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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday October 24th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Though not yet Summer time but in Spring, the weather was so hot that, everybody hid behind the Bus Stop Shelter away from the scorching sun and the radiating heat from the concrete ground. Johnny and Hung still served faithfully under such hard yard condition with fervent fire in our heart. By the grace of God, we as a team had chatted with people from the three religions, namely Islam, Hindu and Buddhism with very good apologetic result softening their hearts to have a glimpse of the grace of God rendering them salvation by Jesus. These joy in serving with God had offset some not so pleasant experience dealing with stone heart people which pitifully were mostly from the biggest Creative Access Country. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) First was with Kay from Kyotanabe near Osaka. We clichéd because of my Japanese greeting. Anyway, he was open to the gospel without any preoccupied religious thought.

2) Then I tried to approach a middle aged Aussie lady who claimed we had a brief encounter. She did not mind to have a chat with me but asked for my pardon as she was not in a mood at that moment in time, dealing with some text message from friends. It anyway was still a good try to reinforce relationship with potential gospel target. Pray for next divine encounter that we finally could chat.

3) Lavi from Indonesia looked an aggressive extremist in appearance. But it was proven wrong to judge people by the stereotype appearance. We have a very good exchange of opinion on the issue of sin and how it could be addressed. Lavi told me Muslin was taught that human are imperfect, but their faith advocate that as long as our good deeds are greater than our imperfection, than any one with a positive good deeds balance will go to heaven. I easily use analogy to illustrate, Good deeds are use less for offsetting sin or earning merit to heaven. Lavi seemed convinced and agreed. He was appreciative for my sharing and happy to take a selfie with me.

4) Very stern girl repeating the word, I am alright to piss me off for any conversation.

5) Another Aussie young guy let me chat for a short while but still rejected me from sharing anymore claiming nothing I said will be bought by him or influence him.

6) Then I was led to have a long chat with a Local Aussie girl who is an undergrad of Psychology. She was open and receptive to the gospel.

7) Then I was moved to catch up with a girl from Jiangxi Nanchong , she was comparatively open than other mainlanders and was happy to take a tract after wards.

8 ) Then came a guy who told me upfront not to waste effort talking to him as a Materialism guy I challenge him to understand the 6 days creation in a both biblical and scientific basis. He became speechless and at the end still take a tract to read to show a bit of backing down from his tough position of atheism and materialism.

9) Then I was led to catch up with a girl from Macau in Cantonese. She is not yet a Christian but was brought up from Chrisitan school. . She nevertheless showed openness and humility to listen to the Gospel.

10) Finally I chatted with Nadi a Buddhism follower from Sri Lanka. I was able to guide him to be aware of the fact that Buddhism is not a religion but religious education to become a better self if not a perfect one. There is not God head worship in Buddhism. I was able to challenge him to think about the way to address the issue of sin. At the end, he seemed to have been enlightened to seriously consider the Chrisitan way of salvation by grace through faith but not relying on good deeds. Again, he was happy to take a selfie with me to show his appreciation.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

A shorter week of outreach this week, because today I’m heading to Wellington for a week of outreach with Craig and the team at Calvary Wellington.

To conserve my energy, I cancelled the outreaches in Riccarton (Tuesday and Saturday), so the only scheduled outreach was Friday - in the city.  But, we heard a special announcement, the Living Waters team would be filming for the Way of the Master TV Show in Christchurch on Wednesday and Thursday - and so I had to check that out!

Sure enough, on Wednesday & Thursday evening, they were at the Bridge of Remembrance.  There were quite a number of Christians who had turned up to say hello and see them in action.  They focused on open air preaching, and used various techniques, including: trivia & giving away money, comedy & communication skills, flip charts and sketch boarding.  Those who spoke included: EZ, Mark Spence, Oscar, Ben Price, Eddy Roman, and Chris Sandford from Living Waters Down Under.  They all did an excellent job!  Glory to God alone.

It was great to see people stopping and engaging as they all preached the same message: the gospel of Jesus!

On Thursday afternoon, they did some filming with a focus on how to hand out gospel tracts.  I somehow managed to be roped into this, and was even mic’d up for it!  It was fun.

Before the open air preaching, on Thursday evening before the Living Waters team arrived, I had some time and managed to get into some gospel chats for 30 minutes or so.  I had a long chat with 2 guys who were already very drunk - it was only barely past dinner time!  They were resistant, but I calmly spared with them, answering their objections and tenaciously sticking to the task of sharing the law and the gospel.  And I succeeded in that task!  If they will remember it is another thing - but that is in God’s hands anyway.  Later, I had a chat with a young couple.  I think I’ve talked to the guy once before.  They were also very resistant.  So I spared with them as well, and succeeded in explaining how we know who God is, that we have sinned against him, and the solution to the problem: Jesus.

While I was doing this, Brian and Laura had their flip chart up, and were sharing the gospel with a young couple (pictured).  It was so wonderful watching them work as a team!  They are from Nelson, and like us, go to A&P shows in their area to share the gospel.  (They had come down to see the Living Waters team in action.)  May God bless them in their ministry!

Brian, Andy, Roger & Dom joined me for Friday’s outreach.  The crowd was tough on this day too.  I talked to a man who quite quickly opened up about being gay, he wanted to justify his sin, and wasn’t really interested in engaging at this time.  And yet, he took a gospel tract.  I then talked to a young man from Canada.  He too had his head in the sand in regards to truth.  I then went to help Roger disengage from someone being obnoxious, and then ditto with Brian.  I then paired up with Andy with a conversation where the guy was resistant (pictured).  And finally Dom and I paired, the guy we approached said he always gets asked “why do you think happens after you die”!  I engaged him on how we know there is an afterlife with a place of punishment.  He didn’t like this idea very much, and soon after we parted ways.  Finally, I approached an older man, who took a tract, but was adamant there is no God and nothing after life.  I gently reasoned with him till he too had to move on.

None of those conversations are a waste, because people are learning more about God, even in their resistance, it’s ploughing and sowing.  Maybe one day in the future someone else will harvest?  But all the glory will be to God.
 

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1) My first approach to day was with a Mainlander young man. He appeared not keen to chat but still let me carry on with my gospel sharing?His answer to all my questions was a mono tone of "Who Cares" . I still finish sharing full gospel when his bus came and the Spirit still moved him to take a tract to read. So, it is all the work of God to continue to have his frozen heart to be defrosted.

2) Then I was Rejected by a yet another Mainlander which has become almost the norm.

3) Next was a comfort from God. An UQ student Hu from Onchin, Onhui responsed very positively to my approach with good interest Actually, he has good knowledge of many Bible stories and Biblical figure though he claimed he is still a seekers . He showed great receptiveness to the gospel message I shared. Trust and pray to God to move him a step forwards for the final conviction to receive Christ. I also mentioned Power to Change to him if he needs to have Christian friends to pursue his faith in Christ.

4) Rejected by another Mainlander girl

5) Then, an amazing reunion with Brandon who claimed that today was the ninth time we met since two years ago. His parents are from Hongkong and Guangzhou. My last Battle Log about him was on

May 24, 2023 despite he said he met me two weeks ago which definitely was not right as I was in Taiwan then. He claimed he is still an agnostic despite he understood the full gospel but he still deemed his time to make the last step of faith has not come yet. I promise will keep praying for this last moment for him to come in His time. This time, I asked to take a selfie with him so I could officially and properly remember his face.

6) Then I caught up with Mr Ng? from Shuntak , Guangdong . He surprisingly was a willing listener of the gospel which possibly was because of the rapport I built with him as our home town was in close neighbourhood.

7) Angus a non-believer or more so a seeker. She showed interest in the sign of Gary when he was packing up to leave earlier. I bumped in to chat with Angus but the bus came at that very moment. But God must have His will to lead me to get connected with Angus.

8 ) Finally I was moved to connect with a disable Indonesian girl who is also an UQ student. She lives in Sunnybank and has to commute to UQ by bus despite being a wheelchairer. I complimented on her steadfast courage to live a life staring down the constrain of her disability. She thus has a very strong mind as such she insisted to let her to share the bottom-line belief of her Islamic faith first., that she believes there is only one God and Mohammad is the last prophet. We touched on the issue of sin and how it must be punished unless there is a perfect person willing to take our place to receive the punishment of our sin. It was a pity her bus came though it took a while for the bus driver to lower the ramp for her to board the bus. She waved me good bye with a smile which showed that our divine encounter was a good one hopefully leaving me a future chance to share again with her.

  

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Only Johnny and Hung were available for the Toowong ministry. There is good news that the Senior Pastor of Sherwood Methodist Church will join us next week. We praised and thank God to make available this cross-cultural outreach platform to help us brush up our gift and make us bold to serve the Lord to strangers but the elected persons despite of rejections and denial. The result of today was good. Recap below is the Battle log of Hung.

1) I was led to approach first a Nanjing girl who is a UQ undergraduate with major in Biology. I could identify with her also as a Biology Uni student, as well as my ground breaking visit to Nanjing in 1973-1974 while China was not yet open for free tourism by overseas people. Though being brough up in an atheist background, she could accept and admit she is not perfect as such she needs salvation. She promised to read the tract and ponder on the action faith to accept Jesus.

2) Then I was led to catch up with Alex from Ghana. Surprisingly he once studied in Nanjing China for 3 years. Though the official language for class was English, but he had got enough exposure to speak Mandarin well. More so, he indicated he is a Chrisitan. And upon my diagnosis on his assurance of salvation, he firmly said he has 100 percent of Assurance of salvation, but when asked why, his first answer was off the mark claiming he led a good person life doing everything to please God and according to His teaching. When I hinted to him that those answer was totally off the mark then he immediately was able to correct his position claiming it is simply because of the redemptive grace of Jesus. He thanked me for clarifying his faith and we took a selfie to memorize this divine encounter.

3) Then I bumped in an UQ student form Wuhan China. When I use the good person analogy to ask if he thinks there is any perfect person in the world and he unusually said he believes he is almost perfect. . Just use some examples to prove that he is not perfect, or else he should be able to scree his private life 24x7 publicly. His heart appeared still rock hard. More prayer is needed.

4) Then I was led to meet up wit ja lady from Lao she is not a student but a staff of UQ, she did not take it seriously enough to listen to the gospel . Also more prayer is needed for her.

5) Danielle is a local Aussie from Mt Isa. she appeared very open and receptive to the gospel message though the bus came prematurely to end our half done conversation.

6) Then I met up with an Indonesia Javanese student still wearing his cultural costume and apparently of Islamic background, but he appeared also very open and receptive to the gospel message.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

A busy week this week.  Street outreaches to Riccarton on Tuesday afternoon, and into the city on Friday afternoon.  And then on Saturday we were at the Ellesmere A&P Show.  Also busy with outreach online - that was so good.

Starting with Tuesday, honestly, it was a bit of a slow outreach (cold and dreary day - may have had something to do with it).  The reality is, not every outreach is going to be filled with stella gospel chats.  But we plod on anyway!  I was able to have some chats with people.  One in particular stands out in my mind, a young man who has been involved in a youth group and so was familiar with some of the lingo.  He came to grasp grace, and even made a profession of faith.  On the other side of the street, Roger was having an interesting chat with a young Muslim lad (pictured).  It was a fairly intense conversation at times!  We ended up wrapping up the outreach early and having a cuppa.

Friday’s outreach was really interesting.  Mark joined Roger and I.  I paired up with Mark for the first 30 minutes or so - before he had to leave.

I then needed to fill up my drink bottle when I noticed a couple of young ladies protesting against the CCP (as far as I could tell, against human rights violations). I went over to open dialog with the intention of swinging the conversation to the basis for human rights: the reality of God, and then what the ultimate solution to the problem must be: Jesus.

The conversation was rolling when all of a sudden a group of Chinese tourists went past.  They were disgusted at the protest, and they didn’t hold back in expressing their very intense anger at it.  I was shocked at their intensity!  But the protesters weren’t, one of them just pulled out her phone and started filming.

This fascinated me, and so I tried to engage the tourists, but they walked off.  Suddenly, another Chinese couple came up, their anger was just as intense!  This time I succeeded in engagement, I was able to pull this couple aside and start a conversation to try to understand the emotion.  It took some time, but I was able to get them to calm down a bit, while I was listening to their reasoning.  I was successful in eventually swinging the conversation to root causes, “where does absolute right and wrong come from?”  When they realised where I was going, you could tell they didn’t like the implications.  They tried to switch the conversation away from root issues back to fruit issues, but I was able to swing it back again.  I was successful in showing how we know there is a universe maker that would be the basis for absolute truth, and then I was able to take them through the law.  In this situation, it had a powerfully humbling effect.  But, before I could share the gospel, they suddenly said, “we need to get to the Museum”.  I wasn’t surprised!  They had some things to think about!  I was pleased when they both accepted tracts.  And we parted ways with handshakes.  Great chat!  I love learning about people and what makes them tick!

I went back to the protesters, and I was able to finish up a warm conversation with them.  I was able to touch on the law and the gospel with them as well.

Those interactions ended up taking most of the rest of the outreach.

The Ellesmere A&P Show had nice sunny weather, but there was a very very strong wind.  The pictures don’t do it justice.  Other stalls had to pack up and leave, because it was just too windy to be practical for them.  We managed to set up, although we kept the gazebo in the low setting, and we had to tie down the flip chart stands, and hold the flip charts tightly!  We decided to proceed with the outreach, and it wasn’t long till Andy was into the first chat.  We ended up in outreach for a total of 4 hours, before we finally decided to pack it up (after getting emergency texts on our phones about the winds).

We ended up with a team of 6 running the site (pictured).  But if it hadn’t been so windy, we would have had a team of 10, which is decent for an outreach like this.  By mid week, I was concerned that there would only be 3 of us (Andy, Lily and myself), but with some desperate messages, and a facebook post, it was great to have the calvary arrive. Thanks so much team!

So, even though my hands got quite sore having to hold the flip chat pages in place against the wind, I ended up having some wonderful gospel conversations.

My first was with a young couple.  He was struggling to grasp grace, so I had to labour, but it was fascinating watching her face, as she became more and more interested in the good news I was sharing.  The gospel is so amazing when truly grasped.

The other chat that really stands out in my mind was a long one.  Four young people boldly approached me, and I suspected I’d be in for a fight - I wasn’t wrong.  I reasoned with them for a long time, and in the process answered their objections and shared the gospel.  I had to deal with the 2 most common questions: 1) evil and suffering, and 2) homosexuality.  I was able to be faithful in explaining that homosexuality is a sin, and yet demonstrate that I don’t hate or fear anyone, and that there was forgiveness for sin in Christ.  By the end of the chat, one of the guys was willing to open up that he was gay, and even in a relationship with one of the other guys in the conversation.  They refused to give up their Idolatry (making a god that says they can sin), but I could tell they were understanding the good news of Jesus.  We finally parted ways on good terms (although we disagree).  The gospel is the power for salvation!  I leave them in God’s hands.

One other chat comes to mind.  It was with a young man with really frizzy hair.  It was awesome seeing what the wind did to his hair!  But what was great about the chat was seeing him go from joking about the conversation, to slowly sobering up about the seriousness of the situation of sin and hell.  By the end of the chat he seemed genuinely impacted, and thanked me with a firm handshake.

God is good!

Because we left the A&P Show early due to the wind, I ended up joining the training outreach online.  I was paired up with Issac in Sydney who did a fantastic job!  I had 3 conversations. The 2nd was awesome, because the young man came to truly grasp the gospel (he was close but so far), he was genuinely stoked by it!  And the 3rd chat was amazing too, the young lady came to tears as she came to understand the grace of Christ.

Anyway, that’s a wrap for this week.  Keep up the good work of sharing Christ with others!  Be encouraged!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday October 11th 2023 from 1300-1500

Today only Hung and Amy, the CFC ministry Team were available for the Street outreach at Sunnybank bus stop. All other regular team members were unavailable for personal matters. Despite of our sub quality health condition, we still managed to share with many people with mixed results. Recap is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) My first chat was with Beth, a Local Aussie young girl. She is not religious but was still open and receptive enough for the full gospel.

2) Then I was moved to connect with a young Mainlander from Fujian , who is an UQ student of commerce. He almost appeared open and receptive to the gospel message taking a tract afterward.

3) Then I caught up with a Vietnamese girl. No time for a full gospel, just a brief chat and a tract.

4) Next, I was led to approach a Filippino lady who migrated to Australia in 1986. She is of Catholic background but now attending an Anglican church. Her faith anyhow is still not purely by grace through faith. As such she lacks assurance of salvation but still a good chat to help clarify a number of faith issues for her.

5) Then I caught up with a Mainlander lady who is an UQ student of accounting. Just enough time for the nutshell of the gospel and a tract.

6) Netanyahu, an Indian girl of Sikhism background. They also have the faith of a mono God head and address the issue of sin like Christianity just walked her through the Chrisitan faith and she felt convincing to trust in a Saviour God Jesus to address the issue of our sin. She was thankful for this divine encounter and conversation as such she was happy to take a selfie with me.

7) Then I bumped in a young man from Bhutan but was just enough time for a tract.

8 ) Boris a young man from Sichuan who was 10 year old in 2008 when the Sichuan earthquake took place. He was lucky to survive now meeting me a foreigner who was there in Sichuan to join the disaster relief work. He was thankful for that as such I earned a very long conversation with him on the full gospel message.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

 

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday October 10th, 2023 from 1330 – 1500

Thanks God helping me overcame the sore throat problem I developed towards end of the Taiwan trip as well as some minor tooth pain issue, I officially have resumed my regular street outreach at Toowong with Johnny. God was gracious to have led me into divine encounter with 7 persons from different background but all leading to favourable result. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung: -

1) There was a long queue for bus when we arrived at the bus stop. I was led to approach a girl from Hong Kong by the name Ng ?who came to do a Master Of IT at UQ. She did his first IT degree at CUHK, Chung Chi College. Thus we are dual Alumni of both CCC and UQ. I was moved to share a bit more my life testimony as she knew the HK background. Then I rushed through the gospel when the bus arrived. She anyway seemed touched and eager to know more by taking a tract.

2) Israel is an Australian born Bangladesh in Sydney. He is of Islamic background because of his parents as such he rejected me initially. But the Spirit moved me to stay put and be friend first with him to soften his heart to listen the gospel finally showing good degree of receptiveness.

3) Then I was moved to approach a lady from Peru who comes to visit her daughter studying in UQ and do some sightseeing herself. Her English is limited, but still sufficient to hear the gospel.

4) Then I was led to approach a Mainlander. He actually has extensive reading of the Bible but also has a lot of prejudiced understanding because of the lack of the Holy Spirit. I answered all his queries but he still needs more enlightenment by the Spirit to convict of him the self-righteousness as a sinner in flesh.

5) Then next was a young man from , who was very willing to listen to the gospel. He took a tract to read on the bus.

6) Then I bumped into a young lady of mixed blood with an Aussie dad and a Filipino mum. She seemed to be of no religious background but still polite and willing to listen to the gospel.

7) Jess is a local Aussie girl full of Sun shine. She is also not religious but appeared very keen to the full gospel message with receptiveness. She was also willing to take a selfie with me to memorize this divine encounter and conversation of life issue importance.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

It’s been a while since I’ve written a report.  I didn’t write any while I was in the Philippines, as Bekk was doing video summaries of our outreach there.

I’ve been home for a week now.  Still struggling a little with a bit of jet lag.  I was back into outreach on Tuesday, but I didn’t do my first street outreach until Friday (in the city).  I ran some evangelism training on Saturday morning.  And I was back in the city for outreach on Sunday afternoon.

Before I report on these outreaches, I just want to mention a surprising encouragement. In this report the first gospel conversation I described was with a Muslim lady and her daughter.  When I have chats with people who seem very engaged or who respond positively, I hand out a contact card for my church and write my name, #, and email address so they can follow up if they want to - and I did that with this lady.  Sadly, from time to time, I might find these contact cards discarded, and rain stained.  But, on Friday, I received a phone call from her!  (Almost 1 month later.)  I didn’t initially remember her, but as we got talking I was able to remember the conversation.  I was able to check her gospel understanding, and then ask how I could help further.  I guess I was caught a bit flat footed, because I don’t usually get follow up calls, but I’m more prepared now.  I might follow up with her later next week.

So, it was good to see Roger again on Friday for outreach.  The OAC boys were out as well.  Steve even preached open air.  I was fairly busy in conversations, I’m just struggling to remember any of the details (I blame the jet lag!).  The conversation that stands out in my mind is the last one.  I had a man and his daughter stop.  He was curious about what I was handing out (gospel tracts), and so that led straight into a conversation about deeper things.  He seemed agnostic, but he involved his daughter in the conversation show said, “I think about what happens after we die all the time”, and then listed the various things she thought might happen (the common answers: heaven / hell, nothing, reincarnation - actually he brought that one up).  Yet, unlike her Dad, she did believe in God.  I could sense that they wouldn’t be staying around for a long chat, and so I was able to share a brief law / gospel summary, and they left with a tract.  What struck me most about the conversation was that they felt safe to approach me and talk to me.  The word ‘evangelist’ often provokes thoughts of the stereotype of a mean guy holding a bull horn screaming at people about hell.  No, I’m just a normal, logical, friendly person (I hope) with an amazing message, not only of hell (justice), but hope of eternal life (mercy).

Saturday’s training went well (as far as I could tell).  I had 9 people attend.  6 of them from my church.  We covered the biblical basis for the evangelism method I was going to teach, how to deal with 2 difficult subjects: 1) evil and suffering & 2) sexuality, general tips for street evangelism and evangelism in our everyday lives, and then finally the nitty gritty of the evangelism method.  It was raining, and no one was able to join Andy or I for the optional street outreach afterwards.  And so I joined the online training outreach on Saturday afternoon instead.

Sunday’s outreach provided nice weather.  Mike, Susan, and Binu joined me.  It was so nice seeing the new green leaves on the trees down Cashel Mall.  The outreach started out a bit slow, but then got very busy.  The stand out conversation was with two young ladies.  They were attracted by the flip chart I had up.  One had been in a cult, and the other was an atheist.  Sadly, I didn’t get to share the gospel, because even though they professed to be ‘open’, they really weren’t.  I don’t mean that in a bad way, because they were lovely to talk to, but whenever I would make progress on sharing the simplicity of the message, they would deflect in various ways.  So even though we focused on ‘how we know God is real’, and ‘how we know what is right and wrong’, much progress was made in those areas.  We talked about homosexuality a bit.  And the atheist trusted me enough to open up about some very hurtful things that had been said to her in regards to this.  It brought tears to her eyes as she explained (but she was quick to suppress them.)  And yet, she said to me, without me even prompting: “you think homosexuality is wrong, and yet you don’t hate homosexuals”.  She was right.  This led into a discussion about justice and mercy and eventually to the issue of why God allows evil and suffering.  It was a great chat.  I hope it paves the way for some other Christian to be able to clearly communicate the gospel.  Or even, it would be great to see them again myself!

Thanks for praying for us, without God, our feeble efforts are in vain.
 

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Philippines Short Term Missions

Mission successful! The team of 10 (from Australia, NZ, and USA) have returned from the Philippines. It was an epic and exciting time sharing the gospel in Metro Manila with the local people.

The seed was sown, with some making professions of faith, while others are considering it and counting the cost. No chat is in vain!

Thank you for your prayers, please continue to pray for those who heard the good news.

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

It was a pity Qin Hao could not join us today but we still had Sister Li Su Yi teaming up with Johnny and Rev Hung to do the street outreach at Sunnybank making best use of her 2 weeks School term break holiday. It was a very fruitful and productive journey for Su Yi to have been empowered and equipped for cross cultural evangelism outreach. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) My first approach was to two UQ students from Mainland China. They were indulged in electronic game, but I was able to catch up with one who is from Wuhan where I had visited before. It was a pity they both were indifferent to gospel and refuse the tract when the bus arrived to cut our chat to an end.

2) Next, I chatted with a lady from Singapore who was friendly for casual chat. But once changing topic to religious things, she immediately show no interest and was indifferent to the gospel message despite I tried keep sharing it to her. She also declined the offering a tract to her.

3) Then I caught up with a young man from Taipei coming to study Movie Director at Taffe. He claimed himself a Catholic background Chrisitan and understood the doctrine of human are being saved by grace through faith . Yet I did not have time to test for his assurance of salvation but he was willing to take a tract.

4) Then I was moved to approach two young kids, namely, 1) Koby a cross breed between Australian father and Chinese mother who has just arrived from Hongkong and 2) Stephen from Nigeria. Both claimed they are Christian and is now studying at Brisbane Chrisitan College. I switched to test for their assurance of salvation which are both just 80%. But they seemed to be Spirit filled person quickly understand through my explanation that they should have 100% assurance of salvation, because it is all by the work of Jesus alone. They were appreciative for my clarification as such they were happy to take a selfie with me to memorize for such divine encounter.5) Then I bumped into a very extraordinary person who was born in Changchun , and the whole family migrated to Japan and now the son came to study in Griffith University. His upbringing was in an atheist environment in China and also a secularized society in Japan, but still appeared comparatively open than most of the Mainlander. I was able to share to full gospel and he took a tract to follow up reading afterwards.

6) Then I caught up with Ben from Thailand though he looks more like Chinese. Even he is a Buddhism follower but he was relatively open to listen to the gospel and showed good response to the message finding it very rational and logical. His interest was aroused to take a tract to read.

7) Then I was led to meet up with a young man who rejected me upfront with the excuse as a Communist Party member the Spirit had wonder work through me to turn around his attitude to become at least open up to the full gospel message being expressed in a contextualized way to a Communist. At the end, he even asked for a tract to revise on the message I shared with him.

8 ) Last but not the least, I spent a long time with a couples already migrated to Australia from Guangzhou, China but originally from Taishan. They were in typical atheist mindset as person brought up from Communist background, but at the end, the Spirit seemingly had move them at least the wife to realize our imperfect status as a human being so even we are a good citizen but not a perfect person as demanded by God thus they need to address the issue of sin. Again, the wife too ka tract to signify the message has made impact to their thought about sin.

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