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Sunnybank Team (QLD)

Meets 1-3pm Wednesday afternoons at the Sunnybank bus stop on Mains Road.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday January 8, 2025 from 1230-1400

Today, I also started the street outreach at Sunnybank for the first time in 2025 by myself. It requires oil in my lamp by the Holy Spirit to push for the extra step in approaching the elected targets in defying timidity and helplessness in flesh.

I waited for the bus arriving in 3 minutes to come and go, thence the bus stop was left with no person except a young man sitting on the bench away from the covered area of the bus stop. So, that was the first one I was led to approach. He is Ethan , a new convert for one year and is attending SIC. I skip the gospel message first but proceed to check for his assurance of salvation which is only at 60 % level. Since he was only waiting to meet a friend here so, I had more time to clarified his incomplete understanding about salvation by grace thru faith that no one can earn by our limited good deeds but has to 100% rely on the work of Jesus dying for us and taking our place to receive the eternal death punishment of our sins. I took the chance to chip in more basic doctrinal teachings that had caught his attention and interest even after his friend had arrived. He thanked for my sharing from the bottom of his heart and joyfully took selfie with me.

Next was a non-believer from Shangdong山東, China who studied Business Management at CQU. He was on his shopping errand today but appeared comparatively open despite knowing it is about Christianity. I was able to share him the full gospel mingled with my personal testimony of God's healing my Bladder cancer. The bus came just on time when I finished the full gospel so he rush ed off for the bus though still taken a tract from me.

Then, the bus stop was left with one lady again. When I approached her, she immediately claimed I chatted with her before and she was busy in doing a lot of texting on the phone with her friends. I waited patiently but moved on after a long while that there was no sign her texting communication will cease any time soon. But I still thank for the unsuccessful encounter that at least reminded here about the need for repentant and to accept Jesus as Savior and Lord of our life.

After another few unsuccessful approach, I was led to lock on with Ervine, a Filipino Catholic Christian who only has 50% of assurance. Again, I was given enough time to clarify the misconception with him and he felt pumped to have new motivation to follow Jesus and be transformed day by day towards perfection through the work of the Holy Spirit.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 11th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Despite of continuous adverse weather situation, the regular four Street Outreach gospel warrior Johnny, Ann, Edwin and Hung still turned up to exercise our due diligent to preach the gospel irrespective of external environment. But the weather did turn very rough with storm and hail looming, Johnny made the call to finish half and our earlier to let every one drive home safely. Thus with a short period, I only recorded five gospel conversations but all are long and meaningful communication as recap below:-

1) First I was led to approach a Local Aussie girl who moved her stuff to spare space welcoming me to have a chat. I started with the Merry Christmas gag that successfully drawn her attention to Jesus as the reason for the season, And that His birth brought along "Merry" an ancient English word to symbolize a kind of power that are capable to transform our life setting free from the bondage of sin. She is not religious, but it was a more lively way to challenge her to face the real meaning of Christmas.

2) Then I was attracted to a mother with her grown up daughter that first was approached by Edwin. He was misled by them that they are readily church going Christian thus no need for the gospel. I was moved anyway to take up from there to test their assurance of salvation. But I was surprised to find out that they are non-believers and at best be called seekers. So I anyway share the mum full gospel with the daughter not paying full attention by her side.

3) Next I was led to approach an Indian middle age man who migrated to Australia at early childhood age. He was friendly and found the real meaning of "merry Christmas" interesting. He is non Christian, but are familiar with some of the Christmas related facts. So he appeared completely open and receptive to the gospel building on the new understanding of Merry being power brought by Jesus' birth.

4) Then I had a long chat with a Catholic background Filipino. He typically have no assurance of salvation but as low as only a mere 20% level. But after clarification, he happily acknowledge he should have 100% assurance that because of Jesus' sacrificial death he readily has received the free gift of eternally life from Jesus and on this basis, God is determined to further transform his life back to 100% purity. He joyously took a selfie with me.

5) Then we encountered a PNG family of 3 with Mum and 1 grown up son and a younger sister. Johnny approached the adult son first and passed him all the gospel tract. I was moved to take on to check his assurance of salvation which is correctly 100% but he failed to account for the reason why. Anyway, God moved me to share a long time with him enriching and deepening his understand of the Bible about Jesus, His earthly ministry and His mission to kick off the long planned Dual Kingdom & Salvation Project as per Gen3:15b. He also merrily took a selfie with me.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 11th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Johnny could not come to day but God reinforced the Street outreach squad. first with Edwin who is generally free now after the Bible college academic year is over, then join by Ann, who could come normally after the zoom prayer meeting is shifted to 3pm. Finally, Sunny Deng and her husband Ben visiting Brisbane for the first time joined us towards the end and concluding our ministry in prayer for each others. As usual, Edwin is a quick action person, getting connected with almost every one gathering at or near the bus stop without fail. In contrast, Ann sticked to have a long conversation with a Chinese lady possibly on many deep topic about faith. I had many contact to day though most are scattered and short one with three stand out divine encounter as recap below.

1) Eddie a Filipino of Catholic background, firmly answered my first question about his assurance of salvation as 100%, which is good and correct depending on his answer to my 2nd question why? Then he started to give general and empty answer like he has spent much time to learn about the Bible, then I asked what did he learn to give him 100% certainty, and he answered the learning about God. When I asked further what specific thing did he learnt about God that has given him 100% assurance of salvation then he got stuck there not knowing what to answer. I ended up sharing the gospel with him pointing out that it was only because of Jesus redemptive atoning death on our behalf and taking our place to receive the punishment of sin that we are pardoned and our record of sin is set to zero the moment we accept Jesus as Savior and our Lord of Life. Eddie was humble and sincerely thankful for the clarification. Seemingly Catholic teaching on the doctrine that we are saved by grace through faith alone in Jesus is in general not strong and clear enough, diverting their attention to non-essential things.

2) Next significant chat was with a Pakistan woman who sat down next to me and was busy in searching info on the iPhone which route is good for her to go to "Westfield" I pointed out to her "Westfield" is just the name of a commercial group having bought up all major big malls in Australia, as such searching by "Westfield" will lead to nothing. Rather Garden city is the key for her to locate the correct bus route. Actually she has migrated to Australia for already four years but still not very familiar with places and facilities around. After that, she was happy to keep our conversation on. Despite she seemingly is of Muslim background, but she appeared quite open for listening to the gospel and felt no resentment when the name of Jesus was mentioned. At the end, she happily took a tract to read and hopefully ,God will have further soil softening work with her.

3) Another case was an Australian born Chinese with parents from Hong Kong and Malaysia. He claimed he had got our tract before and I followed up on his degree of understanding which had been a bit of challenging task as his thought as well as physical motion was hopping around and unsettled. His behavior showing a bit of Impatience but still responding intermittently to my questions for checking his understanding of the gospel. Finally he acknowledged that every one though good but not perfect all needs help from a perfect person and God as our Savior and Jesus is the one and only one. I could only entrusted hi to God to guide his way toward ultimate deliverance

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Dec 4th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Praised be to God there were four Gospel warriors turning up for the Sunnybank Outreach today on Dec 4th including Johnny, Edwin, Ann and Hung. We were led by the Spirit to approach those elected by God to have a chat with various results but above all we were humble to be an unmerited vessel of God to spread the good news to people of different cultures and different faiths.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 27th, 2024 from 1330-1430

It was great that we had Edwin and Johnny both rejoining the Sunnybank squad making a strong team that almost no one at the bus stop was left untouched by either one of us. Despite the bus schedule is as frequent as usual, all of us still got many long chats that can finish sharing of full gospel to people who have never heard of the gospel before. Recap below were the major divine encounter of Hung: -

1）Victor a young man of cross bleed between Vietnam and Greek. He is non religious but have the sense of god. So He appeared open and all receptive to the gospel message. He showed appreciation by taking a selfie with me for mutual recognition for future possible reunion.

2）Anatashia an Uganda Christian girl who was tested with 100% assurance of salvation. She also appreciated my deeper teaching on the holistic salvation plan of God as such she also was pleased to take a selfie with me.

3）Mia a girl on working holiday visa from Kyoto of Japan. She has not heard gospel before and God allowed long enough time for sharing with her the full gospel.

4）Yip a middle aged Hongkonger who was open for chatting. Nutshell of Gospel was shared and was happy to take selfie with me also a Hing Konger.

5）Next I was led to approach a Japanese couples that Johnny had connected but not into deep conversation because of possibly English level. But because of my Japanese greeting , they felt warm to continue chatting with me. The wife is Kudo from Hokkaido and husband is from Tokyo. I shared my life witness instead briefly with them.

6） Next was an Indian lady who was also open and receptive to the gospel.

7）Then I connected with a student from Hong Kong who has just arrived in Australia for two months. His bus come too quick as such only cover nutshell of the Gospel with a tract given to him.

8 ） Finally , had a long chat with a girl from Kaohsiung who comes here on working Holiday. She quickly identified herself as Christian and she was tested with 100% assurance of salvation with correct reason. So I praises and Thanked God today I met two fair dinkum Christians both with 100% assurance of salvation

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 20th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Praised be to God, Ann Yeo rejoining Hung today at Sunnybank as her zoom prayer meeting time has been changed to make this time slot available to her again. Moreso, she defied the rainy weather to come and had many long chat with women especially. As for Hung, I got many open and receptive chat with people from Taiwan, Japan, Mainland China and local Aussie as recap below.

By the way, an end note that before the street outreach, I had a chance to share the vision of local cross cultural outreach for all lay Christians with Fong the Administrator of SIC. Hopefully, it will sow the seed of drawing more people to live a life on mission with God.

1) Caught up with a local Aussie from WA and built rapport by the Fair Dinkum" gig. He was open for chat but it was cut short by the quick arriving bus.

2) A Young man from Taiwan with no religious background but parents are most likely Buddhists.台灣無宗教父母佛，He inclined to think being a good person 做好人is readily good enough. I was glad I could share him the truth that good if not perfect is still not good enough and we all need Jesus to take our place to receive the punishment of our sin.

3) Adam watched with interest and greeted in Mandarin, but we could only have a brief exchange as his bus also arrived. We quickly took a selfie hopefully help me to recognize him for a longer chat next time

4) A middle aged lady from Chungshan , China中山移民 who only disclosed she is a Christian of a certain denomination信主但宗派不明朗. Her foundation of faith seemed not solid or else how could I failed to sense she is a Christian. No time to test her assurance of salvation.

5) Another long chat with a Japanese woman migrated to Australia for 20 years. She was surprised I could greeted her in fluence Japanese. But she was all good to communicate with me in English for gospel sharing.

6) An elderly Mr Wang 王from Mainland China大陸，was willing and open for a chat. He is not yet a Christian but have certain bible knowledge. The gospel message shared to him hopefully may clear up some misunderstanding concept about the Christian faith.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 13th, 2024 from 1330-1430

For the consecutive day, Edwin joined Hung to serve at Sunnybank for street outreach. As usual, Edwin was quick in action making fast approach as soon as people just arrived at the bus stop. It was a fair day of ministry with reasonable divine appointments for longer chat apart from quick ones interrupted mostly by the quick arriving buses. For Hung, majority of the chats were welcome and ended up with a selfie for future possible contact as recap below:-

1) Catiah from Peru on student visa learning English is a Catholic Christian, she only got 50% certainty of going to heaven. Pity not enough time to finish the clarification.

2) Trent from Mackay who is now working at Royal Brisbane as a nurse. He is a Christian but also lacking assurance of salvation. Started the clarification but not enough time to finish.

3) Martin is an Anglican Christian who claimed to have chatted with me many times before. I still managed to test his assurance of salvation which again is not 100%.

4) Have a casual chat with a Shanghai couples.

5) Have long chats with a Shanghai 88 oldie first by Edwin then by me. It was hard to get our message across as he behaved too self centered that always use his own personal experiences to counteract any message you tried to share with him.

6) Ron a Filipino Christian and was the first one today to have3 100% assurance of salvation.

7) A Hong Konger from Hong Kong Hinfook播道會顯福堂and is now attending BCCCC as he lives in Northern Brisbane and attending QUT for 2 years already. He however only has 85% certainty of going to heaven which had been clarified. He dislikes photo so no record of his face despite I attempted to take a selfie with him so I can tell his church people we met on the street

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday Nov 6th, 2024 from 1330-1430

Today, it was Hung alone to serve at Sunnybank while Johnny is overseas and Edwin is preparing for the last Bible College Exam. It was a very special and unique solo outreach having connecting with 3 persons only but all had spent unusual longer chatting time as recap below: -

Katy a Vietnamese girl coming for English study. She listened the full gospel and showed great openness and appeared very receptive to the Gospel despite she is a Buddhist follower.

Then I connected with an Indonesian girl who has migrated to Australia already as such she also showed openness towards the gospel which was half preached as it was interrupted by the arrival of her friend.

Then God led me to make friend with Shinga, who is from Kyoto , Japan coming here for working holiday. He has just arrived in Australia and Brisbane for 2 days. It was beyond doubt a divine appointment for me to meet Shinga as he was wondedring at the bus stop if he can get on the bus without a Gocard? Then where to buy a Goward. I was moved to put aside the evangelism task and helped him out to sort out all his query and practically led him to enter Sunnybank Plaza mall to buy Gocard at the Newsagent. He actually had an appointment to inspect a house that he might share room with another person. Luckily, the appointment was at 1630 so God allow ample time for me to share the full gospel to him. Praise be to God that Shinga readily has the heart to pursue Christianity, so my gospel sharing reinforced his desire to connect with God and a Christian church. He thanked for mu help and vowed to seriously ponder to receive Christ and he is confident God will lead us to meet again somewhere around in Sunnybank Plaza.

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Battle Log at Sunnybank on Oct 30, 2024, I had to take a break from the street outreach to see my Urology Specialist Dr Wesley Hii to listen to his verdict on the last day surgery result. Praise be to God and thanks to the concerto oneness prayers of all brothers and sisters that all cancer cells no matter at the outlet of the ureter or inside the bladder have all been completely cleansed. Thus I am declared safe again for this present moment in time. Another biopsy will be arranged in next Feb or March to monitor if there is any chance of relapse. Thanks again for the care and loving kindness interceding prayers and I will certainly continue to offer my all to keep serving God to mobilize every one to have a go to live a life on mission with God.

Before I went for the consultation, I did outreach for a while by myself and Johnny was occupied by other family affair.

1) First I was moved to approach a Korean girl who claimed herself a Christian but lack assurance of salvation which was basically clarified hastily because of bus arrival.

2) Then I approached a Filipino Catholic man. I also touched base on assurance of salvation which by no exception was not there.

3) Then I was led to catch up with a East Timor man also of Christian back ground and again he is also lack of assurance.

4) Last but not the least I caught up with Sam a local Aussie high school boy who is not religious but appeared very open and receptive to the gospel. He learnt Mandarin at school, so I use this to build better rapport and pray that he will be moved to make the right decision to accept Jesus.

There were a few rejections but it is normal.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Tuesday October 16th 2024 from 1300-1500

Edwin joined Johnny and Hung today at Sunnybank though a bit late. As usual, Edwin was quick to make approach with average shorter chat, but every now and then, God still gives him long conversation especially with those younger persons. I got several long chats today all with good results as recap below:

1) An middle aged person from Guangzhou having migrated to Australia like myself was delighted to have a long chat with me. Our conversation circled around Changes taking place in Hong Kong that has resulted in great exodus trend as the backdrops of the sinfulness of human races that is beyond redemption but Jesus our Savior are still willingly come and died for us to set us free from the bondage of sins.

2) Then I was moved to approach Mr. Zhou? from Taiwan? who is UQ students but renting a room in Sunnybank for cheaper rent. He is non-religious but his heart is fairly open and receptive to the Gospel message.

3) Betty , a local Aussie girl working at Coles. She is non religious too but she appeared equally open and receptive to the gospel.

4) Then I was led to approach a Fijian mum and daughter both were open and delightful to have a chat with me. Despite they are of Hinduism background, but they were open and receptive to the gospel.

5) Then I caught up with a Bangladesh young man who has just come to study at UQ. He listens for a while but began to show impatience and even stood up to leave. But, at that moment , a UTE across the road seemed to have the piston inside the engine broken, making a loud metallic crashing noise. It swirled to crash on the kerb side Infront of the bus stop. If this accident happened on our side of the road, it might possibly have crashed unto bus stop where we were there chatting. So life is not guarantee of hassle free. We should take priority to address the life issues I had just shared with the Bangladesh UQ student..

6) Finally caught up with a couple from Hong King. They claimed to be Buddhist followers . Only have time for a brief sharing of the nutshell of the Gospel

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