Journal of a Journey

Journal of a JourneyI have recently been challenged to start writing up brief journal entries about whathappens on the street, and then post it online so people can be encouraged and possiblyinspired to get out there and preach the Gospel.Sometimes I will include photos, of the adventures we have.Now with these entries I am not looking for the praise of man, but rather I want God tobe glorified out of this.May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering!God BlessJosh Williamson

Saturday, October, 1 2005The day was spent preparing myself for the battle that was to come, there was anuneasiness in my spirit about something was going to break in the city. This sent me tothe Word, and also to my knees to seek the face of the Almighty.At 7:30pm, Peter and Tanya Shliahov, plus myself arrived in Brisbane city, we went tothe underground carpark where we park week in and week out. The first tract was placedin the parking ticket dispenser, and the car behind ours took it, and later we saw themreading it.Once we parked the car Tanya got out and started to tract all the cars around about, thenwe heard it... It was a sound that we had heard a week before when security had pursuedus through the car park. The same security guard came up to us and was angry at ustracting cars. So we left the car park to make our way to King George Square.To get to the Square we had to go through the bus way, so Peter and Tanya tracted all thepeople waiting for the buses, while I went and placed a few tracts around the food court.We got across to the Square about 5 minutes later, and we met up with Josh Michael whohad come out with us for the first time. All of us made our way to a park bench where wecommitted the night in prayer, and we had a prayer meeting before kicking off the night.After about 40 minutes of prayer Peter went to go draw in chalk on the footpath near theintersection, he drew a cross, and wrote all different sins on the cross, along with thewords ‘Repent or perish - needGod.com’.Kevin Bessent arrived with his camera soon after, the plan was to do some filming andinterviewing people. I handed out a few millions to a bunch of homeless people, and oneguy approached us. It turned out that he was formerly a homeless man, but had sincebeen ‘saved’, so I asked him where he fellowships at? His reply was that he attends thelocal ‘Revival centre’ which is a cult that seems to be growing in strength.This cult teaches that one must speak in tongues to be saved, and also be baptised in thename of Jesus, otherwise you will be damned. Its this same cult denies the Jesus Christ isGod.So we asked him if we could interview him on film, he was interested to be filmed so westarted the interview. We walked through what he believed and why he believed it, thenwe slowly started to challenge him on certain points. Like the deity of Jesus Christ. Weshowed him the scripture, and he seemed stunned and even had the revelation that Jesusis in fact the Almighty God.Then I walked with him through the Law, and he said he would go to hell, and that heneeded to be saved. After the interview I sat down and spoke to him a bit more. Whiletalking to him, a young woman approached and asked what I was doing that night, now Ihad no idea who she was, so I asked her the same question. Her reply was, “Well I amnot repenting”, to which I said, “Thats fine you can do what ever want right up tojudgement day, but unless you repent you will perish.”Kevin then started to walk her through the Law while I spoke to the revival centre cultmember. While we were doing this Peter, Tanya, and Josh were doing tract work, andone to ones around the area with great success.There was alot of Christians in the area that night, and we encouraged alot of them, andthey encouraged us. Pray that these Christians will get on fire, and go out and witness.While this was all going on Kevin was still talking to the young woman, who we foundout was one of the trouble makers the night I got attacked while preaching. She was oneof the people that was stirring up the crowd to attack me, and she still rememberedeverything I preached that night, Kevin did a great job ministering to her. Pray for hersalvation.Shortly after we headed home, and when we returned I found alot of tracts stuck on mycar by the angry security guard. This guy must really be convicted to behaviour the wayhe is. Pray for him.May the Lord God receive all the Honour and Glory!

Monday, October 3, 2005Its one of those days, when you wake up, and all you wish to do is roll over and go backto sleep. My flesh was screaming that this morning, but my spirit was yelling ‘GET UP’so I got up really slowly and grabbed the bible to spend some quiet time with God.During the prayer time, I prayed that God would bring some more preachers along today,that we can work with in the field.After my quiet time with God, I went to the train station to catch the train up to Brisbane,something I have found to be a good outreach is leave tracts everywhere at the station asalot bored people sit around waiting for the next train.My train arrived late, and I was the first on bored tracting the seats as I went, then I satback and listened to a sermon by Dr. J Edwin Orr on Mp3.The train trip was uneventful a few people read the tracts, and got angry, some lookedconcerned.The temperature was 32’C today with around 80% humidity, not the best preachingwhether. I didn’t want to preach or stand in the sun, so I got on the free bus service thatgoes around the city, the purpose of this is to tract the bus, and enjoy the air conditioning!While walking to the bus I noticed alot of gospel tracts lying around, so I knew anotherpreacher was in the area, and by the type of tracts, I knew it was a brother we haveworked with before.The bus was nearing the end of its circuit when I spied the brother in the distancehanding out tracts, I got off and chased after him. I caught him in an area that was full of places to put tracts, so we had a great time inthere. We then made our way up the King George square, where I felt I needed to preach,something I didn’t want to do.When I arrived in the square I saw and old man, that looked like a business man standingin the shade. I thought nothing more about it, and proceeded to set up my soap box. Justas I was about to step up this old man started yelling, no not yelling but preaching thegospel of Jesus Christ!This was great another preacher, just like I had asked for that morning. GOD ISFAITHFUL!This brother preached with a fire for about 15 minutes, it was awesome. Not so heavy onlaw but lifted up the holiness of God.Right after he preached I got up, and preached for another 15 minutes, a nice crowdstopped to listen, one of the people listening ran off after I finished, and came back with acold bottle of water as a gift. Then after I finished another brother preached for 5minutes, then once he finished the first guy preached again. For yet another 10 minutes!After he stepped off, I went again.At this time the Lord Mayor of Brisbane city was in the square being filmed for a mediainterview, he was not happy that he had to keep moving because I was preaching, but Iwas in speakers corner, and I was preaching before he arrived so I kept on.The camera crews filmed me preaching, which I thought was odd, but kinda cool at thesame timeAfter the Mayor done his interview he walked near us preaching, so I spoke about sin,and how it doesn’t matter who you are, you still need to repent, and even called on theLord Mayor to repent. This made him really angry. He was mad you could see it. Hisaides stopped to listen but he had to call them to keep coming.I preached all up for about 10 minutes, and kept hammering repentance unto God, whilepreaching a worked walked past and shouted out ‘Keep preaching brother!’ This mademe not sure of if it was a heckler or the real deal.Not long after preaching, we were packing up, when this guy came back, and approachedus. Turns out he is also a preacher on the streets and wants to join us some time. PRAISEGOD FOR ANOTHER ANSWER TO PRAYER!What an awesome day to serve God! Praise unto His name!

Tuesday, October 4, 2005I woke up this morning, and my body was hurting. I was so tired, with about four hourssleep the last thing I wanted to do was get up and preach.But ‘woe is me if I don’t preach the gospel’, I got up to Brisbane, and I gave my brotherin Texas a call, I spoke to Tommy Bell for a little bit, and it was really encouraging tospeak to my mate from Evangelism Bootcamp in LA.After speaking to Tommy, I went and tracted up alot of the buses, and took time to talk toa few people on the bus. The temparture was 35’C with humidity nearing 90%, so it ishard to preach in this heat.While on the bus I passed King George Square, and saw a man in speakers corner wavinga bible, so I got off the bus to go listen to another preacher. He was preaching on theComing of the King, and how we need to be ready. My first thought was I wonder if thisguy has heard Hells Best Kept Secret, so after the preaching I asked him, and it turns outthat he knows Ray Comfort and has been praying for him.We exchanged details, and he is interested in coming out and preaching with us, God isstill answering the prayer from yesterday about rising up more preachers. Three newpreachers in 2 days! Plus another GNN seedsower contact, I am meeting with onThursday!After lunch Kevin Bessent came down to do some one to one filming, in the heat it washard to stop anyone, and the only people sitting down in the shade were goths. So overwe went to them, and asked if we could interview them, they were friendly, and like theopportunity to speak about their beliefs, turns out that one of them is an atheist, and theother two are pagans. So we walked through what they believe then swung it over to theLaw of God, and walked them through the Law, two of them kept justifying themselves,but one of them was looking convicted, and even started agreeing with me. Pray for thesegoths, that the darkness may be broken off them.It was getting on in the day after this, so I made my way back to the train station. Whileat the station I put tracts everywhere, and found a few new holes that hold tracts nicely.Praise God for a great day, and for His everlasting faithfulness!

Thursday, 6 October, 2005 Today was good, I was pumped and full on energy after taking a day off, to recharge the batteries. It was a very hot day up in the city the temperature was hitting 35’C, and high humidity. My first work of the day was to put tracts on the seats of the train, then sit back and watch the people sit down and read them, alot of people read the gospel message and put them back on the seat. It was a great fishing hole, then some guy got on who read it, got angry, read it again, got really angry, then read it again. Then he snapped, he got up and took every tract of the seat and ripped them up. A few people saw him coming, and hid the tract so they could read it. I met up with about three different preachers in the city, and had a short time of fellowship, then did alot of tract work. A fair few people wouldn’t take tracts today, because of the heat. At 12:30pm I had a meeting with a youth pastor that is interested in learning how to witness, the meeting went for about a hour and a half, and it was a great meeting. He is really wanting to come out on the streets, and even get John Legg from Way of the Master - Australia to come and do some training for his church. Today was a harder day for witnessing, but from what I was told while I was in meeting Peter and Kevin Bessent were doing video interviews, and had alot of success. Praise God for the work He is doing!

Saturday, 8 October, 2005 Yet another hot day here, the decision was made that for tonight’s outreach we would catch the train up to the city, and get a preach or two on the train in before starting the preaching in Brisbane. I got on the train, and soon found out that there was yet another delaying the in the tracks being closed. So they had to bus us around the affected areas. I met with Peter at Loganlea station, and then when we had to jump on the bus we started to tract everything. Seats on the bus were tracted, people were tracted, tracts were thrown off high points and then they floated down to the crowd below. Once we got bussed around the problem area, we got on another train and we were convinced that we were going to preach, but to be honest I got scared when about four big scary looking guys talking about jail time were standing next to us being loud mouths. So feeling really bad we tracted everything from the train station to King George Square. We had to walk past a church that had a ‘church night-club’ happening, it was such a good Christian event they had security on the door, so we made sure to tract people all around there. At 8:30pm Kevin Bessent met with Peter and I in the square, and we made our way up to the Queen Street mall to preach. We set up, and Peter preached first it was a short message but it covered all the basics, then I went and preached for a bit, and got a few angry hecklers, including one guy that kept yelling at me to name the commandments, so I kept naming them, and calling him to repent of his sin. After this we went and got something to eat and drink then made our way back down to preach again. It was then that Kevin, who very rarely preaches, ended up preaching on three different occasions, and also Peter had another preach. In one of Kevin’s open air preach, he got a few angry hecklers that wouldn’t listen to reason, I dealt with a couple of them on the side, and they got angry and left. Pray for these guys. We finally finished the night at about 12:45am, then when we got the to train station found that the trains had stopped running for the night, so we were stranded in the city. So after a quick call home, and waking my parents Dad was on his way to pick us up. All in all it was a great night with alot of people hearing the gospel! PRAISE GOD FOR HE IS WORTHY!

Monday, 10 October, 2005 Today was a day when to be honest I didn’t want to witness, I was tired, hot, and feeling sick. But not my will but His will be done. I arrived up the city after listening to the Revival Hymn on the train, and I was feeling good, it had pumped me up, and I was ready for preach. So I made my way to King George square to preach, when I felt God say ‘Do not preach today’ now this kind of shocked me, as I wanted to preach, and I questioned this, again I felt God say ‘Do not preach today’ I didn’t understand why, I wanted to preach, I wanted to declare the Word of the Lord, then it clicked ‘I wanted’ it would have been me preaching, and I would not have been relying on God. So I spent the day handing out tracts, and talking to people on the bus, and around the city. I think I got more out of today being obedient to what God said, than what I would have got out of it, if I had done my own thing. Praise God for His wisdom!

Tuesday, 11 October, 2005 Yet another hot day, the trend seems to be one that is going to be repeated over and over again. Today was a day that I wanted to just do tract work and one to one. So in the Square thats what I set about to do. Not long after starting I ran into Mick who is another street preacher, so we had a time of fellowship, and just a bit of time having a rest out of the sun. Kevin arrived about lunch time with his camera to do some interviews, so we went and spoke to some people. The first person we spoke to admitted they were going to hell, but couldn’t care less. He had no desire to live, and wished to die. He even tried suicide by jumping in front of a bus. While we were filming this bloke, another guy came along and he wanted to be interviewed because he is a ‘christian’, now if he was a Christian I am the pope. This guy admitted his sins, even said he created his own god that won’t punish sin, but that is alright because God loves him. I got angry at him, and hammered him with the scripture all he could say was that was for yesterday. Pray hard for this man!

Wednesday, 12 October, 2005Today is the day I take off from going up the streets, so I can spend some time doingstudies, and also writing articles (plus a little sleep in).But anyway God had a surprise this Wednesday, early in the morning Peter called me totell me some exciting news. In the Courier Mail which is the state newspaper, a reporterhad written an article called ‘A Million Reasons to Rediscover God’ and the motivebehind it was from where he had found a tract that I had put out on Monday.The tracts I was using was the down under million from Living Waters NZ, and thisreporter found the tract and wrote and article about it.Below is a copy of the article:A million reasons to rediscover God“Alas and alack, this note, discovered in the CBD yesterday, is not legal tender. Butwhile this clever piece of fakery might not allow you to retire to the Bahamas, it mightpay for your way into a more spiritual paradise. On the flipside is a web address whichtakes you to something called Australia for Jesus, a very useful website featuring a handylittle questionaire which tells you whether you're going to hell or heaven. For the record,Queensland Confidential (name of this newspaper section) will burn for eternity. Thewebsite contains links to a whole bunch of sites associated with American evangelist RayComfort. Yep, his real name. Interestingly, Ray is very chummy with former GrowingPains pin-up boy turned God-spruiker Kirk Cameron.”I sent the reporter an email explaining the gospel to him, and I got a reply basicallysaying he has been there and tried that. Must keep him in prayer!

Thursday, 13 October, 2005The day was overcast and looked like rain, but I went up to the city anyway. When I gotthere I met with Peter and Mick, then started to do tract work. As Peter and I walked upthe Queen Street Mall, we saw a large Asian religious movement handing out theirdemonic propaganda. So I called the Brisbane city council, to ask about how they canhave a permit and how can I get one.The council said they don’t have a permit, so I went and spoke to the head of themovement, and they were able to show me a permit. This called for a visit to the Counciloffice. We went and spoke to the council, and they went to shut down the occultmovement. But when they got there it was revealed that the council had no power overthis cult, because they were under Police permits. So we are now applying for the samething.While in the Mall a famous radio announcer walked out of a shop in front of me, so Icalled him to a stop and got to spoke to him. He was in a hurry so I didn’t get to witnessto him. But he did take a tract!At lunch time we made our way over to a prayer meeting some local Christian lay peoplehave. This prayer meeting is a prayer meeting, praying for revival. This went for nearlyan hour, then I had to rush to catch a train home.Peter and I were sitting on the train, and the carriage was filling with people, we knew wehad to preach on the train. Something we both haven’t done. So I played the ‘Thunderfrom Down Under’ compilation (available at http://fieldpreacher.com ), and a bit of asilence went over the train.We waited a few stations, and then Peter started to preach. It was a quick message, andthen we handed out tracts. At the next station we changed carriages so we could preach tomore people. This time I got to preach, the time frame I had was only five minutes, so Ipreached repentance unto God. One guy in the carriage got really angry and ran to another carriage and when we pulledinto station he made a complaint. But Queensland rail said nothing to us.Praise God for all He is doing!

Friday, 14 October, 2005RAIN RAIN RAIN! It has been raining since last night, although it is slowly stopping itis still overcast.Thats what it was like when I got to the city, rain was threatening all the time which isn’tgood for preaching. I met with Peter at the train station and we started walking to KingGeorge Square, on the way there we have to pass Wesley house, which is apart of theUniting Church, but they are very liberal. We knew there was a black board out the frontof the building so Peter pulled out some chalk and gave me some saying ‘First job of theday’, now I didn’t want to do it, so I looked for an excuse, and I found one! Standing infront of the black board was a man smoking. So I prayed out loud “God if you want me towrite on that board make that man move now in Jesus name. amen”. As soon as I saidamen, the man moved on still smoking. So I had to write. It was just a short messageabout eternity, and death also with NeedGod.com.We met with Mick in the square, and we had a quick time of prayer before heading out,due to the rain we had to keep it to basically only tract work. So Peter and I jumped on abus and tracted the seats, then got off caught another bus and done the same thing.After this we made our way to the mall to tract it up, which we did for a bit, while eatinglunch. Once lunch was finished we caught another bus to the train station with the intention ofpreaching on the train on the way home. It was about the time school finished so therewas alot of people on the train. Which made us really nervous about preaching.Eventually I got up and preached a quick gospel message to the crowed carriage. Thensat down, this is when a atheist decided to give me a ear full. She wasn’t happy about meforcing my beliefs, and I said I couldn’t do it anymore, so I pointed out to her, that shewas now forcing her beliefs upon me.She wasn’t to happy but we both had a common background, that of the AustralianArmy, so we spoke about the army and parted on friendly terms, with her hearing thegospel.Pray for all those that heard the gospel!

Saturday, 15 October, 2005It has been overcast all day, then when it comes to this evening the heavens open up anddown comes the rain. Just as I was getting in the car to drive to the city to preach.Peter and I arrived at 7:15pm and made our way to King George Square where we weregoing to meet Kevin, and also Paul Greenwood. We were standing undercover next to abuilding when a guy approached us, he came and said he wanted to smoke. So I gave hima million dollar tract, and then said “Your now supposed to say ‘Whats the million dollarquestion?” So he asked me it, so I was able to go through the law, to repentance withhim. He seemed to acknowledge his sin, but didn’t know what else to do. Please pray forhim.While I was witnessing Paul Greenwood showed up, so we had a bit of a chat about howthings are going in the world of evangelism both here in Brisbane, and also in his homeof Melbourne. At about 8:30pm Kevin arrived, and we then made our way to the valleyto preach, even though it was raining.We set up to preach under cover in the valley, which is fairly much the demonic capitolof Brisbane. Peter laid down to be the ‘dead’ body in a funeral. It was then a bunch ofdrunks came up, and wanted to urinate on Peters face, they got to the point of pullingdown their pants.After this I preached a short message just hammering sin, and repentance to God. It was afast moving crowd, and we couldn’t stop anyone. So we had a council of war to see whatto do next.We decided to go buy train tickets, and travel back and forth preaching on the train. Thatshow we were going to finish the night. Peter was the first to preach, God opened a doorthat while Pete was preparing he received a phone call from a wrong number, so hewitnessed to them, loud enough so everyone on the train could hear him. Once we got off this train, we caught another back into the city, where Pete preached yetagain, and then once he finished I had a go. When we arrived at central we turned aroundand caught yet another train. This time Paul Greenwood opened up for his first time as a‘Train preacher’. We made sure to hand out tracts to everyone on the train when wefinished preaching.The next train we caught was for Kevin to preach, he got the pick of the bunch. Thiscarriage was full of hell deserving God haters. So he preached and did they get angry.One guy was pronouncing curses, another was abusing us. But Kevin preached on, whenhe finished Paul had a go at them, when Paul finished I had a go at them. One guy we redeyes said I would die very soon of a blood clot. So I rebuked him, and pointed out youcan’t kill a dead man, as I am dead to sin, and alive to Christ.This was the last preach of the night, it was great to have Paul come up from Melbourne,and I am looking forward to working with him again in Wellington, New Zealand nextmonth.

Tuesday, 18 October, 2005Today I was feeling good about going to the city to witness, I started witnessing as soonas I got dropped off at the train station. Tracts everywhere, then I sat in a carriage with nopeople (no preaching), so I listened to a Mp3 sermon on the train ride in.Once in the city, I knew Mick was in the area since there were gospel tracts everywhere(this guy is the tract king). So I put a few tracts out, and made my way to the square.Where I met up with Mick. We had a bit of a chat for a bit about witnessing, and himwanting to learn how to better open air, and also wanting me to review a gospel tract hehad written.At lunch time Mick had a preach for about five minutes, then after him I got up to preach,just as all the buildings around the square had a fire drill, so that made well over 300people now standing in the square, well within in gospel preaching range. I preachedclose to twenty minutes, on the holiness of God, and mans sin. Then I did something thatI have really felt God pushing me to do, and that is call for people to repent then andthere, and make a choice to reject or accept the gospel, now this isn’t like an altar call butexhorting people to repent right this second. Instead of telling them to think about it.While I was preaching a girl with a face painted black came down and sat at my feet,facing away from me, which I thought was kinda strange, but I kept preaching. Everynow and then she would say something, that I couldn’t understand.After preaching Kevin came down with his camera to do some filming, so we decided todo an interview with the girl with black face (Sarah). We started the interview with Sarah, and from the word go, you could tell this was goingto be a hard interview. One of her first words was about her seeing demons, and angelsall around us. Now I didn’t doubt her, as you could see this girl was mixed up in thedemonic.So I quizzed her a bit about her angels, and background. She was really glad to talk aboutthe angels and demons, and even said they were there to protect her, as soon as she saidthis someone threw a lemon at her, hitting her in the side of the head.Anyway we went through the law and she said she didn’t believe the bible, but shebelieved the words of Jesus, so we reasoned with her about the scripture being absolutetruth. Which she accepted, then we reasoned with her about hell, and she was visibledistraught. It was then her face went pale, and she said the angel just told her not to trustwhat we were saying, and that she was in fact a good person.It was then I believed it was time to speak directly to these ‘angels’, it was a rebuke ofthem, and she said that they had walked away, along with the spirits. So we ministered toher, but she kept talking about these angels that are her friend. Then she said somethingthat was scary. She stated that the angel is now in her. By this stage Kevin had to leave,so Mick and I asked if we could pray for her, she gladly accepted the offer for prayer, andwhile praying she started saying “ITS LEAVING!! ITS LEAVING!! A DEMON JUSTCAME OUT, ITS RUNNING REALLY FAST!!” Her eyeballs were sticking out, and shebroke down in tears.Now I would love to say she repented, but she didn’t. Please pray that she will bow theknee before the Holy God!She took a bible off us, as well as gospel tract and Save yourself some pain.

Thats awesome! I love reading your posts! I sometimes catch them here and other times on openairoutreach. I will be praying! If her house is cleaned out I hope she fills it with Jesus.. or she will be worse than what she was.

Friday, 21 October, 20055am wake up! Mate that is to early after working the late shift at work. The reasoningbehind getting up this early was so that we could get to the city by 7am, and then preachto thousands of people catching the trains to work.We arrived at 7am, and there were four of us that prepared to preach, Derek, Kevin,Mick, and myself. We had positioned ourselves in ANZAC square, as that is whereeveryone that catches the train walks through in order to get to their job.The first train load arrived at about 7:30am, and Derek was the first to open up to this fastmoving crowd. The object was to do 30 second gospel messages, and just keep goingover and over til the crowd passed.We did this for nearly 90 mins of non stop preaching, and Derek thinks a minimumamount of people that would have heard the gospel was about 4000 people. Now I haveno idea of numbers, just that there was alot of people, that needed Jesus.Things got exciting when a RSL (Returned Services League) man, came up and had a bitof a rant at us for preaching, he then said he paid the rent for the square, so we had toleave, or be arrested for trespass.We refused to leave, so he went and called the cops numerous times, and each time thecops wouldn’t come out! So this guy came back and tried to bluff us into leaving or wewould be arrested, of course we kept preaching. After the crowds left we decided it was time for a nice warm breakfast, so we packed up,the moment we did this guy came running over abusing us, asking how we are qualifiedto preach the gospel. Do we have a degree in preaching? Myself and Derek are bothformer Bible students, so we told him what level of academic studies we had completed.But he wanted a special degree for open air preaching, when we said “Our open airauthority comes from God” He started yelling that we aren’t qualified and told us toleave. - Pray for this man!Today alot of people heard the gospel!ALL THE HONOUR TO THE LAMB!

Saturday, 22 October, 2005Today was the day that we headed down the Gold Coast for the big Indy champ car race.We had 6000 tracts that we had printed to off load.We were supposed to meet another team at 10 am, but they didn’t show up so that wasreally disappointing. That just left Derek and I.After this we made our way to near one of the gates and started handing out tracts, atabout 11 am Kyosti came down from Brisbane to help out for an hour. Which was a greathelp.It was a hard crowd with alot of people not taking tracts, so we decided to move, and thatis when the council decided to try and stop us. Two council workers came up to Derekand I, told us to stop handing out tracts or get a $375 fine each. So I reached for theAustralian Constitution, and pointed out that we had legal freedom to hand out tractshere. Their reply was “Yes, we know about that, and we will openly brake that law, nowyou move off public property”. So we moved, about 1 ft back, and stood in the garden ofa resort, as that is now private property, and council can’t touch us.We handed out a few more tracts, then started the long trip home. We only got rid ofabout 5000 tracts, so we have a few left over.Pray for all of those that got the gospel!

Their reply was “Yes, we know about that, and we will openly brake that law, nowyou move off public property It's been amazing to me to see how brazen the heathen are in thier defience of any law period.

Friday, October, 28 2005I met with Mick and Derek in King George square at about 11 am, from there we walkedover to ANZAC square for a preach to the lunch time crowd. Derek had his two boysthere aged 8 & 9, and both of them wanted hand out tracts. So I gave them some SmartCards to hand out, and they set to it. Within an hour they handed out over 150 tracts!These kids are great for tract work, nearly everyone takes tracts from the boys!Derek had to leave at 12:30pm, so it left Mick and I to preach the gospel, now to behonest I didn’t really want to preach in ANZAC it was hot and I was making excuses onwhy I should probably not preach.Finally I preached, just doing a short message for about 10 mins going through the Lawof God, and then repentance unto God, there were about 200 people in the square eatinglunch, and they clapped me when I finished preaching (probably glad I stopped). Mickwent around all the people handing out tracts to people, and most people took tracts. SoPraise God!After preaching in ANZAC we made our way to King George to preach in speakerscorner. Mick preached first and delivered a good message, then I really felt to do a quickpreach on the Wrath of God, so I gave a 4min preach on the wrath of God, and why itabides upon sinners. The square erupted, people were yelling and scream from all overthe square. One professing Christian told her friend not to listen to me, since God is allloving, and not angry.Never have I seen that many angry people in the square at lunch time. After I preachedMick had another preach. Alot of people heard the life saving gospel. Pray for them!

Saturday, 29 October, 2005Tanya and I arrived in the city at 7:30pm, and met with Nathan in King George square,after a bit of a chat we had a prayer meeting. Once we finished Tanya went around thesquare witnessing to alot of people, while a German tourist came and sat next to Nathanand I. So we gave him a tract and swung it around to the things of God. Basically hecouldn’t care less about eternity.At about 8:30pm Josh arrived, then around 9:15pm Kevin and a few other guys showedup. We made our way to the train station for a train preach. Kevin was the first to open upto a crowded carriage, alot listened.We changed trains at South bank, and then I preached back into the city. I got about threehecklers on the train, but only having a short time to preach, I ignored them, and keptpreaching.Once back in Central station, we turned around and made our way back to South bank.This time Joel preached, and did very well. While we were at South Bank, Josh said hewanted to preach for the first time. So we planned it on the next train he would speak.The train arrived so we walked on to the carriage, and security followed us, and stoodbehind us. I was thinking that rules out the preaching. So I turned to Josh, and asked veryloudly, “Have you seen these ten commandments on my cell phone?” Then I read themout loud, expounding on the commandments. One of the security guards, asked if I wastraining to be a preacher, I just replied with “I’m merely reading the ten commandmentsoff my phone”. Josh then said, “Mate what would happen if I broke the commandments?”So this led to me reading from Revelation 21:8. Then Josh asked ‘how can I be saved?’So I gave the grace message. The whole carriage was listening.After this Josh went through the train giving out millions, and the security even wantedsome, they were laughing at the tracts, but didn’t stop us. PRAISE GOD FOROPPORTUNITIES!

Tuesday, 1 November, 2005There was a buzz around the city today, and no doubt around the nation, the horse racethat stop the nation was due to run, the Melbourne Cup! This provided no end ofwitnessing encounters on the Greatest Gamble.I met with Mick and Derek in King George square at 11am, and our preaching corner wastaken by some big old organ on wheels, so that ruled out preaching in King George.While we were sitting there, the organ started playing ‘Amazing Grace’ so all three of usjumped up, and started singing along to the great Hymn.After this we made our way down to ANZAC square for a preach, it had been decidedthat Derek would open up reading from 1 John 3:1-11, then preaching from that text.After he finished I was to preach.Derek started off with a bang, and delivered a hot message for 10 minutes, revealing sin,and calling sinners to repentance. The crowd formed, people walking by were like theywere frozen to the ground, and they stopped to listen to the gospel. After Derek preached, he went and had a conversation with two young tourists about thethings of God, while he was still speaking I opened aired.Then the enemy launched his attack, within minutes a council worker came along andshut me down for preaching, after reasoning with him, and showing him that legally wehad right to preach. He said we can continue til further notice, and that notice wouldcome this afternoon.I preached for about 15mins, talking about the greatest gamble, that being gambling ourlife for our sin. Again people came from everywhere, and stopped to listen to the gospel,including a Christian couple that were calling out support while preaching.After the preaching Mick went and handed out alot of tracts to the people that hadlistened and we rushed back to King George Square to meet Kevin for some one to onefilming.We started by getting a young communist girl who was protesting the government, so weshared with her. She was an atheist with a catholic background. So we spoke to her, andbroke down her beliefs then mentioned sin, and repentance, she was cut to the heart, andgot really angry. They decided to pack up their protest, and go home!I thought that was the end of the day, but the enemy launched one more attack, Brisbanecity council has decided that if we witness, preach or hand out a tract we will face up to a$5000 fine!This goes for al areas of Brisbane, except for a small part of King George square, wehave decided we will fight this, as it is a violation of our freedom as Australians. Pleasekeep the coming battle in prayer!