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Operation 513 battle log for Sunnybank on Wednesday April 21, 2021 from 1300-1500

Today, Johnny was not available so I supposed was to serve as singleton at Sunnybank. I have never done street evangelism just by myself, but I did not want to give up any opportunity to serve God while I still have my breath to do it. So I prayed for a gospel partner. God answered my prayer with another street evangelist turning up out of the blue after I had started for over half an hour. In Christ we backed up each other irrespective our human organizational affiliation. For instances, for some people who were willing to accept the tract but could not speak good enough English, I could do the follow up chat with success. Recap below were the six major conversation I had in that less than two hours ministry period.

PS. Afterwards, I just learnt that Gary was there from 1300-1345 but he did not bring any signs as he was with some of his family members. That was why I failed to spot him there when I drove pass the East side of Sunny Park as such I turned around to park on the West side of Sunny Plaza as the chance to get a chat is better than the East side especially if you serve on your own. So from hindsight, God answered my prayer in double sending two street evangelists to serve alongside with me.

1) When I arrived, the bus stop was fully seated with many people without any gap. It was hard and inappropriate to force my way in to share with any people. I actually did try to approach the girl sitting on the outskirt and got rejected. I could understand this as it appeared everybody else were listening to us in this crowded situations. Then I took a step back to wait for the bus come to take away most people. After that, only two people were left sitting there of which one was Mr Siu. He is from Swatow, Quandong China. I only learnt later he was there waiting for his wife so bus arrival did not bother him. I approached first the other Chinese lady but got rejected then I approached Mr Siu. His first reaction was still not willing to chat, but somehow God gave me giftedness to find an ice breaking topic to start our chatting in a casual manner first. Once connected the chat box was opened naturally and I had the chance to share with him the full Gospel. He was not rejective but rather showing interest and later he actually exposed to me he is church going with his son and grandchildren to CCCCB at St Lucia. I believe he is now more open to gospel and have a better understanding of accepting Jesus by grace through faith. Then his wife came and we kept connecting with things and people we know in common. Pray that this divine encounter will trigger Mr Siu to make his final step of faith to be in union with his son's family in Christ.

2) Linz is Filipino yet with no faith but showed great interest in the gospel. She admitted she is not perfect and has done punishable sin. But she needed some time to ponder if she should now receive Christ without any more wait or hesitation. So I asked her to read the tract at home and pray to God for guidance.

3) Then I approached an English speaking man who had just rejected the other evangelist. Yet curiously he was willing to chat a while with me. His reaction was basically negative against the need of God in his life. But he could not deny all human are imperfect with punishable sin that only Jesus can saved us from eternal death by dying for us. It was a pity our conversation had to cut off by the arrival of the bus. It anyway was still a worthwhile approach with gospel message having been passed on.

4) Another lady who is an employee of the Scape group specialized in student accommodation. She declined to accept a tract but still I managed to have a good friendly chat with her starting from her work with Scape. With some skillful exchanges of conversation, I still managed to share her the nutshell of the Gospel before the bus arrived.

5) Then I caught up with an elderly Chinese man. He appeared to be a bit old to give sharp response to my words. I did not give up but still managed to speak in a slow and clear tone about the gospel. His empty facial expression showed no clue if he really heard and understood what I said. I nevertheless honor my own personal standing ground that, I will still share gospel to all people despite there are all sort of barrier between us. Otherwise, they will lost their last chance to hear the gospel if everyone avoid chatting to elderly or people who has limited English.

6) Finally I did another follow up on a Chinese Lady who had accepted both Chinese and English tracts from the other evangelist but could not proceed because of complete lack of English speaking ability. This was of course not the major reason. Thanks God I still managed to get into conversation with that lady and shared the full gospel with not too many interaction from her. She showed reluctance to consider right away. I could only leave her to God to bear fruit in His time.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Well, I came down with a cold end of Friday, so I took Saturday and Sunday off (as well as my usual Monday) to recover.  It was nice to have some rest post all the recent special outreaches.  Not fully recovered yet, but I’m back to work (online only at this stage).  This report covers Tuesday and Wednesday.

Tuesday's Riccarton outreach went ahead with out me, led by Roger - he had a newbie with him, praise the Lord!

Pictured is a summary of my online chats.  Interestingly I had exactly 2 hours 21 mins in “decent” chats for each day.  (A decent chat is one that went for longer than 2 minutes.)

The first chat, with a guy from Scotland, was great.  His mind was blown when he first started grasping the gospel (his words)!  But I had to labour with him to get his understanding to stick (checking questions to the rescue).

A guy goes from thinking his good deeds will save him to Jesus will save him.  He then started talking about an addiction he was struggling with.  Honestly, I don’t think this guy was impacted at all - sadly.

A guy from India heard the gospel, but just wasn’t interested, he had to go after a fifteen minute chat.

The chat with the guy in New York was fascinating.  Jewish, he thought he would be going to heaven simply because he was Jewish.  He was deeply resistant, but using the examples of Abraham’s faith and Passover I was able to explain the gospel.  Sadly he bailed - not interested.

A girl in Texas who just didn’t care.  I was able to show how I knew she did care, and interestingly she didn’t bail from the conversation.  She heard the gospel.  Her key question was about LGBTQ+ which I addressed.

The second to last chat was with a guy from Morocco - he was lovely.  He had good English, and was keen to chat.  I think he understood what I was sharing, but he was resistant to it.

A Brazilian guy didn’t have good English, but came to hear the gospel via Google Translate.

By the way, I know I say “resistant” a lot - this is not necessarily a bad thing!  The gospel is the power of God for salvation.  The gospel can cut through resistance.  Salvation is from the Lord, in his timing!

On Wednesday, the Lord connected me with a lot of younger kids.  Sad, there are much much better places for them to be than talking to strangers online.  But, at least they get to engage with the gospel.

The first kid, from Canada, seemed to have a Catholic background (I later learned).  So he was familiar with some of the lingo, but obviously looking to his “goodness” to save him.  He really struggled to grasp the gospel, but he was willing to talk (by typing) so I laboured with him.  I lost motivation, because he just didn’t seem interested - bored even - I wondered what was keeping him in the chat.  After pointing him to needGod.net, I eventually moved on.

The chat with the next kid went faster - she seemed to grasp the gospel quickly.  But there was no penny drop and she suddenly disconnected.

My third kid in a row had a Christian background, and felt “caught out” when I pointed out what he thought would get him to heaven at the start of the chat, and compared it to what he now knew.

Next up was a DJ!  A Catholic background, deeply resistant to the gospel.  He kept cutting me off before I could finish a sentence.  He insisted that he would be going to heaven.  I slowly broke down that wall with the law.  But then he insisted he could never let anyone else take his punishment.  I gave up and left him to deal with his punishment himself.  I dropped a link to needGod.net a second before he bailed on me - I wonder if he saw it?

The chat with the guy in Brazil was frustrating, he would respond very slowly (via text) and insisted he was perfect.  I left him with the gospel, via text, before moving on.

Another kid!  This one: quite self righteous, but lovely to talk with.  He clearly went from thinking his good deeds would save him to clearly articulating that only Jesus death on the cross would save him.  He professed faith.  I pointed him to a Bible, and a good local church.  In the end he said, “I gotta go; have a good day and stay positive; I will remember this talk forever; bless you”.

The guy in Georgia, I had a delayed connection with, which made it difficult, but I slowly worked through the gospel with him.

The last chat was good.  Whoever it was was very intellectual (text only).  They came to hear the gospel, but they really enjoyed the conversation and started asking many questions.  Eventually I decided that they understood the gospel and it was time to move on.  I pointed them to the Insta DM if they wanted to continue the conversation.

So, a great couple of days of online gospel proclamation.  Glory to God alone for any fruit!
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong on Tuesday April 10, 2010 from 1330 -1500

The weather turned continuously fine with a warmer sun this afternoon posing us a more challenging condition apart from the uncontrollable response from strangers. Yet our heavenly Father did work with us giving us inspiration and wisdom to use word of complement to gain trust with those initially reluctant or even rejective strangers. As a result both Johnny and Winnie had almost non-stopped chance to share gospel. Recap below are the battle log of Hung and Winnie: -

1) Judy a local Aussie UQ girl was very open and responsive to the gospel sharing and appeared very receptive to consider receiving Jesus as her saviour.

2) Then I approached another UQ student from Bangladesh who showed little interest to chat yet with my persistence to keep sharing to him the full gospel in a nutshell. Can only leave it to God for His continuous work.

3) Then I caught up with an UQ student from Taiwan. He was polite and showed great willingness to listen to the gospel.

4) James is an UQ student from Bundaberg. He is very tall but also very shy to have conversation with stranger. I nevertheless chatted with him about Bundaberg to help him relax and get a better grip of the gospel message.

5) Then I faced up approaching a not so welcoming person who had been approached by Winnie that I only knew after viewing those pictures. Actually, this person was behaving very nice and patience despite our repeated approach. He took his stand as a non-religious person denying the existence of God and Heaven. I could only speak skilfully not to deny his stand but kept pushing my message that as an imperfect person , we all have to face judgement after death which can only be pardoned by the redemptive grace of Jesus through his atoning death.

6) Then I had chance to share with a Muslim girl from Indonesia. She initially wanted to turn me down taking the excuse that she has got the tract an have chatted with one of us before. I took this line to ask how well did she understand the gospel which of course was still un clear for her. I thus had the opportunity to share again the core of the gospel and left everything to God.

7) I chatted with Satire a local Aussie UQ girl who had the greatest response of the day. She admitted she is not perfect thus needs Jesus to take her place for punishment. She promise to pray and think seriously to receive Jesus.

感謝主 今天的帶領。雖然身體不是一百分完整，眼睛及耳朵都是不完全康复，但是全能的 神，都讓我可以，向十二人傳講福音。

第一及第二位，分别前後是印度及中國少女，Lina & Helen. 她們聽完福音，需要時間想淸楚。

第三位是澳洲少女，當我講完福音，巴士來到。

第四位，Elaine, 中國來的UQ 學生，我講完福音後，巴士還未到，我再講了我的見證及台湾火車的意外發生。

她聽了，願意信靠主。

第五及第六位，分别前後是澳洲少女及中國年青人。當我講了一半福音给他們，少女有電話進來，所以要停止，她説會看單張。巴士來到，男士要趕上巴士，所以也要停止。

第七及第八位，年青人。Richard & Mary. Richard是澳洲人，Mary 是中國人.他們是基督徒，但不明白救恩，以為做善事便可以。我解释给他們。

第九位是中國少女，Judy，聽完福音，會看單張及想清楚宗教問题。

第十位是馬來西亞少女，Julie. 父母是基督徒。她間中都有跟父母去教會。我從新講述福音，她完全明白。會信靠主，跟随主。

第十一位澳洲女士，Janis, 天主教背境的基督徒。相信 三一神，但不能解释為何可以上天堂。我解释给她。

第十二位是印度人，講了一半福音，巴士來到。

感謝讚美主，賜给我能力傳揚主的福音。

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

On Thursday I was sharing the gospel online before joining Andy at Northlands for bus stop outreach.  Then on Friday I was online before heading into the city for outreach with Andy & Roger and then the gospel + abortion outreach outside the hospital with a team of six.  To finish the day I was online for a couple more hours.

At Northlands, the highlight was a great conversation that led from a rejection.  I was talking to a student when an old lady went past and gave me a bit of a dirty look.  The conversation with the student wrapped up and so I approached the lady and asked if she would like a tract.  She asked what it was, and I said, “It’s a gospel tract, I’m a Christian, I’m here today to share the hope of Jesus”.  She didn’t want anything to do with religion and refused the tract.

But another student close by had been listening, and she was intrigued by my open declaration as a Christian.  I know this because I offered her a tract next, she took it and said, “I’m a Christian too”.  “That’s great”, I said, “what do you have to do to get to heaven?”.  “Be a good person”.  And so from there I was able to share the gospel with her.  She was very thoughtful.  I challenged her to respond to the gospel, not by trusting in her good works, but by trusting that Jesus died for her sins - that would lead to good works.

This then rolled into another conversation with two other students, one who left early on, but the other came to hear the gospel for the first time.

We were in Cashel Mall & Cathedral Square Friday morning.  Roger had his flip chart out.  Andy preached in the open air.  I had a wonderful gospel conversation with a young lady who was making the most of life and not thinking of the afterlife - as she didn’t think there were any answers.  She heard the law and the gospel and was challenged to respond.  But the pleasures of this life seemed to sway her away - she was counting the cost of the change that faith in Jesus' sacrifice would bring in her life.

I fetched the abortion signs from my car and Andy and I headed to the hospital for the gospel + abortion outreach.  A team of six, which was great!  Another relatively calm outreach.  Kath and I had a lovely gospel chat with a lady.  She was familiar with Christianity, but not clear on the gospel, and not part of a church.  A long chat, she became emotional (in a good way, I think) which ended the conversation.

The online work was very rewarding, as always.  I had a long chat with a guy in Nicaragua who was familiar with the gospel, could even say the right words (‘repent’, ‘Jesus died for my sins’), but with some gentle probing it was clear he was subtly looking at his works to *get* him to heaven (‘we just have to try not to sin’, ‘obey God and his commandments’).  It seems he was getting his Internet connection from free WiFi outside a shop, he started to walk down the street and lost his connection - bringing the conversation to an end.

Amazingly my very next chat was with a guy with the same hang up.  Right from the start he had a flawless articulation of why he would be going to heaven: “believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins”.  I checked if he thought good deeds would get him to heaven.  He thought for a second and responded with “no”.  So I asked how sure he would be of getting to heaven: “60%”!  Why?  “Because I cuss and don’t go to church like I should”.  Going from there I was able to share the law and the gospel.  By the end he seemed to be understanding and was very appreciative of the chat.  You can watch a short video of the end of this chat here.

A chat with a girl flirting with Satanism who came to understand the gospel and have many of her questions answered (including many on the issue of homosexuality).  A guy from Egypt who had seemed to reject Islam in all but name.  He heard the gospel, said it “made sense”, but is not currently willing to repent because “I’ll become faithless”.

Those were just the highlights from Thursday, out of time to summarise Friday’s online chats.  But many good ones, including with a guy from Spain with poor English, claiming to be Christian yet very confused on the gospel.  A frustrating chat, but I think he started to grasp the proper place of faith and works in regards to salvation.
 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday April 14, 2021 from 1300 to 1500

Today, only Johnny and Hung served at Sunnybank. It used to be a comparatively hard land for gospel and Johnny reckoned it is getting harder to get a chat. Nevertheless, we could only keep serving faithfully facing higher ratio of rejections but still managed to get many conversations. The climax of today ministry was the apologetic sharing with the three Muslim young men two of which are very friendly with us. The main conversation was with the third guy who possibly was invited to come to take charge of the conversation as recap below.

1) First approach faced rejection by a Chinese girl who pretended not speaking Chinese. Anyway still managed to give her a tract to read which she accepted though with some hesitation. God's work will continue.

2) Kwok from Guanxi recognized my accent and invited me to speak in Cantonese while I walked with him across the foot bridge on his way for work at the kitchen of a restaurant. He appeared friendly but use a joking attitude to interact with my gospel sharing. I had to keep my posture to focus on sharing without being distracted. At the end, he thanks my sharing acknowledging the message was inspiring.

3) Carphelia from Brazil is a Pentecostal Christian but with Catholic school influence as such she has no assurance of salvation. Initially, she only wanted to end the conversation as soon as we crossed the bridge, but my clarification on the meaning of salvation impressed her to stop and have more elaborated teaching with high appreciation.

4) Ling Ling is a Malaysian Chinese. She welcomed my approach and willingly invited me to walk with her across the bridge to share the gospel. She promise to seriously consider accepting Jesus as her Saviour. Pray for God final work to move her to make the final step of faith.

5) Another lady from Taiwan who quickly browsed the tract and listened to my sharing. Though it appeared that her heart was not yet touched by the Spirit. She anyway expressed gratitude for our conversation when the bus came.

6) Renee a New Zealand born Chinese who can speak but not read Chinese. While Johnny was chatting with her Nanny, I chatted with her. She appeared very open and interactive in the conversation and receptive to the message.

7) Two Pakistanis Muslim Tafe students by the name Shani and Muneeb whom we met in Nov 4 & 18, 2020 and 27/1, 2021. Last time they were with a third new friend but he had to hurry for work. I did pray that this was a stepping stone for me to meet them soon to have a proper chat again. So today, it was prayer came true. Shani and Muneeb greeted us with friendly hand shake. This new guy seemed to be prepared with a series of questions trying to put doubt on the historicity of Jesus and the infallacy of the Bible. After some quick clarification on those questions, I redirected the discussion back to the issue if a good person is good enough for heaven. I was able to establish common ground that we are all sinner though we are regarded as good persons. The only way to escape judgement is to let a perfect person to take our place to receive the punishment due on us for our own sins. And that perfection person cannot be found in human race but God himself incarnated as a perfect person. All religions are good but are man-made for guiding us to be a good person but cannot help us be immune to sin. So the ultimate solution of sin is through the redemptive grace made possible by the atoning death of Jesus on the cross. Our conversation started with questions and ended with a sure answer in Christ.

8) Then I stopped a lady from Taiwan who has been attending church as led by friend but has not yet received Christ. At this point Johnny stepped in to chat with her.

9) Another Chinese girl at the bus stop listened my full gospel.

10) Chole is a Christian attending Formosa Church台褔. She does not have assurance of salvation, but after clarification, she was delighted and thankful for my teaching and has faith to grow towards spiritual maturity.，

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Tuesday I was online with the team before heading to Riccarton for a couple of hours in the late afternoon.  And Wednesday I was online with the team.

I turned up in Riccarton wondering, for the umptenth time, if anyone would stop to talk - and wondering if I should have brought my flip chart or not.  Well, for the umptenth time, God answered my prayers and I had a very productive outreach!

After some initial chats, I had a school kid walk up keen to give the good person test a go.  This usually means one of two things - they are there to give me a hard time, or they are really interested.  It turned out to be the latter!

He went to a seventh day adventist school, didn’t understand the gospel and enjoyed his sin.  He heard the gospel, and was challenged to respond in faith, knowing this would change his attitude towards the sin he loved.

Near the end of the conversation it was interrupted by a guy walking past heckling “You don’t want to talk to him”.  Ignored we continued chatting, but then the heckler came back.  The conversation switched to being between me and the heckler with the student happy to stick around and listen (our conversation had pretty much wrapped up anyway).

The heckler wasn’t really interested in engaging honestly.  He had preconceived thoughts he wasn’t willing to let go.  The student got bored and moved on after shaking hands.  And so after, the heckler gave up and left as well.  But it was actually a very encouraging couple of conversations.

The last chat of the day was a long one.  It started with the guy coming past on a Lime scooter and being stopped by the flip chart.  He had done the flip chart before (in Blenheim).  He had obviously played on his mind, as he sat down to talk.

We went through the gospel multiple times, he was struggling to understand, but he really wanted to!  He stayed till the end of the outreach.  He ended up downloading a Bible, and was interested in going to church.  He friended me on Facebook and said he would be in touch if he had any questions.

So a wonderful outreach in the end - Praise God.

Eighteen recordings from the two days of outreach online.  Here are some of the highlights:

A catholic kid who wasn’t sure on what to believe came to grasp the gospel.

Another kid who just didn’t get it at all.  I would share the gospel, and immediately get him to share it back - over and over he couldn’t do it.  He disconnected :(

A Christian kid from Trinidad and Tobago who insisted that obedience was required to be saved.  A rather frustrating conversation - but I laboured with him for a fair while, and I think he was starting to see my point before he had to leave.

A text chat with someone from the Philippines - Catholic background, but seemed deeply impacted by the gospel - praise God.

A trio of Muslims from Egypt who heard the gospel but fought against it - insisting that they would be good enough to get to heaven.

A chat that started out with the other person pretending to be neo-Nazi :(  But by the end of the gospel they were stoked by the gospel and were asking good questions.

And the day ended with a streamer coming to grasp the gospel.

SDG!
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong on Tuesday April 13, 2021 from 1330 to 1500

Today was a fine Autumn sunny afternoon with lazy sun shine making our street evangelism outreach very comfortable and enjoyable. It was again the regular team of three Johnny, Winnie, and Hung. I was interrupted by urgent text messaging about the 11th enrollment for the 5th online Mandarin Kairos and ways to deliver the reader to that student in the Sunshine Coast as such I only have 6 divine encounter of varying length. In the meantime, both Johnny and Winnie were in full steam ahead especially Winnie having 16 contacts in the mere 80 minutes. It is evidenced that the Toowong mission field is a highly blessed one with the Holy Spirit working full force amongst us.

1) Chance an UQ student from Melbourne whose parents are from India and he was born in Australia. Although he had initial reluctance to chat but was obviously moved by the Spirit to turn open for chatting. I barely had enough time to share the nutshell of the Gospel when the bus arrived. Pray for God's follow up work using the tract that Chance promised to have a good read home.

2) Sandy whom I met couple of weeks ago who is friend with all Yasmin of Power to Change serving local Aussie. He is a fair dinkum Christian as such I change the subject of chat to encourage him to attend English Kairos starting May 12 at Cleveland Baptist Church.

3) Another Indian UQ student engaged in a quick chat before the bus arrived but at the end still declined to take a tract.

4) Jonathan is an Indonesia Christian who did not disclose his Christian identity when I shared the full gospel with him. His answer for certainty to go to heaven was negative with no assurance but may be a disguise to see what I preached ending up very positive and mutually edifying.

5) Lawrence is an Aussie girl who approached Johnny first for a tract and claimed herself a Christian. I chased her up to check if she has 100% assurance of salvation and found it all good. She actually is a serving member of Power to change for the local students. Yet she showed off her Mandarin skill which triggered my advice for her to switch to serve in the overseas student branch so that her gift in Mandarin can best be used by God.

6) Lastly I had a long chat with Zhou鄒 from Heibei河北, China. He was surprisingly opened and agreed the gospel message is sensible and logical to follow. He was interested to hear my testimony of serving in China and how God empowered us to do amazing ministry in China.

Here are the recap of the 16 contacts of Winnie with good results: -

Here are the recap of the 16 contacts of Winnie with good results: -

感謝主的带领，今天有16人聽到福音。

第一及第二位，前後是澳洲青年及少女，Steve & Alice. 他們是基督徒，但不清楚救恩，我解释给他們。他們願意將福音傳開去。感謝主。

第三是六人一起的中學生，他們接受單張及聽了福音。當我講完，巴士來到。

第四位是澳洲基督徒，Alan. 也是不明白救恩，我解释给他。

第五位是中國少女 Helen來自馬來西亞，聽完福音，會想清楚信仰問题。

第六位，中國少女，Amy 基督徒。也是不明白救恩，我解释给她。

第七及第八位，澳洲少女，Ester 及 Christine, 聽完福音後，願意信靠主，我给她們咭片，The Power of Change.

第九位, Tay Lan, 中國少女，也是願意信靠主，我给她同樣咭片，The Power of Change.

第十位，印度人，願意信靠主，找教會。

第十一位是 Pam, 中國少女，願意信靠主，找教會。

願主赐福今天聽到福音的人士，找到適合教會，永遠跟隋主。而信了主的基督徒，堅持信仰到底，把福音傳開去。感謝讚美主！

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

Today there was a team of four in the city, after church meetings in the morning.  It was a bit of a slow outreach, lots of rejection.  I got quite a few chats started, but only two finished.  And one of those, the guy just wasn’t interested! :(  I was talking to three people in that other chat - and of them, only two were engaging in the conversation.  But then something interesting happened.  They left me, and then one of those two that were engaged walked over to a flip chart and started talking to the team running that!  That one person went through the whole flip chart (pictured).  Their two friends left him.

So, I guess, often our labours can seem in vain, and yet they never are.  Even if no one stops and talks, or no tracts are taken, at the very least God has been glorified in our obedience to go.  I love God and want to obey him.  May you be encouraged to go, wherever you are there will be people you can attempt to reach with the gospel - do it with gentleness and respect.

We wrapped up early.  I’m glad we did as there were two girls leaning against the wall close to where I had parked my car.  After putting the flip chart in the boot, I circled back to offer them tracts.  I’m glad I did!  Because they were really receptive.  I was able to explain how we know God exists, and I was able to ask what they thought would get them to heaven (being good), and so I was able to briefly explain the gospel.  They then asked me about LGBT.  So I simply responded with: “who makes the rules?” and one of them responded with, “Oh, I get it, God makes the rules”.  Exactly, and God has said that homosexuality is a sin - but Jesus died on the cross so sinners can be forgiven!  By this stage a third girl had arrived, who was more resistant and the conversation wrapped up.  They all took tracts (the original two took two kinds).  Lord, I leave them in your hands - may they grasp the gospel, it’s your power to save them!

Many gospel chats online through the weekend too - but I’m out of time to write about them.  Glory to God alone for any fruit that comes!
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

A very busy couple of days of outreach in Christchurch.  On Thursday I was online in the morning, and then at the Eastgate bus stops with Andy in the afternoon.  Friday saw the gospel + abortion outreach outside the hospital, and then outreach in the central city, including many opportunities to talk with climate change activists.  The day ended with a wonderful conversation online.

From Thursday morning I remember the conversations being difficult - a lot of resistance.

I had an 81 minute conversation with a young man from Germany!  He was either playing me along the whole time, or he was genuinely contemplating the gospel, or maybe both.  But after counting the cost he ended up doubling down and saying “god is fake bud”.  Sadly, It seems sex with his girlfriend was more important to him than God and eternal life.

Later I had a difficult chat with a guy from Slovakia.  There was a language barrier, and yet he seemed to be comprehending the things I was saying.  He was very thoughtful.  At one point he said: “I believe that the universe came into being out of nowhere” - I was quick to point out how illogical that is, and he didn’t argue.

Many wonderful chats at the Eastgate bus stops.  It’s been a while since we’ve been there and so the fishing hole felt fresh.

I had a great chat with a guy who had just been to a church for the first time with a friend the week prior!  After the chat, he seemed to be articulating the good news well and seemed very appreciative of the information.

Later I approached a lady sitting in one of the bus shelters.  She said, “Are you Glen or Andy?”  It turns out she had talked to Andy before, and she had prayed for him.  She greatly encouraged me by saying she was praying for us everyday!  How wonderful is that.  Thank you Heather!

The gospel + abortion outreach on Friday morning went really well (team of seven).  No counter protesters today.  I fell into a long conversation with a man who had recently come out of a Christian cult (3 years ago).  He wasn’t certain on where he should land spiritually, he has been on a journey!  He is leaning towards Greek Orthodox.  We spent a long time talking about soteriology (the theology of salvation).  We are now in text and email contact - he has been sending me valuable information about the cult he was involved with.  I intend to continue our chat about how we are saved!

Andy had a wonderful chat with two girls who have Christian upbringing but had deep questions about it.  They came to understand the gospel!

We didn’t do any open air preaching in Cathedral Square as a climate change rally was on.  We headed to Cashel Mall instead.  Praise God, Andy and I had two wonderful follow up chats with people where the gospel seems to be taking root!  I got a Bible onto the phone of one; he works on Sunday, but he is going to see if he can change his schedule so he can come along to church.

During those chats, a climate change march went through.  Andy handed out tracts to those walking past (pictured).

We ended up down at the Bridge of Remembrance where Roger joined us.  We had a very busy afternoon of outreach.  Many wonderful opportunities to talk to the kids involved with the climate change rally / march!  Roger had people queuing to do his flip chat!  It was a non stop day for him.  Andy had a super long conversation with a guy (pictured).  The outreach ended and Roger and I went for a hot chocolate, even after that Andy’s conversation was still going!

A highlight chat was one Roger (and later I joined it later) had with the owner of SoYo in Riccarton.  This guy is Muslim and often talks to Roger when we are in Riccarton.  He seems very challenged by the gospel.  The conversation will hopefully continue when we are in Riccarton next.

The last conversation of the day was online.  With a guy from Brazil.  He has a Christian background but is gay.  He believes in God and wants to be a Christian, but is deeply struggling with his sin - he had even tried suicide, but said that God had rescued him from it.  He was subtly misunderstanding the gospel, and he had also reconciled his homosexuality by declaring that it wasn’t a sin.  It was a very difficult chat, with a language barrier where I had to get him to understand the gospel, and that homosexuality is sinful.  An 80 minute conversation!  At times he was tearful.  He was very thankful for the conversation by the end of it.  He had instructions for Bible passages to start working through, and I pointed him to a local church.  He is also in touch with the needGod.net team via Instagram.  Oh Lord, only you can change hearts by your grace and help us in the battle with our flesh.  Lord, you have the power to save, and the power to sanctify us.  Thank you for your grace, Lord, your sacrifice covers all our sins!
 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday March 7, 2021 from 1300 - 1500

The weather turned superbly fine this afternoon as such Johnny and Hung stayed on the East side to do our street Evangelism. It was delightful to have Gary re-joining us today with his big signs to draw attention of passers-by . He himself had got an ultra-long conversation with a self-acclaimed apostolic Christian about the end time political climate that Australian is facing with the Middle Kingdom as our major opponent.

As usual, Sunnybank is a comparatively hard land of Gospel as such we faced a more than normal rejection rate throughout the ministry time. Anyway, thanks God that most of them were positive and receptive. Recap below were the 6 major divine encounters.

1) Jenny is from a Christian family though she herself has not yet formally received Christ despite she is attending church with her Christian mother. She is from Henan China which is a highly populated province with Christian. She showed care for me while I walked quickly with her across the foot bridge appearing a bit out of my breath. I pray that the simple but precious gospel message can strike her heart to cross over the last step of faith blocking her from receiving Christ as her Saviour. 河南家基督, 有去教會未信，可以接受

2) Then I approached an elderly man Mr Wong from Quandong China firstly in Mandarin and a bit later switching into Cantonese after knowing his home town. He was born in Quanzhou, then moved to Hong Kong and finally to Australia. He shared many common memory of Hongkong that helped to identify with each others. He has not yet committed on any religion as he thought they are all good but have short coming too. I stressed the message of the tract that we are ordinary people who are regarded good, but we are all imperfect. So all people good or bad need salvation as long as we have punishable sin. We are not perfect yet after we received Christ attending church as the redemptive grace of Jesus only converted our identity from sinner and or enemy of God to a blessed sinner with sin pardon by the grace of Jesus redemptive act as such regaining our sonship and heavenly citizenship to be with God. It is soonest possible for him to make this last very small step of faith to get himself into the realm of God before it is too late. He appeared receptive and responsive to my appeal. Just pray and leave all this to God. 王伯中國，廣東閱歴甚多，未信，欠最後一步縱有家人已信主

3) Then God led me to chat with another even older man Mr Tam from Jiangsu China. He was drawn by my young and energetic appearance and was amazed to find that I was only 10 years younger than him who is now 80 years old. It appeared that he needs and enjoys chatting with people apart from his own family. Like Mr Wong he spent time in Shenzhen, then Hong Kong and finally migrated to Australia. But because the lack of English , he could not stand the loneliness with little inter person networking here as such he returned to Hong Kong. He was summoned by his sons to come to mind his grandsons with a one year visa. He got caught up here to stay over the visa period because of pandemic. I pray and trust that the love of Christ will melt his heart to have faith in relationship with families as well as with God. 談先生江穌，深圳香港，回流探兒孫友善願聼

4) Chelsy is a friendly Kiwi girl. She stopped surfing on her iPhone and listened attentively to my full gospel sharing and appeared very receptive. Her heart seemed very opened and soften for the gospel. Pray for God's last step of faith to reap this new fruit in Christ.

5) I caught up with two Chinese young man who turned out to Mansfield students. They were in a hurry but still let me share the nutshell of gospel to them. They were amazed to find out I am the father of their teacher.

6) The last person I got in touch was yet another senior man Me Wang from Quanzhou. He seemed to have no religion and felt strange to listen to the Gospel. I nevertheless stressed the need and urgency for him to miss no more chance of knowing and accepting Jesus as his Saviour and Lord of life. The bus came and he left with the tract in his hand. 王廣州無信仰

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