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We welcomed Janet to the team today for our post-hallowe'en witnessing time. Our gracious Lord provided an interesting variety of people to talk to. We remember these particularly at the throne of grace and hope you will supplement our petitions:

     - M. & R., a young couple who were open to hear the whole law and gospel challenge and departed with a N.T. each. May the Father draw them to the Son, Jn. 6:44...

     - S., a Philipino man who needs  a translator to understand the tract and likewise 2 young Chinese men.

     - C. a nominal Hindu who wanted to fulfill his mother's dream. After participating in  the law and gospel conversation, he was challenged to trust Christ alone and forsake Hinduism but he balked at that. May God soften his 'heart'.

      - 2 young Muslim men, H. & G., who were approached separately talked freely  of their beliefs When one of us was asked if we believed in the prophet Muhammad, the negative reply was given. Why? We said that his message disagreed with the preceding prophets. H. took contact details and will research Sura 5 . Pray the conversation continues.

We thank God for all the opportunities He provided for us today. We praise Him for how He builds His Church. We give Him all the glory. We went home rejoicing. 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Saturday and Sunday provided good sunny weather for outreach in Christchurch (NZ).  There was an outreach on both days: in Cashel Mall.

Saturday’s outreach started by scouting out the best place to base.  There was a lot happening: an Indian cultural festival in Cathedral Square, and big bands were playing all over the place: even on one of the trams!  There were many people out and about.

During the scouting, I ended up having a walk up conversation with a guy who had only just landed in Christchurch, from the UK, the night before.  He was reserved, but interested, and was willing to give me the time to share the gospel with plenty of context.  He accepted multiple tracts from me before heading off.

I ended up setting up my flip chart on Cashel Mall more towards the Bridge of Remembrance.  There were many people walking past, but not many were taking tracts, and it was difficult to get any conversations started.

But eventually God provided opportunities to interact with people.  Another young man from the UK, who was heading down to help with one of the big bands, came passed and stopped.  He said he didn’t have long, and wanted the thirty second overview of the gospel (not ideal).  So with warning, I proceeded to do that.  Interestingly it hooked him, and we ended up sitting down and talking further.  He ended up staying for about fifteen minutes.  He was a deep thinker, but sadly very resistant.  He had made up his mind on his current path of life - and he wasn’t going to let me distract him.

I was also very encouraged when a guy engaged me suddenly.  It turns out he is a religious education teacher at a Catholic high school, just down from the Northlands bus stops.  The team has many opportunities to share the gospel with students from that school - some even refer to the RE teachers in conversations.  In our short discussion, we agreed that, although we agree on the Trinity, we disagree on justification by faith alone.  Sadly, his wife turned up at that point and he had to go - but I asked him to get in touch so we could talk further.

One of the last interactions was with one of Jehovah’s witnesses - he had just changed guard from their stand down from me.  He wanted to know what I was doing.  I normally don’t make much ground with the JWs I talk to, but I was pleased to be able to explain why all the major differences between our beliefs were critical to his eternal destiny: If God is just, there must be a Hell; our good works will not get us into the Kingdom of God (I pointed him to Matthew 5:21 & 22); and Jesus must be God to atone for sin.

Sunday was very windy - not ideal flip chatting weather!  So the team focused on tract distribution and also walk up conversations.  I had three conversations.

The first was with a teen couple, who said that they were born again Christians, but when I asked them why they would be going to heaven, they said that it was because they were obeying the commandments!  Wrong answer.  So I proceeded to show them some of the ten commandments to see how they did, and I was then able to explain that it was only a repentant faith in Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross that would make them born again.

The last conversation was long, intellectual, tiring, but very rewarding.  After explaining how we know God exists, and that He is the source of our conscience, I proceeded to take them through the law.  She was instantly resistant at this point - but I was encouraged by this.  There was life in this soul!  After avoiding many rabbit trails, I was able to explain the gospel, and then circle back and deal with objections.  Although resistant to what I was saying, she seemed impacted by the fact that I would stand on the street and care enough about people to share.  She gladly took different tracts from me that went into some more details on some of the things we had talked about.  And then she gave me a hug!

The outreach was overtime by this stage, and I was tired.  I’m grateful for the opportunity to share the love and grace of God, but looking forward to rest.
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Thursday was another day of variable spring weather.  The switch between sunny and wet occured multiple times throughout the day.  Just before the Northlands outreach was about to start, the rain was extremely heavy (even going sideways at times)!  But Andy decided to brave the weather - knowing the bus shelters provided some protection.  And he was rewarded with almost constant gospel conversations!  I guess, while waiting at a bus stop, it’s just as easy to talk on a sunny day as a wet one.

Friday saw improved weather - although there was a cold wind - and so all the outreaches were able to proceed: gospel + abortion outreach outside Christchurch hospital, open air preaching in Cathedral Square, the afternoon outreach on Cashel Mall, and finally the evening outreach in the central city.

There was a team of three for the gospel + abortion outreach.  Praise God there were many opportunities to dialog with people on top of the voice of the signs we were holding.

One of those conversations was a follow up with a young man I’ve talked to multiple times in Riccarton.  He was very supportive of what we were doing.  I was very encouraged to see that he was holding a grasp of the gospel and showing signs that he may have responded positively to it.  I invited him along to our little church.  I hope to see him again soon!

The open air preaching in Cathedral Square was wonderful, there were many people about, and no music to compete with.  Andy had written a submission for the proposed abortion law change but was not selected to give an oral submission - so he decided to share his submission in the open air instead, along with sharing the gospel.

There was a team of three sharing the gospel on Cashel Mall.  I had a busy time - the highlight conversation was with a lady who had received a tract but took the time to come back and return it due to disagreement.  I ended up having a good conversation where we discussed our differences in belief - sadly, I’m concerned about this ladies standing before God.  Interestingly, as she was heading off, she decided to accept a different gospel tract from me.  She didn’t come back to return that one!

The day’s outreaches was wrapped up with a team of two in the evening.  Cathedral Square had been set up for an Indian cultural festival the following day, and a whole lot of people were waiting around for their turn to get on stage to practice.  This of course provided opportunities for gospel conversations: I was very encouraged to see one Sikh man understanding the gravity of sin when I explained that anger is murder of the heart to God.  I shared the gospel, and afterwards he was very keen to find out more, asking about a web site he could look at.  I was happy to point him to one.

Earlier, I had an opportunity to offer a tract to a couple of English cricket players walking past (they will be playing New Zealand, in Christchurch, next week).  I wasn’t surprised that they weren’t interested as I think I had an opportunity to share tracts with other players/coaching staff on Wednesday - they all turned them down then too.  Knowing this, I decided to be bold and ask if I could as a question - they didn’t stop, but one said, “sure”.  So I asked, “do you ever think about what happens after life?”.  I was ignored and they walked on.  But a couple of seconds later, he turned around to give me a look - as if to say: “what kind of question is that ”  I know cricket players think about death, we just have to remember Phil Hughes who recently died in a cricket match when he was hit in the head by the ball.  We have no idea when it will come - and it can be sudden!

The outreach finished with a wonderful conversation outside the bus exchange.  Two girls stopped who were willing to stay and talk about the things of God.  After hearing the gospel, one of them asked a key question: “What does God think of gays?”  It was my pleasure to say that God loves gays so much that he died on the cross for them, but that it was clear that God, who writes the rules, thinks homosexuality is a sin.  He has the power to change hearts - even with this sin - by the power of the gospel.  But she said, “Well, this lesbian is going to hell” - and she blew me a kiss as she walked off.

Jesus, may you receive the reward of your suffering!  Please show these people your mercy through your sacrifice and the gift of repentance and faith in you!
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

The spring weather in Christchurch (NZ) has been very variable.  On Tuesday I started the Riccarton outreach early to avoid rain.  And on Wednesday, I had to deal with all four sessions: heat, cold, wind and rain!

The Riccarton outreach wasn’t as busy as the previous two outreaches there, but the Lord did bring people to hear His gospel.

The highlight conversation was with two teen guys.  I was surprised to see them out of school so early, but they said something about exams.  Anyway, they were very open to the logic of the law and the gospel.  One in particular seemed deeply impacted when discussing the serious nature of sin.  It was encouraging to see them concerned about this, and it was a pleasure to share the antidote: Jesus!

Two other conversations involved an Indian couple who didn’t seem to be very interested, and a Maori couple.  The girl became very resistant when I started by talking about how we know God exists.  Sadly, they left before I could even take them through the law, let alone the gospel.

On Wednesday, as I made it to Cathedral Square, the temperature was warm, but I noticed that the sky was very dark (pictured).  Sure enough, a minute later, it started to pour with rain, and even some hail!  This matched my mood, and it was really tempting to just give up and go home.  But I couldn’t even do that, as I would get soaked walking to my car.  So I did my best to shelter under a tree.  I wasn’t the only one trying to get shelter and amazingly, an easy conversation got started with a young man on holiday from Thailand.  I didn’t get to talk to him for long, and was only able to share the gospel via a tract, which he gladly received and said he would read.  But this “random” encounter encouraged me.

Within no time, the rain had passed, and the sun was out.  So I set up my flip chart and started handing out tracts to the few passers by.  Not too long later, a man approached me and wanted to know what the flip chart was about.  So I was upfront and said I was a Christian wanting to share good news.  He was instantly engaged and a wonderful gospel conversation got underway.  Oddly, he wanted to take photos of us together - which was fine with me.  Then he wanted to take photos of the flip chart.  And then he asked permission to video me.  Again, fine by me - I have nothing to hide!  So he recorded me for a while as I explained how we know God exists, how we know His standard, and then proceeded to get him to examine himself by that standard - all this in response to his key question: how do we know which religion is right?  He videoed me right up to the point where we were talking about anger being murder of the heart.  But I was still able to take him through the gospel and then talk about his original question before he said he had to go.  It turns out this man was a Muslim from Bangladesh.  He wanted me to pray for a personal issue he was struggling with, but I instead prayed for his most serious issue: his need to know God as his father, and to accept the gift of Christ’s sacrifice for his sins.  He left with the tracts: “Which One is Right?”, and “How we Know God Exists”.  I was again encouraged!

I then had a follow up with a young man who remembered the way to heaven correctly!  I challenged him on the urgency of response.  I had a number of other opportunities to talk with people before the end of the outreach and heading off to have lunch.  The second photo shows the contrast in weather from the start of the outreach!

The weather stayed sunny for the afternoon outreach, where I focused on walk up conversations on my way to Ara.  God blessed me with a long conversation outside Ara with a young man who was open and curious.  He understood the logic of the gospel, but his biggest hang up was in knowing that God created the universe.  Evolutionary thinking was so ingrained in him.  So we spent some time talking about this.  He left with a leaflet from CMI that provided some challenging questions with links to more information, as well as gospel tracts and a challenge on the urgency to respond to the gospel.

On the way back from Ara, I had a follow up opportunity with a young man who I’ve talked to many times over the last year.  We are becoming quite friendly.  He was also challenged on the urgency to respond to the gospel.

What about you?  Are you trusting that the sacrifice of Christ has paid for your sins?
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log : Toowong Village : Tuesday Oct 22 1330 to 1500

Praise and thank God to have moved and called the five of us to serve as one unified team for the glory of God sake. We welcomed Colin joining Johnny, Winnie, Kenneth and me for the first time.

We changed our strategy to serve all on the west side of Toowong Village across Benson Street. Winnie and later joined by Kenneth stationed at the foot of the pedestrian bridge, while Johnny and Colin stationed at the Zebra Crossing nearer to the bus stop to catch people crossing the road from the Shopping mall to catch bus. I kept walking in between the two ministry points to catch hold of those in a hurry to catch bus.

This new deployment of our meager 5 person team has proved to be workable and effective. Every one including especially Winnie and Kenneth who are green in Street evangelism all got chances to share full gospel to 3 and or more persons. This virtually has boosted their boldness and faith in Christ to get more fired up to keep going for the long haul in Street evangelism.
The highlight of this 1.5 hours street evangelism came towards the end that, an Australian born Indian young lady excused from my short communication on reason of tiredness was however still stopped by Spirit through Johnny just a minutes later and willingly have a long chat with him that she was made known about the difference between Hindu and Christianity. Praise and glory be to God.

I myself have 10 divine appointment as recap below: -

1) Dodo, a local Aussie girl thought good person is good enough for heaven which of course I pointed out the fallacy and clarified to her the right way through Christ.

2) Delores an UQ student from Fiji who is religious by not yet a Christian. She believed in good deed is OK but I threw her a bomb that it served not effect to counteract their punishable sin. My God enlighten her to find the right way.

3) May, another UQ student was willing to let me walk her to the bus stop, but my full sharing was interrupted by the arriving bus that forced her to leave chasing for the bus.

4) A Blunt man thought he is good as a good man and reject the tract despite I still manage to walk with him for the needed minimum clarification.

5) Sue a Catholic senior lady also thought that just good deed is fine. I walked a distance with her along the foot path to convey the minimum needed clarification.

6) Saki, another UQ student from Fiji agreed with the logic of God's way of redemptive plan but his feed back was cut short by the arriving bus.

7) Yau Tsuen,有璇 an UQ female student from China who claimed she has no religious belief. Shared with her the core gospel with good receptive result.

8) Marissa a local Aussie lady, who is an Atheist
9) Clarissa an UQ student from Sri Lanka who is a Buddhist
10) Millay an Australian born Indian of Hindu background

All the three of them has met and chatted with me last time but God let them reunited with me for some follow up chat. Pray that God will continue to shed light on them for their ultimate salvation. Especially for Millay who was stopped by God the 2nd time through Johnny, may her time for salvation come in His time.

As for Winnie, she got three opportunities to have a full sharing using the "Good Person Test" flip chart : -
1) Kim a girl from Thailand
2) David an UQ student from China
3) Ruth, another UQ student from Philippine,
All three of them admitted they have sin and need the salvation of Jesus. They all indicated they will look for church and or Power to Change in UQ.

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As things begin to warm here in Hobart so too does the responses that we get to the preaching and Bible table and conversational evangelism. There are more people in the mall and stopping to listen when the word is preached. This is wonderful, as is the ongoing multilingual witness from Hana! Tragically there are some people who interact with us who are a study in not throwing pearls before swine. Gloriously there are others that are willing to hear and appear to be changed by interacting with God’s word.

Last week there were two people who stood out as the first category:

Young female scientist: This young lady came to the Bible table after I finished preaching last Tuesday and stayed for almost an hour and a half. Unfortunately, the whole of that time was fruitlessly spent. She began by saying that she disagreed with what we were doing in the mall and I asked her to explain what she meant. Over the next 45 minutes we debated evidences for the Bible, scientific supports for the Biblical worldview, and the worth of Christian evangelism and Christian social activism. In all this every gospel presentation, argument, evidence, support and reason were rejected and ultimately, she kept coming back to the slogan that she held to: Religion is dangerous and harmful. Hana attempted to speak with her afterwards to the same end result. Eventually, we both had to end the conversation as there were others that needed to hear the gospel and she was clearly committed to preventing that from happening.

Man with the big beard: For many months now this man has been taking periodic “shots” at me particularly but also the entire team. The first time he came making all sorts of personal insults and demanding answers to his many questions which he allowed no time to respond to. Since then he has attempted the same a couple of times and I have refused to engage as he is obviously only interested in slandering God and insulting us. Now when he comes through, he merely scoffs, laughs and casts slander at us.

Both of these people can be saved. If God wills it, they will one day confess their sin and trust in Jesus and bow to Him as savior and master. But in the mean time the most that we can do is pray for them. Continuing to attempt to speak with them is casting pearls before dogs and swine, it will only allow them to heap up more sin against God. We must be jealous for the name of God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Giving these people (and others like them) ongoing opportunity to slander the Name is neither right nor good. We must pray for them but also limit their opportunity for ongoing sin. Tragically some people must be left to their sin.

Today there were two people who were at the other end of the spectrum, willing to listen and even showing signs of change.

Mr O: He has been coming to talk to me for quite some time and I always enjoy our conversations (I’ve even enjoyed a particularly good book series he recommended). He does not believe in Jesus as far as I can tell but he is always cordial and often insightful. Many times he has come to be for clarification after listening to the gospel being preached, clearly he is listening and thinking. There are a number of times that we have disagreed, particularly about LGBTI issues, but always there is a willingness to discuss rather than resorting to vitriol and personal attacks. I pray that God will allow our conversations to continue for many years to come and ultimately save this thoughtful young man.

Mr B: I’ve had the privilege of speaking with Mr B. for a couple of years now. Praise God there has been significant change in his life over that time. A fair bit of it he credits God with effecting in his life. Again, this young man is not (yet) a believer but in all our conversations there is an openness and willingness to listen to what God’s word says. Today he joined us for the preaching and for prayer afterwards. May God continue to change and lead Mr B. to life eternal!

Praise Him for all His grace to all us undeserving sinners in Hobart!

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

The Ellesmere A&P (agricultural and pastoral) Show is the first special outreach of the summer for the Christchurch (NZ) team.  We hire a trade site from which we share the gospel via flip charting and tracts.  The weather was great and we had many people going past our site.  And it was very encouraging having a big team of Christians involved with this outreach: if I counted correctly, there were nine of us in total (from various local churches, and different levels of experience) spread out over the day, sharing the load, and encouraging each other.

There were many conversations happening.  And to be honest the day was a bit of a busy blurr for me.  But that’s a good thing!  For next year, we might hire two sites side by side, I’m sure we could have had more conversations during the busy lunch time rush if we had more space!

I’ll probably let the photos do most of the talking, but here are two contrasting highlight conversations that come to mind:

I had an older Catholic guy stop to talk, who was a really sincere guy, but who was trusting in his goodness to get him to save him from hell.  It was a good conversation where I focused on getting him to understand justification by faith alone.  He seemed genuinely challenged.

But in contrast, I had another wonderful conversation with a young man who wanted to challenge me on this “God thing”, but ended up saying he couldn’t fault the logic.  I laboured with this guy to get him to understand justification by faith alone, while at the same time understanding the cost of following Jesus.  I was confident he understood, but as he was walking away, he made an interesting comment.  He said, “I’ll trust in Jesus' sacrifice for my sins, and then I’ll go and booze up with my mates!”  I pulled him back to re-explain that with faith in Christ comes a changed heart and repentance that leads to obedience.  I challenged him to repent and believe today - as he had no guarantee of having another.
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

This log entry covers Thursday, Friday and Sunday.  I’ll do a separate entry for the Ellesmere A&P Show outreach on Saturday.

On Thursday Andy & I were at the bus stops outside Eastgate and Northlands - as usual.

A week or so ago, I mentioned a difficult conversation I had with a guy who was drunk at Northlands.  Well, today, Andy had a wonderful follow up opportunity with him (pictured) - but this time at Eastgate, and he was sober.  It turns out he had been involved with a church for a number of years, but sadly had never actually been converted!  He has now had two fresh opportunities to hear the gospel.  God willing, we will continue to have opportunities to minister to him.

For me, two gospel conversations stand out, both at Eastgate.  They were also follow up opportunities.

The first was with a young man who said he had discussed what I’d shared with him last time with his partner, which was encouraging!  But sadly, when I asked him if he could remember the way to heaven, he responded with: stop doing bad things.  Wrong answer.  I did my best to correct his understanding, but he had to leave, so I didn’t really have the time.  I gave him some different tracts to read.  And he was interested in coming to church, so I also gave him a card with contact details and directions.  I hope to see him again.

The second is with a lady who I have talked to multiple times ever since I’ve started coming to this spot for outreach.  She was keen to stop and discuss the important questions of life deeply.  As always, I continued to point her to the gospel.  I was encouraged.

Friday saw heavy rain for most of the day.  Andy and I made it through most of the gospel + abortion outreach in the morning (which I posted about on the Project 139 page on Facebook), before we needed to warm up.  In the late afternoon / early evening I letterbox dropped.

Sunday was nice and warm.  In the afternoon, I set up my flip chart on Cashel Mall outside Ballantynes.  It was a difficult day of outreach.  There were plenty of people about, but for some reason I only had two conversations (although I did manage to hand out some tracts).

The first one was with a lady from Russia.  I made it through the law with her, but she became very resistant.  She stormed off.  I called after her and said I had good news to share - but she wasn’t interested.

The second was with a high school exchange student from Vietnam.  It was a very long, slow conversation, where I had to work really hard to understand what he was meaning behind the things he was saying.  I eventually realised that he was viewing everything through the filter of his happiness - everything was about him.  For him, coming to Jesus would be about improving his life - which is a wrong motivation.  I worked hard to help him understand the big picture.  But he seemed blind to it.  Yet I must remember the word of God is powerful.  I eventually wound the conversation down; I leave him in God’s hands.
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Since my last log entry, there have been outreaches on: Saturday in Cathedral Square, Sunday in Cashel Mall, Tuesday in Riccarton, and today, Wednesday, at various spots in the city.

The Tuesday outreach was another busy affair.  So busy, in fact, that it was pretty much constant conversations for the team of two, and there was even a time where we were both in conversations and I was watching a couple of students flipping through my flip chart across the road and no one was available to share the gospel with them!  So please pray for labourers, and if you can, please consider being the answer to those prayers by joining the team! :)

So the students are now back at school, and we had many gospel conversations with high school students passing through in the late afternoon.

But the highlight conversation for me was the first one I had (soon after I had set up my flip chart).  Sadly, the young couple were struggling with suicide.  Right from the start, they didn’t deny the existence of God or the requirement for justice.  They admitted they had sinned, and that they deserve hell.  But it didn’t concern them at all.  I worked through a few analogies to get them to understand that it should concern them, and that’s when the conversation turned to suicide.  I spent my time listening, and explaining the basis for hope: for eternal life and for real change in this life too: Jesus.  I was able to draw from my own testimony in this regard.  The young couple lingered, and so I continued to challenge and encourage them with the gospel.  They left with various tracts, and the contact details of my local church.

On Wednesday morning, I was back in Cashel Mall, but the level of people was back to more normal levels with the school holidays being over and the initial interest in the Riverside Market tapering off.

The most interesting conversation was with a guy who was wearing headphones as he passed receiving a tract.  He came back, taking his headphones off and wanting to know what it was all about.  He had obviously been thinking about the important questions of life, as I was very encouraged by this guys earnest interest in understanding Christianity.  He said he had never heard it explained in this way before.  I challenged him that it’s not just intellectual information that I was giving him - but there was an urgency to respond with a repentant faith - the gift with a cost.

After lunch I ditched the flip chart and headed for Ara via High Street.  I had many walk up gospel opportunities as I went.  I spoke with three high school students, then with two stubborn professing atheists, before moving into a long conversation with an Ara student from Brazil.  By the time I made it to Ara, I decided to turn around and walk back continuing my walk up strategy.  Many more wonderful opportunities to talk to people about the gospel presented themselves - all the way back to my car.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log : Toowong Oct 15 Tuesday 1330 -1500

Walk with Christ to Walk with Clients of Gospel
God has never stopped amazing us by His Wondrous works ever since we started the street evangelism at Toowong. Apart from praying for more opportunities to share gospel to people of all nation (people group), we have also been praying for more Street Evangelist workers.

Winnie is one of the exemplary example, taking only one week of learning and observation than joining force to have the spiritual boldness to start sharing to people on the street as guided by the Spirit. So for three consecutive weeks, she has got increasing chances of sharing full gospel.

Today she shared to three persons namely Craig a non-believer from India, Reuben, possibly a back slashed Islander Christian or from Africa, then Rose an Aussie old lady of Catholic background. They all responded positively showing willingness to pursue salvation or getting back to Church to rebuild relationship with God. The empowerment for Winnie to share Gospel does not limit on Tuesday at Toowong but during the week in many shopping malls in the Gold Coast. Praise God for the quick transformation of Winnie from a lay Christian to a street evangelism warrior.

Then comes Gladys. God moved and called her through our Battle Log sharing and she first indicated to me last Sunday at Ruth Ordination service she has interest to join but did not commit when. Then Monday last night, God let us meet again unexpectedly at Carindale where I took free veges. I appealed her to come today but again she appeared indecisive. So today, I did not expect her to turn up. Therfore, when the four of us, Winnie and husband Vincent, Johnny all arrived a bit ahead of time, we prayed together then supposedly Johnny , Winnie, and I were ready to go to the street, but Johnny was moved to stay behind to share Gospel with Vincent possibly because I told him he has not yet officially received Christ but his heart is readily soften as such he felt obliged to come all the way from the Gold Coast every time to support Winnie.

Because of this delay, Gladys who arrived just on time did not miss us all but met Johnny so she would not have missed her first attempt to come out by faith. Johnny was classmate with Gladys in the Bible College, so he briefed Gladys the way to share on the street then led her to have practice together. See, this were all the works of God to keep calling Gladys to come out from her comfort zone. Pray that Gladys will be moved to come from now on, on a more regular basis.

As for me, I got 10 opportunities, of which many were grasped by walking with the gospel targets, either to the bus stop, to their work place and in the last instance to their place of living near by.

1) Jonathan an UQ student from Thailand. He is a non-believers, but responded positively to the Gospel. I referred him to join Power to Change if she chooses to accept Jesus as his personal Savior.

2) Mary. a Local Aussie lady who heard only half of my gospel sharing but had to go for an appointment.

3) Santos , an UQ student from Sri Lanka who claimed to be a Buddhist, but he still appeared responsive and receptive to the Gospel message.

4) Melissa an office worker who was born here but of Romania descendant. I walked her to her work place to buy time for sharing the full Gospel.

5) Noor an Australian born Indian UQ student of self righteousness but still willing to listen to the gospel while I walked him to the bus stop. It was cut short by the bus

6) A local Aussie Mum took the tract and heard the topic but had to rush for her medical appointment near by.

7) Helena , an UQ student from Bangladesh who heard the Gospel for the first time and appeared receptive to the teaching.

8) Rubia and Shane are UQ year 1 female students from Shandong. They first accepted the tract from Winnie but did not stop to listen. I anyway asked for permission to walk them home near by and had just enough time to finish sharing the full Gospel. They appeared receptive and promised to read and respond to the tract.

9) Osten an Aussie of Sweden origin. He also appeared very receptive to the Gospel.

10) MacAlister, an UQ student of Irish Catholic background, he initially did not have assurance of salvation, but after sharing he was grateful for my clarification and explanation getting a full understanding of God's three folds deliverance.

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