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Toowong Team (QLD)

Meets 1:30-3pm every Tuesday afternoon at the Toowong train station on the 2nd floor and splits into two teams, one at the main entrance of Toowong Tower on Sherwood Road, another at the foot of the pedestrian bridge across Benson Street.

Contact Johnny Hsieh for more information.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 9th, 2024 from 1030-1130

Today, originally I could not join the Toowong Street outreach from 1330 to 1500 as I have to take my wife to the Brisbane Private Hospital for a rehab appointment from 1000-1200 then bring my wife home for rest. However, Johnny just told me yesterday he has conceived CoVic as such he has to miss to day outreach ministry. Considering that 2 hours of waiting at the hospital is a waste of time for the Lord. So I was moved to go to Toowong to do a shorter round of outreach earlier from 1030 to 1130 than rushed back to pick up my wife. The timing was all good and I was able to chat with few UQ students as recap below: -

1) When I arrived there was a long queue but the bus was due to come in a minute so I had to wait for this queue be taken up by the bus, then I was led to first approach a Mainlander girl Liu from Hangzhou. I got hook up with Liu? quickly as told her Hangzhou was the first city outside of HKG I had ever visited in my Uni years. Secondly, she was interested to know I was a Master of counselling student of UQ while her under grate was on Educational Psychology. The Spirt soften her heart to listen to the full gospel even at the cost of missing her bus. She showed genuine appreciation for the gospel message and appear very receptive to Jesus salvation.

2) Then the Spirit led me to catch up with Astraea, an American born Pakistanis but still of a Muslim family. Yet she was also all open to the Gospel and she agreed that human could not rely on good deeds to heaven, but trusting God. She does not like most Muslim rejecting Jesus as God but just a lesser prophet then Mohamad. Instead, she seemed not disagreeing Jesus is God who incarnated as a man born of virgin but not born into the human race of a normal family with father and mother. She was happy to my explanation that Jesus could not be born into human race who carries Original sin as the enemy of God as such against himself as the son of God. She earnestly took a tract to revise on what I shared with her.

3) Then I caught up with Markka whose dad is Aussie and mum from Shenyang ??, Mainland China. He was also all positive and open for Gospel. Though his bus quick arrival cut short my gospel sharing. He seemed to be all Amen readily about Jesus as His Savior.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 9th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was a cozy autumn afternoon with the sun shining lazily without the usual heat. We waited for a while to let the long queue be dissolved by the quick arriving bus. It was a normal day that our outreach face rejections but still many other targets elected by God had been approached with mixed result. We simply humble ourself to do His work.

1) I was led to approach Two Pakistanis of bad English. One of them actually came for the TESOL study while his friend simply cannot speak English at all. But I still managed to chat with the one who speaks limited English and explained the gospel to him with the help of the tract and cover picture of Jesus' crucifixion. I trusted that God still used this divine encounter to shed light on their lives.

2) Caroline is a girl from Columbia who has no religion following despite her country is majority a Catholic one. She nevertheless appeared quite receptive to the gospel message that we are all good but imperfect persons as such a sinner in God's eyes. Thus, we all need a Savior to save us from eternal death.

3) Hannah is from Brazil who has already graduated and is staying here for work. He claimed himself non-religious. He is open mind to believe there is a God but don’t think he needs to affiliate with any particular god possibly he thinks he is a good enough person. So, my gospel presentation really gave him a big alarm shock that he cannot claimed himself righteous because of his own good deeds but must trust and rely on Jesus to take his place to receive the eternal death punishment of sins. He was happy to take a selfie with me to show his appreciation.

4) Then I was led to approach Deed a young lady from UK and is in here 2nd year study. Again, she was very sincere and humble to listen to the gospel and show great receptiveness to accept Jesus as her Savior.

5) Then I caught up last with a girl form Tianjin, China????She is studying business but claimed she heard the gospel before in Singapore and did not think she need to listen one more time. I switched to share my own testimony to show how I was once like her dismissing the need of salvation by Jesus

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Toowong on Tuesday April 2nd, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was by grace that I could still manage to deliver my committed duty of street gospel outreach at Toowong today, as God let the pre-operation procedure of my wife Ling be long enough to leave a break between the dropping off and picking up time from the hospital. So, we started normally at 1330 but had to finish earlier at 1430 to rush to hospital to pick up my wife. The sun was a bit scorching hot, but we nevertheless still managed to make many conversations.

1) First I was instead invited by Yvone Chan of CCCB St Lucia Ryans congregation. She thanks God for our steadfastness to serve Him as she never fails to find us there at the bus stop week in week out.

2) Then I caught up with an Aussie middle age gentleman who is non-religious, however, he had little disagreement to the gospel message and admitted every one need Jesus.

3) Shih a Fijian Indian person who claims he has studied all religions out of his only personal interest. I stressed to him what made Christianity stand out from the rest is the way it addresses sin and the wrath of God against sin.

4) Then I had a long chat with Jun?from Wenzhou???he is non-religious materialism ????. He does not believe in any supernatural thing but he also could not reject the gospel message that we are all sinner that needs God to forgive our sins through the self-sacrificing atone death of Christ.

5) Joseph from Cairo Egypt was well aware of Christianity spreading in his country with all the good impact though himself is still regarded as Islamic by birth. He holds an open and assertive attitude towards Christianity.

 

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 26th, 2024 from 1300-1500

2 Timothy 4:2 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 2 ??????????????????????????????????????????

There was incessant soaking rain whole day, but it did not deter our burden and commitment to preach the gospel to the lost souls. Rather the rain kept every one crowded under the bus stop booth. The number of chats were more than usual though many were brief and short. Amongst all these divine appointments, there were a couple stand out ones with persons from Mainland China but their hearts were extraordinarily softened and open for the Gospel. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) Aden from Northern California is church going but not sure if he is a Christian. He is a person of righteousness coming to UQ for Study of Conservation. He listened the nutshell of the gospel and appear very receptive to the need of salivation by Jesus as he admitted human are bad beyond redemption exerting all sorts of damage to the nature out of selfishness and self-centeredness.

2) An Unknown country guy listened but not willingly hearing the gospel message and took no track at the end.

3) An UQ Lecturer lady claimed she had had a chat with us and was not interested to chat any more.

4) Three mainlanders with one from Suzhou who alone was willing to chat but was shy of making assertive expression about what he heard as two other mainlander friends were besides.

5) An India young lady with no umbrella as such whole body was wet and felt uneasy & embarrassed. Spent needed time to show my empathize but then no time to share the gospel but she willingly took a tract to read, so God still has His way for this Hinduism person.

6) Sarah is a member of CCCB English congregation. She is from Singapore and has 100% assurance of salvation. She took many tracts from me to give away to her gospel caring group possibly her classmates in UQ.

7) An Aussie young man chatted many times and did not feel

like chatting any More.

8 ) Then I was led to have a long chat with Hu ? from Kwai Lin???he has just come to Australia for half a year???He actually already did his undergraduate in Singapore???. With so many years of overseas living experiences, he appeared very open ?? and receptive to the gospel admitting every one including he himself is not perfect as such we all need Jesus. Recommend him to look for Power to Change if he wants to pursue the Christian faith.

9) Then a quick chat with a young man from Xinjiang ?? and he took a tract as his bus arrived right away.

10) Then I was led to approach a young lady by the name of Lee ?from Guangzhou??, her Cantonese is no good but willing to chat in Mandarin. She studies Marketing and showed great openness top listen to the gospel. ??

11) Masa an Iranian young lady who has been in Australia for 1 year studying Management. Despite still of Muslim background, but she also is very open to the gospel and is also aware of the quick and phenomenon growth of Christianity amongst the Iranian in overseas. She also showed open and receptiveness to the gospel especially to Jesus as our Savior and our Lord God.

12) Sarah an American girl from Midwest Illinoi for Medical study with a first degree in Biology back in USA. Time was not enough to find out if she is a Christian, but nevertheless still share the nutshell of the gospel and giving her a tract.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday March 19th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was yet another typical day of outreach. We were led by the Spirit to approach people randomly but actually with the predestination of God. They were either people we met before for a follow up chat, or first timers or first timer as led by God. Amongst all these people, I did catch up with an local Aussie girl of Irish descendant who has never heard of the gospel before as there is not Christian in her own life circle. So, the tasks entrusted to all Christians to reach out non-discriminatory is with a reason. There is still someone who has never heard the Gospel out there waiting for us to be the messenger passing on to them the voice message they need to hear.

1) Clair a Scottish descendant local Aussie girl who claimed she has never heard the gospel before. She shared the view that as long as we are not perfect in our human character, we are subject to judgement after death as such there is urgent need for all the good but not perfect persons to repent and seek salvation from Jesus. It is very weird for anyone who will have no Christian friend or Christian influence in their life circle, but God let this happened to show us there is really the need to keep reaching out to look for those least reached lost souls.

2) Arian the Iranian lady in full Muslim dressed but turned out to be a very open and receptive Gospel hearer. I concentrated in sharing the full gospel that met full consent by Arian. I just fell short of asking if she is readily a messianic Christian as God did great thing converting a lot of Iranian when they go overseas as refugees.

3) Danny an Indonesia first year UQ students. He was also open for chat about religion and seemed to have no negative opinion against Christianity. Time was not enough for me to finish the full gospel but he took a tract to read.

4) Then I caught up with JJ a Filipino of protestant background. whom I met few weeks ago on 27/2. Last time, I actually did finish my diagnosis on his assurance of salvation. He has 100% assurance but the reasons is not yet 100% because of Jesus redemptive work. Finally, it was all cleared that his assurance is not from how good and obedient he has been but 100% because of the redemptive work of Jesus.

5) Then I was led to have a long chat with Amelia who is an ABC Christian with Parents from mainland China. They once were all church going but not any more now. and She is lack of assurance of salvation because of the wrong idea that she has to behave good enough for heaven. I pray that after my clarification, she will revert back to trusting in Jesus and alone.

6) John is a Catholic Christian of Irish descendant. He has spiritual pride and is 100% sure he can go to Heaven but because of his goodness in leading a good Christian life style. It was a pity he did to want to go on with the conversation as such I failed to clarify with him the truth of salvation by grace through faith in Christ alone.

7) Liam a Kiwi but Filipino Catholic Christian. Again, he did not have assurance of salvation and thanks for my clarification.

 

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday March 12th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

After a couple of rainy days, it turned sunny and scorching hot in the early afternoon at Toowong. The bus stop was turned into a mini furnace by the radiating heat from the concrete platform. People tended to become impatient and reluctant to have a long chat. It was under this tough condition that we still endeavoured to do our best to work with God sharing Gospel to whoever the Spirit led us to approach. Because of the heat and quick arrival of bus, our chat had also been cut into scattered pieces. The upside was that I could have more smaller chats up to 10 as recap below: -

1) Ishrite from Bangladesh, polite to listen but his hear was elsewhere. Just did my best to share the full gospel as he was at end of the long queue.

2) Rammish an young lady from India who claimed herself not a Christian and non-religious but her mind set and conduct really bears the image of God. She was open and positive to the Gospel. She deemed she did not mind or even preferably to listen to the gospel from a more Christian point of view. she knew God look into our heart and mind not just judging us by external expression of behaviour. In this connection, she confessed no one will be perfect and avoid the judgement of God even though we conduct a crime free life. She thus also accepted the need of every one either good persons or bad persons inclusive, for Jesus’ atoning salvation. So, she by my standard, is readily a Christian. Pray that God will move her to make the very last step of faith to accept Jesus as her Savior and Lord of life. Finally , she thanked for our passion to share the gospel to her and many others by the move of the Holy Spirit.

3) Then I was led to approach a Local by Aussie who was impatient bit still polite and let me share more than half of the gospel message.

4) A young man by the name of Yuan? from Taichung???without any religion???? as such he is not very serious about faith matter??????but he was still polite enough to listen to the full gospel. ?????

5) Then I tried to chat with another Local Aussie girl who has caught with a red nose, I tried to convince her it was OK for me to chat with her by keeping a safe distance. But she still felt too weak to have mood to listen to the gospel so she still politely closed our conversation for her to rest.

6) Aron surprisingly is from Turkey. We quickly built rapport but his bus came almost instantly. I could not but just handed him the tract and pray for next useful encounter and for this reason, he agreed to take a selfie photo with me.

7) Then I was led to meet up with a rare Christian girl Ms Duan ?from mainland China who is from Beijing ???Her parents are still non -believers???? but her grandmother is a pious Christian???so in China, she attended both 3 self-Church and home churches. ????????Her bus came also fairly quick, But I have managed to help her establish her 100% assurance of salvation.

8 ) Jack a young local Aussie from NSW who is humble and open for the gospel and took a tract afterwards. He is a very promising seed of the gospel.

9) Next was Mr. Zhu ?from Mainland China ???He claimed We have chatted with him several time???and he was very impressed that we keep doing this every Tuesday to show that the gospel is really a precious gift from God.??? Even though he has not yet made up his mind to accept Jesus, but he is all convinced that everyone need the salvation of Jesus.

10)Finally, just had time to touch base with an Elderly in1 min before his bus arrive.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday March 5th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Today, Winnie was not available as she has a doctor appointment. Only Johnny and Hung teamed up to reach out to the UQ student majority crowd at the bus stop off Toowong Village connecting to UQ. There was always a long queue in the beginning through which we could catch up with a couple of people while they were waiting for the bus. Afterwards, we still can access to those arriving at the bus stop intermittently. Today general impression was that more mainlanders were present. It was half, half in terms of willingness to listen, not to mention to respond in an open and natural way. For us, we were simply led by the Spirit to approach and connect irrespective of the response. We always believe, God is in charge to use us to get across the message to His elected ones. At the end, I was able to catch up with an old gospel outreach co-workers for mutual edification. Recap is the Battle Log of Hung.

1) At the end of the long queue, I was led to approach a girl from Beijing????. she has been in Australia studying at UQ for 2-3 years already ????. She was polite and showed genuine willingness to listen to the gospel?? and took a tract at the end???. I trusted that she has been exposed to the gospel many times before and her heart has been softening gradually by the Spirit through each new gospel opportunity.

2) Next I was led to approach a young man with the same name as mine "Hung" from Taoyuen , Taiwan.?????He has been here for 6 months. And he seemingly is a non-religious person. But he showed interest and openness to listen to the gospel and took a tract afterwards.

3) Then next was a young local Aussie girl wearing a work uniform as a sort of part time educators in a child care. She was friendly for a chat but her bus quick arrival spoiled our conversation.

4) Then next came a mainlander who claimed to be a Christian but quickly exposed that he is just a fake Christian pretending to be saved to gain carnal gain for dating a Christian girl. He even boasted about this to ridicule that there are many fake Christians like him to fool around for self-indulgence. ???????

Irrespective of his attitude, I still tried my best to share the full gospel to him which was not interrupted by his bus. ???????.

5) The Spirit surprisingly connected me with an Indonesian Christian. He was proud to tell me that there is 15% of Christian in a Muslim country like Indonesian ?????. Again, it was a pity I did not have enough time to diagnose on his Assurance of Salvation.

6) Finally God led us to catch up with an old Gospel worker friend retuning to server here.b

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday February 27th, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was so good to have the Old Toowong Triade Gospel Squad be reunited after half a year of separation. Johnny rejoined Hung and Winnie as soon as he returned from Taiwan. team of three joining force very timely to catch up with the new influx of students in the beginning of a new Academic term. The queue for bus was so long that it turned the corner reaching almost towards the end of the side street. Despite the bus frequency are still high as usual, we all got very long conversation finishing the full gospel with good result. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung:

1) I was led to approach JJ from Flippin who quickly identified himself as a protestant Christian despite there are many y Catholic background Christian in his bigger family circle. I thus switched to test his assurance of salvation which is spot on 100%. I encouraged him to do outreach in the campus perhaps to be affiliated with Power to Change.

2) Then I caught up with an ABC Malaysian Chinese. He speaks very little and limited Chinese despite he is all Chinese face looking. And he declared himself an atheist. He admitted he could not find and fallacy or loophole in the gospel message that as long as we are not perfect, we are all liable to go to hell with those known bad guys like Hitler. Only through the atoning grace of Jesus can we be saved by grace through faith. Yet, his heart is still too hard to humble himself to receive Christ as his Savior.

3) Billy & Anna are both Hongkonger, but they actually are from North Eastern China ???? but moved to HKG for study over 7 years than came over to Australia for University study on Business Management. They both listen to the gospel patiently and admitted they have heard the same many times before. Possibly because the long-term influence by atheist in China, they are not too drawn to religious teaching. But perhaps the 7 odd years of life in HKG still played an effect of yearning for freedom and being set free from many visible and invisible bondage from the background they were brought up.

4) Lucy is a local Aussie girl but with mixed blood of Netherland. She is very sociable and talkative and appeared open to the gospel message despite she is non-religious. She was basically convinced to admit that no one is perfect as such we will be held responsible for our short coming in our human character even in the meantime, we have done a lot of good work. I suspect she might have missed her bus at least once to allow the conversation to carry on.

5) Zach is a young man living in the North of about one hour train traveling time. He is non-religious but similarly he seemed to have been touch ed by the gospel admitting everyone good or bad, we all need the redemptive grace of Jesus.

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday February 6th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Today, I had to do solo Street Gospel outreach. In the beginning there were overwhelmingly heap of people because of the first Semester week. I could only started by catching up with the last person in the long queue for bus. Then gradually the main influx period is over and I was left with few people around, but overall speaking, the divine intervention and election was still obvious. God led me to catch up with 3 to 4 Biochemistry and medical science students which are supposed to be the elite students who choose this medical related subject as the first degree and their springboard to finally be admitted to the Medical School of UQ.

Pray that the gospel message would help them aware that they are students of excellency but in God, they have to learn to humble before God for His salvation by grace. Recap below is the Battle Log of Hung

1) Mary is from Kiwi and was born there in a Chinese origin family. She was the first Biochemistry Medical Science student God had led me to meet one after the other. Her parents were from Mainland China ,so they are not religious. Yet Mary admitted she heard the gospel many times before. And she confessed the gospel message is self complete without any internal contradiction. It is all sensible and logical for any good by non-perfect person to ask for help from Jesus as our Savior.

2) Luke a local Australian Born Indian, also doing the Biochemistry Medical Science. He appeared open and receptive to the gospel message.

3) Then next was Holy again a local Aussie girl very friendly for a chat. She also showed openness and receptiveness to the gospel.

4) Then I connected with a young man from Tianjin, China. ??. He has been with UQ for 3 years doing engineering study.????. He is willing to chat and voluntarily took a gospel tract.?????

5) Next was a Korean girl called Dabbie was who slightly indifferent to the gospel though still open for a chat.

6) James another local Aussie whose mother is Filipino and father an Australian. He is also doing biomedical science. He is not as open as Luke but still politely listened to the full gospels

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Battle Log of Operation 513 for Toowong on Tuesday February 6th, 2024 from 1330 – 1500

Thanked God that the weather turned much cooler without the radiating heat. Winnie still could join me today but not next week Feb 20 while Johnny will come back only after Feb 24. But we thanks God for every opportunity that we can serve with God as well as serving as a team. As usual, it was a fruitful outreach effort as ordained and empowered by God. We may encounter rejection from time to time. But if our meagre effort to preach the gospel to a non-believer for the first time sowing the seed, our reward in the heaven will be great. We do thanks God for the privilege being blessed be a blessing.

1) Aussie young girl volunteered to take photo for us when she saw we did the selfie. I took this chance to compliment her as a very good person but still need Jesus and asked her to read the "Are You A Good Person Tract."

2) My first approach was an Aussie lady at the bus stop. She was nice to respond to my catching up brief chat but eventually she declined my invitation to have a chat with the excuse of being busy in texting but perhaps the underlying reason was that she was not interested.

3) Next, I was led to catch up with an Australia Born Indian who is doing Engineering at UQ. Both himself and his parents were born her in Brisbane. So they are not that bounded by their traditional Hindu faith but rather comparatively open to the gospel which he found no loophole to query. I promised to pray for him and if he has any query, I suggested him to join Power to Change in the UQ campus which he agreed.

4) Then I was led to approach Zheng ?from Shandong??, China. He comes to study nursing ?? which shows he has plan to stay in Australia as male nurse is not popular in Mainland China. He also disclosed he has been Christian since young back in China????. Their family belong to a certain house church branch ??????and he is now attending CCCB- St Lucia????I thus switched to test his assurance of salvation which he failed to have 100% certainty. After my clarification, he thanked and promised he will pursue to know God and the gospel better through Bible study and attending the ACTIVITY OF POWER TO CHANGE. He felt comfortable to take a self fie with me.

5) The I was led to approach Chen who is from Nanjing and came to do high school study at the Gold Coast. And now he is admitted to do medical study at UQ. He admitted it was the first time he heard the gospel and he also could not find any fault or query about the gospel and admitted that every one need salvation from eternal death punishment of sin. I also advised him to join Power to Change for pursuance of God and the salvation accepting Jesus as his Savior.

6) Then I caught up with a HongKonger who came just for a few weeks to do speech therapy. ??????. He seemingly is a non-believer despite he has Christian relatives and friends. He anyway still listened to the full gospel and promised to pursue and contact Power to Change.

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