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Christchurch (NZ) Team

New Zealand Mission - Week Three - Dunedin - Day Five

The last day of the NZ mission.  We made it!  What an awesome time it’s been over the three weeks and across three locations.  People from many walks of life have heard and understood the gospel.  Hopefully many Christians have been encouraged and equipped.  But most importantly, God has received glory through people growing in their understanding of who he is and through the obedience of his children to GO!

The last day of outreach was again outside the Otago Museum where streams of university students walk past.

The day was contrasting for me.  I was paired with Aliyah in the morning and we had a constant run of great conversations - so many that I had to slow myself down due to mental tension from concentration.  But in the afternoon (paired with Samara), I lost my confidence for some reason?  But it finished well!

An interesting chat occurred with two young students: one a Christian, the other a Seventh Day Adventist - but both denying hell.  And yet they both clearly pointed at their deeds to get them to heaven: “as long as I’m trying”.  I gave them the logic for hell, and shared the law, then the gospel.  Yet they just seemed blind to it - engaged, yet not seeing the amazingness of grace.  On the final checking question, the Christian promptly reverted to “try” away from “trust”.  Yet some plowing has occurred and seeds sown.

The final chat occurred when Samara and I approached a couple sitting on the grass.  They were more than happy to have a deep conversation and Samara did a great job taking them through the flip chart, with me chipping in to address questions.  It was clear that they were understanding the gospel by the end of the conversation, but it was also clear that they needed time to process the new information.  The girl challenged us on the use of hell as fear mongering.  I explained that it was legitimate, in the same way that a car safety ad used legitimate fear tactics.

Thanks for your prayer over this mission!  Moving back to a more normal schedule now - continued prayer appreciated as I adjust back.  Soli Deo Gloria!
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

New Zealand Mission - Week Three - Dunedin - Day Four

It turned into a nice sunny summer day for today’s outreach.  Most of the team stayed at the Uni for the whole day - as it was so fruitful in the morning.  And it’s so awesome watching the Christians with less experience growing in confidence as they gain experience!

I was initially paired up with Samara.  It was a slow start to the day, but then we started getting into wonderful chats.  Samara had two opportunities to go through the whole flipchart and did so well!  And I had a number of great opportunities too.

One of them was with a young student guy who knew he would fail the “good” person test.  I agreed that I failed it too!  This caught his attention and he came back to chat.  He was living for the now, because there was nothing after.  I’m NOT living for the now, because there IS something after.  And I proceeded to prove it to him.  I can’t get over how powerful the building / builder, universe / universe maker analogy (based on Romans 1:18-20) is.  He saw how it made sense, but he tried to deflect it by asking a related question to avoid it.  I refused to take the decoy and brought him back to the analogy - if there is no God, where did the universe come from?  Again, he tried to deflect, but just brought him back to the question again.  I then asked if there was a reason why he wanted to deny the obvious - could it be that he enjoyed his sin?  To my amazement, he admitted to it!  From there, I was able to share the law and the gospel with him.  But sadly, he doubled down.  But it was a wonderful chat - I could see that he was challenged.  And he left with follow up tracts.

In the afternoon Samara, Aliyah, and Aneah all challenged themselves (with some gentle encouragement from me) and managed to get into their own gospel conversations!  Some of them didn’t go so well, but it’s all a learning experience for the future and God is happy with our obedience.  Well done girls.

I ended the day with another fantastic chat.  A student walked up to me (it happens often, they learn that Christians are about) with questions.  Again starting with building / builder - and keeping him accountable to the logic, I was able to share the law and the gospel and then started working through his questions.  It was a wonderful chat!

What a day!  One day left of the mission, please continue to pray.  Thank you so much!
 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunnybank on Wednesday March 17, 2021 from 1330 to 1500

Rain continued to fall since yesterday almost non-stop. Johnny and Hung had to move over to the West side to serve at the undercover Bus stop. We started at 1300 while Andrew and Martin joined us at 1400. Basically all of us got almost full occupied to have a chat with someone gathering under the roof of the bus stop. God continued to lead us to break down initial rejection barrier, using some soft spot of the gospel targets to keep our conversation alive and eventually had chance to loop back to gospel sharing. There were cases that someone rejected the chat but taking the tract yet ending up chatting with another team member afterwards. So the sign of God's hand was prominent. Recap below were the 8 conversation I had to day: -

1) Sri Lanka lady was very receptive to the gospel despite she is Buddhist. She now understood that being a good person is not good enough that everyone need Jesus including Buddhist people like her.

2) Then a Chinese middle age lady got to the bus stop. I only had time to stop her for a brief chat before the bus came. Thanks God that she was willing to take the tract to read afterwards.

3) Bailey a local Aussie was very talkative and positive to whatever I shared with him, though not fully receptive to the core gospel message. His indifferences to the offer of salvation might have many deep life factor that only God can unlock.

4) Jeff is a timid young guy. He was very quiet in contrast to Baily and lent his listening ear to hear all my Gospel sharing. I asked what did he think about the message then he said he has listened to same gospel message many times before. Then I kept on asking him what held him back from responding if not accepting the message of salvation. He turned silent again giving me no answer. The arrival of the bus broke that moment of embarrassment. I can only pray that God only knows his heart and what was the hurt in his life that held him back from embracing love and care from someone else like Jesus. God will melt his heart in His time.

5) Liza is an ABC coming to Australia at the age of 1 year old yet she could speak perfect Chinese. She initially did not want to chat but I used her good proficiency of Chinese to identify with her family upbringing. It made her becoming receptive to the gospel message I shared later on though she claim herself a Buddhist. I do pray that the tract will keep her attention to ponder upon this invitation to accept Jesus as her saviour.

6) Diane an India middle age woman with bad English but showed great interest to gospel message I shared. She got the tract from Andrew but did not stop for a chat yet she had no hesitation to let me share with her until the bus arrived. It showed really the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the work of God behind.

7) Another ABC but appeared very rejective to gospel. He speaks no Chinese and did not want to chat but took a tract instead. So God still has work on him.

8) Sam Lin from Taiwan but can speak good Cantonese as he is a real estate agent. He is member of Logos Church but have no clear understanding of salvation. It may be his occupation did not allow him to have good Bible study and home group spiritual growing time turning him into a nominal Christian. Hopefully my brief clarification of the Gospel message and the reason Christians should have 100% assurance of salvation may helped him to develop more interest to study the bible and know God better.

Battle Log of Johnny Hsieh

一位王姓老先生97歲，是我傳福音以來遇到過年紀最長的，他很耐心的聽完主耶穌十架救恩的福音。祈求上帝開他的心眼，讓他信耶穌得永生。

Battle Log of Andrewalkington of OAC

On Wednesday in Sunnybank I spoke with Jay who is from the Philippines and attends a large charismatic church here in Brisbane from time to time. When I asked him about the afterlife and the core message of Christianity, he was completely clueless. I took the time to share with him what the Bible says about salvation and explained how we need to respond to what Jesus has done for us. He seemed to grasp the message well and gladly accepted a gospel of John and a tract.

There were several other short conversations as well (including the young man pictured), but as is often the case at a bus stop, many were cut short by an arriving bus, but each received a tract to read. Please pray for them that God would draw them to himself. See less

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

New Zealand Mission - Week Three - Dunedin - Day Three

Dunedin is cold!!!  But when you are wearing thermals, bennie, gloves and a brand new woolen jersey (knitted by my amazing Mum - thanks Mum - you are amazing) - you don’t notice!  Others in the team had to do an emergency run to the store to buy thermals and bennies to get them through the day!  Haha.

And what a day.  A bigger team with the addition of two families of missionaries joining us from Christchurch.  In the morning we were at the Uni, and in the afternoon we were at the Octagon.

I was paired up with Samara initially and we managed to have some great chats.  We had a lovely young lady stop and engage, and Samara took her all the way through the mini flip chart.  The lady came to grasp the gospel and seemed deeply impacted by it.  Well done Samara, you did a fantastic job!

I had an older lady go past and accept a tract and a conversation got started.  She was torn - as she needed to be somewhere, so the conversation ended.  But right at the end of the day, while Andy and I were waiting to gain access to the car park - this very same lady came walking past!  We were both surprised to see each other - very providential.  So we fell into an easy conversation, and it turns out she is involved with Christian Science!  (Which is honestly, neither Christian nor Scientific.)  I asked her what her hope for eternal life was, and she couldn’t answer - but she said she wanted to email some information.  I promptly gave her my email address before we parted ways.  Low and behold - I have an email from her within the hour.  I will certainly continue the conversation!

In the afternoon, I was with Jeff and Aliyah.  Pairing with Aliyah initially she also did a fantastic job getting involved with three gospel conversations!  Great job Aliyah.  So awesome seeing Christians growing in their confidence sharing the gospel.  Glory to God.

To finish the day I was able to observe Jeff sharing the gospel with a very open hearted and passionate young man.  Before Jeff was able to observe me doing the same.  It was interesting being able to discuss our differences in method and emphasis and yet see that we were sharing the same core gospel message - which is the power of God for salvation!

Two days left in Dunedin, please continue to pray for the team! :)
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong on Tuesday March 16, 2021 from 1330 to 1500.

Praise and thanks God that JMF was called by God to join Johnny and Hung today in place of Winnie who needs one more week of rest after her cataract operation. She obviously has the gift and skill of street evangelism gained from her past full time ministry with Power to Point. The Spirit teamed up the three of us to have non -stop gospel sharing opportunities within that 1.5 hours period. Only a handful rejected to listen to the gospel message with majority willing hearts to let us share and some even were moved to make a ready commitment to receive Jesus. There were as usual many nominal Christians who have no assurance of salvation and full understanding of the gospel message. Pray that our sharing have helped them to get the concept right reinforcing their faith in Christ and Christ alone. I had comparatively less chance to engage into gospel sharing conversation as I needed to have an eye on JMF at the initial period. Once I found that she was serving in full force under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, then I picked up from there and had 5 conversations with one particularly long one as recap below: -

1) Andrew of Christian back ground. But he is not clear about the meaning of salvation and without assurance. All I could do is to give him a nutshell of the gospel before the bus arrived and clarify why he should have full 100% assurance of salvation simply because of what Jesus Christ has done for us all taking our place to receive the punishment of sin originally due to be exacted on us.

2) My second approach today was with an Indian woman Aashi who surprisingly appeared to be very receptive and listen with interest to the full gospel. Pray for God's further action to move and lead her to Christ.

3) Olivia an UQ post-graduate Master degree student from New Zealand. She did her undergraduate in USA , going back to NZ for a short while then has come to UQ for a Master degree of business management. Because of her extensive traveling experience living at different countries and cultures, she appears very open mind for new idea and challenges. Although she has no personal faith but she admits there is a supreme being which we call God. Yet she so far has not yet find the need to have life connection with any of such God. She was also receptive to the gospel message and found no way to dismiss it as illogical. I then shared my personal testimony which I thought is very alike with her that the rational mind and smooth life experience in the early part of my life had blinded my eyes for the need of salvation by Jesus. I just prayed and encouraged her to ponder with deep reflection to realize the need for every one including herself to accept Jesus better earlier than late as we have no control on the destiny of our life that can end at any unexpected moment. I anyway introduced her to join Power to Change if she really wants to pursue God in a serious manner.

4) James, a drunken man who claimed himself a Christian. He was ignored by Johnny as he smelled him drinking a lot. JMF was the next to approach James receiving a very enthusiastic response from him as a brother in Christ. JMF was about to find out that his faith and understanding of God's grace and salvation was incomplete, inclining to rely on good deeds. But she was interrupted by a by stander Chinese lady waring her out of good intention to avoid all those foreigner. I then took up to continue with the unfinished conversation to test the assurance of salvation of James. He struggled to give the correct answer but then the bus came. Pray that we will meet him some time in the future to follow up on him, if God willing.

5) Abigail is a local Aussie Christian but without assurance of Salvation. I had barely enough time to clarify the incomplete and incorrect understanding of salvation before the bus came.

Battle Log of Johnny :

Thank God leading and blessing us, Today at Toowong many people heard the gospel, there were two UQ students Weeley & Jacob, they wanted to trust Jesus Christ became their savior, please pray for them.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

New Zealand Mission - Week Three - Dunedin - Day Two

Dunedin is cold!  It was mostly sunny today, but there was a very cold wind.  I’ll be better prepared for the rest of the week.

We started the day's outreach in the Octagon - the center of Dunedin.  There weren’t as many people out as I was expecting (compared to Jan last year), so we would often have to venture out to find fish.  But still, many good conversations were had.

Damien is a Christian who joined us yesterday for lunch, and today he was able to make it for the first half hour or so of the outreach - he was keen to go through the flip chart.  As I was showing it to him, a fish swam past.  I cast my line by asking if he had a minute for a question - a deep one.  He was keen, and so I invited him to try the good person test - a great opportunity for Damien to see it in action!  And it sure was.  The young man was a student from Syria and a Muslim.  We went through the law and the gospel.  He understood it very quickly, but then started gently resisting it.  I had already worked through all the ways people think they can be forgiven, but won’t actually work: good outweighing bad, saying sorry, prayer.  So in his resistance, he tried to raise these reasons and quickly realised he was backed into a corner with the only escape being Jesus.  He softened and said he is currently researching these things.  So I pointed him to the Bible and to Cornerstone International Bible Church (which Damien is a part of) - he seemed very keen.  It was a great chat.

Later I had chats with: a couple of Seventh Day Adventist who had stopped attending fellowship, a couple of electricians on a break, and a young atheist who was starting work soon.

After lunch we moved back to the Uni - outside the Otago Museum.  I LOVE this spot.  Such a flow of people, many who are willing to stop for a chat.  And the chats are so good, people grasp the gospel so quickly and are honest in their response to it.  For example, I had a young lady keen to chat and quickly grasp the gospel.  At the end of the conversation, I checked in to make sure she was still understanding by asking what she would say if God asked her why He should let her into heaven.  She pondered and agreed that she couldn’t point to her goodness anymore, but then she said she knew she wasn’t trusting that Jesus died for her sins.  She was in a pondering phase!  This is great - yet I challenged her to get answers to her questions (she said she had none, but a million at the same time) & pointed her to the Bible and the Church while at the same time showing why there is an urgency to respond.

Another conversation started with me asking if a couple had ever thought about Eternity.  To my surprise the guy asked: “what do you think?”.  From there I explained the law and the gospel - he grasped it very quickly.  And then he started plying me with very good questions - what a joy!

I had an interesting experience approaching a medical student having some relax time - very early I gave him an ‘out’, by asking if he wanted to talk about the deep question I had raised.  He thought about it, and decided he didn’t - but he said something very interesting: “thanks for asking that - most people don’t and I really appreciate you doing it.”  He was happy to receive a tract.  Hopefully he reads it, and the next time a Christian raises a deep question hopefully he will be more willing to engage.

The outreach ended with a wonderful chat with Joe - a philosophy student.  He was very pleasant to talk to, but he started contradicting himself.  The first time he did it, a look of “I’ve been caught” flashed across his face.  But he doubled down and started digging a deeper hole for himself when he continued to contradict himself, time and again.  He even admitted he was being absurd because he loved his sin!  At one point I said, “I wish I was recording this” - it was amazing seeing the lengths he was going to to deny the obvious.  It was hard work, but I was able to get him out of the stratosphere and back to earth so he could hear the law and the gospel.

I know the rest of the team were having great chats too.  Andy had a very very long chat with a Muslim (pictured).

Please keep us in prayer!!!
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

New Zealand Mission - Week Three - Dunedin - Day One

After attending the Sunday morning church meeting with our own local fellowship, Andy and I did a roadie in the afternoon from Christchurch to Dunedin.  We made it in time to pick up some groceries and then head to our hosts place (for the first two nights): Jeff and Averil Coleman.  There was a small gathering of evangelists and friends for BBQ, some discussion / planning time and prayer.  It was wonderful to be reunited with many we met last year.

In the morning (after a stellar sun rise - glory to God!), we gathered outside Otago Museum and the University (Dunedin is known for its university and student life).  We spent the whole day there.  Conversation after conversation.  As soon as one gospel chat finished, you’d turn and soon be into another!  I love this place!

Multiple times I would get a conversation started with someone that had to go to a lecture, but later in the day, they would go past again and be keen to talk.

One of those talks was with a Christian guy who came back just before lunch and joined in on a flip chart conversation - a look of concern on his face.  He stayed around afterwards and we had a long chat.  His concern seemed to be around who we were and whether we were doing the right thing.  It turns out he has become confused by the culture around him, and what the truth really is.  We talked a lot about abortion, and homosexuality.  I was able to introduce him to Jeff - I really hope he gets in touch to follow up and clear his confusion.

The last two hours of the outreach saw rain, but we managed to keep going under the shelter of trees.

Please continue to pray for the mission, esp. for good sleeps, and energy to make it through each day.
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

New Zealand Mission - Week Two - Christchurch - Day Five

Well, we are two thirds of the way through the NZ Mission.  Again we focused on the city again today.

I had a great morning.  It started by talking to three sets of Christians in a row.  The second guy pointed at his good deeds as the reason he would be going to heaven.  I indicated that if that is true, I wouldn’t be going to heaven!  And we fell into a good chat from there.  I worked to explain my reasoning, taking him through the law and the gospel.  And yet, strangely, he kept insisting his good deeds would get him to heaven!  I laboured on the serious nature of sin, why it’s impossible to be good (perfect) and scriptures that teach justification by faith alone.  But nothing would convince him outwardly, but I think he was challenged, he took tracts and a church contact card.

We moved to the bus exchange, and I was able to hand out quite a few tracts before falling into a great conversation with an Indian guy who looked familiar, yet I couldn’t place him.  The concept of grace was very unfamiliar to him, and so I really had to labour to get him to understand the gospel.  Checking questions helped greatly.  Even after considering the cost, he seemed like there was nothing stopping him from trusting Christ’s sacrifice.  He downloaded a Bible and I set it to John and I invited him to a church meeting.  He has my mobile # and asked him to text me - nothing so far :(  I leave him in God’s hands.

We had lunch at the Square (pictured) where John joined us - he is new to us and joined for some training (pictured with Andy in gospel conversations).  We didn’t open air preach today, instead moving back to Cashel Mall for the afternoon of outreach.  Roger and Graeme joined us, and so did Keith for a while.  The afternoon was a bit slower and harder than the morning.  I had a period where I experience a fair amount of drive by hate from those walking past.  Yet there were many gospel opportunities!

So, that’s the Christchurch leg complete - next up Dunedin!  Please pray for:
Safe travels for those coming from Nelson and Christchurch to join with the church down south.
Unity among the team that will form for the week.
That many would hear the gospel!
That the church would be encouraged in evangelism.
That God would be glorified!

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

New Zealand Mission - Week Two - Christchurch - Day Four

Today we started with gospel + abortion outreach outside the hospital.  A team of eight.  It started out peacefully, but then four counter protesters arrived, and then more, and the more.  I lost count how many there were - 13?  They were pretty well behaved, and so things proceeded peacefully.  They would try to bait us into long distance exchange, but we wouldn’t - if they come up to talk reasonably, we are more than happy.

And we really want to talk!  So Andy did something brilliant, he moved across from the main line, just down from where the protesters were.  They couldn’t resist, and so a group of them moved down to talk to him.  Sonya then went and engaged the other group.  Two sets of conversations were away - praise God!

Later, one of our original counter protesters turned up - a bit of a ring leader.  They put on some music with filthy language and paraded and danced in front of us.  Then a song came on talking about hatred and how wrong it is, and then the song started talking about how they hated those that hated them!  How ironic!  And the amazing thing is - we don’t hate them, we don’t hate anyone, even our enemies.  Very sad indeed.

We wrapped up the outreach and gathered to pray, they played the music right behind me while this was happening.  We prayed for them!  We want the best for them.

The team split up, a few of us headed into the city.  Andy stayed behind because he fell into a wonderful gospel conversation with an Asian couple who came to grasp the gospel and want to start coming to church!

In the city, Marty open air preached the gospel using the NZ national anthem.  Later, a large group of school kids turned up just before Andy was due to preach - perfect timing.  Many of the students started listening, and even engaging with questions and responses.  Not surprisingly, the teachers gathered up the students and moved on, but not before Andy was able to touch on the gospel.  He continued to preach - one of our regular hecklers arrived to interact.

After lunch, a team of three continued with one to one gospel conversation on High Street and Cashel Mall.  Many wonderful conversations.

The highlight for me was the last conversation I had.  I was handing out Eternity tracts.  A guy refused the tract, but he heard me ask: “What do you think happens in Eternity?”  To my surprise, a minute later, the guy came back and engaged me in conversation.  Just then, a busker came down to join the conversation - and yet she ended up killing it.  The situation was out of my hands.  I just prayed I would be able to get back to the original conversation.  The guy wasn’t going anywhere, and the girl wasn’t going anywhere, so there was a bit of a stalemate.  Eventually the girl gave up and moved on, and then the guy said: “I’ve been going to a Bible study.”  Later he said that my question had caused him to come back.  We sat down and had a long chat.  Turns out he had nearly died a year ago, and since then he had turned back to Jesus.  He really wanted to talk, and so I let him, trying to respond appropriately.  My initial checking question revealed an understanding of the gospel.  The guy had to go, but he wanted my contact details before he left.  He said he would be in touch - I’m more hopeful than usual that he will!

Team - again, thanks for your prayers.  Prayer for energy and strength, and that God would be glorified in what we do.
 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Sunny Bank on Wednesday March 10, 2021 from 1300 to 1500

Johnny could not come to day, so I had to team up with Martin and Andrew to serve on the West Side for mutual support. Andrew could also come at normal time of 1300 hour as his BST Evangelism class had a week off for BST student to do study for exam. Martin impressed me by his Apostolic Passion to insist coming to serve despite he suffered a serious fall last night at home. He would rather rest for his own church meeting than skipping the street evangelism which he considered more worthwhile to do as a team work to serve the Lord. We were all too busy in our own gospel chat as such we could not spare time to take photo for all the gospel conversation opportunities we got.

Andrew came early at normal time also had a purpose of meeting up with one of his BST Evangelism class student to mentor her for doing the 20 hour of practicum. It was a pity the lady did not turn up because of ad hoc personal matter. During my 1.5 hour stay, I only got 6 major conversation much less than the 10 I got yesterday. But a few of them were of rare long chat as recap below: -

1) I had a long chat over half and hour with Madam Chang from Guangzhou , China. 張廣卅原北京She could not speak Cantonese as she was born in Beijing with native country at Liao Ning 遼寧，the North East County. She worked in Government school before migrating to first New Zealand then to Australia, as such she did not need to speak Cantonese. After chatting a while, she disclosed she is a Christian receiving Jesus in Guangzhou. She lived in Sydney for 10 years before coming up to Brisbane also for a long long time. She is affiliated with International Christian Church but has stopped attending a long time because of Covid-19. Through our conversation, she is typically a nominal Christian without much growth in grace and in truth as such she failed all the diagnosis questions. I sort of gave her a brief revision on the major doctrine of Christianity and the way to differentiate Heresy like JW and Mormon. Lastly ,just found out she was once the Choir member of Aroma. I encourage her to join the BCCMA choir when we resume our choir practice at the new SIC church compound.

2) Sunny a Korean girl and Christian by birth. She has no understanding of the gospel at all. I was glad I made her understand her salivation was simply on credit of Jesus' atoning death on the cross to die and go to hell taking our place to receive punishment of our sins.

3) A Smart but skeptical Chinese young lady asked me up front what is my purpose of sharing this gospel tract to her. She suspected if I do this to recruit church member. After clarifying my purpose is simply conveying her this important but grossly ignored gospel message, she turn comparatively receptive to listen. But it was abruptly cut short possibly by a friend crossing the bridge to meet with her.

4) Rebecca is a lovely Aussie young Christian lady, but again she has no idea about salvation at all. It was good I led her to understand why she should have 100 % assurance of salvation simply because of what Jesus did for us by dying on the cross to redeem us from the bondage of sin.

5) Tony Yeung a Cantonese speaking Hong Konger who left Hkg early in 1969 and lived in New Zealand for 40 years before migrating to Brisbane Australia. It was a pity I was a bit carried away to share with him our common Hong Kong Memory that I did not have time to share the gospel though he seemed to be a sort of Christian and willingly took my Chinese tract to read at home.

6) Micky is Japanese wife coming to Brisbane with her Husband on business/ work. Initially, she did not show any interest at all to accept my gospel tract. I nevertheless kept sharing with her my story and testimony mingling with gospel message. The Spirit moved me to ask for her nationality which is Japanese. It gave me the chance to show off my standard Japanese greetings to gain her identification as friend of Japan. I was then able to give her not just the English tract but the few Japanese tract I have in my pocket. She was delighted to accept it as she could show off to her husband that she met a Japanese street evangelist in Australia. I only learnt she is pregnant after Martin took our photo and passed it to me. Pray that this divine encounter will serve the purpose of God in Micky's life.

Quoted below is the Battle Log of Andrew and Martin of OAC Ministry that is the long time Gospel partner of Street Evangelism

As is often the case at a bus stop, very often Sunnybank results in lots of partial conversations. On Wednesday, this was certainly the case, though there was one young man who stopped and talked for a long time, even skipping a couple of busses to keep talking.

Chris has no religious background but suspects that there may be a God. I shared in a simple way how we know that God exists and then explained what the Bible says about our afterlife. He then asked a few really good questions about the Christian faith and was willing to take both a tract and a gospel of John to read.

Martin has now officially joined OAC as a regular volunteer and so now from time to time, you will see some stories from him as well!

Martin chatted to James who initially said that he didn’t believe in God. Martin used an analogy from design to show that just as a car driving past had to have a maker, in the same way the complexity of our DNA or the human eye show that we too have a maker. Martin then swung to the conscience and took James through “the good person test” by using the moral law to show that we have sinned. James agreed that he would be found guilty by a holy and just God. Martin asked what God had done 2000 years ago so that we would not have to go to hell, and James correctly responded that God sent Jesus. He then took the time to share what Jesus had done for us on the cross and how we can be saved from God’s judgement by believing in Jesus and what he did for us. He then gave James a gospel tract and a book of John to read and reminded him of how important it is to figure out our eternal destiny since we don’t know when we will die. With perfect timing, just as they finished, James’ bus came!

Please pray for those who heard the gospel and please welcome Martin to the team! Please pray for him as well as he regularly joins me on the street each week for 3-4 outreaches.

           

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