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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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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Dec 10, 2024 from 1330-1430

It was day of worst rainy weather for street outreach, but Johnny and Hung still turned up as normal to deliver our committed gospel ministry under extremely harsh condition. Hung used to have a private deal with the Father that God will withhold rain when Hung is in ministry with God. This promise has never been broken even once. Time and again, Hung can serve with a dry period of time with rain falling down before and right after the ministry time. But today, God seemingly broke this mutual understanding allowing rain falling non stop during the whole street outreach time. See what!? In retrospect, God created a condition for me to demonstrate the real ancient meaning of "Merry" .

Every year, when Christmas is near, I uses to ask people while doing street outreach why Christmas only is greeted with Merry Christmas and not Happy. Because "Merry " is an old English word bearing a totally different meaning as similar to happiness. Its origin can be traced back to a very old English Carols with the first verse as follows:

"God rest you merry, gentlemen

Let nothing you dismay.

For Jesus Christ our Saviour

Was born upon this Day.

To save poor souls from Satan's power,

Which long time had gone astray.

Which brings tidings of comfort and joy."

Notice the punctuation coma is before gentlemen, so merry is not used as an adjective for gentleman, but as a noun representing something with power that God ensure to give to us as a free gift being brought by the birth of Jesus Christ incarnating as our Saviour"

The historic meaning of the phrase "God rest you merry" is 'may God grant you peace and joy';

I illustrated this to the gospel targets, that "happiness" is something conditional to the environment. I feel happy for some materialistic thing I received but "Merry" or joy is some valuable substance that we have possessed in our heart that will keep us positive irrespective of circumstance. For instance , under heavy rain, I will not be happy to come out to chat with people. But with "merry" or power of joy and a transformed born again life with inner peace, I will still defy the harsh environment and find meaning with motivation to keep doing gospel outreach in whatever circumstances.

Hurrah, all except one who were willing to connect with me all found great enlightenment by the old meaning of "merry" which has led them to a more literal perception of blessing and gift of eternal life by accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior"

So God is sovereign and "God can make all things work together for the goodness sake of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose"

Recap is the brief battle log of Hung: -

1) With only 1 minute left , I greeted someone Merry Christmas and asked if he knew why Christmas alone use Merry while all others use Happy. Just barely gave him the answer and the tract as a good approach to kick off a gospel conversation.

2) Rejected by one guy who refused to stop listening to his own music.

3) Then I was led to approach Willy from Ecuador, who appeared having a heavy heart not keen to listen the gospel though I still shared him the core message.

4) A girl by the name Lee from HKG to Australia for 4 years already, is non religious, but rapport quickly built because of our Hong Konger identity .

5) Then I approached Ahmed an Indian using the Merry Christmas gag and fair dinkum slang to successfully bring Jesus through the word Merry into his heart.

6) Then another Merry Christmas gag to an English lady who did not understand the Merry gag but claiming that English is silly. But after she learnt all about the real ancient meaning of Merry, she turned fully amazed and laugh her way to get on the bus.

7) Noah another local Aussie young chap also found the real meaning "Merry: intriguing and vowed to think deep to cash in "Merry" into his heart and life especially he has been given a biblical names.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 4th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Praised be to God there were four Gospel warriors turning up for the Sunnybank Outreach today on Dec 4th including Johnny, Edwin, Ann and Hung. We were led by the Spirit to approach those elected by God to have a chat with various results but above all we were humble to be an unmerited vessel of God to spread the good news to people of different cultures and different faiths.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

When I wrote my last report (a month ago), we were a few days into a week of outreach with Phil and his church in Whangārei.  So, this report will cover the rest of that outreach, plus everything we’ve been doing since then.  This includes the big Canterbury A&P Show outreach, plus the regular street and online outreach we have been doing.

 

I’ve just finished going through the photos I’ve taken for the last month.  I’m going to let them do most of the talking for this report.  They bring back very good memories for me.

 

Going back to the outreach in Whangārei.  It was a wonderful week of outreach!  The highlight for me would be a conversation I had with an older gentleman.  I encountered him twice - on different days.  I first talked to him on Saturday, across the road from the World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCoG, a cult) Zion (meeting place).  He had become a member of this cult, and so in his conversation he was vehemently defending their doctrines.  I decided not to take a direct stand against this, but instead took the tactic of side stepping his emotional attacks and politely asking questions and responding in such a way that the important issues would be touched on: the law and the gospel.  After a robust conversation, we parted ways on good terms.

 

Well, a few days later, I saw him again, in a different part of town.  I approached him with a friendly greeting, and was able to sit down to start another conversation.  Glory to God, he had obviously considered some of the things I said, and he was in a much better position to reason with.  He opened up about wanting to become a JW.  But when he had asked to be baptised, they resisted.  And so, when the WMSCoG came to his door and offered to baptise him on the spot he was elated!  And so, I was able to spend a lot more time with him labouring on the law and the true Gospel of Jesus’ mercy (and not working for salvation).  I remember it still being a difficult conversation, but the gospel is simple, and it is the power of God for salvation.

 

Not only did we do outreach in the town centre, but we also spent a day up at Kamo and the last day of the outreach included a bit of a road trip: we spent some time in outreach at Kerikeri & Paihia before heading back to Whangārei to catch our flight home.  So many wonderful conversations from that week are passing through my mind, but I don’t have the time to write about them.  Thanks so much to Phil and Emma for hosting us (Roger, Andy and myself), and for Maungakaramea Reformed Church and Clark Road Chapel for allowing us to serve alongside you for the week.  It was so encouraging having so many members coming out to be involved with us.

 

The next big outreach, starting only a week after we got back from Whangārei was the Canterbury A&P Show.  A 3 day event for the farming community with many stalls and entertainment.  The weather was mixed - on the last day we had to suffer some interrupting rain.  But generally, the outreach was a massive success.  We ended up having just the right amount of labourers for each part of the outreach - so God answered that prayer!  He also answered a prayer in regards to some loud music from the first day - it didn’t end up being an issue for the following days - glory to God!

 

The 2nd day of the outreach was the busiest.  I ended up going till 2 pm without a break.  We have 5 flip charts running, and there were times where they were all busy, and we even had people queuing to come and try it out!

 

My four prayers were: God would be glorified, favour with authorities, Christians would be encouraged, and the lost would hear the gospel.  I feel like those prayers were well and truly answered!  I esp. enjoyed having many conversations with Christians.  One of them even joined Andy and I on the streets a week later (pictured).  God is so good.

 

We are still active in Christchurch city and in the Riccarton area.  Cashel Mall is now ramping up for Christmas, and so I’ve cracked out the Christmas gospel tracts.  I’m handing them out with a cherry “Merry Christmas!” and any who stop I ask: “what do you think Christmas’ greatest gift is?” and then get into a gospel conversation from there.

 

On the Tuesday just gone, Roger and I tried a new spot for outreach in Riccarton.  We moved up a block to be closer to the bus exchange.  It worked well.  We had a very busy outreach, that even went a bit longer than usual.

 

Please keep the Christchurch Operation 513 outreach team in prayer.  For the upcoming month it will be mainly regular outreach, with the only planned special outreach being a gospel tract give-away on Boxing Day - the streets are flooded with bargain hunters - pray that they get a bargain they didn’t expect!  Thanks so much.

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 27th, 2024 from 1330-1430

It was great that we had Edwin and Johnny both rejoining the Sunnybank squad making a strong team that almost no one at the bus stop was left untouched by either one of us. Despite the bus schedule is as frequent as usual, all of us still got many long chats that can finish sharing of full gospel to people who have never heard of the gospel before. Recap below were the major divine encounter of Hung: -

1）Victor a young man of cross bleed between Vietnam and Greek. He is non religious but have the sense of god. So He appeared open and all receptive to the gospel message. He showed appreciation by taking a selfie with me for mutual recognition for future possible reunion.

2）Anatashia an Uganda Christian girl who was tested with 100% assurance of salvation. She also appreciated my deeper teaching on the holistic salvation plan of God as such she also was pleased to take a selfie with me.

3）Mia a girl on working holiday visa from Kyoto of Japan. She has not heard gospel before and God allowed long enough time for sharing with her the full gospel.

4）Yip a middle aged Hongkonger who was open for chatting. Nutshell of Gospel was shared and was happy to take selfie with me also a Hing Konger.

5）Next I was led to approach a Japanese couples that Johnny had connected but not into deep conversation because of possibly English level. But because of my Japanese greeting , they felt warm to continue chatting with me. The wife is Kudo from Hokkaido and husband is from Tokyo. I shared my life witness instead briefly with them.

6） Next was an Indian lady who was also open and receptive to the gospel.

7）Then I connected with a student from Hong Kong who has just arrived in Australia for two months. His bus come too quick as such only cover nutshell of the Gospel with a tract given to him.

8 ） Finally , had a long chat with a girl from Kaohsiung who comes here on working Holiday. She quickly identified herself as Christian and she was tested with 100% assurance of salvation with correct reason. So I praises and Thanked God today I met two fair dinkum Christians both with 100% assurance of salvation

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Nov 26, 2024 from 1330-1430

It was good to have Johnny back from his one month Family vacation in Bali. The sun was scorching hot. There were much less people flow perhaps also because Uni term was over. We however still managed to get meaning conversations with both new gospel targets and those who had chatted with us before for a refreshing revision touch on the gospel. God also moved us to react quick enough to help out a driver of an UTE that had broken down to push his car to safety at the road side area. It became an instrument for me to connect with my last gospel target for the day as recap per Battle Log below: -

1) A girl from Jilin吉林 who has been to UQ Brisbane for 2 months 二月. She defied the norm of mainlanders appearing open and receptive to the gospel though it was only half shared when the bus came. She was willing to take a tract anyway.

2) The next was a person we chatted before談過：Time only allows a brief recap and follow up. 稍談

3) Then approached Allan whom we also have chatted before, he appeared very welcoming for the revision and showed clearer understanding with good receptiveness.

4) Then approached a girl who just laugh without responding in words. Anyway shared the nutshell of the gospel before her bus came in very short time.

5) Next was a Japanese girl Sakuran from Osaka. She was surprised to hear me greeting her in orthodox Japanese, as such was clicked for the gospel message which was finished in time when her bus arrived.

6) Then I was led to approach 恩端 or Chole a Korean lady. I tried to ask if she is a Christian as Korean has turned from a Buddhist country to Christianity. She answered she is no Christian and has never heard the Gospel before. Thanks God giving me enough time to finish sharing the full gospel message and Chole really showed positive response to the key message that all human, though good but not perfect as such we all need to be saved by grace through faith in Christ as our Savior and Lord of our life. She was happy to take a selfie so I could recognize her next time.

7) Last but not the least I had a long chat with Desperandum from India. He also join us to give a hand to the driver to manfully push the car to place of safety. He look very modernized and open mind with a Westernized clean shaved appearance. I shared him the full gospel and also used my Bladder cancer hassle to demonstrate sin is like caner , even a trivial sin is like a caner cell that must be purged and killed. He was also happy for my sharing and show appreciation with a selfie in case we may meet again to follow up on his decision on salvation through faith in Jesus

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 20th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Praised be to God, Ann Yeo rejoining Hung today at Sunnybank as her zoom prayer meeting time has been changed to make this time slot available to her again. Moreso, she defied the rainy weather to come and had many long chat with women especially. As for Hung, I got many open and receptive chat with people from Taiwan, Japan, Mainland China and local Aussie as recap below.

By the way, an end note that before the street outreach, I had a chance to share the vision of local cross cultural outreach for all lay Christians with Fong the Administrator of SIC. Hopefully, it will sow the seed of drawing more people to live a life on mission with God.

1) Caught up with a local Aussie from WA and built rapport by the Fair Dinkum" gig. He was open for chat but it was cut short by the quick arriving bus.

2) A Young man from Taiwan with no religious background but parents are most likely Buddhists.台灣無宗教父母佛，He inclined to think being a good person 做好人is readily good enough. I was glad I could share him the truth that good if not perfect is still not good enough and we all need Jesus to take our place to receive the punishment of our sin.

3) Adam watched with interest and greeted in Mandarin, but we could only have a brief exchange as his bus also arrived. We quickly took a selfie hopefully help me to recognize him for a longer chat next time

4) A middle aged lady from Chungshan , China中山移民 who only disclosed she is a Christian of a certain denomination信主但宗派不明朗. Her foundation of faith seemed not solid or else how could I failed to sense she is a Christian. No time to test her assurance of salvation.

5) Another long chat with a Japanese woman migrated to Australia for 20 years. She was surprised I could greeted her in fluence Japanese. But she was all good to communicate with me in English for gospel sharing.

6) An elderly Mr Wang 王from Mainland China大陸，was willing and open for a chat. He is not yet a Christian but have certain bible knowledge. The gospel message shared to him hopefully may clear up some misunderstanding concept about the Christian faith.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday Nov 19, 2024 from 1330-1430

Today, I did solo again at Toowong under incessant drifting rain. People flow was much less, but opportunity to get a chat was still fine as people could not avoid me to get away from the Bus stop covered area except by rejecting me. The quality of chats were good and fruitful.

1) Justin a local Brisbane resident who has no religious background but was friendly and felt not offensive for sharing of gospel.

2) Then I was led to approach a Mainlander by the name of Ji 計 from Hangzhou. 杭州. Good rapport was build by my travelling experience to Hangzhou before he was born.很開通, He appeared very open for gospel message and his mood was good because he is returning home tomorrow. 明天回國. He also is a rare mainlander who does not mind taking selfie with me as a gesture of appreciation for the chat.

3) Next was a middle age lady who is a nurse too tired to chat on serious matter.

4)Then I turned to a young girl with nose ring with only 1 min but still ok to have a chat sharing the nutshell of gospel.

5) There were a couple of rejections in between.

6) Finally had a long chat with Mighiko a Japanese lady from Tokyo who comes to work in child care. Her English seemed not very good but still OK to comprehend my message and have reasonable interaction.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 13th, 2024 from 1330-1430

For the consecutive day, Edwin joined Hung to serve at Sunnybank for street outreach. As usual, Edwin was quick in action making fast approach as soon as people just arrived at the bus stop. It was a fair day of ministry with reasonable divine appointments for longer chat apart from quick ones interrupted mostly by the quick arriving buses. For Hung, majority of the chats were welcome and ended up with a selfie for future possible contact as recap below:-

1) Catiah from Peru on student visa learning English is a Catholic Christian, she only got 50% certainty of going to heaven. Pity not enough time to finish the clarification.

2) Trent from Mackay who is now working at Royal Brisbane as a nurse. He is a Christian but also lacking assurance of salvation. Started the clarification but not enough time to finish.

3) Martin is an Anglican Christian who claimed to have chatted with me many times before. I still managed to test his assurance of salvation which again is not 100%.

4) Have a casual chat with a Shanghai couples.

5) Have long chats with a Shanghai 88 oldie first by Edwin then by me. It was hard to get our message across as he behaved too self centered that always use his own personal experiences to counteract any message you tried to share with him.

6) Ron a Filipino Christian and was the first one today to have3 100% assurance of salvation.

7) A Hong Konger from Hong Kong Hinfook播道會顯福堂and is now attending BCCCC as he lives in Northern Brisbane and attending QUT for 2 years already. He however only has 85% certainty of going to heaven which had been clarified. He dislikes photo so no record of his face despite I attempted to take a selfie with him so I can tell his church people we met on the street

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