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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 22, 2025 from 1300-1500

Oh, what a scorching hot day with temperature soaring up to 37/8C at Sunnybank. Even my car issued an extreme heat warning. But defying such lethal weather conditions, all four of the Gospel Street outreach warriors still assemble to serve at Sunnybank. There were obvious team work orchestrated by God through the work of the Holy Spirit letting us to first get connected then by the move of the Spirit we referred the target to a most suitable team mate. Sometime, the Spirit also will lead us to meet those we chatted before for follow up chat. All in all, it was a real demonstration of on mission with God as a body of Christ. Recap below was the Battle Log of Hung.

1) Two young man originally attending Joy Methodist but now have switched to CCCCB Cooper Plains. They are keen in the faith and have assurance of salvation by concept, but when pushed deep, they still could not stand firm to have 100% assurance. It was a pity their bus came, so could wait for the next divine encounter.

2) Next was an ABC mature young man at his 30. His parent is from HKG. He appeared polite to keep listening but his heart was not open and message shared remain skeptical to his own perception. Could only pray for God's way and timing.

3) Then connected with an India coming for study at UQ, despite he is of Hinduism faith, but he has good attitude to listen and showed a certain degree of receptiveness to the Gospel message admitting every one need repentance and salvation.

4) Then connected with Ethan again whom I met for the first time two weeks ago. He is 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.

5) Then I was led to approach a dating couples of Chinese girl and local Aussie boy. They are approachable and willing to listen. Just barely have time to share the nutshell of the gospel to them when their bus arrived.

6) Then a group of school kids suddenly turned up and Johnny grabbed the chance to preach to the group and I was moved to quickly partner with him to hand out tracts to all the kids just in time when their bus arrived.

7) Then Edwin first approached an elderly lady Yang from Tsingdao , China who has migrated to Australia marrying to a local Aussie man. She originally excused not to chat as she needed to push the trolley to the collect depot. I volunteered to do it for her so that Edwin could keep on with the chat. When I returned, Johnny also joined in and found out that she is familiarized with Shaun Bao and remain on contact for devotional text. I chipped in to acknowledge I know Shaun and then took over the chat. She indicated she is from Christian family back in China. But she only attend local Aussie church sparingly. I any how test her assurance of salivation and found out that she does not know clearly the bible teaching of salvation by faith through grace but keep using personal divine healing experience as ground for her salvation status. It took a hard time to clarify it is all because of the work of Jesus dying for us.

8 ) Next was two grade 9 high school kid from China of which one is from Lanzhou蘭州by the name of Jiang江 . We quickly built rapport and he seemingly was not alerted to reject Gospel, so he behaved very open and receptive to the gospel to the extent he did not mind to have selfie with me.

9) Last but not the least, I was led to approach another elderly lady from Mainland China who has migrated to Australia for 50 years.

Pity the bus came to cut our Gospel conversation short.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 15, 2025 from 1300-1500

Today the Toowong Gospel Outreach Squad reduced to one person again as all others were not available. Also, there was extreme heat warning making the concrete based bus stop appeared like a furnace of 38C rather than the nominal 31C temperature. Nevertheless, I still served for over an hour by myself with amazing divine encounters as recap below: -

1) Baha from Iraq now doing a PhD was the first I was led to approach despite time left was minimal, he appeared very open and friendly not mind at all for me to share about Jesus. He may plan to stay after his study as such the analogy of Migration needing a "Perfect" clean record of no crime committed in country of origin, even shop lifting or spitting such petty crime, once convicte4d and recorded then the person will no longer be perfect any more in terms of Crime free status as such will be disqualified for migration or overseas study. He was gracious enough to take selfie with me.

2) Then I tried to approach an India woman but she was too scared to allow me to have a chat with her.

3) Next was a Chinese Mainlander girl 大陸女戒備, she appeared nervous and skeptical to be noticed chatting with me. But still tried to relax her down to keep the gospel conversation onwards till her bus came.

4) Next also a Mainlander girl who claimed that I had chatted with before. I tested if she got the meaning of the gospel message which obviously was not fully understood yet. I revised the message for her but it seems that the spiritual bondage of her declared Taoism faith 道教was holding her up to open her spiritual eyes. So despite rationally she understood my logic that every one need Jesus unless you are perfect. 明白但心未開

5) Then I caught up with a Fiji Indian mixed Christian lady. But it seems that she does not fully understand the gospel still thinking good deeds it self is OK.

6) Then I caught up with a local Aussie girl. She thought God will not accept her as she is a gay person. I used fair dinkum to chip in delightful mood and she then turned ok to chat. Yet the bus came and was barely able to share the nutshell of the gospel.

7) Then caught up with a tall guy from Xinjian新疆, China. said he already had a good chat with Rev Ding 丁牧聊過 last week and the memory is still fresh and he kept the tract. So it was good for me to follow up with a revision for him.

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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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