family, etc) is limitless.  2) please pray for us.  I want to go to heaven, I’m eager for Jesus' return, but another part of me wants to keep doing this, as tiring as it is, till I’m at least 96.  I want to push my walking frame down Colombo street to the Corner of Cashel and tell the young people about Jesus.

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday July 2nd, 2025 from 1030-1200

Today was an extremely windy day but it did not deter the eagerness of Edwin to rejoin me after a long break due to heavy Bible college study load. He can rejoin me from now on , not only during term break but his last terms left with only one subject so, he should be more free and available to come. We are of different type of evangelist, Edwin is good as quick approach with the nutshell of the gospel. I prefer to dig deeper and have a longer conversation, situations permitted. So, we both had a fruitful day in term of number of conversation for Edwin and long chats for Hung which is recap as below: -

1) First with a nonbeliever from Liaoning 遼寧人, Mainland China. He was cautious but still polite enough to let me share the full gospel to him and took as tract at the end.

2) Then Theo an ABC with parents of a Christian family from mainland China. Theo only has 60 % of assurance of salvation as such he was shy to admit he is a fair dinkum Christian. But now after clarification he was joyful to ascertain he has 100% assurance now.

3) Next is also a Christian from South Africa who has migrated to Australia for 15 years. He also lack 100% assurance of salvation but now claim himself a fair dinkum Christian.

4) Then I was led to catch up with and arrogant Australian born Filipino. He took a rebellious attitude to attack the gospel and doctrine but eventually he cannot rebuke the rationale and logic of Gospel but still refused to accept a tract from me..

5) last but not the least was Eddy a local Aussie young brook with a Chinese girl friend. He showed initial skepticism but eventually fully impressed and convinced by the gospel.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday July 1st, 2025 from 1030-1200

After a couples of rainy day, we had a fairy windy day making the temperature appeared a bit chilling but luckily with a Sunny sky above. It made a good day to outreach though with lesser people flow during term break.

There were an Indian dad playing hide and seek with his troller daughter full of joy and laughter that I felt too inappropriate to interrupt them. But it set the tone for the day that people should be introduced back to our heavenly Father to live a Child like life to be affectionately close to our Father.

All approaches for gospel conversation basically were pleasant and Spirit led with positive result. I was led to chat with a Canadian young man called Faith and a Kiwi youngster, then full gospel chats with a Vietnamese girl and Peddia an Iranian lady who is nonreligious, but open and receptive to the gospel message especially Jesus as our Savior.

Pray that all people heard the gospel will eventually be blessed to receive Christ in God's timing

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday June 25th, 2025 from 1030-1200

Today I served alone again at Sunny bank. It was totally out of my expectation that I had a longest conversation ever lasting over one and a half hour with a Christian pastor. By appearance , you would never guest he is a believer not to mentioned an itinerant pastor doing both local preaching and mission work in Africa and Filipina. He was making for himself a self made cigarette and most of his teeth were lost or rotten with a suspicious sign of drug addiction. Yet through conversation, he quickly identify himself a fair dinkum pastor and self-employed missionary. He is well verse in several Filipino dialect. He claimed he did his theological study at the Bible college in the Gold Coast. He lamented most churches teach only salvation by faith but not enough emphasis by grace, which itself is an unclear concept. Through to and forth clarification, he possibly means the need to live a sanctify and holy life after becoming a Christian otherwise it is only an empty title we got as a Christian.

There are a lot of Christian and doctrinal jargon in his mind as such it is not easy to have a hear to heart communication with him. I can only take it as the benefit of the doubt that it is the way of his expression of faith and the gospel in some local old fashion.

I only reached out to another Mainlander girl who showed skepticism toward Gospel but just listen on for politeness sake

 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday June 24th, 2025 from 1030-1200

It was readily the term break of UQ ad such the people flow drastically drop with only a handful around at the bus stop. But still God made it a day of fruitful outreach giving me chance to teach about assurance of salvation for a few Chritians including a Catholic Christian girl from Filipine and an Islander Christian from Naru. Both have 100 %assurance of salvation but different degree of understanding about the holistic salvation plan of God.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday June 18th, 2025 from 1030-1200

I was a bit late being held up on a Kairos drilling arrangement with Ps Richard Jiang as such I possibly missed meeting Ann who used to come the same time but work across the road and come to join me when she sees me. Anyway, I was moved to keep using the accident happened last week whereby the rear left tail of the bus hit hard on a lamp post by the road side when departing from the bus stop. If any one stand near, even not in front will get hurt if not get killed. This happened when I talked to Matthew the Hong Konger young man that it is better early than late to make his personal decision to receive Christ when he readily acknowledges the need for him as well as all good persons that are not perfect to accept Jesus as Savior. Our life is not in control by ourselves but God. Right after I said these word, the bus hit hard at the lamp post with a loud big banging noise that rightly demonstrates how life could be vulnerable if any one stood near the lamp post will instantly lose his/her life.

Therefore, I was moved to keep inviting people to have a look of the crash mark of the bus left on the lamp post. It includes a couple migrated from Jiangsu Nanjing, a Senior elderly from Hong Kong, Parminder an Indian guy I caught up last week, and finally a UQ electrical Engineer Year 2 lady who is a local Aussie. God let me have long enough time to chat and share the full gospel message that seemingly have touched her heart like Matthew last week. She even missed her bus by taking time to have a selfie with me. So at the end, I was moved to accompany her till her next bus came and shared a lot more and deeper about the three folds deliverance and encouraged her to really consider seriously to make her timely decision to accept Jesus as Savior.

In contrast to a humble and willing heart of above mentioned people. God also led me to face rejection by a Mainlander young man. He deceitfully claim he got flu and asked me to keep a distance from him. He really did not know what he had missed. May God's grace bee enough to give him another chance to listen to the gospel.

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