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

Johnny and Hung teamed up to serve at Toowong as usual. The Autumn sun was less scorching but appeared lay back warm providing a very pleasant open air outreach environment. Today, I forgot to bring my iPhone as such I could not take any photo but focused completely in outreach. By memory, I reached out to Mainlander from Shandong, Wuxi, Neimongu, and from Hng Kong. Normally it is Mainlander harder for outreach but this time all three of them had a good chat and all appeared receptive to the gospel message. On the contrary, the Hong Konger showed great indifference to reject the gospel despite my of my Hong Kong affiliation. So it was all be God's predestination to elect a certain person to have a softened heart and humble attitude to listen and accept the gospel. As for western people, I met a PNG Christian girl who however does not have assurance of salvation. She was thankful for my clarification to help her re-establish her 100% assurance of salvation and understood that God's sovereign power an Will has determined to transform us back to perfection on the foundation of Jesus' redemptive work granting us readily the long lost heavenly citizenship. Finally, I was led to have a long chat with a Catholic background girl Finn who is Australian born but with parents from Irish and Finland. She was well prepared with a softened heart to take in all the gospel message and admitted her previous understanding of salvation was incomplete. She is willing to commit herself to Jesus accepting Him as Savior and Lord of her life. May His Will be done on all those whom we met and be moved to make their final step of faith.

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Glory to God, it was a great week on the streets!  3 of the 4 usual outreaches ran (I’m working back up to 4 out of 4).

 

On Tuesday afternoon, Roger was with me in Riccarton.  I had a slow week last week, and so I decided to ditch my flip chart and do ‘walk up’ this week instead.  I’m so glad I did.  Roger set up his flip chart, and after praying with him, I went for a wander down Riccarton Road, collecting rejections.

 

But once you collect enough rejections, you’ll strike someone willing and interested to talk.  I had a brief conversation with a young lady from Brazil. Before approaching a young man who I thought ‘he won’t be interested’, but to my surprise he was very interested.  It turned into one of those chats where they are fully engaged.  He was so engaged that he willingly let his bus pass (I was at a bus stop), knowing he could catch a later one, so we could continue to chat.

 

He was from East Timor, studying environmental science (I think it was) at the university.  His religious background was Catholic, and stemming from that, he considered his good deeds the reason he would get to heaven.  He resisted the law; considering himself good, he didn’t want to admit that he had done anything wrong.  And so I spend some time labouring with him on this.  Once he seemed to come to a point of understanding, I was able to switch to the gospel and labour through the check questions on that side.

 

Some of the details of the chat are fading in my memory now, but I remember him eagerly accepting a copy of the gospel of John.  And I remember rejoicing after he hopped on his bus.  God knows what the result will be, I leave him, prayerfully, in God’s hands.

 

It was a long chat, and I remember feeling drained, so Roger wrapped that outreach a little early.  We headed to a coffee shop for some debrief.

 

On Friday afternoon, Andy & Greg were with me in the city.  There were lots of people about.  It took me a while to work out that it was because of the school holidays.  I was paired up with Andy for a good portion of this outreach.

 

My first chat was quite awkward.  The girl was subtly resistant (didn’t really want to talk, but didn’t leave either).  And the guy with her said nothing, even when she tried to include him.  I wanted to bail from the chat due to the awkwardness - but I’m glad I didn’t.  In spite of the resistance, she heard the law, and then finally the gospel.  And then she opened up a little about her religious background, a mix of Catholic and Mormon influence.  I could tell she was comparing what I was saying to that.  And so I did my best to draw the distinctions (we are not saved by our works).

 

Later I talked to 2 young men who were out promoting a new local barber shop.  It was an interesting chat, but they were both in different places and it became difficult to keep them both engaged at the same time.  One of them was particularly resistant (yet still friendly).  Eventually I decided to end this chat.  They were supposed to be promoting the barber shop, and they both continued in their resistance.  Yet they accepted tracts.

 

Next up I had a great chat with two young teens who went to a Christian high school.  Sadly, they too were resistant in their own way.  Yet, they responded well to the logic of what I was explaining, even if they weren’t showing interest.

 

Sadly, I forgot to take a picture for Friday’s outreach.  But, to make up for it, I’ll include 2 for Sunday’s outreach in the city.  This was an AMAZING outreach.  A team of 5: Joe and Elijah from my church, plus Mike, Susan and myself.

 

The outreach started with just Joe, Elijah and I.  We prayed, and then set up a flip chart (it’s a great tool for training with).  We were quickly into our first chat with 2 young men.  Glory to God, it was a textbook chat, where I was able to work through the whole chat with no resistance – even a profession from one of them.  They both received tracts, a gospel of John, and contact cards for our church.

 

Then a young Muslim lady and her friend went past.  They were intrigued by the flip chart, but didn’t want to stop, so took tracts instead.  But then they stopped, talked together briefly, and then came back!  They wanted to do the ‘good person’ test.  It was an amazing chat.  I didn’t get any of the usual resistance I get from people with an Islamic background.  What a joy!  I was sad I didn’t have any more gospels of John, but I told her how she could get a Bible on her phone.  She also took a church contact card.

 

The chats just didn’t stop, one would roll into another!  Next up we had about 7 young people stop and engage - great chat.

 

And then a man from Australia stopped.  He had a Christian background, but had drifted away.  He didn’t think there was any hope for him now.  I was able to take him through the law, and because I could tell he had to leave, I touched on the gospel, plus a critical check question to show how he was currently trusting in works for salvation, but that it was never too late: because of the gift of Christ!  Short chat, but that one was so special to me.  He left with a tract.

 

By this stage, Mike was with us, and he had set up his flip chart further down (Joe joined him).  He ended up having a chat with a work mate!  The gospel conversation has been started, and there will now be further opportunity to continue it.  God is good.

 

Well, that’s a snapshot of the street work for the week.  Plenty of gospel work online too.

 

I’ll leave it at that.  Sharing the gospel is such a joy.  I’ll never get sick of it.  When I’m ministering to others, I’m also ministering to myself.  The gospel is so simple, and yet it’s so deep.  Be encouraged to take the opportunities to talk to people about Jesus, as you can!  All glory to God alone.

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday April 17th 2024 from 1300-1500

Thanks God, Johnny had recovered from CoVid19 and could come for the Sunnybank gospel outreach though he was late because of GP appointment. I started first and johnny joined me 20 min or so later. More Chinese than local Aussie or people of other nations were contacted. Some made outright reject and most were open for the Gospel, as elected and prepared by God.

1) The beginning was not so smooth, being rejected by the first girl likely form mainland, then having approached the 2nd one with success yet, she was only friendly or timid enough to let me share even the full gospel, but at the end, she still pulled out without taking a tract even before the bus arrived.

2) Despite of that discouraging start, I was led to connect with Ding?from Anhui . He was more open and receptive to the gospel message, though our conversation was cut short by his arriving bus.

3) Then I was led to chat with an ABC of Taiwan origin , his mind set is quite assembling with the younger generation Aussie looking down on religious thought. But he admitted he could not deny the logic of the gospel that we, human race, is of depravity beyond self-redemption. That he shared the view that we all need a Savior. At this point his bus arrived and I left him with a tract and the room for reflection and pray for the follow up work of the Holy Spirit.

4) Then I connected with a local Aussie of mature age and breaking the ice on the topic about pharmacies policy that tend to cut price by cutting staff as such the queue time is getting longer. It certainly brought up the issue of human profit-oriented nature. Though I did not even have time to start the gospel message, we certainly had agreed on the basis that human nature have all been distorted by sin of selfishness and self-centeredness.

5) Then I caught up with a Tall Aussie guy who were open to let me share the full gospel. Yet he still opined that there is no need to be perfect as long as we tried our best to be a good person. I could only let go when his bus arrived as obviously, his heart is still hallow without the sense of a righteous God.

6) Last but not the lease, I was led to approach another ABC Salina, who again was polite and open to let me share her the full gospel but just made a note right away that she has heard all these when she was studying in a Christian school. I asked her if she has any negative comment on the logic and sensibility of the gospel then she failed to give a valid reason. So, it was simply a prototyping impression that religion is for those weak and disadvantage people. As long as she could remain to be a good enough person, student etc. Religion so far is a bit irrelevant. So, I could only pray for the follow up work of the Holy Spirit to let her experience the helplessness of human that God alone is the way out.

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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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Had a bit of a stressful week in my personal life.  But I’ve learnt so much from it.  I now have a fresh empathy for those that get anxious.  I’ve experienced being constant in prayer and dependence on God - and seeing him answer!  I’ve learned that my micro management is not always needed; when people get in tough spots, God has given them survival instincts - yet, encouragement and support is helpful.  I hope some of this will be applied in my evangelism work in the future.

 

But, anyway, 2 street outreaches this week: Tuesday in Riccarton (with Roger), and Sunday (today, with Thomas) in the City.  On Friday and Saturday I was so tired I stayed home and worked online.

 

Tuesday started out a bit slow, yet Roger seemed busy on his side!  3 Christchurch Boys High students came and sat on the seats behind where Roger was, and since Roger was already in a chat, I decided to go over and engage them.

 

They seemed to have time, so I took it slow - I didn’t push it.  And I gave them plenty of opportunities to disengage.  Yet, at least 2 of them were keen to continue the conversation.

 

It was interesting watching them test my character.  Is this guy genuine?

 

Anyway, I fielded a lot of questions, but within that I was able to share the law and the gospel, and start working through check questions.  It was a great chat.

 

I’m sure I had other chats - I just can’t remember them now.  It was a full 2 hour outreach.  Glimpses of short chats are slowly coming back into my memory.  Nothing is wasted - even those short passing comments / interactions.  Little bits of ploughing and sowing.  God knows the result.

 

It was great to have Thomas join me again for today’s outreach.  He enjoyed the ‘walk up’, from the last time he joined me, so we decided to do that again today - no flip chart.  We started with prayer, and then put a few tracts & a gospel of John in our back pockets, before moving down Cashel Mall.

 

We started collecting rejections.  I think on the 4th approach we got some engagement.  It was with a young couple, hung over.  The guy had a ‘super religious’ family, but was in rejection.  He believed in God, and heaven, but not hell.  I was able to address that, but I was amazed he talked with us for as long as he did, before he decided he didn’t want to keep chatting about it.  Yet, they both took tracts.  He even said, ‘keep doing what you’re doing’.

 

I had a short chat with a young Irish couple from Sydney.  And then Thomas had a few goes at starting chats.

 

We then got into a great chat with 6 or 7 high school aged guys.  They were all in different places, so that was quite hard, but they were all very engaged in different ways.  They were queueing up questions by putting their hands up!  I spend a lot of time on building / builder, really nailing that down, before moving into the law and then the gospel and checks.  I think some of them were really getting it.  Tracts were accepted and a gospel of John was taken - I only had 1, and so they even did ‘rock, paper, scissors’ for it!  I’ve never had that occur before!

 

Thomas started the next chat, it was with a young couple.  He was instantly engaged!  She was very much not.  He came to grasp the gospel, although he really struggled with the initial check question.  “My brain is trying to process it”.  It was at this point that she became involved in the conversation.  She was very resistant, I became very aware of how the issue was less about intellect / logic, and more about something emotional.  I wanted to address it, but I struggled to disengage the intellect and address it.  In hindsight, I should probably just cut to the law!

 

We finished up with 3 more short interactions before starting to head back towards the car.

 

It was then that we encountered our local World Mission Society Church of God evangelists.  I decided to engage them in a very friendly manner.  One of them looked fresh.  What was great was the freshie decided to engage Thomas while I talked to the main evangelist.  That was great!  Because the guy I was talking to was very open about how closed he was (he refused my offer to catch up again or via email).  Yet, Thomas was able to engage the freshie with the gospel.

 

Well, that wraps another week of God’s mercy.  Please pray that God continues to raise up labourers for the harvest!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday April 10th 2024 from 1300-1500

Praised be to God that sister Ada Gu was moved by the Spirit to join the Sunnybank Gospel outreach today with Johnny and Hung. Ada was readily an intentional gospel outreach warrior as led by the Spirit in friend circles as well as randomly at public place. We intermittently discussed and shared view of Biblical teaching on many aspects relating to gospel, sin, salvation, and onwards spiritual growth after conversion.

There was also team work orchestrated by the Spirit that guiding us to serve individual and groups of people as a team. Battle log of Hung is as recap below: -

1) A lady by the surname Shing ? from Tianjin, China was humble enough to listen to the full gospel and admitted the logic that every human being as long as we admitted ourself imperfect, then we all need salvation by a perfect person which can only be Jesus the Son of God who incarnated as a perfect human to come to save us by dying for us taking our place to receive the eternal death punishment. She willingly took a tract to revise on my message at the end.

2) Then I was led to chat with another mainland from North Easter China , possibly Liaoning . She is UQ student on Business Study. She was also open and friendly to listen to the gospel though not as receptive and assertive as Miss Shing.

3) Then I was to hook up with Jenny an Australian Born Hongkonger. She is a UQ student. Her parents father is from HKG and mother form Singapore. Her father is a Catholic Christian but she declared herself a protestant Christian. Yet upon checking on assurance of salvation, she only has 90% certainty she can go to heaven, so I took the trouble to clarify her holistic understanding of salvation. At the point, her friend turned up. But at this point in time, Ada also was led to approach us and took over the conversation with the new Chinese girl who chose to speak Mandarin

4) The Chinese mainlander girl is also a UQ student, but here English is not good enough for deep communication in English. God moved Ada in time to have a good chat with her.

5) Last but not the least, IK was led to have a long chat with Shred the Indian who study Engineering at QUT. His parents are of Hinduism faith but he is more of less non-religious. But he was quite drawn into the gospel message by the pure logic that as long as we are not perfect, good persons and bad criminal will both face judgement after death as such we all need a Savior to take over the punishment of our sins acting as the only mediator to help us reconcile with God.

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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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I love climate change marches.  Or any kind of gathering that brings people passionate about some form of justice.  Because I always end up getting to talk to a lot of young, intelligent, people about Jesus - who makes so much sense!

 

It was no different on Friday, with a climate change march just getting started as I arrived at the bridge of remembrance.  It was interesting profiling all the people there (gay rights, palestinian rights, animal rights) and seeing a common thread: hurt people with no answers, who need to hear the answer: Jesus.

 

Anyway, after the march, young people would be moving through the city in little groups, and I could hand out tracts, or get into gospel conversations with them.

 

There was one young man, in his last year in high school.  We started by talking about the march and what the ultimate goal / solution of the march was.  I was then able to gently swing the conversations to deeper things.  Interestingly, his parents went to a good local church, but he was at a crossroads with Christianity.  He reminded me of me at his age.  I wanted to save him some pain, and so I pleaded with him about Christ.  But I could tell he wasn’t interested.  He was being polite in continuing the conversation, and so I respected that and wrapped it up.

 

By this stage, Roger had engaged his friends, who didn’t want to engage with me.  Rogers' chat seemed to be going well, so the kid I talked to went down a bit to wait for them patiently.  That was good, but sad that he was rejecting Christ himself at the moment.

 

I ended up finishing up the outreach in an unusual way.  There are usually Jehovah’s Witnesses about, and I normally leave them to themselves, but today I decided to approach them.  Usually when I approach people in cults, I take a non standard approach, them being prepared for a frontal assault.  And today was no different.  I started by asking them about another cult that is rampant in Christchurch at the moment: World Mission Society Church of God (the mother god cult).  I was curious on how 1 cult deals with another cult.  Interestingly, they didn’t know much about it.  But we ended up getting into a friendly conversation and getting to know each other better.  We talked about things we believed, without ever directly attacking each other.  I guess it could be considered a ‘waste of time’, as I never got to work on sharing the law or the gospel with them.  But at least I know them better as people - I know their names.  God willing that will lead to more conversation opportunities in the future - if not with me, with another Christian who will be able to bring truth and clarity to them.

 

On Sunday, I had Joseph and Elijah - from my own church - join me for the afternoon outreach.  They are familiar with the flip chart, so I decided to bring that with me for this outreach.  We prayed, and then set it up on the corner of Cashel and Colombo.

 

The first 15 minutes of the outreach was slow.  No takers.  I was concerned that my boast about an outreach always ending with at least one meaningful conversation would fall flat!  Yet, God was faithful, 2 young ladies who had gone past earlier, came back and were keen to engage.  It was a set up: they were there for a fight.  It became clear early that climate change was something they were passionate about.  But I was able to swing the conversation away from that and to the question of how we know what is right and wrong.  That led to the Building / Builder analogy.  They fought hard, but I didn’t back down, just answering their objections and sticking to my main point: there must be a universe maker.  It was interesting to watch the main opponent eventually concede the point (without actually saying so), I was then able to move into the law and get to the gospel.  It was a great chat, but sadly they had to go.

 

From here the outreach was busy.  If we weren’t in a conversation, sharing the gospel, I was debriefing and training with Joseph and Elijah.

 

Next we had another 2 girls there, this time not to attach, but just curious.  Sadly, they weren’t really engaging, so I touched on the law and the gospel before giving them tracts.

 

There was a young Catholic guy, who was also in it to fight.  That was a great chat, as we got to wrestle with the tension of repentance (that our deeds don’t save us, but deeds will follow our salvation).

 

There was a young couple who didn’t believe in God, but when they heard the building / builder analogy, he said, ‘that makes sense’, and they opened up to hear the law and the gospel.

 

These chats would often draw others to find out what was happening.  And tracts were able to be distributed.

 

God truly answered our prayers.  I was encouraged, because I so want Joseph and Elijah to have a good experience and be willing to come again and to grow in their ability to share Christ, for God’s glory alone.

 

We ended the outreach with a chat with one of my regulars.  Sadly, he knows about Christian things, but is clearly trusting in his works for salvation and now willing to reason - just wanting to joke around instead.

 

No outreaches on Tuesday or Saturday.  I decided to work online instead, and regather my strength.  God willing I’ll be able to do a full week of street outreach next week.

 

Please keep the team in prayer.  Soli Deo Gloria!!

 

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Battle Log of Operation 513 at Sunnybank on Wednesday April 3rd, 2024 from 1300-1500

It was two hours of journey of grace today, as the street outreach time was overlapped with the spinal surgery of Ling which started a bit late roughly towards 1300 and finished by 1433. In between, my prayer networks were fully mobilized to pray for Ling. God even summoned a student nurse doing her placement at the Brisbane Private Hospital to meet me at the Sunny bank bus stop. She was dropped off by friend at the bus stop waiting for connection to CBD. And at this time, Ah Lee and Billy turned up again so Ah Lee led the four of us including the student nurse Esther that I had just met into prayer. Then when we were about to finish the street outreach, good news from the hospital came telling us the operation is finished and all went well. So, it was a great experience of mobilizing all saints to pray for Ling leading to the smooth completion of the operations, Need continuous prayers for recovery and rehab. As for the street outreach, God also connected a couple of people I had a conversation 2 weeks Patrice the Columbian and Niroshan the Sri Lankan even 3 years ago. But through their feedback, our ministry has been under constant surveillance as such we really have been used by God as His witnesses to reflect commitment loyalty and perseverance.

1) Patrice the Columbian girl that I met 2 weeks ago reaffirmed her assurance of salvation.

2) Bianca an aborigine from Ipswich who claimed to be a Christian but only has 90 % assurance of salvation but 10 % uncertainty as she still could not get rid of smoking cigarette. I clarified that we are all saved by grace through faith and because of only the work of Jesus that we are firmly saved and be given back our Heavenly Citizenship. She was all happy and thankful for this clarification and teaching

3) Rejected by a Chinese

4) A couples from Shanghai who have already been migrated to Australia they were friendly and had courtesy to listen to the gospel Yet at the end they did not take a tract.

5) Esther a student nurse doing placement at Brisbane Private Hospital of Catholic background. God just sent her to sit beside me and brought Lee and Billy together we formed a on the spot prayer groups for the operations of Ling at that time was still undergoing at Brisbane Private Hospital.

6) Billy and lee meeting them in just 3 weeks’ time. As said Lee organize a prayer group on the spot with Esther invited to join us.

7) Next was a Mainlander of UQ who was not interested but still had a causal chat investing for next chance.

8 ) Niroshan Sri Lankan Carindale Shopping Mall manager who admitted we chatted 3 years ago and since then he has been watching over me as such any one can become and object of surveillance. Niroshan is religious but did not want to committed to any religion.

9) Then came a Sudan woann living in Australia for 20 years. No time to share the gospel but successfully handed out a tract.

10) Lastly, a girl by the name of Chang from Sichuan have a long chat with me after wondering around for an hour. She studied speech therapist that led our conversation to the volunteer work of ICC in China and finally hitting the note in sharing Jesus through the counselling class. .

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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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