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Myanmar (Burma) Short Term Missions

On Tuesday the team split into smaller teams and spread out across Yangon to share the gospel, in conjunction with our local Christian translators. My team was at Sule Park. Unfortunately the park was closed as preparations were occurring for an event the following day. This didn’t hinder us, as there were many people on the streets for us to talk with.

I had lots of gospel conversations with people, with the help of my wonderful translator: Joshua. Some of them didn’t go well, some of them did. But something that I noticed was that other people would stop and listen to the words of life from a distance. At one point, as I was sharing with two young men on the sidewalk, a taxi pulled up beside us, and started listening. He interrupted to tell me, in broken English, that he was a Christian. I smiled and acknowledged him, but kept my attention on the two I was talking to. A few minutes later, he hopped out of his car, came up to me and gave me a cross - he said it was a gift for me. I was a bit confused, but I thanked him. He smiled, hopped back into his car and drove off.

The two guys I was talking to were actually part of the highlight conversation of the day. It was just after lunch, and the conversation went for nearly an hour. They said they were Christians, and so I asked them to tell me what I needed to do to go to heaven. They didn’t seem to know. So I asked if I could explain what I would tell someone if they wanted to know how to go to heaven. They were happy for me to do that, and so I took them through the mini flip chart and clearly explained the gospel to them. It seemed like it was the first time they had truly put the whole message together. They seemed very challenged and gladly received follow up tracts.

Today (Wednesday) the whole team was at Inya Lake sharing the gospel with many.

Again, the highlight conversation for me was just after lunch. A group of six people were happy to talk with me about the deep questions of life. They were very engaged, asking some difficult questions. But some of them seemed very challenged - understanding the logic of the free gift of forgiveness through faith in Jesus, and yet understanding the cost of accepting that gift, including letting go of Buddhism. After a long conversation, they all took copies of the gospel of John.

The local Christians we are working with are wonderful! It is an absolute privilege to be able to labour, in the gospel, alongside them.

Thank you for your prayers for this mission.

Oh, PS, this is encouraging. Andy’s translator from Tuesday had a very encouraging testimony. The last time the team was in Myanmar was last September. One of the conversations from that trip resulted in a Muslim girl being receptive and appreciative of hearing the gospel. She came to church and was impacted by the love and witness of those that believe in the gospel. She worked through the cost and put her faith in Jesus shortly after - even in light of her family not being supportive. About a month ago she was baptised, and is giving true evidence of the grace of God in her life, in spite of her struggles. How encouraging is that! All glory to God!

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log for Toowong Village on Thursday February 11th, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

Amidst the severe threat of the Novel Coronavirus in Australia, God grace was sufficient still for the three of us , Col, Yuen Hang and Hung to report duty at Toowong. Many students have returned though a large number of them from China have also been blocked from re-entering Australia if their travel began at any city of China except Hong Kong. The spread of the virus has been well contained and remains at the level of 15 for a few days. So the real threat of getting infected is greatly minimized. But the real obstacle has never been the virus but the sin of rejecting the work of God and the Spirit that have led many of them simply rejecting to take the tract, throwing it away once found it is about Christianity and avoiding our approach for a chat. This phenomenon is particularly obvious on the young generation who are well brought up from family of affluence in the urban area. It applies both to local Aussie , Western and people from Mainland China. But I observed that people from the country rural area and those of other religions background are more susceptible to listen and receive the gospel well. Anyway , in His time and in His way, God used us again to reap several fruit of the gospel after many unsuccessful trial. It was again yet another great lesson for us to realize who is the ONE working behind and we are just a bunch of undeserved vessel being used by God to do His work.

As for me, with a number of contacts in collaboration with Col and Yuen Hang, God gave me 8 divine appointments as recap below.

1) A couples from Taiwan who claimed to be Buddhists appeared very well informed of doctrinal truth of both Buddhism and Christianity. So they very likely are the people of a Cult that has embraced and integrated all five major religions. They knew Buddhism has no God and is just away to transcend one self to reach the Nirvana status aka becoming a Buddha. They knew about Jesus as His work to come to die for us, but still have fallen short of understanding that through His sacrificial death our sins can be pardon and be reconciled with God as His children and people.I walked with them to another bus station and just finished in time to share the gospel. Pray that it would be used by God to further His salvation plan on them.

台灣夫婦佛教但明理，只是不知人單靠行善，可達湼槃，此對基督有一定認知，但一步之差不明因信称義

2) An Aussie girl looks like this one in the picture on the bus let me walk with her to share the gospel , yet the bus came a bit too quick yet anyway the nutshell of the gospel was shared.

3) A local Aussie man on the bike but appeared to be an Atheist. He does not believe that human need to reach perfection and does not admit human have sins. He anyway rode way with an arrogant attitude though still accepting all my tracts. Pray that they will be used by God to break down his heart of iron..

4) Breea , a country girl from Ipswich of Catholic background, who was humble and nice enough to let me walk her way back home. She has limited knowledge of God and the Bible though she still consider herself a God follower. She certainly has no full idea about salvation as such also did not have full assurance of salvation. But she finally came to her understanding that through Jesus redemptive work dying on the cross, whoever accept Him as Savior and hence the lord of their lives will be saved in a sense of reconciling with God and regaining the lost heavenly citizenship with 100% certainty as it was completely the work of God , none of our good deeds count,

5) An UQ student from Bangladesh got pass Yuen Hang unaware of her tract, but the Holy Spirit told her this Muslim background looking person was approachable. She suggested me to approach him and really he was a man of open heart appeared very willing to listen to the gospel and in agreement of it. It was a pity that the bus came to cut our interactive conversation short. Pray for God's eventual work on this man.

6) A deep soul searching talk by Col with Mitchell who is of Catholic background family but not yet a Christian. He is a from Northern Queensland to come to study at UQ. His country boy background made him very friendly and approachable. Col was just used by God to be the light of his feet bringing him one step closer to profess the true faith in Christ. I anyway joined in at the end, encouraging him to get connected with Power to Change once he decided to receive Christ and to start his journey of sanctification.

7) Morten a local Aussie Christian yet unsure about his salvation because again of his Catholic background accepted my clarification of salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone as such he has now professed the pure faith with hundred percent assurance of his salvation regaining his heavenly citizenship right away simply because of his trust in Christ taking his place for punishment of sin. It was all done just in time before the bus arrived.

8) An UQ student from Yunnan雲南, China called Xi 席appeared very receptive and humble to let me walk and talk with him about the Gospel. He was interested to pursue God as such I refer him to contact Power to Change once he decided to receive Christ as his Savior.

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On Saturday, by God’s grace it was beautiful weather, we were quite excited , as we had 2 flip charts this week which means we can reach more non- believers effectively.  

I met a person called ‘Chatts’, he was respectful and engaged well with ‘good person test’ Flip charts really well. As I was going through the law of God he started to smile as he realise that he was not a good person and when gospel was shared and displayed through the pictures, he grasped the gospel clearly and when I urge him to believe in this message, to my surprise Chatts say 'yeah.. I believe’ and I asked him again and he said again ‘Yeah, I believe’. It seemed genuine how Chatts told me he would believe that Jesus died and rose again for his sins. I strongly encourage him to go to bible believing church and grow in Christ. Please join us in prayer as you read this.. I pray that Chatts confession was genuine and he will go to biblical church and grow in Christ. 

From Huy Do:-

The Lord has greatly blessed this night’s evangelism, this highlight came at the end. I went over the flipchart with a crowd and afterwards, a fellow in the crowd, a young man called Will, was very intellectual in challenging the biblical worldview, to which I responded. This gathered a larger group into the mix, this provided ample opportunity, as I was preaching and responding to his objections, to also lead his objections and my response to the Gospel. The crowd was very hostile during the entire alteration, at the end, I finished with the Gospel that all have sinned but Christ died and paid for the fines of sinners on the cross. At the end, after some short conversations, we had to leave and as Will and his friends were walking away, I called out his name and asked him if he understood what I said, the message that was proclaimed, he was very much hostile to it and answered with “I don’t believe it”, which provoked me to ask again “that was not the question, did you understand it?”, to which he replied “yes”. This was greatly edifying in that though he was extremely aggressive to the message, confirming 1 Cor 1:18, he understood the cross. Please pray for Will and his friends that God may change their hearts and save them.

From Daniel :- 

I had a chat with these two couples about whether they were interested in taking the good person test on the chart, they seemed hesitant. I asked them if they were interested in taking a Gospel tract and they took it. So I asked them if they thought they were good enough to heaven, they both replied yes. I went through the Law with them asking them if they have stolen, lied and lusted before, they both replied yes to all three. I told them that means they are guilty before God and they fail to meet the required standard for heaven which is perfection, all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory (Rom 3:23).  I told them that's the bad news, the good news is the Gospel that Christ died on the cross for them, God crushed His Son in their place (Isaiah 53) and Christ took their place because He loves them. Both God's love and wrath was seen at the cross. So I told them their sin was put on to Christ and if they truly believe Christ's perfect cloak will be given to them by faith so that they go to heaven by what Christ has done not them. I  commanded them to repent of sin and put their trust in Christ alone, they left after that, please pray for the couple for God to save them.

From Troy :- 

I spoke to a Zwinglian Calvinist for awhile, and at one point had to ask why he considers himself a Christian; he gave a good answer and is a mature Christian. I spoke to a Roman Catholic lady and had to compel her to focus her attention for salvation on the work of Jesus alone and not pay heed to Mary. I spoke with a new student from Saudi Arabia, who was listening to Hui's presentation. He is here to study English and logistics. He appeared to a be secular Muslim. I tried to explain as best I could the cross of Christ, and left him with a pamphlet. He is open, but probably needs to hear the Gospel again and in more detail. I supported Hui by speaking with some of the listeners to the flipchart presentation. Pray for those that heard the Gospel, in different ways, that the Lord will grant them repentance and saving faith.

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I ran out of time in my last report to write about Friday’s outreach, so this report will cover that, plus Saturday and Sunday.

Friday started with the gospel + abortion outreach, which was relatively quiet.

Things became eventful with the open air preaching in Cathedral Square at lunch time.  I went first.  I looked at the spot where Kelven (the Busker who died recently) and I couldn’t help feeling grieved and ended up mentioning him.  This caused one of the stall holders to come over to talk to me about him.  Was Kelven in hell?  I answered his question (and I was able to follow up with him afterwards).

Steve the Atheist turned up near the end and started to goad me.  He told me to hurry up and finish, so I decided to continue longer.  When I finally finished.  There were a few people standing around.  Two German tourists came over and wanted to understand what was going on, and why that man was being so mean.  Roger was able to share the gospel with them!  Steve aids the gospel.  He is a blessing from God!

One of the wizards ended up getting into a semi public debate with Andy over how we know things to be true.  The conversation simmered into a long private chat between them (pictured).

Marty preached as well.

The team then moved to Cashel Mall.  Roger was popular.  Note the picture where Roger is talking with one guy, and another guy stops to look at the flip chart - Roger was able to share the gospel with him.

Andy and I came back into the city in the evening for another outreach.  Right from the start, I walked into a guy who recognised me, and knew my name.  Apparently I had talked to him a few months earlier.  He had obviously been positively impacted, and said he was keen to come along to church.

Later, Andy and I were walking down Oxford Terrace.  There were three guys sitting down who we could potentially approach.  The usual doubt came over us - they will probably reject us.  But we discussed it - that is the worst that can happen, so we decided to approach them!  To my pleasant surprise, they were open to a gospel conversation.  They were tourists from the UK.  They came to an understanding of the gospel, and were challenged to respond.

Soon after, we were in the bus exchange, and I tried approaching two guys - they weren’t interested - we were rejected.  Oh well, we politely moved on.  But Andy was able to start a conversation with someone else nearby.

I was back in the city on Saturday.  The weather wasn’t the best, and it was quite a slow outreach.  But I had a great follow up with a young man who we have been talking to, on and off, for quite a long time now.  He seems to be opening up, I’m adding him to my prayer list.

I also had a fantastic gospel conversation with a young man from Holland.

But the highlight was the outreach on Sunday.  Nice weather, and lots of people in Cashel Mall.  A team of seven.  I set up my flip chart, and was just taking a drink of water when four girls walked past and wanted to try the good person test! (pictured)  It was a non stop outreach from there.

Two of the girls got cold feet once they understood where it was going, but the other two were really interested.  The first two were constantly disrupting the conversation, so I was glad when they left so I could share the gospel with the other two.

Right at the end of the conversation, Steve the Atheist turned up to disrupt things.  I’m glad they had already heard the gospel - they moved on and left me with Steve.  But again, Steve only aided the gospel.  A guy on a bike stopped to find out what the fuss was about.  I turned to him and asked if he would like to learn about Christianity.  Much to Steve’s disgust, he was keen, and so we launched into a conversation, ignoring Steve.  Steve decided to leave me alone and annoy other team members.

After I was finished with that conversation, I was straight into a follow up conversation with a passionate young vegan.  Steve came back to butt into that conversation too, but when he realised it wasn’t stopping the conversation, he got bored and moved on.  The vegan guy is a walking contradiction, and completely closed to reason.  As he is so passionate about life, I challenged him on abortion - which he supports.  I caught him in his inconsistency - and he knew it.

The outreach finished with a long conversation with a guy who had been listening to one of the gospel conversations Thomas was having.  I gave him a tract, and said he would be welcome to come and chat with me on the other side of the mall.  About ten minutes later, he came over (pictured).  He seemed challenged, and appreciative of the chat.

After the outreach, the team enjoyed ice cream before heading home.  I praise God for all the wonderful gospel opportunities!  Be encouraged to step out and join us in the harvest! :)
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

There was much outreach on Thursday and Friday in Christchurch, NZ.  Some wonderful gospel conversations, some very hard gospel conversations.

The highlight was a ten minute gospel conversation I had with a man at the Northlands bus stops.  He believed in God, heaven and hell.  He also thought he was good enough to go to heaven, but he was keen to try the good person test to confirm this.  So we went through the mini flip chart together.  Going through the law, and understanding the holiness of God was an eye opener for him, and then he heard the wonderful good news of justification by faith in Jesus sacrifice.

I then took him through the first checking question, and his instant response was: “I need to do good deeds”.  I was amazed, but not surprised at all.  So I wound back and took him through the gospel again.  He was really enjoying the conversation, and he got the checking question right the second time: “trust that Jesus paid my fine”.

I then proceeded to the second question: an analogy about a guy who trusts that Jesus paid his fine, but then sins five minutes later then dies.  Heaven or Hell?  He responded with Hell.  To my amazement, he articulated that the reason we go to heaven is by trusting that Jesus paid the fine… but he said, but you have to be a good person too.  He had gone from believing his good deeds would save him, to simply adding Jesus to his good works!  So I was able to explain that it was only by faith we are saved, and not by our works.

And then his thinking went to exactly what the mini flip chart was anticipating.  He said, “but that means we can trust Jesus paid our fine, and then do whatever we want, right?”.  He was finally understanding the grace of God!  It was my joy to turn the page and use the fireman analogy to explain that if we are trusting that Jesus has paid our fine, we will be a changed person.  If we understand His great sacrifice, we won’t want to sin any more (even though we will), out of thankfulness we will want to obey Jesus, and there will be a growing holiness in our lives.  He understood!

It was about now that his bus arrived and he had to go, he seemed to really appreciate the conversation, and took a tract before he dashed off.

Yes, the gospel message is a simple message, but I’m really appreciating that the concept of faith alone is very foreign and needs to be explained well.  It’s so natural to think we need to be good people to earn favour and reward.  But we are saved by grace, through faith in Jesus to the glory of God alone!

If you haven’t already got one, get a mini flip chart and try it out.  You can purchase here: NZ, AU

So many other gospel interactions occurred, but I don’t have the time to write about them: I had a follow up with a young man who said he went to church on Sunday.  He listened as I shared the gospel with two others beside him, and afterwards he agreed that it is truly good news.  I saw my regular JWs again.  They were happy to talk, but only if it was about the weather.  Our debates have been a bit “stressful”.  I continue to pray for them.

It didn’t all go well though.  I was sitting down taking notes of a conversation when a lady sat down next to me, once I had finished with my notes, I turned to her and offered her a tract.  She semi exploded: “no, I'm not interested, take it away!”.  I said: “no problem, you have a nice day”.  She wasn’t expecting me to react that way, and she calmed down: “you have a nice day too”.

Once I was at Eastgate, one of the hardest conversations I’ve ever had occurred.  A offered a tract to a guy.  When he saw it he gave a disgusted look and walked off.  But then he turned around and wanted to talk about it.  So we settled into a long conversation, where he challenged me, and, by God’s grace, I was able to give him reasonable answers.  He slowly started getting agitated, but I kept responding to his arguments.  And I think this was a mistake.  I should have backed off, as he wasn’t open to any truth or reason.  He just became angry.  Eventually he started getting out of control, so I said, “look, you need to calm down, I’m not going to answer if you get upset”.  Eventually I stopped responding to him, but this just enraged him more and he started getting abusive and racist.  I tried looking him in the eyes, I tried looking at his feet.  But it was out of hand and nothing was working.  So I said, “look, I need to go”, and I started walking off, but this just enraged him more.  He started standing in front of me so I couldn’t walk away.  I was left with no choice, so I pulled out my phone and called the Police.  When he saw that I was actually dialing the emergency number (I didn’t know what the non emergency number was), he left (thankfully).  I talked to the police, and I apologised for disturbing them, but they were very understanding, and wanted to take details in case he came back and I needed to call again.  I thank God for my protection.  And I was very grateful for the understanding of the police.

I was rattled.  But I wasn’t going to let this stop me.  I stayed and had two more gospel conversations before leaving.

So that was just the highlights of Thursday, and I haven’t had a chance to write about Friday yet - I’ll leave that to the next report.  Thank you for your prayers!  We don’t need to fear man, or the devil - the worst they can do is take our life.  Fear God!
 

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Christchurch (NZ) Team

I had more opportunities to interact with people while letterbox dropping on Tuesday.  I took a few minutes to help a guy get some stuff off a trailer - he took a tract.  And then I was able to help somebody in a mobility scooter with directions (Google Maps to the rescue!) - they also took a tract.

After that, I moved to Riccarton.  It was windy, so I decided to leave the big flip chart behind.  Roger joined me, but decided to bring his flip chart.  Before he had even had a chance to finish setting it up, he was into a gospel conversation!

Once that conversation was complete, I helped Roger finish setting up his flip chart, while he was busy gathering more people to talk to.  He had much success, and we started engaging two high school students.  They needed to get going, but one of them claimed to be a Christian - so I challenged him on the way to heaven.  I was pleasantly surprised to hear him say that many people think it’s their good works, but it’s actually trusting in Jesus sacrifice!

But while this was happening, a couple (he had a catholic background and she had a protestant one) stopped intrigued by the big flip chart, and so a conversation developed with them.  Roger was keen to see the new mini flip chart in action, and so I shared the gospel with them using that.  During the conversation, she had many good questions, which Roger and I did our best to answer.  In hindsight, I feel like I didn’t do a good job giving her answers.  Often people are trying to ask questions in a veiled way - they want answers without giving details.  This was a good reminder to slow down and take the time to listen and clarify (via counter questions).

Roger had to leave early, so to finish the outreach, I decided to head down to the bus stops to engage people there.  I got into a conversation with a high school student with a fascinating background.  He was from Pakistan and apparently had a mum who was a catholic, but a dad who was muslim.  I wasn’t surprised to hear that he thought his good deeds would get him to heaven!  He was engaged as I took him through the law, and then showed him the only hope we have for heaven: the gospel

Wednesday’s outreach to the city had an interesting start.  A young man was boldly walking up to people and trying to give them a large pamphlet!  I called out saying I’d like one and I was surprised to see that it was a watchtower magazine.  The JWs are not usually as bold as this on the streets.  It turns out it was a young man with much zeal but little knowledge - and he wasn’t a JW.  He knew plenty of Christian lingo, and gave me a long list of things someone needed to do to go to heaven.  I was able to pull out my mini flip chart and explain the gospel - he seemed to appreciate it.  He asked if I had any pamphlets - I gave him a tract before we parted ways.

After I set up the flip chart, I got into a conversation with a lady I first met last week.  She was keen to try the flip chart - but we didn’t get past the first page.  I wasn’t able to reason with her on a basis for good and bad.  She was getting slightly upset, and so I decided to just shake hands with her and let her go.  She had received a tract the previous day.

But I had a number of other gospel conversations, and was pleasantly surprised to be engaged long enough to let me go 45 minutes longer on the street than I was planning.

I had a long conversation with two teen guys, who started asking me the veiled questions.  So, learning from yesterday, I slowed down to really listen and do my best to make sure they were getting the best answers I could give.  They clearly understood the gospel, but they understood the cost and were counting it as they left.

I finished up with a fresh chat with a young man we have had many discussions with in the past.  I was surprised to learn that he had been involved with a church.  We connected on Facebook.

I’m grateful to God for the opportunity to share His gospel over these two days.  Thank you for your support that is enabling me to do this!  Thinking of joining me?  Just do it!
 

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Toowong (QLD) Team

Battle Log for Toowong Village for Tuesday February 4th , 2020 from 1330 to 1500

This was a day of contrasts :
1) From extreme scorching hot to 36C yesterday dropping down to 24C today with good breeze in the noon time which made our street evangelism much pleasant;

2) Team size further dropped from 5 to 3 today because of members are bounded for 2 weeks self isolation at home, but the works of God could still be visualized despite of short of hand. So with Col, Hung and Yuen Hang, we all have less but still very significant divine appointment. This is a typical way of God, using small team to do His great work like Gideon.

3) From strong rejections by many earlier approaches to a full receptive and fruit bearing contact at the end signifying the sovereign almighty work of God despite of external situations.

Recap below is my divine appointment accounts : -

1) Spanish Mun and daughter who appeared not English speaking but still took a tract from me as well as answering short chat with Col later.

2) I went to the bus stop and sat down with a young lady. She quickly fence off my approach asking if I was going to share about God which she rejects utterly after bad experience of being Christian once. I managed to get the conversation on by putting aside the issue if God exists as it is something beyond rational proof. I kept stressing the problem of us the human being who keep sinning that will lead to grave consequence of eternal death punishment. Anyhow, this strong atheist still rejected to chat on any issue she considered religious. She even resort to keep me at a distance by removing herself to wait for the bus at the bus stop sign instead of the covered seat waiting area. This was possibly the strongest gesture of rejection I have ever encountered which was very discouraging. Anyhow, I learned later God just wanted me to see a great contrast of positive and fruitful approach at the end of our Street evangelism hours.

3) A Philippine lady took my tract and was prepared to chat but chance aborted by the immediate arrival of her bus.

4) After wondering around for a while to look for gospel target, God let me to bump in with the Malaysian Old man Mr Han I met two weeks ago on 14/1 at the very last moment of our ministry hour. He was visiting relative with his wife, yet he still has not yet gone to the church I recommended. Obviously he has been living his life as a nominal Christian not attending church regularly even at home in Malaysia. My friendly reminder anyway may serve as a catalyst to push him closer back to church during his stay in Brisbane.

5) Jerry Hsu徐from Wuxi 無鍚Jiang Su is an IT Student of UQ. He was approached by Col first but was quickly referred to me to communicate better in Mandarin. His heart was so soften that he willingly chatted with me over 40 minutes neglecting the coming and going of bus. He was ready to receive Christ and I referred him to connect with P2C then the churches. Col and I reckoned, this was an extraordinary exhibition of God's power in an adverse situation giving us this rare good quality outreach we ever have in this Toowong Outreach harvest field that have been characterized by short gospel chatting opportunities being cut in short fragmented time slot because of the frequent bus traffic. All glory be to God in all Street Evangelism ministry encounter.

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On Saturday, It was cold and raining but by God's grace God has sent around 10 labourers !. As it was raining we could not use the big flip charts but we had 3 small flip charts.  Surprisingly, despite of the weather God has been so gracious to allow us to have wonderful conversations with non-believers about the glorious gospel. After prayer and sharing of word, we paired up and went out to the street with exciting heart. 

Our first conversation was with two guys who were part of 'anonymous for the voiceless' who promotes veganism and advocates for protection of animals etc. As we started conversation with them, one of the guy had fair bit knowledge about the bible but they were against God who allows human to kill and eat the animals as it is cruel thing to do and they were taking us far from the sharing main point of the gospel so we shared that as they want to let people know that animals are being abused, mass produced and killed so that animals won't have to die like that we told them we care about 'HUMAN BEINGS' who are dying and going to hell and we do not want them to die like that and animals do not have eternity but man do and urge them to repent and believe that Jesus died and rose again in our place, Jesus Christ our ultimate advocator. 

I also met Japanese lady who wanted to become dolphin in her after life, Michael was her name. She was very honest and engaged well in conversation and she found 'where do you think you are going after you die' question interesting. But when the law of God was displayed and asked, we could clearly see that she was getting really uncomfortable and when we reached the last question about committing adultery in her heart she got up and left, Michael took the gospel tract so please pray that she will read the tract and be saved. 

Costa was gentleman who claimed to be greek orthodox but when we ask about the gospel he responded saying "I believe in Karma". So we had to share why Karma isn't biblical and contradicts the gospel and shared the gospel with him by using the flip chart. Please pray for Costa who heard the Gospel. 

From Huy Do:-

I had prayed that God would not make it rain on this day, so that we could street preach, but it was not so, yet during all of this, although the Lord had not stopped the weather from raining, He had carried out other means by which His name could also be glorified in the proclamation of His glorious Gospel. This happened as I was sharing the Gospel to a lady and her boyfriend, I went over the law, during which, I perceived that her heart was cut but the commandments of God. That she was, as I saw, convicted of the commandments and saw the righteous condemnation of God for her. I asked her and her boyfriend “what did God do so as to not compromise His justice and punish sins but at the same time forgive sins?”. To which she answered with a mild “Jesus died for my sins”, I stated that she was right but what she might not know is that Jesus paid for her sins on the cross by Himself becoming sins and suffering the righteous punishment that she rightly deserved, that if they repented and believed in the Gospel, they shall be saved. I praise God that He used this broken, afflicted yet redeemed vessel to proclaim that which redeemed this vessel, the blood of Jesus, for His glory. Please pray for the couple that was spoken to.

Soli Deo Gloria !!! 

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West Country (UK) Team

 

On Saturday 1st February 4 of us from Church met for men's breakfast in Torpoint before heading out into the small town. It has a population of around 8000 people and is always very difficult to engage people with conversation. We prayed and had a few conversations with people and handed out some tracts but often hard to get people to stop for any length of time.

However in Plymouth the weather was good and I managed to cart the trolley to the spot and was arranging to meet 4 other people. A lady from another church I knw had sent me an encouraging email after hearing of the work we were doing and arranged to meet us. A man called Dan almost immediately approached us as I was setting up enquiring about the intelligence test questions. He had come out of prison not too long ago and had a bottle of beer in his hand and was with his girlfriend but stopped to talk for around 20 minutes, going through the intelligence test questions with him and the the good person test. 

He seemed to engage and understood and was very appreciative of the conversation and gladly took some tracts and said he would think about what we had discussed, as well as his girlfriend and her friend that had come along during the chat.

Simon, Della, Laurie and Ed joined us later on, and we handed out lots of tracts, and had another conversation with two people fom Cornwall called Callum and Tina. He said he was a spiritualist and could hear from dead people, so we went through the good person test and explained what he was actually doing was contacting familiar spirits who were demons impersonating people, and that although he thought he was doing a good thing it was very dangerous. His friend Tina said she was a Christian and again they took lots of tracts to read and a Kent Hovind DVD about Dinosaurs and the age of the earth he was interested in.

Laurie had a great conversation with a very quiet spoken and humble man called Ali about the gospel and he took some literature to read. There were also lots of students from different schools in town by Macdonald's which led to some good chats. 

Later on I managed to reach about the death of Kobe Bryant and the impact he had in society but no amount of fame, fortune or family could prevent his death or be taken with him into eternity, and thee need for people to think about their own mortality and the conscience they all had telling them that God was real and trying to hide away from acknowledging His existence because of a love of sin. A few people stopped to hear the message which was for around 20 minutes and tracts handed out afterwards

At the end a 17 year old girl and her two young sisters came to ask some questions. She had been taught about the big bang and evolution in school and so Simon used the presuppositional arguments to show her she already knew that God existed and she listened and took some tracts to read. It was a great day as we had not been out as a team for quite a few weeks due to bad weather and various work commitments so Laurie prayed afterwards that the gospel seed would not be taken away and would penetrate peoples hearts and they would think about what they had heard and read that day.

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Various providences resulted in Fynn being the team at Wellington Point and later at Capalaba bus stop. The Lord gave him time with a former seminary student who had the old liberal habit of believing some parts of the Bible. He was not open but was presented with the gospel before leaving him in the Spirit's custody.

       There were also some encouraging chats at the bus stop. The response of one person leads us to pray that the Spirit  would bring him into the King's everlasting kingdom. 

     When Gabriel told Joseph, "You shall call His name Jesus for He will save His people from their sins," He gave us a certainty to evangelizing. To Him be the glory and praise. If He chooses to save someone by 1000 evangelists or 1, He will do it.

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