Brother Gao Peizhong left Zaozhuang for his hometown on July 14, 2019, and rested in peace on July 16, two days later.
On June 18, a brother sent me a picture and said, "Two years ago on this day, Brother Gao Peizhong, a volunteer in leprosy rehabilitation villages who suffered from liver cancer for 12 years, boarded the train home with the last bit of his strength... Three days later, he died in his hometown."
Gao Peizhong, a native of Qingdao, Shandong Province, was also a patient with liver cancer. He had four operations in three years. After the final operation, Gao was persuaded to go home by the kind attending doctor, as the doctor said that he would only live for six or seven years even if he had a liver transplant, and the cost would be as high as several hundred thousand yuan, bringing him nothing but debts. Helpless Gao chose to wait for his death.
The wonderful God's grace came to Gao and his family. With the careful care of his wife, his physical condition gradually improved. He could not only take care of himself, but was also baptized in August 2006 under the influence of his Christian wife. In 2011, his wife started to volunteer in the Leprosy Rehabilitation Village in Guangdong and then returned to Tengzhou Leprosy Rehabilitation Village in Shandong to do God's work. During this period, he visited his wife three times, and his heart changed from fear and rejection to gratitude and acceptance, and then to sympathy. Since his wife went to those villages, her body had been recovering unconsciously. After that, the couple embarked on the road of serving leprosy survivors.
From 2012 to July 2013, they served in Tengzhou Leprosy Rehabilitation Village, Tengzhou Love House, Guangzhou Love House, and Jiangsu Taixing Rehabilitation Village. In August 2013, they were transferred to Huashan Leprosy Rehabilitation Village in Wuhan due to work needs. Faced with new challenges, they all relied on the Lord and earnestly prayed, and overcame them despite hardships.
They did not return to Qingdao during the 2014 Spring Festival. As the co-working sisters there left for various reasons, only the couple stayed in the Leprosy Rehabilitation Village. There were 82 leprosy survivors then, of whom over 30 believed in the Lord. The couple led them in Bible studies every day. Further, there were six seriously ill old men who could not take care of themselves, and the couple helped take care of their everyday lives. He was so busy that he even forgot that he was a cancer patient.
In 2016, he once again left the Lord completely to the secular world. He thought all about how to earn money and live a good life, and had no control over diet, making his wife very sad. After the 2017 Spring Festival, his wife left him and returned to serve in leprosy rehabilitation villages. Facing a three-inch huge tumor, he prayed to God for the forgiveness of his sins.
In June 2018, Gao was dispatched to serve in a leprosy rehabilitation village in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province, because there were no males there. As this village is deep in the mountains, he drove a tricycle outside the mountains to buy daily necessities for the old people. One day during his driving, a bug flew into his eyes, and he rubbed his eyes, resulting in an accident in which he crashed into another tricycle parked on the roadside. He got a comminuted fracture in his left leg and hip bone. Two months later, he was healed amazingly and could walk on crutches.
One day before the 2019 Spring Festival, Gao had another car accident on his way driving an electric bike out to buy food in Nanchang Leprosy Rehabilitation Village, which resulted in a severe thigh fracture. However, as the Spring Festival was soon coming, he only rested for no more than a month, and wore crutches with pain to visit the lonely old lepers and send holiday blessings to them.
When Lost Sheep House, which serves orphans in Zaozhuang, Qingdao, moved, Gao worked as a porter in order to save money. In fact, he was then in the advanced stage of liver cancer. He worked crazily, regardless of his personal safety. In the moving process, he paid close attention to every link of loading and unloading. He even checked small screws in the refrigerator drawer. Further, he lifted a quite heavy drinking water box and labored with faltering steps. Until he finally looked at all the things on the car and into a new home created for the wandering disabled, he covered his abdomen and whispered to his wife, "It hurts!"
(The author is a special contributor to Gospel Times Northwest Region.)
- Translated by Oliver Zuo
高培忠弟兄在2019年7月14日离开了枣庄回老家，三天后的7月16日安息主怀。
上周五，一位弟兄发了图片，说：“过去的今天，身患肝癌12年的麻风村义工高培忠弟兄，用生命的最后一点儿力气，登上了回家的列车……三天后，他在老家去世了。”
高培忠弟兄，是山东青岛人，他也是一位肝癌病患者。曾在三年间动过四次手术。在最终那次手术后，被好心的主治医生劝回了家。因为医生说，即使换一个很好的肝脏给他，也只能活个六、七年的光景，而且所用费用要高达几十万，最终结局还会落个人财两空。无奈中的高弟兄，只能选择了等待着死亡来临。
奇妙神的大爱，降临到了高弟兄身上和他的家。在他妻子精心照料下，他的身体状况竟渐渐好了起来。生活不但可以自理，还受信主的妻子影响，于2006年8月受洗归主。 2011年妻子开始去广东的麻风病康复村做了义工，后后又回到山东滕州麻风病康复村在那里侍奉。期间，他去探望妻子三次，从惧怕，拒绝到感恩接受，再到接纳和怜悯，心里发生了变化。而妻子自从去了麻风村，她的身体在不知不觉中健康了。之后他们夫妻一起踏上了侍奉麻风病康复者之路。
从2012年至2013年7月，他们参与服侍了滕州麻风病康复村，滕州爱心之家，广州爱心之家，江苏泰兴康复村等。2013年8月因工作的需要，他们又被团队调到了武汉花山麻风病康复村侍奉，面对新的挑战，他们都依靠主，切切地祈求，虽有眼泪但都胜过了。
2014年的春节没有回青岛，因在那里一起的同工姐妹，因有其它的事都离开了，只有他们夫妻二人留守在麻风村。当时那里共有82名麻风康复者，信主的就有30多位，每天要带他们查经学习，生活不能自理的重病老人就有6位，要帮着料理他们的生活。忙的都忘记自己还是一个癌症患者。
2016年他又一次悖逆地完全离开了主，彻底回到了世界。心思意念中全是如何赚钱过好自己的生活，在饮食上的不节制，让妻子很伤心。2017年春节过后妻子走了，回到了康复村。面对自己体内直径将尽3寸的巨大型肿瘤，他祷告求主饶恕赦免罪。
在2018年6月份，高弟兄被团队调派到江西丰城麻风病康复村做了服侍，因为那里没有男弟兄。这个康复村在大山深处，高弟兄开三轮车到大山外面为老人们购买生活用品，在开车的时候，因一小虫飞进眼晴里，在揉眼过程中，因按电门大了，出了车祸撞在另一辆停靠在路边的三轮车上，导致左腿大胯骨粉碎性骨折。二个月后，骨头惊人的愈合，现在已经能拄捌行走了。
2019年春节前的一天，高弟兄在南昌麻风康复村，开着电动车在外出买菜的路上出了车祸，导致大腿严重骨折。但他仅仅休息了不到一个月，因着春节的马上来临，他忍痛架着双拐，去挨个探访慰问麻风患者，给这些孤独老人们提前送去节日祝福。
青岛枣庄服侍孤儿的迷羊之家搬家时，为了节省费用，高把自己当成搬运工。其实这时的他，已处在肝癌晚期，不顾个人安危，拚命似的疯狂工作。在搬运过程中，高细心的盯着装货、卸货的每个环节。就连一个小小螺丝放在哪个冰箱的抽屉里，都要亲自查点。竟然还上手搬起一个不轻的东西（饮水机箱），吃力迈动着已蹒跚的脚步……直到最后看着车上的东西，一个不剩的都搬进了为漂泊的残疾人创建的新家后。他才捂着腹部小声对着妻子说了一句:“疼啊”！
（本文作者为福音时报西北地区特约撰稿人。）
为主作工服侍“最小” 鞠躬尽粹死而后已——悼念麻风康复村义工高培忠弟兄
Brother Gao Peizhong left Zaozhuang for his hometown on July 14, 2019, and rested in peace on July 16, two days later.
On June 18, a brother sent me a picture and said, "Two years ago on this day, Brother Gao Peizhong, a volunteer in leprosy rehabilitation villages who suffered from liver cancer for 12 years, boarded the train home with the last bit of his strength... Three days later, he died in his hometown."
Gao Peizhong, a native of Qingdao, Shandong Province, was also a patient with liver cancer. He had four operations in three years. After the final operation, Gao was persuaded to go home by the kind attending doctor, as the doctor said that he would only live for six or seven years even if he had a liver transplant, and the cost would be as high as several hundred thousand yuan, bringing him nothing but debts. Helpless Gao chose to wait for his death.
The wonderful God's grace came to Gao and his family. With the careful care of his wife, his physical condition gradually improved. He could not only take care of himself, but was also baptized in August 2006 under the influence of his Christian wife. In 2011, his wife started to volunteer in the Leprosy Rehabilitation Village in Guangdong and then returned to Tengzhou Leprosy Rehabilitation Village in Shandong to do God's work. During this period, he visited his wife three times, and his heart changed from fear and rejection to gratitude and acceptance, and then to sympathy. Since his wife went to those villages, her body had been recovering unconsciously. After that, the couple embarked on the road of serving leprosy survivors.
From 2012 to July 2013, they served in Tengzhou Leprosy Rehabilitation Village, Tengzhou Love House, Guangzhou Love House, and Jiangsu Taixing Rehabilitation Village. In August 2013, they were transferred to Huashan Leprosy Rehabilitation Village in Wuhan due to work needs. Faced with new challenges, they all relied on the Lord and earnestly prayed, and overcame them despite hardships.
They did not return to Qingdao during the 2014 Spring Festival. As the co-working sisters there left for various reasons, only the couple stayed in the Leprosy Rehabilitation Village. There were 82 leprosy survivors then, of whom over 30 believed in the Lord. The couple led them in Bible studies every day. Further, there were six seriously ill old men who could not take care of themselves, and the couple helped take care of their everyday lives. He was so busy that he even forgot that he was a cancer patient.
In 2016, he once again left the Lord completely to the secular world. He thought all about how to earn money and live a good life, and had no control over diet, making his wife very sad. After the 2017 Spring Festival, his wife left him and returned to serve in leprosy rehabilitation villages. Facing a three-inch huge tumor, he prayed to God for the forgiveness of his sins.
In June 2018, Gao was dispatched to serve in a leprosy rehabilitation village in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province, because there were no males there. As this village is deep in the mountains, he drove a tricycle outside the mountains to buy daily necessities for the old people. One day during his driving, a bug flew into his eyes, and he rubbed his eyes, resulting in an accident in which he crashed into another tricycle parked on the roadside. He got a comminuted fracture in his left leg and hip bone. Two months later, he was healed amazingly and could walk on crutches.
One day before the 2019 Spring Festival, Gao had another car accident on his way driving an electric bike out to buy food in Nanchang Leprosy Rehabilitation Village, which resulted in a severe thigh fracture. However, as the Spring Festival was soon coming, he only rested for no more than a month, and wore crutches with pain to visit the lonely old lepers and send holiday blessings to them.
When Lost Sheep House, which serves orphans in Zaozhuang, Qingdao, moved, Gao worked as a porter in order to save money. In fact, he was then in the advanced stage of liver cancer. He worked crazily, regardless of his personal safety. In the moving process, he paid close attention to every link of loading and unloading. He even checked small screws in the refrigerator drawer. Further, he lifted a quite heavy drinking water box and labored with faltering steps. Until he finally looked at all the things on the car and into a new home created for the wandering disabled, he covered his abdomen and whispered to his wife, "It hurts!"
(The author is a special contributor to Gospel Times Northwest Region.)
- Translated by Oliver Zuo
Mourning Gao Peizhong, Volunteer in Leprosy Rehabilitation Village
