I will share my testimony in two parts. The first part is about the three sufferings that I experienced before becoming a Christian, and the second part is about the six stories after I started to believe in God.
The first suffering happened in 1978 when I was five years old. One afternoon, I went to a sawmill with my dad and played there. I climbed up onto a crane. There was a knife switch whose upper part had a protective cover, but the lower part didn’t. Three fuses were exposed on the outside, and the voltage of each fuse was 380V. I touched one of the fuses with my hand out of curiosity, then the crane stopped in an instant. Right after that I collapsed on the floor and lost consciousness.
My dad immediately took me off the crane. His co-workers helped perform CPR on me and then fetched cold water to pat on my forehead. Fortunately, I woke up two or three minutes later. In fact, that electrical shock caused serious problems in my heart. The "dilated cardiomyopathy" I’m having now has affected me since then.
The second suffering took place when I was in the third grade of elementary school. A senior student came to tease and taunt me again by calling me "uneven legs". I couldn’t help going into a fight with him that day. As a result, I was knocked out by him and fell heavily onto the floor. The doctor diagnosed my injuries as severe concussion, severe brain swelling, and increased intracranial pressure. Later I also suffered from stuttering.
The third suffering happened when I was in junior high school. I needed to go to a school 30 kilometers away from home. My mother was afraid that I would be bullied by the same group of kids again. She didn’t let me live at school together with my classmates, so I was just a day student. But when I was in the second grade, I was still beaten by a male classmate in the same class. He slammed my left eye with a hard punch. At that time, I saw stars. It didn't take long for my entire eye to swell so badly that I lost sight. A few years later, I got “secondary glaucoma" because of this eye injury. The doctor said that surgery was necessary to completely lower the intraocular pressure. Therefore, later I had open-angle glaucoma surgery.
I already came to Christ at that time, so I kept singing hymns and chanting the Lord’s Prayer during the operation which later went smoothly. My intraocular pressure dropped instantly after that. There have been almost no problems since the surgery up to now.
These three sufferings have really hurt me in the depths of my heart. After believing in God, my heart gained true peace. I knew that as a child of God, I must forgive people and no longer hate them.
Before I was laid off in 2000, my colleague gave me a copy of the Koran. I read it at home. One day my mother saw it. She showed me a copy of the New Testament with Psalms and said, “You should read this.” That was how I became aware of the gospel.
Then one Sunday, I walked into the church. After the service, a brother started talking with me after knowing that it was my first time being here. For the first time, I was not laughed at for my disability in the feet. When I stuttered, they listened to me patiently. I felt that the people here were different from the people outside!
Once a sister from the church asked me if I had a girlfriend. I said that I had before, but they abandoned me for my disability or my job, now I was single. Later, through another Christian matchmaker, I met my current wife, Lai Benzhen. She wasn’t disgusted with me, nor her parents. On January 5, 2006, my wife and I had a wedding ceremony in the church.
My grandfather was a bus driver. He drove safely for 40 years without any accidents. My mother preached the gospel to my grandfather. In 1993, he was baptized. Later, the funeral of my grandfather was held in the paper mill over three days. The paper mill sent two buses of people, plus the believers, totaling four buses of people attending the funeral including those who didn’t know him. Thank God for making Grandfather’s memorial service a beautiful testimony in front of the world.
I was baptized in 2001 and then joined the group. Later the group leader asked me to take over his position. Although I had a stuttering problem, I accepted it. After that, I went to the meeting point of the chemical factory. I was asked to lead singing and prayers before the meeting. At first, I prayed in a very disorganized way. Plus, given my stuttering problem, I, quite nervous, even couldn't breathe at the end of the prayer or hear any sound. I then looked for relevant information for help. Although I still stutter now, I am basically fluent when praying.
No matter how high or low my salary is with different jobs, I do my duty to tithe. From the beginning of building our church, regardless of whether I had a stable job, I’d make special contributions as long as I had a salary. Receipts were given for my offerings and announcements would be made.
Now I still have two diseases. One is dilated cardiomyopathy which is now further diagnosed as chronic heart failure. Another is a flatback syndrome that the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine becomes straight. I have an enlarged heart with almost no symptoms. But I have to take five kinds of medicine every morning, which costs several hundred yuan a month. In the past few years, every time I went to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, the dean advised me that I could apply for a special disease discount for chronic heart failure. By all means, I finally got the special disease discount which reduced the cost of my medicine.
(The author of this article, Brother Wang Qin, serves as the Jianan Group leader at the Gospel Church Youth Fellowship in Yong'an City, Fujian Province, and works as a church worker at a railway meeting point and chemical plant meeting point of the Gospel Church.)
- Translated by Shuya Wang
我会分两个部分来分享，第一个部分是信主前经历的三个患难，第二个部分是信主后的六个见证。
第一次患难是在1978年，那年我5岁，有一天下午，我也跟我爸一起去锯板厂玩，我就到吊车上去玩，闸刀开关上半部分有防护罩，下半部分没有，三根保险丝裸露在外边，每根保险丝电压都是380伏。我好奇地用手去摸了其中一根保险丝，瞬间吊车就停了，然后我瘫倒在地板上，失去了知觉。
我爸赶紧把我抱下吊车，工友们一起帮忙人工呼吸，然后还去拿冷水拍额头，还好两三分钟后我醒过来了。其实被电击后，我的心脏受到了很大伤害，我现在的“扩张型心肌病”从那时就开始了。
第二次患难是在小学三年级的时候， 有一个高年级的学生又来取笑我、愚弄我，叫我“长短脚”，我那天没忍住就与他约架。结果被他重重地摔在地板上。医生诊断我的伤情：重度脑震荡，重度颅脑肿胀、颅内压升高，后来出现口吃。
第三个患难是在初中时，我需要去离家三十公里远里上中学，我妈怕我又受到他们欺负。不让我去跟同学们一起住校，让我做走读生。不过初二的时候我还是被一个同班男同学给打了。他一拳重重地打在我左眼上，当时我眼冒金星，没多久整个眼睛就肿得都看不见了。若干年后我又因着这次眼睛受伤，得了个“继发性青光眼”。 医生说必须要手术才能彻底降眼压，后来就做了开角型青光眼手术。
我那时已经信主了，所以做手术时我内心不停地唱着赞美诗，念着主祷文。手术顺利，手术完以后眼压瞬间降下来，到现在几乎没有出现问题。
这三次患难对我心灵深处真是很大的伤害。信主后我的心灵得到了真正的平安，我也知道作为神的儿女要饶恕人，不再记恨他们。
我在2000年下岗之前同事送我一本《古兰经》，我就在家读。有一天我妈看见了，她说你应该读这本，她拿出了一本《新约圣经·附诗篇》给我，这样我才接触到了福音。
有一次主日我自己走进了教会，礼拜结束后有个弟兄见我是第一次来的，就与我交谈。我第一次感受到在这里脚有残疾，不会被人取笑，说话口吃，他们会耐心地听我说完，这里的人与外面的人不一样！
有一次教会的姐妹问我，有没有女朋友。我说之前有过，或是嫌弃我有残疾或者是嫌弃我工作不好，现在没有了。后来她通过另一个姐妹的介绍，我就认识了我现在的妻子赖本珍。她不嫌弃我，她父母也不嫌弃。2006年1月5日，我和妻子在教堂举行了婚礼。
我的外公是在开大客车的，安全行车40年无事故。我妈妈给外公传的福音。1993年，受洗。后来，外公的丧事在造纸厂摆了三天 。造纸厂也派了两辆大客车，所以加上信徒，总共有4辆大客车，不认识也来了很多参加葬礼。感谢主让外公的追思礼拜在世人面前做了美好的见证。
我是2001年受洗的，之后加入小组，之后小组长要我接任组长。虽然我有口吃，也接受了。后来，我到化工厂聚会点聚会，让我来做聚会前的领唱和祷告。开始我祷告杂乱无章，而且我也非常紧张，再加上口吃，祷告到最后气都喘不过来，连我自己都听不到声音了。我就去查找资料。 我现在虽然讲话口吃，可是祷告基本还流利。
在不同岗位，不论工资高低，我都会尽我的本分，做十一奉献。 从我们教会盖楼开始，我不论工作稳定与否，只要有工资收入，就做专项奉献。会给收据，并且公布。
现在依然有两个疾病伴随着我，一个是扩张型心肌病，现在进一步确诊为慢性心力衰竭。还有一个就是腰椎生理曲度变直。 我的心脏有扩大，还几乎没有什么症状。但是我每天早上都要吃药，吃五种药。一个月下来也要好几百元。 这几年我每次去协和医院，院长都建议我，慢性心力衰竭可以办特殊病种。无论如何特殊病种终于办下来了，减轻了我买药的费用。
（本文作者汪勤弟兄在福建省永安市福音堂中青年团契担任迦南小组组长，在福音堂铁路聚会点、化工厂聚会点担任同工）
主意尽美，可以安心——汪勤弟兄信仰见证
I will share my testimony in two parts. The first part is about the three sufferings that I experienced before becoming a Christian, and the second part is about the six stories after I started to believe in God.
The first suffering happened in 1978 when I was five years old. One afternoon, I went to a sawmill with my dad and played there. I climbed up onto a crane. There was a knife switch whose upper part had a protective cover, but the lower part didn’t. Three fuses were exposed on the outside, and the voltage of each fuse was 380V. I touched one of the fuses with my hand out of curiosity, then the crane stopped in an instant. Right after that I collapsed on the floor and lost consciousness.
My dad immediately took me off the crane. His co-workers helped perform CPR on me and then fetched cold water to pat on my forehead. Fortunately, I woke up two or three minutes later. In fact, that electrical shock caused serious problems in my heart. The "dilated cardiomyopathy" I’m having now has affected me since then.
The second suffering took place when I was in the third grade of elementary school. A senior student came to tease and taunt me again by calling me "uneven legs". I couldn’t help going into a fight with him that day. As a result, I was knocked out by him and fell heavily onto the floor. The doctor diagnosed my injuries as severe concussion, severe brain swelling, and increased intracranial pressure. Later I also suffered from stuttering.
The third suffering happened when I was in junior high school. I needed to go to a school 30 kilometers away from home. My mother was afraid that I would be bullied by the same group of kids again. She didn’t let me live at school together with my classmates, so I was just a day student. But when I was in the second grade, I was still beaten by a male classmate in the same class. He slammed my left eye with a hard punch. At that time, I saw stars. It didn't take long for my entire eye to swell so badly that I lost sight. A few years later, I got “secondary glaucoma" because of this eye injury. The doctor said that surgery was necessary to completely lower the intraocular pressure. Therefore, later I had open-angle glaucoma surgery.
I already came to Christ at that time, so I kept singing hymns and chanting the Lord’s Prayer during the operation which later went smoothly. My intraocular pressure dropped instantly after that. There have been almost no problems since the surgery up to now.
These three sufferings have really hurt me in the depths of my heart. After believing in God, my heart gained true peace. I knew that as a child of God, I must forgive people and no longer hate them.
Before I was laid off in 2000, my colleague gave me a copy of the Koran. I read it at home. One day my mother saw it. She showed me a copy of the New Testament with Psalms and said, “You should read this.” That was how I became aware of the gospel.
Then one Sunday, I walked into the church. After the service, a brother started talking with me after knowing that it was my first time being here. For the first time, I was not laughed at for my disability in the feet. When I stuttered, they listened to me patiently. I felt that the people here were different from the people outside!
Once a sister from the church asked me if I had a girlfriend. I said that I had before, but they abandoned me for my disability or my job, now I was single. Later, through another Christian matchmaker, I met my current wife, Lai Benzhen. She wasn’t disgusted with me, nor her parents. On January 5, 2006, my wife and I had a wedding ceremony in the church.
My grandfather was a bus driver. He drove safely for 40 years without any accidents. My mother preached the gospel to my grandfather. In 1993, he was baptized. Later, the funeral of my grandfather was held in the paper mill over three days. The paper mill sent two buses of people, plus the believers, totaling four buses of people attending the funeral including those who didn’t know him. Thank God for making Grandfather’s memorial service a beautiful testimony in front of the world.
I was baptized in 2001 and then joined the group. Later the group leader asked me to take over his position. Although I had a stuttering problem, I accepted it. After that, I went to the meeting point of the chemical factory. I was asked to lead singing and prayers before the meeting. At first, I prayed in a very disorganized way. Plus, given my stuttering problem, I, quite nervous, even couldn't breathe at the end of the prayer or hear any sound. I then looked for relevant information for help. Although I still stutter now, I am basically fluent when praying.
No matter how high or low my salary is with different jobs, I do my duty to tithe. From the beginning of building our church, regardless of whether I had a stable job, I’d make special contributions as long as I had a salary. Receipts were given for my offerings and announcements would be made.
Now I still have two diseases. One is dilated cardiomyopathy which is now further diagnosed as chronic heart failure. Another is a flatback syndrome that the physiological curvature of the lumbar spine becomes straight. I have an enlarged heart with almost no symptoms. But I have to take five kinds of medicine every morning, which costs several hundred yuan a month. In the past few years, every time I went to the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, the dean advised me that I could apply for a special disease discount for chronic heart failure. By all means, I finally got the special disease discount which reduced the cost of my medicine.
(The author of this article, Brother Wang Qin, serves as the Jianan Group leader at the Gospel Church Youth Fellowship in Yong'an City, Fujian Province, and works as a church worker at a railway meeting point and chemical plant meeting point of the Gospel Church.)
- Translated by Shuya Wang
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