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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday January 9th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Street outreach Ministry at Toowong was resumed to day after two week of suspension. People flow was still low due to Uni Term Break period. But Johnny and Hung still got many fruit bearing divine conversation with obviously elected individuals by God, even including the hardliner group of Mainlander Chinese. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung: -

1) God led me to approach three UQ 2nd year IT students from Indonesia. God moved me to share first my testimony including my change of value system from personal career success to God centred missional life. I was an Economics major undergraduate but later in my first and only career was transformed to become an IT senior system analyst management personnel. They were also surprised to guess me wrong as age 50-60 despite I am already 71 years old. They were very impressed how my faith have enhanced my life both spiritually and physically. They are thrilled to get a tract from me to find the answer how we can receive life of eternity and we all joyously took a group selfie.

2) Next was an UQ student from Cambodia of Buddhism. I emphasized all religions are good but none except Christianity addresses the issue of sin. Even the Buddha admitted he was not perfect and he also needed a Saviour. He was open and receptive to the gospel message.

3) Then I was led to have a long chat with a scholar Dyas from Sri Lanka who is a PhD post scholar in Electronic Engineer. So on one hand he is a very rational minded person which find my presentation of gospel very logical and he show great humility to humble himself to admit the gospel is an important message that needed to be proclaimed. He also was happy to take a selfie with me and promised he will pondered deeply to make his last step of action faith.

4) Lastly, I approached a girl who pretend she does not speak Chinese. Nevertheless, I still manage to share the gospel to her in English though she listened just half heartedly.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 3rd 2024 from 1300-1500

Praise and thank God for a fine weather after consecutive days of non-stop flash flooding rain, the four of us, 3 from the Sherwood Methodist Church, namely Johnny Qin Hao and Shu Yi, teamed up with Hung from CFC to do our regular street outreach at Sunnybank. The effect of team work orchestrated by God was prominent. For several occasion, God moved us to render back up supports for each other when approaching a particular person from a certain home town or language group area of one of our team members. i.e. Qin Hao from Kweilin and Hung from Hong Kong. We also thank God to move and empower us to have full commitment joining this outreach team especially for Shu Yi, who has never absented from and week during his School Summer Holiday Term break. She may be going back to work next week so pray for God continuous anointing her with the heart to keep preaching gospel in here day to day life even though not be able to do it on the street until next school term break.

1) Unknown Asian man not willing to chat but still manage to share the purpose of my approaching for a chat and the Spirit moved him to take a tract to read by himself, hopefully with the enlighten of the Spirit.

2) Then I was led to approach another mainlander middle aged lady who surprisingly was very open and receptive to listen to the full gospel and took a tract.

3) Martin an Anglican Christian whom I met before, greeted me but just barely able to have a brief catch up before his bus came. But miraculously, he returned to Sunnybank to fetch a lost item and we met again at the bus stop. This time I had more time to carry on with the diagnosis of his assurance of salvation which he failed only about 80%. He was thankful for my clarification and voluntarily took a tract again to revise on the sharing and teaching for his benefit.

4) I was led to connect with a HongKonger by the name of Fu?. He admitted he is a Christiaan but has been away from church for a while. His church in HKG is called 611. He also failed upon my test of assurance of salvation. . I anyway apart from clarification of the gospel and real meaning of salvation, I also shared my personal testimony to encourage him to return to walk with God to grow towards spiritual maturity.

5) Next I approach two girls one is cross breed from Thailand and another was a Korean girl. It was a pity after brief rapport building chat, the bus arrived. But both were willingly to take a tract to read in following up on my brief introduction of gospel.

6) Rejected by a group of mainlanders from Northeastern China, whom I had mistaken as Johnny's friend of the church. Even though they rudely rejected me, I still thanked God for this pre-matured approach that might still serve His purpose to this group of arrogantly youngster.

7) Next came two ladies from Kweilin Guangxi to visit relatives here . One who did all the talking with us is by the name of Pang?. Once I found her home town, which is same as Qin Hao, I referred the two ladies to Qin and they talked enthusiastically. When I overheard from their Kweilin dialect that they have Christiaan In-Law relative, I was moved to jump in to guide the conversation to challenge for conversion as God has already targeted them and intend to bless them through their Christian relative. I trusted God gave me to urge to stress the need of salvation for whoever that admitted themselves are not perfect. The team work were proven working very well.

8 ) I approached another Mainlander male wearing a T Shirt of Mixed Martial Art . Though I was still rejected, I believed God has his plan for this guy.

9) Then I was led to chat with an Indonesia lady who looks more like European or Middle East Woman. She is a Muslim, but she remained open and willingness to listen to the gospel and hear the way Christianity stood out from all other religions. She also took a tract to supplement what she heard from me.

10) Finally Edwin referred me to two Cantonese speaking people who happened to be also Hongkongers. . Obviously, they were both non-religious, and rejected me in the first go, But I tried to use Hongkonger identity to keep the conversation alive doing my personal testimony. At the end, they ask for pardon to carry on with their own conversation on other important personal matter. They again also willing to take a tract to supplement on what I had shared with them,

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  2 major street outreaches this week: Boxing Day tract outreach, and then the usual Friday afternoon outreach in the city.

Boxing day is a great day to give out tracts, as there are HEAPS of people out shopping for bargains.  Sophie, 2 of Sophie’s younger siblings, and Martin joined me in Riccarton in the morning.  And then Mike and Martin were with me in the afternoon in the city.

Over both outreaches, we gave away well over 500 tracts, including the last of the Christmas tracts.

I wasn’t focusing on conversations, and yet, many conversations naturally occurred.  I encountered a guy who was in the same year as me at high school.  And I was able to have a brief conversation with a guy I worked with 20 years ago.  I had an Indian guy stop and talk about how people are missing the meaning of Christmas: Jesus.  We connected via Instagram.  There was an older guy who wasn’t interested in a tract, but he felt compelled to talk to me about how he couldn’t fathom how a universe so complicated could come from nothing (like this was a fresh revelation for him), I was able to touch on the law and the gospel with him, yet he was more interested in my testimony, which I shared.  He again refused a tract as we parted ways - he is in God’s hands.

The boxing day outreach is such a joy.  Even if many tracts went in the bin, many more are silently speaking (or waiting to speak).  This outreach will be a regular on the schedule from now on.

I was feeling tired for the Friday afternoon outreach in the city.  Roger, and later John joined me.

I focused on handing out tracts.  This led to one interesting conversation with 2 guys.  1 talked, the other only listened.  It was a short conversation, but a special one.  They guy had obviously been thinking on spiritual issues.  I was able to succinctly share the good news of the gospel.  They had to go.  Interestingly the silent guy was now also interested in a tract.

I decided to head over to Cathedral Square.  The usual flock of sheep (Christians) and goats (Hecklers) was there.  Steve the Atheist was there - but he doesn’t like me, so I went to talk with Nick.  Yet, Steve couldn’t help himself from giving me a piece of his mind.  Nasty stuff, I said nothing in return.  As I was talking to Nick, a kerfuffle occurred, I looked up to see Steve flip backwards in his wheelchair, he landed on his head!  It was an accident, but he was livid.  He spewed abuse at the perpetrator: “and you can’t come to my house any more”.  It was like listening to an upset kid in the playground.  So sad to see such bitterness.  Thankfully he was okay.  I still pray for him.  And I know other Christians are too.  Apart from the grace of God, that is me.

Roger and John had good chats (we discussed in debrief over drinks at the cafe).  Roger had 2 very special chats.  The first was a long chat with a doctor who works at the hospital - Roger is hopeful to be able to follow up on the chat.  But the 2nd was with two young ladies.  At the end of the chat, one of them told Roger this: “This morning, I was reading the gospel of John in the Bible, and I asked God if he would provide someone today to explain more about what she was reading”.  Roger was the answer to that prayer!  Wow, was that encouraging!  We head out each week, praying that God would use our feeble efforts.  God answers prayer!  We get to be involved in the wonderful work that God does!  Soli Deo Gloria!!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 27th 2023 from 1300-1500

We rested for Toowong on Boxing and resume regular street gospel outreach today at Sunnybank. Praised be to God that Shu Yi had been called and moved to join us on regular basis during holiday period. So, again Johnny Shu Yi and Hung were teamed up to day and God did introduce sort of Team Work amongst us. The Spirit put on our heart to care for those elderly and weak people first instead of rushing towards gospel. A local Aussie senior person was approached by Shu Yi to help him out to find a certain bus route that he may need to go in the near future. He just wanted to come to Sunnybank to find out where the bus stop is. Shu Yi helped him out in the first instance but his desired route was not found on the schedule sheet at the bus stop where we do outreach. Finally, the senior Aussie man resort to asking the bus driver for the info. The bus driver also took all the trouble to stop the bus and came out from the bus to use his own iPhone to search and located the bus stop of the desired bus route of that elder man called John. I thought I knew the location of that bus stop so I volunteer to walk him up to that bus stop. While we were walking, I of course took the chance to test for his assurance of salvation. As a senior Anglican Chrisitan, he has 100% of assurance of salvation but when asked why, he said it is because of his Christian family upbringing and he has been a good Chrisitan member of the church. With this answer, it exposed that he really may not fully understood the basic doctrine of salvation that we are saved by grace through faith and not by our own good deeds. Anyway, then we arrived at the bus stop and to find out tit was not the one that the bus driver indicated. I immediately knew it should be the other one just near MacDonald at Time Square. Since John was out of breath after walking for a while, so he needed a good rest staying at that wrong bus stop. I promised to find out the right bus stop and take photo of the bus schedule for him. Finally, I did my job but when I returned to that wrong bus stop. John disappeared, most likely getting on to the bus at that "Wrong" bus stop to go home. Anyhow, I still trusted God may have a better plan for John in lieu of my premature help. God always makes all things work together for the benefit of those who seeks and obeys Him.

Apart from those episodes, we all have numerous divine opportunities to reach out to people that were apparently elected by God to chat with us. The first target from Hunan China just arrived at Brisbane and he has never heard of the gospel but Johnny had a long chat with him leading to fruit bearing result. Anyway, recap below is the Battle Log of Hung for today: -

1) First was a Korean who is a non-believer despite 75% of the Koreans has become Christian. He stayed put to listen to the gospel and took a tract at the end.

2) Next was a UQ student from Yinchuan, Ningxsia( ) She said she has been approached many times by Johnny and Shu Yi lately. She is still sceptical about any religion and she was curious to know id we are paid to do so. ( ) I rightly explained to her that our passion is not monetary driven, or not even charity driven, but mission driven to share the gospel to alert all people especially those self-labelled as "Good Persons" that no one are safe but all people in the human race are all doomed for the punishment of help as long as we are not perfect. I reckoned the Spirit did touch and moved her heart in a short moment when the bus came. She asked for another tract to read despite she said she got several already. Pray that God's purpose and plan for her will pan out according to His Will for her.

3) Then I caught up with a mainlander female who claimed to be a Buddhist. I stressed to her that Buddhism and all other religion are good but only good at guiding people to be a good person, yet none of them address the issue of sin with a solution. The bus came at that time and she took a tract to read.

4) Next is John the Anglican as I shared about him above. It is the team work between Shu Yi and Hung to serve this elderly man first about his secular need to find the right Bus schedule information, then his real understanding of salvation.

5) I was led to chat with another couple with husband called also John from Philippine. He passed the assurance of salvation test and I Introduced Kairos to him.

6) Then, God miraculously brough a Sichuan Chengdu young lady to me as such I could share my personal witness of helping out to the Schuman earthquake disaster relief. She is an UQ and knew that I am an alumnus of Master of counselling. I even shared about the mechanism of the Chrisitan counselling course for healing the hurt and distortion of one’s emotion because of early life traumatic experience. She was drawn into the stories especially the rationale of the counselling rehabilitation technique. In the end, she appeared open and receptive to the gospel and took a tract to revised what I shared with her.

7) Next came another Filipino couple of Catholic background but seemed to understand the salvation well, they were keen to keep chatting with me but a bus came and they ran to find out if this was their route, if not they would come back for me. Unfortunately, it was the right bus for them, so they waved me good bye.

8 ) Next was a UQ student from mainland China, who was a bit too nervous to chat but still took a tract.

9) Then I caught up with an ABC of Taiwanese origin. He is open but our conversation again was interrupted by the quick arriving bus.

10) Finally I caught up with yet another Taiwan young man of grade nine. His maturity is beyond his real age. And he remained open and receptive to the gospel.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I made it to 3 out of 4 street outreaches this week!  Although the 3rd one was a bit different from usual.

So, Roger was with me in Riccarton Tuesday afternoon, and in the city on Friday afternoon.  Then, on Saturday afternoon, I was invited by Toby, of Student Life to join his church in a door knock outreach with his church.

For the Tuesday afternoon outreach, I decided to ditch the flip chart and focus on handing out tracts (mostly Christmas ones).  I walked up and down the streets doing just that!  Roger stuck to his usual routine and had some marvellous chats.  Pictured is one he had with two young guys from a local Catholic High School.  Roger was rejoicing at their openness.  God is good.

Again, on Friday, I focused on giving out Christmas tracts.  But I was also able to have many interesting conversations.  I gave away 100 tracts through the 2 hour outreach.

Now, the door knock outreach.  I was very encouraged by how this worked out.  I was encouraged by the emotion of the local pastor encouraging the team, of mainly youth, in what they were about to do.  I was encouraged by Toby’s organisation of the outreach.  I was encouraged by the local churches willingness to reach out to their neighbours, in spite of nerves.

We paired up and prayed up, and then hit the streets.  We were each allotted houses to knock at.  At the door, we introduced ourselves, handed out a little Christmas gift pack, on behalf of the church, and then asked if we could do a short survey.  The main goal wasn’t an instant gospel conversation, but to open the door for future gospel conversations.  They were invited to a Christmas Carol service in the evening, and the opportunity to join a Christianity Explored program run by the church.

My partner and I covered about 25 houses.  It was fascinating getting a feel for those in the local community.  Some were a bit lonely, mourning the fact that people in the neighbourhood didn’t know each other.  Some were busy (on the phone).  Some were simply not interested.  Yet, many were willing to chat, and do the survey.

I was encouraged.  And I hope the others involved were too!  I wasn’t able to stay for the debrief.  The more we do this, the easier it gets for the next time.  May the evangelistic heart of the local church rise up and reach out with the good news of Christ!

The rest of my week has been spent in online ministry.  I had a number of great face to face chats on the needGod.net live stream - esp. on Thursday.  And I’m still ploughing through the never ending harvest field of TikTok direct messages.

Thank you for your prayers.  Merry Christmas!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 20th 2023 from 1300-1500

A hot summer day with high noon heat wave, but more so, it was an afternoon of amazing grace bringing blessing to both the gospel targets and the Gospel Team workers of three, namely Johnny, Shu Yi and Hung. The presence of the Spirit was strongly sensed with the manifestation of His overwhelming Mission Power. God moved an led an Aussie migrant woman Emily with mixed blood of Australian, Solomon Island and India to support Shu Yi while she was preaching to an Indian young girl. We all thought Emily was either a friend or relative of that Indian girl but the fact is they are not related. Emily was simply moved by the Spirit to join Shu Yi with silent prayer and she herself was moved to tear when the message of the gospel touch her heart. She actually was also aware of Johnny and Hung. God further moved Emily to greet with Hung and expressed her admiration and appreciation of our street outreach ministry. I was in turn moved to invite her to join us as she work nearby. She got our ministry time between 1300-1500 and promised she will join us as long as on any Wednesday, she is free during that ministry periods. This was really a big blessing and life uplifting and confident boosting divine action to encourage not only Shu Yi but we as well. We all praised and gave glory to God> As for Johnny and Hung, we all got very good and fruit bearing conversation. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:-

1) My first gospel targets were two girl one from Hong Kong and the other from Shandong it took me a while to realize this and switched back from Cantonese to Mandarin. But I could only manage starting the topic and end up leaving with them the tracts.

2) Then I was led to chat with a lady from Dailin China. . tp do vocational study here at Tafe. Though she is a non-religious person, but she admitted no one is perfect and she acknowledged that there should be a consequence to hold us responsible for our imperfection of sins. It leads to the conclusion, we human race all need salvation by Jesus. As soon as we reached this contentious, her bus came.

3) Then God moved both Emily and me to catch up after she finished with her engagement with Shu Ji to preach the gospel to an India woman as shared above. I was surprised she noticed me, but she confirmed she saw me sharing gospel with another lady at a distance. It definitely is the manifestation of mission power to draw her to affiliate with us and hopefully will join our gospel outreach team next week.

4) The I chipped into the conversation of three boy that again amazed me that they are cross breed of Vietnamese and Pilipino. They behaved a bit playful, but I still managed to share them the nutshell of the gospel with tract given to them.

5) Then I was greeted by a stranger Chines old lady with a mast. She identified herself as Madam Che ? the member of the CCCB Coopers Plains . She was simply moved by the spirit to render me and the other two gospel warriors the Support as a sister in Christ. We only chatted for a short while as her movement is restricted because of a lame leg. She needs to get up earlier to catch the incoming bus.

6) Zane is a local Australian who travelled overseas with his mum at the age of 14 for world exposure. He has Christianity influence by his grandfather. Again, it was the work of the Holy Spirit who moved him to stay put skipping several bus to keep chatting with me. Although he confessed, he is not yet a believers, but when I shared the gospel and other related Bible story event, he basically was aware of most of them as such it was pretty effective to reconstruct the Biblical World View and God's mission to the world through the incarnation of Jesus Christ to come and die for us. Apparently, his heart has been softened and prepared to absorb all the teachings that God wants him to know and make an informed decision to accept Jesus as his personal saviour. We took a selfie and I prayed in heart for his imminent last step of action faith to accept Jesus as his personal Saviour,

7) Then I bumped in two MacGregor State school kids. They are both pure and open hearts for the gospel. They also took track to revise for what I shared with them.

8 ) Then I was led to approach yet another Mainland China Male. Surprisingly, he was also very open and receptive to the gospel. Since I could manage to share the nutshell of the gospel, he voluntarily took tract to read and ponder on the issue of Sin I stress him to reflect.

9) Last but not the least I caught up with Mia an Indonesian lady from Jakarta. She is a tradition Muslim following the dressing code for a Muslim woman in the public. But she did not shy away from chatting with a stranger male. She has totally not disagreement to the gospel shared, but when asked if there is similar kind of message related to forgiveness of sin. She thought there is but could not be sure which proved by the explanation of Siddique in the past few days that very little Muslim really read and understand the Bible. At least there was no sign of hatred of Chrisitan and Jesus but an open mind to listen to the Bible.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 19th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Hot, hot, hot, but I made use of the earth's climate nowadays, versus 6 days creation and the subsequent global flood to illustrate the almighty creation God and his dual project plan as per Gen 3:15b. In general, it is a tough time for street outreach there. Apart from the heat including both the direct sunshine and indirect radiating ground heat, the holiday period also played big impact to have drastically reduced the people flow. Nevertheless, God was in His sovereign control, both had regular chance and divine appointment to reap harvest for the Lord. Recap below is the Battle log of today Toowong outreach.

1) Sam from Bristol of UK is a QUT aerospace avionic student like my youngest son. We clicked and he totally was with the gospel and appeared very receptive and ready for the last faith action to accept Jesus.

2) Met Ray again but with the aggressive guys, it seems that he had strong mind of rejection of all regions and all god. Pray for next time alone with Ray.

3) Elle the Muslim girl from Malaysia yet appeared very opened for sharing of faith issue. I asked her if there is equivalent teaching in the Koran on Jesus atoning death to take away our sin. Surprisingly, she said yes, but the bus came and no time to verify.

4) Then met the Bangladesh boy again alone with the boy thinking his mum was at home, but surprisingly she was around at the bus stop. Anyway, still managed to do a revision on the gospel message.

5) Then I was moved to approach the girl that both Johnny and Hung had chatted before. I Talked with her about the creation using this to illustrate the almighty power of God in creation and redemption. She seemed to have been amazed by my sebific version of the 6 days creation.

6) Then I caught up with a Singapore PhD candidate of Indian origin. She was very open and receptive to the gospel message.

7) Harry a Canadian but Arabic origin young man. He was very outspoken non-religious person just short of self-claiming to be an Atheist. But at the end of the gospel sharing, he admitted all I shared is logical and significant.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

It’s going to be another shorter report for this week.  I was fully intending to do a full week on the streets (4 outreaches), but I only ended up doing 1!  Tuesday’s outreach was cancelled due to rain.  And then on Saturday and Sunday I just didn’t have the energy.  I’m recovering from a cough.

And so, Friday afternoon’s outreach to the city was the only outreach for the week.  A good one!  We had a team of 4: Andy, Roger, Greg and myself.  Roger had his ‘patch’, which is his flip chart on the corner.  Andy did walk up (he basically spent the whole outreach talking to the guy pictured).

There were lots of people out and about.  I think a cruise ship was in port.  Greg and I paired up.  We had 2 great chats.

The first was with a lady who I didn’t think would stop, but to my surprise she did.  I sensed that I wouldn’t be able to follow my usual script, and so I ended up going a little softer than usual.  I started out by asking her what was important about Christmas for her, and I let a conversation develop from there, swinging it as I could.  Her husband joined the conversation, and I thought that would end it, but it didn’t, he even became involved.  To my joy I was able to backtrack on to the ‘script’ and take them through the law, and then touch on the true wonder of Christmas, that God would incarnate (I didn’t use that word) to save wretched souls like us.

It turns out they were from Brisbane, and so I was able to talk about the Schoolies outreach I had been involved with recently.  We parted on good terms, and they left with tracts.  Great chat!

The next chat was with a young man going past.  I used the same tactic of starting with Christmas (we were standing right beside a Christmas tree).  I could sense I wasn’t going to be able to have a long chat with this guy, he was eating a pie – he looked like he was on a break from work.  He thought there would be nothing after we die, and so going from there, I was able to present the logic of an afterlife, the law, and then the gospel.  Another great chat.

Greg decided to go to the Square to see what evangelism was happening there, and so I spent the rest of the outreach on my own.  One significant chat was with a young couple.  She was very resistant.  She said her parents were Scientists and Atheists, and she was an Atheist too.  I gently reasoned with her, but she dug her heels in.  For someone scientific and logical, she became very emotional in her arguments.  I didn’t push and in the end I decided to move on as she wasn’t open at this stage.  Her boyfriend had been pretty quiet through the chat, and he had received a tract at the start, and had been reading it.  We parted ways with a handshake.

The rest of my week has been spent in online evangelism.  It feels really good catching up on TikTok DM conversations from over a month ago.  Looking forward to eventually being able to start on the growing pile of new requests.

I’ve also been enjoying training a young man to join the online team.  He is smart, and passionate, and it’s so refreshing seeing him face his fears to proclaim Christ!

God is so good in allowing us to have so many opportunities to represent him!  Please continue to pray for the team in NZ, Australia, and Worldwide.
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 13th 2023 from 1300-1500

Praised be to the Lord, Peace Xu over came all the hustle and bustle of her multi-role life caring for her families’ clan, her business and personal commitment on Great Commission, taking all the trouble to bring her Mum and two nieces to join our Sunnybank Wednesday outreach. Today, Johnny and Shi I were both not available because of personal reason, so originally, only Edwin Qin Hao will join me , but now with Peace. I was moved this time to spend time with Peace Niece and Mum first.

is the daughter of 13 years old of Peace sister Xiao Sin. She is a lovely girl though still not 100% adapted to local school life working hard to brush up her English, which supposed to be an easier attempt for her as she is the only Chinese in here school as such, she can only speak English all day. I totally identified with her hardship in local adaptation and integration which myself and my sons all had experienced before. Then I led her to see that there is another greater goal for all of us, especially the so called "Good Person" that we must be fully aware of our status as a human being that we are good but not perfect. We committed nitty gritty of trivial sin every day though they are not punishable by law. Yet God will hold us responsible for all the sins we had done after we die and will subject to punishment of eternal dead or forever separation from God and our loved ones who are with God already.

But the grace of God has already provided for us a life line, that is to accept Jesus as our Saviour to take our place to receive the punishment of our sins as that the moment we accepted Jesus, the moment we will be granted the free gift of eternal life.

Jia Chee was very attentive with open minded and appeared very receptive to the gospel. I encouraged her to ponder what i shared today with her, and make up her personal mind to step out for this last step of faith accepting Jesus as her saviour.

Next I turned to Peace Mum and share about my life witnesses after receiving Christ as my saviour. We discussed about what is true peace and what is fake sense of security depending on 3rd party safety measures. I use my own experience of Bladder cancer that God have not only healed me completely, but the inner peace from Jesus because of the assurance of salvation carried me through and over all the hurdles brought by the Bladder cancerous tumour.

I indirectly hinted her that Kwan Yun Chiang my famous ancient Chinese historical hero was just a human. He was once invincible but finally he also could not avoid being defeated and imprison. So, it is meaningless to worship Him who cannot even saved himself. Thanked God I found that Peace 'mum didn’t feel too flat up with our consecutive sharing of Gospel and life testimony. We pray that God will move to convert Peace Mum and Jia Chee.

Last but not the least, God moved me to catch up with both Elials and 17 years old young man from Congo, and Heaven also a seventeen-year-old girl with a Vietnamese father and a local Aussie Mum. In this connection, she quickly declared her a Buddhist because of her Vietnamese father. They any way are really the chosen couples and the elected ones for my comprehensive and extensive gospel sharing. There seemed to be no generation gap between us that they were drawn to listen to my sharing of the Gospel and testimony of my redeemed life at the cost of skipping many of their arriving bus. They at the end were amazed to notice that I am 71 but not 51 years old as they guessed. We found commonality in our world view that we all are no Jag tribes and God protected us to be immune from Covic for ever.

Initial Heaven felt as a Buddhist follower, she has been guaranteeing a way to go to heaven, that is the reason she was named as Heaven. But after hearing the full gospel message emphasizing that we are all good but not perfect person, then she realized no human being has any exception for needing Jesus to be our savior. Even Buddha himself cited this need in one of the ancient Buddha wall sculpture picture.

As for Elials, he admit he is a Christian, as such fully agreed on all I shared to them about the gospel message. But upon diagnosis of his assurance of salvation. He failed. But it was a comparatively easy job to rectify his misconception as such, now he admitted he should now have 100% of assurance of salvation simply because of the 100% effective redemptive work of Jesus taking our place to receive the punishment by dying on the cross.

So it was yet another fruitful day for the three of us, Peace and Hung and Edwin who close our outreach today with a prayer.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday Dec 12th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Today was another very hot summer day, UQ is currently in graduation mode with ceremony held for different departments and discipline one after another throughout the week. Student flows is diminishing, but God still provide many divine encounters for us to preach the gospel as usual and many were first time listeners. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach Daksh, an Indian of the faith of Zain. after learning form him the what -about pf Zain, I direct him to think if there is anyone perfect in the world and he said no. Then I asked him how Jain resolved the sins we all have committed in our earlier life. We will still be held responsible and subject to eternal dead punishment. No matter how hard we tried, we are bound to be a non-perfect human being. So any religion are good to restrict people to do bad but good things instead. But it provides no solution to past sins. Then I introduced Jesus as the only saviour to set us free from the bondage of sins and make us clean again. He at the end was convinced that pure self-perfection by any human being is not feasible or practical. Good persons, bad guys, as long as we are not perfect, we all need a Saviour like Jesus. He was thankful for our chat and took a selfie at the end.

(*) Jainism is an ancient religion from India that teaches that the way to liberation and bliss is to live lives of harmlessness and renunciation.

The essence of Jainism is concern for the welfare of every being in the universe and for the health of the universe itself.

Jains believe that animals and plants, as well as human beings, contain living souls. Each of these souls is considered of equal value and should be treated with respect and compassion.

Jains are strict vegetarians and live in a way that minimises their use of the world's resources.

Jains believe in reincarnation and seek to attain ultimate liberation - which means escaping the continuous cycle of birth, death and rebirth so that the immortal soul lives for ever in a state of bliss.

Liberation is achieved by eliminating all karma from the soul.

Jainism is a religion of self-help.

There are no gods or spiritual beings that will help human beings.

The three guiding principles of Jainism, the 'three jewels', are right belief, right knowledge and right conduct.

The supreme principle of Jain living is non violence (ahimsa).

This is one of the 5 mahavratas (the 5 great vows). The other mahavratas are non-attachment to possessions, not lying, not stealing, and sexual restraint (with celibacy as the ideal).

2) Next, I was led to chat with a Singaporean Indian origin person. He was very open for the Gospel and took a tract to see the full version of Gospel.

3) Then I was moved to greet John a good old person. He was surprisingly open for chatting of life issues.

4) Weiss, a very slim and small built Norwegian girl. We had a good chat why she as a Norwegian is so uniquely thin and short. Just the rapport was built and even no time for sharing of Gospel, she delightfully took a tract to read. Perhaps she is readily a Chrisitan as Norway is a Christian country with many legacies of mission to the East.

5) Then I was led to catch up with a Westernized face girl whom actually is a Han girl but lives in Ning Sha. She came to do her Master degree on TESOL and is preparing to return to Chine to open English language school helping people to pass the Englis test for migration and overseas study. I still managed to share the full gospel to here and leave a tract. She showed interest and paying full attention to the Gospel.

6) Then I caught up with a Guy from Jiangxi whom I had caught up before. It was a pity his bus came far too quick.

7) Order is a Nepal student to UQ doing a summer Honor program. He claimed to be nonreligious worshipping no God. On the one hand he admits there is no perfection in the world. But in the meantime, he opines, there is no unique definition of perfect. Every one sticks to their own version of standard so that they all feel good to be the one approaching perfect. I led him to think is standard is to be set by individual, it rightly shows we are far from perfect as such we all need the redemption of Jesus, who is the only perfect person to die for our sin and coop to take our place to receive punishment of our sin. The bus came by that time, so though we don’t have time for a conclusion, but I did feel that God will forward

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