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 January 15, 2025 from 1300-1500

It was again a very fruitful afternoon doing street outreach as a team of four i.e. Johnny , Edwin, Ann & Hung with heap of conversations especially the last one with Brother Liu from China who is keen to study Theology in a more systematic way, so I took the chance to introduce him to Kairos which I reckon is the best comprehensive study of God mission and His requirement for us to work with him leading a life on mission with God. Recap below was some of the meaningful conversation.

1) After letting the team to settle down , my first approach was to Natarsha who actually came from Cairns belonging to the Wakaja tribe and Bunda Bunda clan. She is sort of Christian but obviously lack discipleship teaching and her assurance of salvation is 80%. I took all the time I have (she even skipped her bus to keep talking with me) to clarify and helped her to understand fully about salvation by grace through faith all because of Jesus sufficient redemptive work that readily guarantee to us to reconcile with God as such to have received 100% back our heavenly citizenship. She is a very humble and willing learner and rejoiced to know I may go to Cairns in August for mission with the Yarrabah Church.

2) Next was Adam whom I met and chatted several time, but to day Ann invited him to know us in person and have longer chat first with me and then Johnny. Basically his understanding of the Bible and salvation is very fragmentated if not incomplete. His past life experience has caused him much traumatized impact to his mental as well as spirituality. Johnny admitted he only lend a listening ears to Adam to let him feel respected and acceptance. We all pray that in times we will adjust and correct all those problematic understanding of faith and Bible. It was great Ann invited him to yum cha afterwards providing some sort of assertion therapy.

3) Then I have a comparatively long chat with a Filipino lady of Catholic background, and obviously she all is lacking 100 % assurance of salvation which was clarified.

4) Joanna from Taiwan is a non-believers. But she was open and humble to listen to the full gospel sharing and found it very reasonable and logical to know that good is not good enough that we are all imperfect sinner that need the salvation of Jesus to cleanse our sin.

5) Lastly it was Liu as mentioned above. He possibly is the first one who ask voluntarily to go to church with a purpose to learn more about Biblical Doctrine and theology.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday January 14, 2025 from 1230-1400

It was over joy to have four people turning up today at Toowong, i.e. Johnny, Rev Ding Hwa Jen, Ann Yeo and Hung. We jokingly thanks God for doubling or gospel outreach force from 2 to 4.

It is a privilege to have met Rev Ding and teamed up with Rev Ding to be on mission with God for street gospel outreach at Toowong. him. The powerful work of God on Rev Ding through the divine election of the Holy Spirit was a clear sign of God grace to use him on his first debut of Street Outreach as His great ambassador for the gospel in action.

We can see clearly that despite I might have chatted with that guy of Chinese and Korean mixed blood three times before, I never was able to find this out but just kept sharing gospel with him to an extent, it was initially used as an excuse to decline the 4th approach by Rev Ding to him. But see how subtle was the omniscience God using Rev Ding to have discovered his identity as a Chinese and Korean cross breed like Rev Ding himself, as well as his son, that this guy could not deny it was really God at work to match them up for gospel sharing. I could see God used all this miracle after miracle to move and call Rev Ding to give it a go for engaging in street outreach like God has called Johnny, Edwin and me to do.

Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) UQ Student Chen from Shanghai, welly connected because of my adventurous travel experience in the early 1973 to Shanghai. The work of the Holy Spirit was obvious to open him up to become more receptive to the gospel message, especially the fact that no one is perfect and we all need a savior to help cleanse our sin for reconciling with God.

2) Next was a Brazilian girl once studied at Griffith but now graduated and earned PR by finding a job here. She is non-religious, but appeared receptive to the Gospel Message.

India tract only

3) Then I connected with a local Aussie but studying Philosophy and is now doing a PhD degree on Hegel, same as the specialty of my 2nd elder Brother. He also appeared very open and receptive and cannot deny a bit of the logic I put forth to prove that no one is perfect and we all need an external agent to help making us perfect in terms of sin free record. Pray that he will submit to the Spirit and lay down his rational mind to accept the faith by grace.

4)Then I was led to connect with another Mainlander from Henan which I use Sanmenxia , one of the Orphanage project in Henan to build rapport with him to explain the issue that being a good person with lot of charity work still will not help a bit for us to earn the admission to Heaven.

5) Then I was lewd to approach an Indian woman, she heard of William Carey, though still not yet a Christian. Time also ran out for me to carry on with the gospel sharing conversation so a tract at the end was given.

6) Last but not the least, I connect with yet another cross bleed lady with parents from Australia and Philippine. She also is not yet a believer and I was just able to share her the nutshell of the gospel.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday January 14, 2025 from 1230-1400

It was over joy to have four people turning up today at Toowong, i.e. Johnny, Rev Ding Hwa Jen, Ann Yeo and Hung. We jokingly thanks God for doubling or gospel outreach force from 2 to 4.

It is a privilege to have met Rev Ding and teamed up with Rev Ding to be on mission with God for street gospel outreach at Toowong. him. The powerful work of God on Rev Ding through the divine election of the Holy Spirit was a clear sign of God grace to use him on his first debut of Street Outreach as His great ambassador for the gospel in action.

We can see clearly that despite I might have chatted with that guy of Chinese and Korean mixed blood three times before, I never was able to find this out but just kept sharing gospel with him to an extent, it was initially used as an excuse to decline the 4th approach by Rev Ding to him. But see how subtle was the omniscience God using Rev Ding to have discovered his identity as a Chinese and Korean cross breed like Rev Ding himself, as well as his son, that this guy could not deny it was really God at work to match them up for gospel sharing. I could see God used all this miracle after miracle to move and call Rev Ding to give it a go for engaging in street outreach like God has called Johnny, Edwin and me to do.

Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) UQ Student Chen from Shanghai, welly connected because of my adventurous travel experience in the early 1973 to Shanghai. The work of the Holy Spirit was obvious to open him up to become more receptive to the gospel message, especially the fact that no one is perfect and we all need a savior to help cleanse our sin for reconciling with God.

2) Next was a Brazilian girl once studied at Griffith but now graduated and earned PR by finding a job here. She is non-religious, but appeared receptive to the Gospel Message.

India tract only

3) Then I connected with a local Aussie but studying Philosophy and is now doing a PhD degree on Hegel, same as the specialty of my 2nd elder Brother. He also appeared very open and receptive and cannot deny a bit of the logic I put forth to prove that no one is perfect and we all need an external agent to help making us perfect in terms of sin free record. Pray that he will submit to the Spirit and lay down his rational mind to accept the faith by grace.

4)Then I was led to connect with another Mainlander from Henan which I use Sanmenxia , one of the Orphanage project in Henan to build rapport with him to explain the issue that being a good person with lot of charity work still will not help a bit for us to earn the admission to Heaven.

5) Then I was lewd to approach an Indian woman, she heard of William Carey, though still not yet a Christian. Time also ran out for me to carry on with the gospel sharing conversation so a tract at the end was given.

6) Last but not the least, I connect with yet another cross bleed lady with parents from Australia and Philippine. She also is not yet a believer and I was just able to share her the nutshell of the gospel.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Okay, this report was supposed to come out on Sunday the 5th of Jan.  But at the last minute I decided to take some R&R to recover a bit from the spring of special outreaches.  I’m back on deck now and so let me update you with how the outreaches for Dec 2024 went.

 

But first, I just want to take a moment to remember Stephen Ripley, who sadly passed from this earth on the 16th of December.  Stephen and his wife Margaret regularly joined us for the abortion/gospel outreach we used to run outside the hospital.  It was an honour to be able to serve next to Stephen, and am looking forward to seeing him again when I join him in graduation to heaven!  My condolences to Margaret & family at this time.

 

So, I can’t really remember the details of my gospel conversations during December.  So, I’m going to let the pictures I dredged up do most of the talking instead.

 

We had one special outreach.  It was the boxing day gospel tract outreach.  It was great to have Martin from Hamilton with me again.  He is usually in Christchurch for holidays around this time of year.  Between us we were able to hand out about 3 to 4 hundred Christmas tracts in 2 x 2 hour outreaches: Riccarton in the morning, and in the city in the afternoon.  It was pouring with rain in the afternoon, but that didn’t stop the people out bargain hunting - and getting a bargain they didn’t expect too: the gospel!  Even though the focus was on distributing tracts, I still had many gospel conversations too.

 

Well, I’ll leave it at that.  No special outreaches for the rest of January.  Instead I’ll enjoy getting back into my regular routine of street and online outreach.  Please continue to keep the Christchurch outreach team in prayer!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 8, 2025 from 1230-1400

Today, I also started the street outreach at Sunnybank for the first time in 2025 by myself. It requires oil in my lamp by the Holy Spirit to push for the extra step in approaching the elected targets in defying timidity and helplessness in flesh.

I waited for the bus arriving in 3 minutes to come and go, thence the bus stop was left with no person except a young man sitting on the bench away from the covered area of the bus stop. So, that was the first one I was led to approach. He is Ethan , a new convert for one year and is attending SIC. I skip the gospel message first but proceed to check for his assurance of salvation which is only at 60 % level. Since he was only waiting to meet a friend here so, I had more time to clarified his incomplete understanding about salvation by grace thru faith that no one can earn by our limited good deeds but has to 100% rely on the work of Jesus dying for us and taking our place to receive the eternal death punishment of our sins. I took the chance to chip in more basic doctrinal teachings that had caught his attention and interest even after his friend had arrived. He thanked for my sharing from the bottom of his heart and joyfully took selfie with me.

Next was a non-believer from Shangdong山東, China who studied Business Management at CQU. He was on his shopping errand today but appeared comparatively open despite knowing it is about Christianity. I was able to share him the full gospel mingled with my personal testimony of God's healing my Bladder cancer. The bus came just on time when I finished the full gospel so he rush ed off for the bus though still taken a tract from me.

Then, the bus stop was left with one lady again. When I approached her, she immediately claimed I chatted with her before and she was busy in doing a lot of texting on the phone with her friends. I waited patiently but moved on after a long while that there was no sign her texting communication will cease any time soon. But I still thank for the unsuccessful encounter that at least reminded here about the need for repentant and to accept Jesus as Savior and Lord of our life.

After another few unsuccessful approach, I was led to lock on with Ervine, a Filipino Catholic Christian who only has 50% of assurance. Again, I was given enough time to clarify the misconception with him and he felt pumped to have new motivation to follow Jesus and be transformed day by day towards perfection through the work of the Holy Spirit.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday January 7, 2025 from 1230-1400

Today I kicked start the street outreach ministry in 2025 at Toowong in the new ministry time from 1230 to 1400. Both Johnny and Edwin were not available due to their own church ad Hoc ministry need. I just start the outreach in the New Year period ministry as usual. There were less but still reasonable people flow. I first spotted the Sri Lanka man I mistaken as local worker but actually an UQ student doing part time work at Woolly. When I tried to approach him for a follow up chat, it was interfered by a phone call. I tried to stay around for a while but did not beat the arrival of his bus. I anyway saw it as a lead for follow up approach on him in our next divine encounter. Recap below were some other chats I got:

First I was led to approach a middle aged man from Ethiopia which according to him is now a half half Christian and Muslim country. He however was not religious, but still open enough for a chat though again the time left was short. I still managed to share the nutshell of the Gospel and he was forced to wave me good bye when his bus arrived.

Next, I had a long chat with a young man from Yang Zhiu揚州, Jiangsu. He was intrigued to realize I had an adventurous visit to Jiang Jie Provinces dated back to 1973/74. He admitted even it was before the birth of his father. He appeared very polite and open for a chat even on religious issue with genuine interest. I almost finished the full gospel which he found rational and logical that as an imperfect human being, we all need external help from a perfect person. When his bus arrive, he asked politely to end the conversation or else his next bus will be 8 minutes later. So, I could not but let go and pray for future possible reunion for follow up chat.

Then, I reconnected with a guy who claimed to have a chat with one of us and most probably a lady. He showed a bit of reluctant to chat again, bit finally he let up and let me revise most of the gospel message calling for our repentant heart to accept Jesus as our Saviour to cleanse up our sin once and for all in order that we can be gifted with a renewed status of heavenly citizen. Pray that this reminder will serve the purpose of God on his life.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Dec 24, 2024 from 1230-1400

Johnny decided to change the Toowong outreach time an hour earlier from 1230 to 1400. On Christmas eve, the people flow was more than normal and parking as well getting a bit more difficult. Nevertheless, Johnny and Hung still made it as the final rush outreach before Christmas Day. Obviously, both of us used the Merry Christmas gag to attract interest for a more relaxed and causal chat. People do not reject Christmas as a festivity and our aim is to drawn their attention back to Jesus as the reason for the season, and His incarnation birth has brought life transforming power to set us free from the bondage of sin and regain eternal life as well as heavenly identify as God's people/children through His sacrificial death on the cross. Recap below is the Battle log of Hung:

1) Sri Lankan in Woolworth uniform misled me as a migrated local worker, but he actually is an UQ student doing part time job. He is a Muslim but with open mind to listen to the full gospel.

2) Next was another UQ student from Indonesia also declared himself a Muslim. He typically thinks all religions are the same as long as we abided by the teaching of the religion to be a good person. So the tract and the gospel hopefully will give him a new dimension of thought about the grave impact and consequence of sin imposed on all human life disqualifying all of us to be reconnected with God unless our sin is cleansed and pardoned by Jesus.

3) Then I was led to approach a local Aussie girl who claimed to have chatted with me before. Surprisingly I could not find such battle log entry after going home, but I did not give up sharing or revising the full gospel with her again.

4) Next was a local Aussie handy man doing Christmas shopping. He was attracted to the Merry Christmas Gag and thanked for my illumination and explanation. He is non-believer but appeared receptive to the gospel message that all human though good but not perfect as such they all need salvation by Jesus as our savior and our Lord of Life.

5) Then I connected with an ABC with parents from Hong Kong and he could speak reasonably good Cantonese, and is now a High School teacher. He also is non-believer but appeared open and receptive to the gospel message.

6) Then I came across a young man from Wuhan武漢, he appeared comparatively open than most of the Maninder and was willing to chat even religious issues. He had been baptized by the saga of pandemic leading to a long complete lock down of the city as such he experienced the dark side of human sin in flesh. His heart has been softened for the gospel message.

7) Olive from a small town in the Southern part of UK and near London. He is non Christian but hold and open mind to Christianity and he felt more clear about the need for Jesus after the gospel sharing.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 11th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Despite of continuous adverse weather situation, the regular four Street Outreach gospel warrior Johnny, Ann, Edwin and Hung still turned up to exercise our due diligent to preach the gospel irrespective of external environment. But the weather did turn very rough with storm and hail looming, Johnny made the call to finish half and our earlier to let every one drive home safely. Thus with a short period, I only recorded five gospel conversations but all are long and meaningful communication as recap below:-

1) First I was led to approach a Local Aussie girl who moved her stuff to spare space welcoming me to have a chat. I started with the Merry Christmas gag that successfully drawn her attention to Jesus as the reason for the season, And that His birth brought along "Merry" an ancient English word to symbolize a kind of power that are capable to transform our life setting free from the bondage of sin. She is not religious, but it was a more lively way to challenge her to face the real meaning of Christmas.

2) Then I was attracted to a mother with her grown up daughter that first was approached by Edwin. He was misled by them that they are readily church going Christian thus no need for the gospel. I was moved anyway to take up from there to test their assurance of salvation. But I was surprised to find out that they are non-believers and at best be called seekers. So I anyway share the mum full gospel with the daughter not paying full attention by her side.

3) Next I was led to approach an Indian middle age man who migrated to Australia at early childhood age. He was friendly and found the real meaning of "merry Christmas" interesting. He is non Christian, but are familiar with some of the Christmas related facts. So he appeared completely open and receptive to the gospel building on the new understanding of Merry being power brought by Jesus' birth.

4) Then I had a long chat with a Catholic background Filipino. He typically have no assurance of salvation but as low as only a mere 20% level. But after clarification, he happily acknowledge he should have 100% assurance that because of Jesus' sacrificial death he readily has received the free gift of eternally life from Jesus and on this basis, God is determined to further transform his life back to 100% purity. He joyously took a selfie with me.

5) Then we encountered a PNG family of 3 with Mum and 1 grown up son and a younger sister. Johnny approached the adult son first and passed him all the gospel tract. I was moved to take on to check his assurance of salvation which is correctly 100% but he failed to account for the reason why. Anyway, God moved me to share a long time with him enriching and deepening his understand of the Bible about Jesus, His earthly ministry and His mission to kick off the long planned Dual Kingdom & Salvation Project as per Gen3:15b. He also merrily took a selfie with me.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Dec 17, 2024 from 1330-1430

There was intermittent isolated heavy rain in Toowong area, it nevertheless posted no hindrance for Johnny and Hung to serve Street Outreach ministry as usual. The power of witness apart from the output of gospel sharing to non-believing people of all Nations was demonstrated. After sharing full gospel to a Malaysian Chinese with fruit bearing result, I was greeted by a Catholic Christian lady with a big smile. We met each other at this bus stop possibly 2 to 3 years ago, she is a serious Catholic follower who tried to debate with us on theology to prove that Catholic faith is orthodox when we challenged her that they do not have pure faith in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus alone and they tend to elevate Mary to a status equal to God. She wrote me long notes and even resorted to refer me to talk to her Church Father which I never have chance to do it but instead consulted many of my personal friend of Catholic background. So, our relationship becomes stranded because of all these differences as such she chooses to avoid or ignore me at the bus stop. But today, here attitude has made a 360 degree changes. She approach me to greet me with a broad smile and compliment me as a good person (in the sense of a good servant). I guess she might have watched and overheard my chat with Edwin the Malaysian and agree with my view of all the gospel sharing messages. So witness is also a form of Behavioral Art, your actions speak louder than words especially we are doing it in His strength. Recap below is the battle log of Hung for today.

1) Edwin, a UQ student from Sarawak, Malaysia. He is non-religious though from a Buddhist family, but he had Christiaan friend and has followed them to church. Thus God may have softened his heart and he also has mastered certain basic bible story teaching as such he appeared 100% open and receptive to the gospel and promise he will take it seriously to pursue to make the last step of faith accepting Jesus as his savior. I also referred him to get in touch with Power To Change for any further questions about the Christian faith.

2) Catholic lady brief encounter serving me like a cup of caffe experience the power of witness for Christ as described above.

3) An Indian parent of Sikh background come visiting daughter studying in UQ, the father could speak limited English, but I try to build rapport by telling him the early days policeman in HKG 80- 100 years ago are mainly by the people of Sikh with their head wrapped up with clothes, And parents used to scare their kids by threatening them to be obedience otherwise the Sikh Policeman will come to grab them for locking up. The bus came and our friendly conversation ended and i still managed to handed him a tract and pray that God will do His job.

4)Next I approached an elderly Local Aussie. I was inspired to use the Fair dinkum and Merry Christmas gag to introduce the gospel message. He was impressed I knew so much about Australian slang and culture as well as UK ancient English. It proved that his interest in gospel was low but the rapport I built with him through these two ice breaking measure earned me a bit more patience to finish the nutshell of Gospel to him.

5) Then I caught up with a Chinese looking Singaporean yet I had only barely enough time to start the gospel without finishing because of the quick arrival of bus. Any way, I still managed to pass him a gospel tract,

6) Last but not the least, I had a good chat with a Mainlander girl who was semi open for gospel message and happily took a tract to read afterwards.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 11th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Johnny could not come to day but God reinforced the Street outreach squad. first with Edwin who is generally free now after the Bible college academic year is over, then join by Ann, who could come normally after the zoom prayer meeting is shifted to 3pm. Finally, Sunny Deng and her husband Ben visiting Brisbane for the first time joined us towards the end and concluding our ministry in prayer for each others. As usual, Edwin is a quick action person, getting connected with almost every one gathering at or near the bus stop without fail. In contrast, Ann sticked to have a long conversation with a Chinese lady possibly on many deep topic about faith. I had many contact to day though most are scattered and short one with three stand out divine encounter as recap below.

1) Eddie a Filipino of Catholic background, firmly answered my first question about his assurance of salvation as 100%, which is good and correct depending on his answer to my 2nd question why? Then he started to give general and empty answer like he has spent much time to learn about the Bible, then I asked what did he learn to give him 100% certainty, and he answered the learning about God. When I asked further what specific thing did he learnt about God that has given him 100% assurance of salvation then he got stuck there not knowing what to answer. I ended up sharing the gospel with him pointing out that it was only because of Jesus redemptive atoning death on our behalf and taking our place to receive the punishment of sin that we are pardoned and our record of sin is set to zero the moment we accept Jesus as Savior and our Lord of Life. Eddie was humble and sincerely thankful for the clarification. Seemingly Catholic teaching on the doctrine that we are saved by grace through faith alone in Jesus is in general not strong and clear enough, diverting their attention to non-essential things.

2) Next significant chat was with a Pakistan woman who sat down next to me and was busy in searching info on the iPhone which route is good for her to go to "Westfield" I pointed out to her "Westfield" is just the name of a commercial group having bought up all major big malls in Australia, as such searching by "Westfield" will lead to nothing. Rather Garden city is the key for her to locate the correct bus route. Actually she has migrated to Australia for already four years but still not very familiar with places and facilities around. After that, she was happy to keep our conversation on. Despite she seemingly is of Muslim background, but she appeared quite open for listening to the gospel and felt no resentment when the name of Jesus was mentioned. At the end, she happily took a tract to read and hopefully ,God will have further soil softening work with her.

3) Another case was an Australian born Chinese with parents from Hong Kong and Malaysia. He claimed he had got our tract before and I followed up on his degree of understanding which had been a bit of challenging task as his thought as well as physical motion was hopping around and unsettled. His behavior showing a bit of Impatience but still responding intermittently to my questions for checking his understanding of the gospel. Finally he acknowledged that every one though good but not perfect all needs help from a perfect person and God as our Savior and Jesus is the one and only one. I could only entrusted hi to God to guide his way toward ultimate deliverance

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