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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Last week I wrote about how I was determined to go out in spite of the rain (and I’m glad I did).  Well, this Tuesday, I decided to stay home!  There was a river outside my house, and I just thought the opportunities online would be better.  I’m glad I did, because I managed to get into a chat with a lady who had been involved with The World Mission Society Church of God - a nasty cult that even has a branch in Christchurch.  Andy and I have had many encounters with people involved with this cult on the streets.  And even a member of my church was able to engage them when they knocked on their door!

Anyway, this particular lady had apparently left the cult back in March, but she hadn’t come to know the true Jesus.  I was able to labour with her for over 40 minutes, working against the false teaching and explaining about God’s grace.  Sadly, although she was able to give the right answers, I didn’t see any spark of true understanding.  But who knows?  The gospel is the power of God for salvation.  Perhaps God will bring other Christians into her life to continue the chat?  Maybe someone like you?  We may not all be able to do street / online ministry, but we are all certainly able to share the gospel with those around us. :)  Be encouraged to step out!

The sun was out by Friday, and Roger and I hit the streets.  2 significant chats stand out for me.

The first was with a couple from France!  I write that with such joy, because it means foreigners are starting to come back to NZ after the long period of border lockdown due to Covid.  It’s so good that people travel so far to hear the gospel of Jesus!  Long may this continue :)

The chat went well, but the lady didn’t speak English well, and the guy was nice but resistant.  Yet, he heard the gospel, and they left with tracts.

The 2nd chat was with a couple of ladies that were very new age.  Early on in the chat, one of them said, “there is no ‘the’ truth, only many ‘a’ truths”.  I subtly kept referring back to this all through the chat so they could see how inconsistent they were being to that statement.  It was a longish chat, where I was able to share the law and gospel in between learning more about their worldview.  As I really nailed home how Christianity is about a gift (and not earning it) at the end of the chat, one of the ladies started to lose her cool ever so slightly.  It amazes me the people hate such good news!  What is that?  Pride?

Roger was having good chats too, a couple of them are pictured.  As I reflect on those pictures, it amazes me at how easy it is to spark up conversations (with a little bit of training, and pushing yourself through the initial nerves).  People really do want to talk about what happens afterlife, and it brings God much glory, even if they reject what we share.  I can’t recommend this work highly enough!  Speaking of training, we have some coming up in October.  To find out more about it, check this out.

Sadly, Saturday morning I came down with what is likely Covid (2 of my daughters tested positive, and the rest of us have symptoms).  That’s put an end to my ability to go to the streets for the next week, and yet I’m so grateful for the opportunity to share Christ online.  Bad things, like Covid, have a silver lining.  God uses all things for good!

I managed to do some gospel chats on both Saturday, and today (and they were really good ones).  But at the moment I’m mainly focusing on rest and recovery.  Please continue to keep the Christchurch Operation 513 team in prayer, it’s so needed and appreciated. :)
 

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday July 27th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

Today only Johnny and Hung turned up to do outreach at Sunnybank. Both Gary and Amy were absent because of sickness either themselves and or their kids. Nevertheless, we still had a very good successful rate to get a conversation mingled with some intermittent rejections.

1 ) Tong 湯from Nanjing南京, an UQ student showed good interest in the Gospel and claimed that they are willing to pursue.

2 ) Michael with a cool hand but a warm heart claimed he heard the Gospel before but sincerely agreed the gospel is what all good persons need to hear and accept.

3 ) Jeanne an old Aussie lady who claimed she is a Christian and with100% certainty she could go to heaven yet the reasons are all related what she has done from being baptised, attend church, do tithing and comply with 10 commandment yet just falling short of knowing it is solely because of Jesus dying for us and paying on our behalf the price of eternal punishment of sin. It was a pity her bus arrived as such I just falling short of pointing her that her assurance of salvation is basing on the wrong cause.

4 ) Possibly a Filipino Chinese but abruptly rejected the gospel though I still managed to pass on the nutshell of gospel.

5 ) A Chinese Christian but very sensitive to answer if they have assurance of salvation, I doubt they are from sect that did not want to talk about salvation by grace thru faith.

6 ) Pink lady shoed initial reluctant but still finally listened to the gospel and took a tract to read at home.

7 ) Then I met a UQ student 陳燕光from Wuhan武漢，he turned out to be very receptive to the gospel. 非常接受

8 ) A Shanghainese Woman initially approached by Johnny but quitted after the lady said we have chatted.上海婦婦,已聽聊天。I anyway still caught up with her to chip in gospel message in a lively manner.

9 ) Then I had a relatively long chat with a mature Chinese lady at her 35 to 40. 中國中女，She appeared very rational and had vast life experience that led her to believe, there is no way that anyone can become perfect and all we can do is to try to become a good person.理性，看透人生，盡力而為，I anyhow still tried my best to convey positive thinking and the important of salvation. 只能撒種

10 ) Mahear a Kenya UQ student is very rational minded and she doesn’t believe in heaven and hell but cannot reject the logic of gospel.

11 ) Dillon, I Vietnamese young man who were willing to listen to the gospel.

12 ) A young girl from 成都四川 who came to Australia at young age，I can identify with her with the experience of joining Sichuan Earth quake.

13 ) A Taiwanese man rejected to listen to the Gospel台男，抗拒談福音, I nevertheless still conveyed the gospel message to him.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

 

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday July 26th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

Today was a very warm Winter Day and also the Uni should have started a new term of study as such the people flow at the Bus stop was much voluminous than last week. However, the initial response in general was not good, all the three of us, Johnny, Winnie and Hung all got more rejections than giving consent to chat. Situation gradually improved and recap below were the Battle Log of Hung and Winnie: -

1 ) After a couple initial rejections, the Spirit led me to approach an Asian look young man who seems to be Chinese but deny so I had to speak in English instead. Basically, the bus came too quick so just the nutshell of gospel was shared.

2 ) Then I was led to approach a Local Aussie girl who showed initial reluctance but eventually agreed to chat but with her mask on first. Basically, can just shared the nutshell of the gospel just in time before the bus arrived.

3 ) The I approached a Thailand lady who was a willing listener with genuine interest in hearing the full gospel. She possibly was the first to show genuine receptiveness to the gospel message.

4 ) Then I approached two tall young men, one is from Hong Kong and one from Liu Ning, The former listened to the gospel message with a controlled good manner while the one from Mainland China just keep a cold face completely indifferent to what I shared. He actually later uses the excuse not to wait for the bus but to walk to move the HKG friend to leave and end our conversation. Nevertheless, the gospel message was heard at least completely by the Hong Konger student. 港大陸前者聴霆擇走

5 ) Then I was led to chat with Peter whom we have met and shared before. He is a Christian but lacking 100% assurance of salvation. He showed appreciation for my clarification and the good work we are doing it for Christ.

6 ) Jack is a local Aussie from Townsville yet with Indian blood. He declined to hear the sharing of Gospel, but the Spirit gave me wisdom to change it to a casual chat but at the end, I still tactfully finished the sharing of the full gospel with encouraging receptive response. He was drawn to the chat and not paying attention for his bus. I reminded him if his bus had come and he had to rush off with true appreciation of my reminder for him to catch the bus.

finish the sharing at the end

7 ) Then my final target happened to be an arrogant Malaysian Christian, who appeared too sceptical to answer my diagnosis questions for the assurance of salvation. It indirectly showed he has no idea if he should and could have 100% assurance of salvation. So, he used abrupt denial to cover up his ignorance about salvation by grace through faith of the redemption work of Jesus Christ.

Battle log of Winnie:

26/7/2022 Toowong

感謝 神的帶領，今天遇上很多中國青年男女，初時不願聽福音，但是最后都聽到重要的福音。

中國少女，Alice，May。中國靑年，Alex，Ming。

澳洲少女，Anne。

他們初時不願意聽福音，後來我説，按着命定，人人都有一死，死后且有審判。（來9:27）信祂的人，不被定罪，不信的人，罪已经定了。（约 3:18）我给他們單張看看，想清楚。

中國少女，Jessica，Vienna，Anna & Cathy。她們聽了福音及見證。Anna & Cathy 願意到教會尋求更多真理。

中國少女，依華。天主教徒。我解释天主教與基督信仰不同之處。

澳洲少女，Kate（相片中）

香港少女，Channel，Jannet。

她們是基督徒，完全明白救恩，100分。我给 Channel & Jannet單張，讓她們看後，可以與其他朋友分享福音。

願今天聽到福音的人仕，認罪悔改，回轉歸向 神。阿們！感謝讚美主！

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I checked the weather forecast at the start of the week, and it didn’t look good.  Rain, rain and more rain.  And yet, I determined that I wasn’t going to let it stop me.  Sure, in the wet and cold, online outreach is wonderful to do - and I often take the opportunity to go online when it’s wet.  But I thought about Joshua in Yangon, Myanmar.  He doesn’t have the online option.  Yet, he goes out in the heat and the rain anyway.  If Joshua can do it, so can I! :)

It was spitting as I headed to Riccarton on Tuesday afternoon, so I didn’t bother with my flip chart - in wet weather, it’s often better without it.  In the providence of God, the rain held off, and I was able to complete the whole 2 hour outreach without problem.  And I had some great opportunities to share the gospel.  3 chats specifically come to mind.

I was walking down Riccarton Road trying to get chats started, when a person I didn’t expect stopped at my question and wanted to engage.  I was able to take him through the law, gospel, and checks in a very efficient chat (it was cold, we both wanted to talk, but we both wanted to get moving again!)  I love it when you have those “unexpected” chats, it just reminds me that we can’t judge from what we see externally.  We don’t know what God is doing on the inside.  The gospel is to be proclaimed to everyone.

The next chat that comes to mind was one with an older teenage girl with a Muslim background.  She was very keen to receive a tract and eagerly engaged in conversation.  She too came to hear the gospel.

Finally, I approached a largish group of teens.  These chats are often tiring, but I had the energy, and with God’s help we can do it!  I ended up being able to hold the attention of most of them in a back and forth conversation.

The exact details of these chats are a bit dim as I write.  But it fills me with such joy knowing that the attributes of God are being explained, and the gospel proclaimed - for the glory of God alone.

It was dark and threatening rain on Friday morning, but by the time the afternoon outreach started, it was sunny!  Very glad for the sun, as it was bitterly cold.  Roger, Andy, John and myself were all busy in conversations.  My first was on Cashel Mall, before I did a wander over to Cathedral Square where I was able to spark up a conversation with a young Catholic guy who was on his break.  It was so interesting to listen to what he was saying, because he was making things up on the spot.  I eventually called him out on his Idolatry (making a god to suit himself).  In spite of his profession of innocence and guitlessness, later in the conversation he admitted to his sexual immorailty (pornograph), and, multiple times, I was able to reason with him on the gospel.  He stayed a long time to chat, but eventually had to get back to work.  He seemed to appreciate the chat.

I made it back to the bridge of remembrance via Worcester Blvd.  As I walked, I handed a tract to a young guy walking briskly in the other direction.  Who knows, maybe he will read it and be saved?  The simple gospel message is the power of God for salvation.

Back at the bridge, I was really encouraged to see Roger, Andy, and John all in conversations (see pic).  John ended up pulling me into his, and I was able to work through all the check questions with the guy.  He left counting the cost of the gift.

Saturday I was back in Riccarton.  I’ve just sat here trying to remember what happened on that outreach.  It was only yesterday!  But I remember now.  It started with a chat with three teen girls.  One was keen, but the other 2 were a bit standoffish.  Yet, I went through the law and the gospel.  I could tell that they didn’t really like what I was saying, and yet they couldn’t really argue with it either.

Soon after I had 6 teen guys go past.  I was able to get them to stop because of the flip chart, and they quickly engaged.  A couple of them were giving all the answers, and they were answering really well.  It turns out they all went to a good local church, and I could tell they were receiving good bible teaching.  I took them through the flip chart anyway.  And the check questions came to the fore.  When I got to the “100%” question, I turned to the guys that were only listening and challenged them all to give their own answer.  3 were “50%” sure, one was about 70% sure, and only 2 were 100% sure.  I asked the ones that were less than 100%, why they were unsure.  One of them responded with, “because I’ve done bad things”.  I was then able to demonstrate how that shows they actually should be 0% sure they are going to heaven, and the only reason why we can be 100% sure - not because we are arrogant, or know it all, but because our salvation is a gift, and doesn’t depend on us being good enough, but on Jesus sacrifice alone!  All 6 kids left with 2 kinds of tract each, and a challenge to get in touch and join me in the harvest!

I’ve just finished the Sunday afternoon outreach at the Cashel / Colombo corner.  It was raining on the way in, but I was going anyway!  To my joy the rain stopped as I arrived.  I was able to set up my flipchart and complete the 2 hour outreach without any rain!

A muslim guy that Andy and I have talked to a lot (mainly back when we were bringing the gospel to the issue of abortion outside the hospital a year or so ago – he really agreed with our stand against abortion) stoped to catch up.  We had a long chat focused on how we can get to heaven.  He seemed really challenged, in spite of his resistance.  It was great catching up with him - God willing I will see him again soon.

I had other chats.  2 that stand out was one with a young couple.  She baulked at my question of how we know what is right and wrong: “if you have to ask - there is something wrong”.  Well, I turned that on her: “spot on!  If you have to explain that God is real to someone, there is something wrong - it’s so obvious”.  There was much resistance, but it was an amicable chat where the gospel was explained.  The 2nd was with a young family very interested in the flipchart, but not so keen to talk about religion.  The father ended up asking about theodicy (why is there suffering and evil), and heard the gospel before shaking my hand and leaving with a tract.

During the outreach, I also handed out a lot of tracts.  At one moment, a group of about 8 teen boys went past (kinda interrupting a conversation I was already having).  They all took tracts, but I warned them not to litter!  If they were just going to throw them, don’t take them.  They all took one.  As I was walking home, sadly, I wasn’t surprised to see 3 discarded tracts.  One had been ripped up.  And yet, maybe 5 of them kept theirs?  Maybe one of them will read it, at a future time?  The silent missionaries are ever working.

I’ve also had some epic chats online this week.  One in particular on Omegle.  I’ll leave the photo to do the talking, but in that 14 minute chat, I explained the gospel 3 times, and answered 2 questions: how do you know God is real, and how do you know hell is real.  I re-watched that chat once, and I was shocked at all the mistakes I made, and yet, the gospel is the power of God for salvation.  I’m grateful that God uses us in our weakness to show his strength.  The other chat has been an ongoing Tik Tok dm conversation.  The message (I’ve included as a picture) brought me to tears.  Oh God I leave them in your hands!  Soli Deo Gloria!!!

Sorry for spelling and grammar issues, I’m way over on time for this, I hope it makes sense!  I wanna get back to the harvest!  Come join me!!!
 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday July 20th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

 

A fine morning suddenly turned gloomy and even started drifting rain after we started today at Sunny bank. Praise be to God that we had a full team to day despite of the less-than-ideal weather condition. Johnny, Gary, Amy and Hung assembled again at the Sunnybank Plaza side of Bus stop. In general, it is a harder mission field there in SB with higher rate of rejection. Nevertheless, we still had many good quality gospel conversations. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung Kwan.

1 ) 中國夫婦, 僅單張 A Chinese Couples, Chatted just a short while before the bus arrived. The husband still felt good to take a tract. I just went straight to the core of the gospel that everyone is imperfect as such we all need Jesus to pay for the price of our sin.

2 ) 基督徒女士.太短，得鼓勵 Then I approached a Christian lady and got encouraged to keep doing His work.

3 ) 生於廣州,81香港移民來澳Mansfield, An old lady originally approached by Amy but I took over and chatted a long while about memory of HKG. Finally, I still managed to share the gospel to them.

4 ) 香港基督徒夫婦，Another couples from HKG. The man is doing TAFFE and the lady Joey is doing Qut master degree. They are Christians and was used to attend 福臨 Church in HKG, now still seeking for Church. We referred them to the Living Water Church in West end.

5 ) 純聊天不願談福音改講見証Then I approached a Chinese lady who did not want to listen to the gospel. Instead I shared with her my life testimony which she showed appreciation for it .

6 ) Stella a member of the Antioch Lutheran Church who was first approached by Gary and then Johnny as he had many previous chat with her. Her understanding of the gospel is very clear.

7 ) 成都移民朋友，初不願聊, 四川地震拉關係 Then had a long chat with two ladies from Chengdu. They initially had no interest to chat about gospel, but I used my 2008 Sichuan Earthquake disaster relief work to identify with them so at the end I could share the full gospel to them with apparent turn of heart to become receptive because of the love of God exhibited in the Christian ministry I shared with them.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday July 20th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

A fine morning suddenly turned gloomy and even started drifting rain after we started today at Sunny bank. Praise be to God that we had a full team to day despite of the less-than-ideal weather condition. Johnny, Gary, Amy and Hung assembled again at the Sunnybank Plaza side of Bus stop. In general, it is a harder mission field there in SB with higher rate of rejection. Nevertheless, we still had many good quality gospel conversations. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung Kwan.

1 ) 中國夫婦, 僅單張 A Chinese Couples, Chatted just a short while before the bus arrived. The husband still felt good to take a tract. I just went straight to the core of the gospel that everyone is imperfect as such we all need Jesus to pay for the price of our sin.

2 ) 基督徒女士.太短，得鼓勵 Then I approached a Christian lady and got encouraged to keep doing His work.

3 ) 生於廣州,81香港移民來澳Mansfield, An old lady originally approached by Amy but I took over and chatted a long while about memory of HKG. Finally, I still managed to share the gospel to them.

4 ) 香港基督徒夫婦，Another couples from HKG. The man is doing TAFFE and the lady Joey is doing Qut master degree. They are Christians and was used to attend 福臨 Church in HKG, now still seeking for Church. We referred them to the Living Water Church in West end.

5 ) 純聊天不願談福音改講見証Then I approached a Chinese lady who did not want to listen to the gospel. Instead I shared with her my life testimony which she showed appreciation for it .

6 ) Stella a member of the Antioch Lutheran Church who was first approached by Gary and then Johnny as he had many previous chat with her. Her understanding of the gospel is very clear.

7 ) 成都移民朋友，初不願聊, 四川地震拉關係 Then had a long chat with two ladies from Chengdu. They initially had no interest to chat about gospel, but I used my 2008 Sichuan Earthquake disaster relief work to identify with them so at the end I could share the full gospel to them with apparent turn of heart to become receptive because of the love of God exhibited in the Christian ministry I shared with them.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday July 19th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

Despise the resurging of Covid19 cases, the three of us, Johnny, Winnie and Hung remained committed to do our weekly regular outreach Tuesday at Toowong. It seemed that UQ is still at term break, so there were less people flow at the Bus Stop 14. Nevertheless, all of us still have numerous divine appointments to share gospel to people of all different nations. Recap below are the Battle Log of Hing and Winnie: -

1 ) Hung first approach was directed to Nash from Middle East , he was friendly and opened to the gospel and asked for a tract after wards before boarding the bus.

2 ) Then I was led to shared with two Taiwanese tall guys. They were responsive and had much interaction while I shared them the full gospel. They delightfully took tracts to ensure pondering on the gospel message afterwards.

3 ) Raton is a local Aussie young man. He was very attentive to the gospel message and appeared very receptive with clear understanding. He showed appreciation by taking a selfie with me.

4 ) Then I was led to speak to two UQ young man both from Beijing , China separately and consecutively. The former one was much more receptive and admitted the needs for salvation by Jesus. Yet the next one who arrived a bit later took a totally different attitude to rationalize the imperfection of humankind denying the need for Jesus to die and pay for our sins. 兩中北京，一明理，一狡辯

5 ) Then I approached another UQ student from Singapore who quickly disclosed he is a Christian, yet without assurance of salvation. Just in time to clarify this misconception with him before the bus arrived.

6 ) Next came a Cantonese speaking person from Guangzhou, China.中國廣州Surprisingly , he was also very receptive to the gospel message and show desire to accept Jesus as Saviour.

7 ) Last but not the least, I was led to approach Elanor a Jewish girl. She however did not show rejection to Christ as the Messiah and indirectly admitted Jesus is the Saviour and Lord of our Life.

Battle log of Winnie:

19/7/2022 Toowong

感謝 神今天的帶领，雖然初時很多人都不願意聽福音，但是 神感動他們，讓我有機會可以向四位中國青年，七位中國少女傳福音。有兩次是兩位一起講的。

有一位中國青年，Iris。及一位中國少女，Rina。他們都願意到教會尋求更多真理。

一位中國少婦，推着婴儿车，初時不願意聽，但是 神感動她，她都聽了重要的福音。

兩位青年，Samuel & Kelvin ，從斐濟群島來的（Fiji) 基督徒。解释救恩。

一位男士從孟加拉來的。（Bangladesh）Adam Khan，穆斯林。我講及三一神。

感謝讚美主今天的帶領！

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I’ve been very encouraged to hear that people are reading these reports and are finding them encouraging.  Glory to God alone.  May you be encouraged for the evangelism opportunities that come up day to day, may you take those opportunities to swing a conversation to the deeper questions of life and share the gospel.  Maybe you would be able to join me on the streets some time?  I’d love to have you with me :)  Or maybe you don’t live in Christchurch and, like me, are desperate to see God glorified in your community and beyond.  Be encouraged to, with the support of your church, go to a busy local street corner and start handing out tracts (you can get them for free here, here, or here), and start conversations.  God will honour our obedience.  You might think you can’t do that.  Well, I used to think that too, but then I discovered I could do it, and you can too!  Be encouraged as you read about how my week, doing exactly that, went :)

The rain was really heavy on Tuesday, so I made the decision to stay home and work online instead.  But although it’s been cold, the outreaches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday went ahead.

John, Roger, Andy and I were in our usual spot at the bridge of remembrance on Friday.  I was first there, and I noticed some JWs there with their stands - I haven’t seen them out for a long time!  I went over to say g'day.  During the brief chat I let them know I was a Christian out to share the gospel - but I wasn’t going to try to engage them in debate.  I let them know we’d have our own stand up soon (Roger).  After a cheery farewell, I headed to the other corner and proceeded to actually attempt to engage people, and within a minute, I was into a gospel conversation with a young couple.  They heard the gospel, and took tracts, but they had to move on.  Romans 1:16 - I leave them in God’s capable hands.

By this stage Andy and Roger had arrived.  Roger set up his chart, and then I decided to go for a wander to see who I could talk with.  I had barely moved down Cashel Mall when two young ladies stopped to chat.  Apparently they had been at some protest in Cathedral Square.  Ignoring that, I swung the conversation to the most important issue: what happens after life.  One of them had studied religious philosophy and uni - so I asked her what Christians have to do to get to heaven.  I wasn’t surprised when she said, “be good” – wrong answer!  So, I corrected her, and then moved into the building / builder analogy.  She was impressed by that.  But, sadly, she wasn’t interested in continuing the chat and needed to go.  Both girls accepted tracts as they moved on.

I made it down to Colombo street, but the fish weren’t really biting down there.  I saw the two girls again, and they said the protest was over - so I decided to go in that direction.  I spied some people sitting on the seats on High Street, so I bee-lined over, the first guy didn’t want to chat, but the two guys further on were keen.  I had a long chat with both of them (I’d say they were high school aged on school holidays, and so had the time).  They both came to grasp the gospel, and even made professions - so I got them to consider the cost of the gift.  And pointed them to the Bible and a good local church.  I left them with tracts which gives them a way to get in touch.

The Square was fairly empty, so I made my way back to the bridge of remembrance, handing out tracts as I went.  I was pleased to hear that Roger had been busy in conversations.  And Andy and John were talking to a small group.  So good!  I was able to have a couple more conversations before the outreach ended in a time of prayer.

Saturday’s outreach was amazing!  The sun was out and melted the frost.  It was so good having Mitzi join me again in Riccarton.  I had the “good person test” flipchart up, and it attracted a lot of attention.

But first up, I had a guy come over and say, “Hi Glen!”  I didn’t recognise him, but he explained that I had talked to him and another lady a few weeks ago - I remembered.  They were keen to go to a church after that chat, but he said they hadn’t followed it up.  I was able to check his gospel understanding (he got it right!) and then I gave him a card for my church (he lives close) with my contact details on it.

After that it was busy.  My prayer was that Mitzi would have some good opportunities to see the whole flipchart used - and God answered that prayer multiple times :)

The outreach ended with 3 different guys standing around the flipchart in gospel conversation.  The first guy is a regular heckler, who has mellowed out a lot lately.  He is asking really good questions, which is a really encouraging sign that the Lord is working on his heart.  And, he wasn’t interrupting the gospel conversation I was having with the guy next to him - instead just listening and soaking it in.  The guy next to him was claiming to be Christian, who had been an Atheist a year ago.  As he left, he paid me a huge compliment.  He said he had learnt more in our 15 minute conversation, than 5 years of religious education at high school!  Glory to God alone - the gospel really is simple, and the Bible answers all the questions that need to be answered.  The third guy in the mix joined the conversation part way through.  He was happy to just listen.  He actually left first!  But not after telling me he was from the USA and currently at the uni in Christchurch and looking for a church – he also left with a contact card for my church.

Sunday was cold.  So good to be at my church gathering in the morning (sadly none of the people I talked to on Saturday turned up - but that’s okay, they are in God’s hands), and a shared lunch after, before heading back to the city for outreach in the afternoon.

It was a bit slow in the city initially.  When Susan arrived, we decided to move down the mall a bit to set up the flip chart.  I had an awesome follow up opportunity from the week before, and an epic chat with a trio of girls – one in particular was very engaged and followed the logic of the gospel perfectly.  She was stoked!  I had some other chats as well.  Glory to God alone for any eventual fruit from the ploughing, sowing and watering.

Oh, nearly forgot to mention, you can now purchase the large, 6 page flipchart here! :)

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Sunnybank on Wednesday July 13th, 2022 from 1300 – 1500

Today was another day of Grace. The weather was fine, though Gary still could not join us because of kids got sick at home that needed his care. The three of us, Johnny, Amy and Hung however teamed up to do His work assigned to us. The beauty of today was a perfect illustration of team work. There were many cross referrals to each other for people coming from same or similar back ground to achieve the best effect of having the gospel and testimony to be shared. The results were in general very fruitful, with many prospective connections built for follow up and invitation to join CFC was extended, up to God further work to move them to come.

We also received a cheering up greeting from a passer by drivers. Glory be to God. He even asked for some tracts to be handed out to his friends.

Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung: -

1 ) Daniel, a Student from Mauritius and was a good listener to the Gospel with a receptive mind.

2 ) Mr Yang 楊 from Quanzhou 廣州人 was first approached by Johnny but he referred Yang to me as he is Cantonese speaking and he took over my conversation with another Chinese ladies that we chatted before. Despite Johnny already having shared the gospel with him, he still was in the opinion that being a good person would be good enough for heaven 做好人便可，I tried to clarify this misconception with him but failed which was cut short by the arrival of his bus. 未明道理但車已來

3 ) Ramsey might be from Egypt but he was born in Sydney. Possibly he is a Muslim but he 100% endorse the gospel I shared with him. He claimed he also believes in the only one God of creation and knew that we are all sinners that are subject to judgement by God after death. Just did not have time to crunch out the area of differences between his Muslim faith and Christianity.

4 )Then Amy referred Jason Ni 倪嘉翔 to me after having a long chat with this young man from Beijing and then Auckland of New Zealand. He is an UQ student but live off campus at Uni lodge. He and his mother had been to church in Auckland and actually he studied Catholic high school in NZ so he is aware of Christian faith yet not a committed believer. Amy asked me to cut in was to introduce him to Power to Change. But I was moved to share the gospel once again with him and invite him to come to our church as Woolloongabba is the midway interchange bus terminal to Cleveland taking only 20 min to our church. Pray that our long chat will move him closer to the last step of faith. Amy said he was very drawn to have conversation with us as he had chosen to miss several buses but kept talking with us.

5 ) Afterward, I approach Antony from Nigeria who has also called Australian home. I only had time to share the nutshell of the gospel with him but I guess he is a Christian already considering the conversion rate to Christ is very high in late years in Nigeria. Our conversation again was cut short by the arrival of the bus.

6 ) A tall guy seemingly is a Chinese but pretended initially he does not speak Chinese but eventually still abruptly turned away from our short lived conversation.

7 ) Then I had a long chat with Elaine 以琳 of the ICC International City Church (the ex- China town Assembly of God Church) She is a good church goer but was diagnosed having no assurance of salvation. I took a long chat to clarify her mis-concept about salvation, introducing to her the three folds salvation plan of God that we first will 100% sure to have eternal life and getting our heavenly citizenship back by repentance and accepting Jesus as our personal Saviour and Lord of Life. Thence God will send the Holy Spirit to dwell in our heart to start the life transformation work by substance back to perfect and the sinless state. Ultimately even our body will be transformed back to illness free state. She appreciated my teaching and affirm she now should have 100% assurance of salvation.

8 ) Finally, Michelle an Australian born Vietnamese who has not faith affiliation. But she listened to the gospel with great interest and agreed it is all sensible and logical. I hope she does not have any burden on Buddhism considering she is born here as if she is an Aussie.

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday July 12th, 2022 from 1330 – 1500

It was still a fine sunny Winter morning but the weather turned down cast towards noon and drifting rains even started as soon as we started the outreach around half past one. The facts is, God manages to train us to do His work under all weather conditions, that we should still be commissioned to work with God in all circumstances. His grace is always sufficient for us so despite of the adverse weather with light rain, I had a smooth outreach divine encounter with 5 persons inclusive of Christians and Non-believers. All of them were very welcoming and friendly, receptive to the message and 4 out of 5 were willing to take a selfie photo with me to signify their endorsement for this divine encounter. Recap below are the Battle log of Hung and Winnie: -

1 ) Ricky was actually a Christian but he still willingly listened to my gospel sharing very attentively. After I finished, he then disclosed he is a Christian but has no assurance of salvation. Thanks God I still had time to clarify the holistic meaning of God's complete salivation plan and led him to rebuild 100% assurance of Salvation giving credit only to Jesus whose work to die for us all , the Sinners, is 100% efficacious to redeem us from the bondage of sin or eternal death.

2 ) Ainsley Was approached by Johnny. She said she is a Christian, so I asked if Johnny had tested her assurance of faith. She said yes and I used my 2 diagnosis questions to verify that she does has sound assurance of salvation. I just supplemented with more biblical basis of this concept or doctrine and no wonder she is from a bible upholding church. She also delightfully took a selfie with me.

3 ) Then God led me to approach Charles an UQ student from Bangladesh. He is a Muslim but he kept a very welcoming and open mind to listen to the gospel which he found so sensible and logical as such very receptive to the idea of the atoning grace that Jesus died for our sin. He thanked me and happily took a selfie with me.

4 ) Then I caught up with a Hongkonger Mr Liu. He is of Catholic high school background but not yet a believer. But I shared with him my testimony apart from the standard Gospel message which he can fully identify with me as a HongKonger. He also was please to take a selfie with me but it was failed as he had to rush for the bus. 廖香港非信徒願聴

5 ) The last one today I approached was Jenny a Filipino. She initially declined to chat but God soften her heart to let me make friend with her first and I ended up still sharing the full gospel with her. She is of Catholic background so she does not understand the gospel and don't know about salvation. At the end, she took the tract after I finished the sharing just on time upon the arrival of her bus.

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