Battle Log

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• Toowong (QLD) Team
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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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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday Nov 9, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

It was a very fruitful afternoon with the three of us Johnny , Winnie and Hung serving together as a team. All of us had got numerous chance of long chats with good results. For instance, the first chat that Johnny had led to a conversion readily. It was also an afternoon of apologetic discussion with people of deep catholic Muslim and Jehovah Witness background.

Recap herewith is my six divine appointments : -

1) MacLaylup is a country girl from Townsville to study here at UQ. She is from a Christian family. But she came to faith by herself as an adult. She claimed to have 100% assurance of faith after initial hesitation as it seems to be of spiritual realm issue that people seldom contemplate above it., she anyway asserted that she is 100% sure she is saved but the reason is not clean cut just have faith in God. After some hints and guidance, she eventually understood her reason of salvation is purely because of Jesus only as such she should have 100% assurance of salvation. After that ,she was drawn deeper in understanding why Christians are not yet perfect after conversion as it is part of God's three fold salvation plan that the redemptive grace of Jesus only changed our identity back as God's people. It enables God to exercise His sovereign power in our life to start the sanctification work to transform us back to perfect through the work of the Holy Spirit. She was so grateful for the educative conversation and was delighted to take a selfie with me.

2) Betty a Chinese non believer girl took tract from Johnny but did not stop to chat. Until she arrived at the bus stop, God changed her mind to stop and listen to my full gospel presentation. She found it logical and sensible. I introduced her to join Power to Change even if she is still at the stage of seeking.

3) Juline an old lady who did not prepare to stop claiming she got the tract and had a conversation with Winnie last week. She thanked us anyway indicating she is a Buddhist as such there is no need for Christianity. I anyway felt the urge to share again the nutshell of the gospel and was able to convinced her that even Buddhist need Jesus. She was impressed and promised to ponder seriously and thank for my sincerity to share the importance to be saved by Jesus.

4) Then a couple of Chinese guy and Aussie girl carrying heavy shopping goods getting passed Johnny without stopping. I anyway approached them when they got to the bus stop. The Aussie girl was more open while the Chinese Guy was not so keen to hear the Gospel. I anyway rushed to give them the nutshell but cut short by the arrival of the bus.

5) Betty another UQ students unexpectedly stopped to chat. She was from Chongxiang showed great receptiveness to the gospel. She also was happy to take the Power to Change info slip to get in touch with them.

6) Fiona is a very serious Catholic Christian with the righteous attitude to defend for the orthodox Catholic belief against all biased and distorted accusation on their faith. She was impressed with my opened attitude to give her the benefit of the doubt to see what is her perspective of orthodox Catholic belief that has long been misinterpreted by Protestant Christian. She came specially for me and give me a list of information source as well as Catholic Father that I can make inquiry with.

As for Winnie, she had 9 conversations as recap below that kept her very busy throughout the 80 minutes of ministry time.

感謝主今天的帶領，讓我遇到九人傳福音的機會。今天有六位是來自中國，一位是馬來西亞，一位是菲律宾與澳洲混血兒，一位是澳洲婦女。 第一位，Gloria,UQ 學生。聽完福音後，願意去教會尋求更多真理。 第二位名叫芝，馬來西亞女學生，需要時間想想。 第 三及第四位也是中國留學生，講完福音後， 巴士到逹。 第五位，Mary，UQ 學生。聽完福音，會细心想想。 第六位，Benda,中國留學生，也是需要時間想清楚。 第七位，Joe, 菲律宾與澳洲混血兒，明白我們是罪人，需要耶穌基督拯救。會看完單張後，思想這個問题。 第八位澳洲女士，天主教徒，我們談論很長時間關於基督教與天主教的分别。後來她也與關牧師談論這問题。 第九位，中國女士，會想清楚免费禮物及天堂與地獄問题。 感謝讚美主！願神赐福给今天聽到福音的人士，打開心門，接受耶穌基督為救世主。阿們！

Recap herewith is the summary by Johnny Hsieh

感謝天父上帝的帶領和祝福，今午Toowong 的街頭福音事工有ㄧ位從蘇格蘭來的UQ學生 Wirll聽完福音之後願意信靠主耶穌。請為他禱告，另有Isaac 澳洲青年，還有一位張姓JW 耶和華見證人的女信徒試著想改變我的信仰， 我拿出手機上的聖經與她討論。

         

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday November 3, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

Today Winnie could not come as her hearing aid was out of order taken to repair that can be back next Monday. So only Johnny and Hung teamed up to serve again at the Benson Street Bus Stop. The afternoon sun was very bright though temperature was 28C, but the backdrop condition was a bit rough for street evangelism. People all tried to hide under shaded area to avoid the high noon scorching sun. As a result, both of us had less than average number of completer chats. Nevertheless, God still had His sovereign Will and Plan

For me, I spent some time to catch up with Mark Reeve before I had the five divine appointments of which the chat with a Catholic Christian seems to have a special apologetic bearing that will continue in to next weeks or so as the lady Fiona seemed to have been impressed by our steadfastness to share the good news which she thought a right perception of the Catholic catechism would make the message more complete. I was inspired by God to lend her a listening ears first. So next week she would bring some more reference info to share with me.

Recap below are the four other conversations.

1) Waruna a UQ student from Sri Lanka who claimed himself to be a Buddhist. As usual, I did not attack his religion belief and assert that all religion are good but only good at appealing people to be a good person. Yet none of the world religion provide solution to the judgment of sin. He was convinced, but the bus just came to end our chat.

2) A student from China 中國學生, he was also all receptive to the gospel shared 都對. Only leave it to God the convert him at His time.

3) Laxa of Scottish origin was from Sydney. She has never hear Gospel before. She was with another Caribbean girl who left her key at the shopping centre. Thus Laxa was left at the bus station to have a thorough chat with me. She was also fully convinced by the gospel. I encouraged her to get in touch with Power to Change if she finally decided to accept Christ or at least want to pursue. When the Caribbean girl came back, she refused to take our tract as such it was obvious the act of God to send her away for me to have a deep chat with Laxa.

4) Billy a self proclaimed Vegan. Johnny chatted with him first and I joined later. He was baptized as a baby, and he admitted that means nothing. He seemed to think good deeds or good life style may play an important factor in salvation. It was a pity we did not have more time to correct his wrong understanding because of the arrival of the bus.

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday Oct 27, 2020 from 1330 -1500

Today the team of three, Johnny , Winnie and Hung switched our mission venue to the Sherwood Street on the front of the main entrance of the Toowong Village. It was to avoid repeated encounter with many gospel targets at the Benson Street bus stop. Yet we unavoidably still meet up a couple of them. The chance of stopping for a chat was much less than the Benson Street Bus Stop. Johnny might have three or four, Winnie just two and I had 5 full chat with many shorter encounter as recap below: -

1) Jacob UQ student was willing to let me walk with him to the Toowong shopping Centre giving me chance to finish sharing the full Gospel in a nutshell.

2) An Indian woman was hurrying to work, so she was not attentive enough to hear the gospel despite I finished sharing the nutshell of Gospel.

3) Brendon a Christian attending Hillsong has 100% assurance of salvation but the reason is not clear enough failing to answer the 2nd question that the reason being admitted to heave nis simply because of Jesus and Him alone.

4) An arrogant Filipino Christian top the tract but refused to answer the two diagnosis questions.

5) An Indian father rushed to leave as child on the car but he willingly took the tract.

6) An Aussie Office lady need to go back to work but willingly took the tract.

7) Erica an Singaporean Malay Muslim. She was humble and receptive to the gospel.

8) Another Chinese girl rushed to work though accepted the tract.

9) A Chinese couple, the girl rejected but the boy accepted the tract.

10) Sem Trim an UQ student from Bhutan doing part time job near by. She just finished work and was about to go back to UNi for exam. But she still willingly spent over 15 minutes to chat. She was very receptive to the Gospel and agreed that Buddhism and other religions are only good at appealing people to behave as a good person but could not resolve the problem of sin. Introduced her to Power to Change as well at the end.

感謝主今天的帶領，雖然今天下雨，但 Johnny 带我們到有庶蓋的地方，避免濕身。謝謝 Johnny. 這處行人非常衷忙，不願留下數分鐘，最初遇上澳洲女士，初時願意留下聽，但提到耶穌為我們的罪釘上十字架，她馬上婉拒，離開。第二次遇到也是澳洲婦女，她説她是基督徒，我便引用關牧師所教的，測試她，死後可否能够上天堂，她非常肯定回答。 第三位男士，相信是非洲人，他説上周已经聽了我們所講的福音。 願神憐憫，賜福今天所有聽到福音人士，打開心門，接受耶穌基督為救世主。真心仰望，信靠祂。阿們！

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday Oct 20, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

We, Johnny, Winnie & Hung, had the privilege to serve as a team again with God as our team leader. Before we realize, God is changing the pattern of out reach at Toowong. For consecutive weeks, God led many gospel targets we had outreached in the previous weeks to turn up time and again to let us do follow up on their journey of faith in search of the ultimate salvation. Another new inspiration we got was that we might have to change tactic of doing friendship evangelism with those who declined if not rejected our approach. We can withhold preaching to them right away for the time being but changed tactic to make friend first as many of them turn up regularly each week. Recap here below are the battle log for me and Winnie (in Chinese). You will notice some of this examples.

1) Sonia , a tall Aussie Uq girl appeared very friendly who let me chat with her about the tract. I had just enough time to share the full gospel to her, but no time to get her direct response though she appeared very receptive.

2) Munich a Hindu young man who was humble to listen to the gospel and found it sensible and logical. He promised to seriously ponder about the need of his sin be forgiven by accepting Jesus.

3) A young man from Henan, who initially declined to chat with Winnie but accepted the tract and started reading it. I approached him a short while after he started reading the tract and changed tactics to make friend first to reduce his alertness against stereotype religious preaching. He turned his attitude to become more receptive to gospel message which I had run out of time to share when the bus came. Pray that God will use the tract to follow up on his pursuance of faith.

4) Jia Peng 賈蓬 was met by Winnie last week. I followed up on her understanding and had gone through the full gospel again. It appeared she now understood she is a good person but not good enough to hit the perfect requirement of God as such she also need redemptive grace of Jesus. Hope we will have chance to chat again next week.

5) An UQ student from Taiwan 台灣who initially also refused to have a chat about the tract. God inspired me to make friend first by switching into more causal chat. So again pray for next meeting to see if her heart is more opened for the gospel.

6) Gail is a Hindu man from India. He turned down to chat with Johnny at the traffic light and Winnie when he got to the bus stop. But When I approached him as he arrived at the bus stop. He recognized me that we had a chat before at least once or more times. He took initiative to talk to me defending for his Hindu faith which I of course responded with a listening ear. Basically he deemed that Hinduism also advocate there is only one God but they can incarnate and appear in human world in many forms in different cultural groups. They all came with a purpose yet they cannot stipulate. On the other hand , they rejected that there is a supreme being God as they cannot rationalize that there is a God who exists by Himself. God head in Hindu people's mind are just spiritual being created in heavenly realm. After I heard his explanation, I challenged him with the question what is the purpose of the Hindu god for coming to live as a living being. Before I can lead him to know that Jesus came with a mission to save us from hell punishment by dying on the cross. Yet the bus came at this moment in time. No doubt God will have another divine appointment arranged in near future.

7) Another girl from China was reluctant to chat but my new tactic of making friend first worked. She took the tract when the bus came.

8) After we finished for the day and did the closing prayer. We noticed an old woman from Shen Zhen 深圳 sitting on the ground waiting for her daughter who had gone to the Toowong shopping centre. We took the chance to share the gospel briefly to her and gave her the tract.

Battle log of Winnie:

感謝主今天的带领，除了兩位數周前遇到的，主今天讓我遇上七人傳福音的機會。中途遇見了香港來澳洲讀書的偉行，問及他的信仰程度，再次複述上次我們講的福音。

遇到印度基督徒女學生，上次關牧師曾经测试她信仰程度。我再次問她，死後能否上天堂，她猶疑不答。我再次解释给她。

第一位，Marion, 基督徒。不太清楚能否上天堂。我解释给她，她完全明白。還接受我给她的單張傳给朋友。

第二位，Joshua，UQ 學生，願意回教會，尋求更多真理。

第三位男士，不願聽福音。我問及他是否認識耶穌，跟着傳福音给他，送给單張。

第四位，Alex 來自India, 天主教徒，我講及基督教與天主教分别。

第五位，Sam UQ 學生，來自香港，當我講完福音後，願意接受主耶穌，還很高興遇到我分享福音给他。感谢主。

第六位，Oscar，UQ 學生。會细心想想。

第七位，Lindy UQ 學生，來自 馬來西亞，明白真理，願意信靠主耶稣基督。

感謝讚美主。願主祝福今天聽到或再次聽到福音人仕，打開心門，讓主進入他們心中，尊崇敬拜祂。…

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village o Tuesday October 13, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

Today we had a team of three as usual including Johnny Winnie and Hung. The weather was not sunny with cloud but the day light was bright with breeze as such it was ideal for outreach. The chances of divine appointment were equally distributed amongst the three of us each having around 8 to 9 chatting opportunities. We also encounter a special situation or outreach pattern of having many mini-reunions with gospel targets we met lately. It enabled us to follow up on their understanding of the Gospel and meaning of salvation t osee whether there is still any barrier preventing to make that precious and important decision to repent and accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord of Life.

Recap belows are the battle log of me in English and of Winnie in Chinese: -

1) A Christian young lady who claimed to have 100% assurance of salvation. When I wanted to cross check what is the basis of this 100% assurance, she then started to avoid answering. I was not able to pin her down for an exact answer as the Bus came at this moment. So it is doubtful if she trust on Jesus alone or herself. Hope next week will meet and follow up with her.

2) Derek and I recognized each other but I forgot his name. It was nice to catch up his understanding and clarified further that no good man is good enough and we all bound to have imperfect sin of though and acts that would subject to hells punishment. Derek now admitted he is good but not perfect as such he would need Jesus if he wants to be on the bright side of God in eternity. I vowed to remember his name next tome we met and awaiting for his serious decision to accept Christ.

3) Then came Perry who was approached by Winnie last week. Her feed back was like Derek still opined that she could continue to live as a good person without adhering to any religion. I caught up to clarify with this point that all religions are good to appeal people to try our best to be a good person. But none of them address the issue of sin that every good person would have committed from time to time as such no religion can saved us from the punishment of sin except Jesus Christ who came to die for us as a blemished perfect sacrificial goal to take our place to receive the hell punishment, but he defeated Satan as well as his power of death so that he rose up to be the King of kings and our Lord of all Lords giving us the assurance of a new heavenly identity to reconcile with God and be His people again. Like-wise, Perry seemed to have got th point this time and I could only pray God will do the rest to convict her and let me know net time we met.

4) Then came Mandy in a rush to buy something from Towong Village and had to hurried back to work. I offered to walk with her and finish my shorter version of Gospel in a nutshell. She appeared very receptive to the message and acknowledged the need of Jesus after my sharing. She seemed to have received great enlightenment and promised to seriously read the tract to help her to reach the right decision important to her eternal destiny.

5) Lily a young Aussie girl who got a tract from Johnny but did not stop. I followed up to chat with her when she got to the bus stop. I was only able to share the gospel in a nutshell realizing the bus was arriving. She anyway showed degree of understanding of the issue and promised to chat more next time if we meet again.

6) A Lady was on the phone but she still politely accepted the tract, so that mean there is always next time to follow on the aborted conversation.

7) Nish an Indian girl who humbly listened to the Gospel in a nutshell that I could barely had time to finish by the time the bus arrived. She seemed to have got the essence of the message and I can only pray for God's mercy on her to lead her to Christ in His time.

8) Another Indian lady claimed we had chatted before and she was not in the mood to chat anymore. Just pray that net time God will change her mind.

9) Finally Fiona took the tract but the bus came and I did not even have time to share apart from getting her name so hopefully God will give us a second chance to chat next time.

Recap below is the battle log summary in Chinese for Winnie who spoke to 8 persons with mixed results. Three would think deep about it , two said they would accept Jesus as savior. And three all claimed to be Buddhists but Winnie learned to explain to them to notice the difference of Christianity with all other religions including Buddhism that they are all good but only appealing people to be a good and better persons yet provided not solution to address the sin and the consequential hell punishment that only Christianity provides a solution of letting Jesus a perfect person nto die for them taking their place to received the hell punishment of our sin as such we a clean and right with God to be His people again.

感謝主今天的带领，讓我可以遇到八位傳福音的機會。有一位澳洲男士趕着見醫生，接受單張，便離開，説會閲讀内容。另外一位澳洲老婦女，有中国男士照顾她。男士不要單張，但婦女伸手拿取，願意閱讀。

第一位遇上是 Eve,澳洲少女，聽完福音後，願意想想。

第二位是 Jane, 中国少女，也是需要時間想清楚。

第三位是 Kelvin, 中国青年。初時不想聽，當他坐下來，我問他認識耶稣基督嗎？跟着傳福音给他。

第四位澳洲青少年，願意接受免费禮物。

第五位是中國 UQ 女學生，May, 願意信靠主，寻求更多真理。我给她咭片，Power of Change.

第六位是中国女士，當我講述福音後，她说是佛教徒。我解释她基督教舆佛教分别。

第七位是澳洲女士，Linda, 她説有朋友是佛教，有的是天主教，有的是基督教。她分不清楚所有的教有什么分别？我解释给她聽，佛教及很多的教都是講及要做善事積陰德。基督教是講述罪的問题，耶稣基督為我們贖罪釘上十字架上，死後，三天復活。我們信靠祂，罪得赦免。死後可以上天堂。當我們信靠了主耶稣，聖靈便會進入我們心内，我們應不能做的事，聖𩆜帶领下，我們都可以做得到。我講述自己的見證。她聽後，願意信靠主耶稣，多謝我詳细解释。感谢主，這都是神利用我這個不配的器皿講出來。

第八位 是中国少女，红。她説她的朋友都是佛教徒。我解释她佛教與基督教分别。她説會想想。

感謝讚美主，謝謝關牧師的教導。今天學到的功課，就是遇到佛教徒時，怎样回應他們。

   

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday October 6, 2020 from 1330 - 1500

It was a very warm Spring afternoon with bright sun shine. It might have affected some people feeling reluctant to stop and chat under the Summer like scorching sun. But all the three of us , namely Johnny, Winnie and Hung all got reasonable good chance to shared the gospel to the needy ones. Johnny asked for prayer at the end for an UQ student from Taiwan who affirmatively willing to accept Jesus after hearing the Gospel. like-wise Winnie chatted to 8 persons amongst which four showed willingness to accept Jesus. For details, she supplied her Chinese record as below. As for me, I have seven opportunities as recap below.

0) Ouch! I forgot this lady from mainland China. She was hesitant if she should take my tract. And finally she took it. Then I asked if I could share about this before the bus came. She then suddenly firmed up and rejected to continue with our chat. Anyhow, at least she kept the tract and hope God will use it to move her.

1) Bob , a tall Aussie elderly man was prepared by God to wait at the bus stop for a long time as his route is of very infrequent schedule. We chatted for almost 20- 30 minutes. While I shared the gospel, he kept interjecting with many of his questions , like what is sin, will people before Christ be saved, etc. Thanks God that his attitude had eventually softened up and appeared receptive to the gospel accepting the fact that he also needs Jesus despite he all along considers himself a good person.

2) Ashan an Iran urban office lady look woman, finding her way to Indooroopilly shopping centre. She found the bus at the wrong bus. Winnie was the first to approach but could not help so I stepped in and found that she needed to go another bus stop across the road on another street. I offered to walk her to the right bus station making sure she would not got to a wrong bus station heading to the opposite direction to city. God inspired me to stress the points that taking a wrong bus at a wrong bus stop is frustrating thing but you still have chance to make it right eventually. But losing the way and heading to a wrong eternal place in hell instead of heaven is a irreversible mistake that no one should afford. She admit the gospel is sensible and logical but may need more time to sink in the importance. I told her Iran actually has become a thriving new Christian kingdom and she admitted she has many Christian friends. So I pray that God will guide and put her in many good Christian friends hand like God put her in my hand to help her find the right bus.

3) Houng a Vietnamese student from NZ. He happily accepted the tract but was in a hurry to meet his friends who are coming to pick him up. I however still managed to shared the nutshell of the gospel to him in less than a minutes of time.

4) A righteous girl saw me took photo of Winnie sharing gospel with another Chinese girl. She let me share the gospel with her for the purpose of waiting for the finish of conversation of Winnie with that girl. Then she walked over to prompt the girl that I took her picture. I was a little bit surprised in the calculated way of that Indian looks lady but she has the righteous moral ground to give me in. I explained to them that the photo normally avoid the face and it did when I showed them. Anyhow, the Chinese girl was persuaded to ask me to delete it. So, it is a lesson to learn not taking photo too obviously in front of other passers by .

5) Oscar was some one I met two weeks ago. I asked if he has read the tract again at home and how does he find it. The answer was a bit disappointing as he said he does not find the need for salvation. Nevertheless, I tried to go over the illustration of sin to prove that no one including him is good and perfect. Once we have sin, we need Jesus to die for our sin. I invited him to ponder on this issue again.

6) Daren a good old man willing to listen but seemingly has no idea of salvation. He was appreciative for my sharing but asked if I think I can convert everyone. I said it counts to convert even one person better than doing nothing.

Here are the sharing of Winnie on her 7 conversations.

感謝主今天的带领，讓我有機會與人分享福音。

第一及第二位是UQ 年青少女。Myer and Lucy. 明白主的救赎。願意尋求更多真理。

第三位是澳洲年青人。初時不願意接受單章。當他坐下，我問他是否認識耶穌基督，他沒有回答。我给他福音單章，跟着講述福音给他。

第四位是馬來西亞少女，Mary. 明白福音，願意接受免费禮物。

第五位是中国婦女，講述重要福音给她，巴士到達。

第六位是南美少女，Mimi,我用關牧師的方法來測試她，她完全明白救恩。我给她單章讓她傳给别人。

第七位 是中国少女，願意接受福音，找教會寻求更多真理。

第八位是Nathan, 澳洲男士。我們傾談很長。他説信自己靠自己。路是自己行出來。我解释给他，神創造萬物天地，因为亞當 夏娃反罪，所以我們都是罪人。如果我們信靠主耶稣，祂會拯救我們，死在十字架上 還赏我們的罪債，我們的罪便得赦免。這是免费禮物。聖靈便會進入我們心裏，我們便有能力做任何事。當信了主耶稣基督，便會體會到主的大能，我們應該做不到的事，反然有能力做到。我勸他想清楚，不信便會落地獄。如果信了，明天的死，便會上天堂。他説會詳细想一想。

感謝讚美主，賜我能力解釋给他，這也是主的大能。"

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday September 29, 2020 from 1330 - 1500

Today only Johnny and me were available, Winnie and Gary had other ministry engagement. It was a fine Spring afternoon best for street evangelism. But the people flow was a bit slow and quiet. And the rejection rate was high possibly affected by holiday mood that people tended not to chat but enjoy their own private space to listen to music or chatting with friends over the phone. Nevertheless, God grace was still sufficient for us to have our divine appointments especially Johnny getting more longer conversation as recap below: -

1.Hannah is from Japan which I learned only at the end of our conversation. She told me she could not speak Chinese so I thought she possibly is either Vietnamese, or Korean. She appeared very opened and listened to my gospel sharing with interest. Though she showed receptive to the gospel, but the arrival of the bus just striped away the timing to invite her to accept Jesus. God anyway was still in control.

2. Then a Church members of Johnny, Madam Siu turned up with her friend Madam Shen who is an Indonesia Diaspora from Hong Kong. Madam Siu only told me Madam Shen is not yet a Christian. I could have only limited time to share gospel with Madam Shen. 沈香港印尼人未完結福音講述。

3.Fiona a middle aged Aussie lady who is an extreme Catholic faith professing person. She declines and rejects all other forms of Christianity. She kept saying I should study more about the pure Catholic path, but obviously, it is still human good deeds based. With this arrogant attitude, I can only pray for her to humble herself in God;s timing to put her faith back to Sola Christ.

4 Malinga from Zambia was very friendly to let me with him the gospel. But quickly I noticed he is a Christian and upon posing to him the two diagnosis questions, he got it right to show assurance of salvation. We parted our way when the bus arrived by blessing each other.

5. A local Aussie Lady declined the approach by Johnny. She took her seat besides me and started reading a book entitled "The key of self kindness" I tried to start a conversation about the possibility of self perfection but still failed. She was insistent to not be disturbed from reading the book by herself.

As for Johnny two of his long conversation stood out:

1)Mr Wu from Wuhan 伍武漢，it was rared that mainland Chinese are willing to stop for a chat. But God moved him to stop and chatted for a long time with Johnny. He has many previous contact with Christians and has already built up flavorsome with Christianity. 已有接觸，對基督教有好感，We introduced him the contact to Power to Change(介紹了 Power to Change) and pray that God will lead him to make the final step of faith to accept Jesus.

2) A Malaysian Muslim stopped to chat with Johnny but with the intention to debate on the superiority of Muslim over all other religions including Christianity. Their problem is the lack of sense of guilt on sin. Treating all the trivial sin as unimportance that can be off set by good deeds. When Johnny told him getting married with many women is sin including Mohammad. He argued that Mohammad only entered into a relationship with a woman one at a time which of course is not true. They are like the Pharisee finding gray area to get around all sort of sins. This conversation anyway will still served the purpose of God to challenge his fake faith.

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday September 22, 2020 From 1330 to 1500

Gary came to joined us while Yan was not available. So we continued to serve at Toowong with a team of Four. The more we serve God in a street evangelism environment with so many uncontrollable factors, the more we experience the sovereign control of God throughout the whole course of our 1.5 hours ministry time. Without God's intervention, the normal response we get is blunt rejection. Many of our approach today faced initial rejection but once God intervened, we miraculously can get a conversation later at our 2nd approach with good result. Both Gary and Johnny now also would occasionally left their outreach outpost to walk with gospel targets to the Bus Station to continue with their conversation until finished or the arrival of the bus which ever happened first.

I have 6 conversations while Winnie had 8 as recap below: -

1) Emma an Indian girl was first approached by Winnie. She cheerfully declared she is a Christian. I felt it was the right time for me to interject and demonstrate to Winnie how to diagnosis and ensure if she has assurance of salvation. Not too surprise, she claimed she ony has 80 % assurance which however is stemmed from her good deeds. The 20 % uncertainty is the room she feels she might learn to love and trust Jesus more. So we had to correct her understanding that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus alone as it was Jesus who died as a perfect man to take our place for eternal death punishment in hell. Can only pray that God will humble here heart to take in this this opposite view about salvation.

2) Manijan is a Malaysian girl seemingly of Muslim background. But she appeared very friendly for a chat. She also was receptive to the gospel I shared just in time before the bus arrived. Pray for God follow up work in her heart.

3) Then God led me to talk with another Two Malaysian girls. They were chatting by themselves but did not feel offended by my interjection to ask for a chat to share the Gospel. The response was positive despite I did not have time to cross check their full understanding because of the arrival of the bus.

4) Jacky is from Quangdong 廣東 who rejected both Winnie first then me a short time later. But his bus had not yet come, so I approached him the 3rd time aiming at just handing him the tract. He reluctantly accepted it and query what was it all about. Then God re-opened the shut window for me to have a very throughout sharing of both my testimony and the core of gospel. His attitude turned more friendly and receptive when I found out he is from

Quangdong and can speak Cantonese. He even missed the bus because he wanted to finish hearing my sharing. So it was so obvious that God had soften his heart and turned him around to be one receptive person to the Gospel.

5) Naja was an old lady from France. She also showed reluctance to have long chat as such she dismissed Winnie after a short conversation. But God made her bus not arriving for more than half and hour allowing me time to share the full gospel with her that she initially did not want to listen in depth.

6) Then I chatted with two UQ students fro China. One appeared more friendly and talkative. He indicated he has many Christian friends and has heard of the Gospel many times before including through meeting of the Power to Change. Then the bus arrived to cut our conversation short. I added only at the end that, he has already been locked up as a target in God's radar.

感謝主 今天的帶領，謝謝關牧師的教導，今天上到一課，確實得救的確據。今天，神 讓我遇上八人傳福音的機會。

第一位是上周遇到的香港青年，偉行。他是 UQ 學生。我問及他的信仰，再次講述我們的罪，耶穌基督的大愛。他説間中都有跟朋友上教會。我説大學都有一教會，可以到那裏主日崇拜。

第二位，Emma, 她説是基督徒，當我們講及信仰時，關牧師到來，問及她確實得到全部救恩。從中我便學到新的一課。

第三位是中国青年，會想想耶稣基督的大爱。

第四位是澳洲青年，不願意聽，我問及他認識耶穌基督嗎？他沒有回答，跟着我便傳福音给他。

第五位是印度男女朋友，Lesley,女培男朋友 Tom 來澳洲讀書。Lesley 願意信靠主耶穌，尋求更多真理。

第六位澳洲女士，講完福音，巴士到達。

第七位，我不清楚他是中国人或是混血兒，當我講完福音，他説是基督徒，我便引入關牧師的教導，測示他得救的確據。果然他信仰不清楚。我便解释给他。

第八位 Steve, 來自 California, 聽完福音後，願意抽時間去教會。

雖然每周我都需要 1.5 小時上 Brisbane 傳福音，但每次都學到不同的功課，感謝讚美主及關牧師的教導。ô

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on Tuesday September 14, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

It was a sunny Spring afternoon that was perfect for street Evangelism with the four of us like last week, i.e. Johnny, Winnie, Yan and Hung serving again as a team. God did again teach us a good lesson of team work that we supplemented each others unknowingly under the directorship of God to make no one escape His pre-destine election.

I was able to watch the trace of God's work as a sideline- observer because I managed to let Winnie take up most of the available opportunities. For at least four occasions, God moved Winnie to approach the 2nd time with success for those either having rejected the initial approach by the Johnny and Yan team at the Traffic light outpost, or those who even had rejected Winnie first approach. I believed it is not done in flesh as normally we will give up when rejected once. But because it is the work of God, so as His obedient servants, we will be sensitive to God's direction against our human reaction in flesh. As a result, Winnie had got an amazing count of nine divine appointments occasion to share the gospel. Both Johnny and I had our chance though lesser in number. For example I only had 6 chances. But all of them served the purpose of God to either doing follow up with people we contacted before or getting chance to learn the mind set of Muslim which may be helpful for my future handling of Muslim background non-believers.

1) Jerrod reminded me he met me before. He still had the tract in his back pack that he had not yet read. Then I recalled I did not have enough time to finish the gospel last time. So it was perfect for me to pick up from where we left off last time and finished the gospel sharing this time. So it was God who made our 2nd encounter happen to serve His purpose to save Jerrod.

2) Then I approached Lily she alo said she had chatted with Winnie last week. I did the needed follow up to make sure she fully understood her need for Jesus as her saviour.

3) Then I talked to a Caribbean girl just in time before the bus came. She took the tract which I was determined to give her to make sure that the message I shared will be reinforced by the tract.

4) A South American lady took the tract but had to rush away to avoid further chat.

5) Another Chinese girl could only take the tract as the bus came that ended our conversation right away.

6) Finally, I saw a Middle East look person who took the tract from Johnny but did not stop for a chat. Instead he started reading the tract when he walked to the bus stop. He read the tract seriously so I waited until he finished. Instead of letting me to evangelize him, Jiam declared he is a Muslim and taking the initiative to elaborate on the differences of doctrine between Islam and Christianity. I opined that this was again God's design to let me know from a Muslim perspective about their faith so that I can find a better angle to evangelize Muslim in the future.

Basically Muslims deem that Allah God have the full power to forgive sin. As long as human admit we are sinner, simply ask for direct forgiveness from God should be enough. Noticed here that Muslim has no sense of the need for taking punishment of our sin. God's verbal approval is good enough for anyone one's sins be waived. Also in Muslim belief, God only cares about major sin that we have really acted them out. For all other trivial sins especially those that remain as thought but no real act of crime. They will not be counted. So this mind set would fit best in the Good person scenario. The more good work we have done the better chance we can earn forgiveness from God on major sins. I will never learn this Muslim mindset if not prompted by God to let this friendly Muslim guy to tell it to me.

感謝主今天的带领，讓我可以傳福音给十人。，

第一位是中国少女， Lisa 願意想想耶穌基督的愛。(*)

(*) She declined the approach by Yan but was intercepted by Winnie not knowing she had rejected to even taking the tract.

第二位是香港來的青年，偉行。初時不願意接受單章，當他們坐下，我行過去問他們是否認識耶穌基督。他的朋友不願意聽，行開了，而他願意留下聽我講的，願意接受免费禮物，到教會尋求更多真理。

第三位，澳洲女士，Anne從 Darwin來的。明白救恩，願意去教會尋求真理。

第四位，中国少女。Mary, 當我講完福音给她，巴士到達。

第五位，中国青年，古賓，聽完福音後，需要時間想想。

第六位，澳洲女士，Lilian. 初時不願意聽，後來當她停下查看巴士時間，我便行過去，問她是否認識耶穌基督，當我講完福音後，她説她是基督徒，每周都去教會，每天都有禱告。我問她願意傳福音给其他人，她説可以，我便给她單章。

第七位是印度女士推着婴儿车，初時亦不肯聽福音，當她坐下，我便問及她是否認識耶稣基督，跟着傳福音给她。

第八位，是印度夫婦，當我講完福音，巴士到達。

第九位是澳洲老人，我也是問及他是否認識耶稣基督，他説不認識。我便傳福音给他。

感謝主的教導，今天我所學到的功課，就是如果他們不接受單章，當他們停下來時，如果不反對，便可以馬上傳福音给他們。 感謝讚美主

 

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Operation 513 Battle Log for Toowong Village on September 8, 2020 from 1330 to 1500

Today was a warm day . It was also a bit dry despite it is just he beginning of Spring into its 2nd week. The dryness applied also to today outreach. It was rare that all the four team mates persistently face rejection and got comparatively less divine chatting appointment for Gospel sharing conversation. This was particularly a testing lesson for the new members Yan Chang who joined us the 2nd time after a long rest. We all have to learn that , God is in control in all circumstances and there is always a lesson for us to learn to be patience and submit to God's timing and plan.

Comparatively, Winnie had got the most number of conversation. So it also shows that the election of God to be His messenger does not depend on our experience and skill level. It is all the sovereign work of God in operation. All is needed is trust and obey.

Recap below is the four significant conversations I had after being rejected numerous times.

1) A Black Christian did not stop when Winnie approached him. But when he took his seat to wait for the bus, he responded to my approach asking what the tract is. When he found out it is a gospel tract, he declared he is a Christian. I immediately switched to ask him the two diagnosis questions. But it was too late to get a response as the bus just came by that time. Anyhow, the man express His respect to our street evangelism ministry. Hopefully he will be motivated to do likewise.

2) Another Old man also rejected Winnie's approach but agreed to talk while waiting for the bus. The bus came very fast. I could only manged to share the nutshell of the gospel and handed him a tract.

3) A Muslim background UQ student showed initial rejection. I changed tactic to chat on migration policy and finally shared the full gospel before teh bus arrived.

4) Oscar was the only one who show receptive attitude toward gospel. He was very attentive and agreed on whatever I shared. Pray for him to read the tract and touch by God for a fruit bearing conversion.

感謝主今天的带领，讓我可以學到，傳福音给五人。主安排需要福音人士给我們，讓我們可以個别傳福音，對像不是我們㨂選的。

第一位遇上的是澳洲少女，Celina, 她願意信靠主耶稣基督。第二位是中国青年，初時他不願意接受單章，後來當他停下 查看巴士時間時，我行過去 問他認識耶穌基督嗎？跟着傳講福音给他，當我講完後，巴士到達。第三位是 Tegan, 澳洲女士，當她遇見 Johnny時，不願意留下聽福音。當她坐下，我嘗試問她願意查考你是否一個好人。她願意 便傳了福音给她。第四位，澳洲少女，Angella，願意接受耶稣基督。第五位，Leo, 澳洲男士，聽完福音後，他説要詳细想清楚。

留下聽福音的人，不是我們選擇的，是神預早安排好给我們的。有的人不願意留下聽我講的，願意聽關牧師講的。有的不願意聽 Johnny 講的，卻願意聽我講的。所以完全都是神的安排，固此我們要順服神的带领。感謝讚美主 今天學到的功課 是要信靠顺服。

 

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