For the past few days, I have been sharing about the wonders of a "ticket" shared by a teacher in Pinghe, Fujian Province. This ticket from earth to heaven was marked with God as the seller, Jesus Christ as the fare, and the departure time was in God's hands.
Talking about this teacher makes me happy because I lived in his house for three years while I was in high school. More than 20 years ago, students of Pinghe No. 1 Middle School used to live in this rented building called the Anren Building in their house. The "Anren Building", was a large, three-story building designed and built by believers in the Lin family, in the late 1980s in memory of Pastor Lin Qinmin (courtesy name "Anren") of the Zhangzhou Christian Dongbanhou Chapel.
Over the past two decades, nearly a hundred students who attended and lived at Pinghe No. 1 Middle School have mostly been admitted into colleges and universities. In fact, the students here have such a high advancement rate due to the management of the landlord in the "Anren Building", which provides a learning environment and atmosphere for the students who live here. The atmosphere is like this: "If you are serious, I want you to be even more serious so that you can catch up with me and get better and better academic results."
The Anren Building is located near Pinghe First Middle School, about a five-minute walk from the school.
The Anren building is a courtyard house. There are five houses with only one gate. In addition to the landlord's own family, there are extra rooms in each house for students from various towns to study at Pinghe First High School. I lived in this building for three years. I came from Wuzhai, but there were other students from Nansheng, Banzai, Guoqiang, and other places.
In this large family living in the Anren Building, there is an old man named Lin, who is over 80 years old. I often went to his room to talk to him and learned that his family also believes in Jesus Christ.
The old man recalled that he once came to our town, Wuzhai, to teach before the liberation. Wuzhai people often invited him to eat home-grown sweet potatoes. He remembered the names of some of his colleagues, one of whom was my fifth aunt. He said she was very beautiful and very good at singing "Hokkien hymns!"
Mr. Lin often encouraged me to study hard and shared his life experiences and truths with me. He used to teach at Pinghe No.1 Middle School and had several sons, daughters-in-law, and grandsons, all of whom are also working as teachers; his granddaughter is a professor at Fujian Normal University, and some are leaders and teachers in a middle school in Fuzhou.
More importantly, he told me that he had been more optimistic throughout his life, that his family had all followed the Lord's footsteps from a young age, and that his family members had lived long lives. In 2005, Master Lin went to Fuzhou to be reunited with his children and died there on the sixth day of the first lunar month of 2012 at the age of 96.
Mr. Lin's wife, Mrs. Cai, stood at the door every day after seven o'clock, urging her students to "be careful on the road and pay attention in class," and so on. Whenever she returned to Anren Building after class, she would ask the students, "Did you make progress today? You have to make the extra effort.
During my daily interactions with Mr. Lin and Mrs. Cai, I realized the importance of a confident "Christian culture," and I think this is also a very important source of my cheerful personality, and my ability to face life with optimism.
I also felt the importance of a Christian family. The couple were both Christians, and they brought both their sons and daughters up in the way of the Lord, from childhood.
Mrs. Cai used her life's words, deeds, and behavior to educate and influence her next generation. At 19:35 on November 24, 2020, she was called back to her heavenly home at the age of 105!
I finally understood the meaning of Mr. Lin's ticket to heaven. It was the words in the Bible, John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
We hope that each and every one of us who believes in Christ will be able to bring our own family to the Lord Jesus and become a Christian family. Learn from the elderly couple in the "Anren Building ": a lifetime of seeking the Lord, a lifetime of doing good, a lifetime of living together in harmony!
- Translated by Nonye Nancy
这几天我一直在分享关于平和一个老师分享给我的一张车票里面的奥妙。 这张车票上标的是上帝发售的，从地球到天堂的票，票价是耶稣基督，发车时间是在上帝手中。
提起这位老师，我就非常开心，因为我高中三年都住在他家里面。20多年前，读过平和一中的学生，曾租住在他们家的这栋叫安仁楼的楼里。“安仁楼”，是在上世纪八十年代末，主内林氏信徒们为纪念漳州基督教东坂后礼拜堂林钦敏（字安仁）牧师自行设计、建设的三层大楼房。
前二十年中，有近百名曾经在平和一中就读，曾住在这里的学生大都考上了大专，大学。
实际上，这里的学生能有如此高的升学率，离不开住在“安仁楼”的房东的管理，为租住在这里的学生们提供一个学习的环境和氛围。你认真，我想要更加认真，这样你追我赶，学习成绩越来越好。
“安仁楼”坐落在平和一中学校附近，走路大概五分钟左右，就可以到学校上课了。
安仁楼是一个四合院。里面共有五栋房子，只有一个大门，除了房东自己一家人住之外，每一栋都有多余的房间租给平和各个乡镇来平和一中读书的学生。我在这楼里面一住就是三年，我是五寨来的，也有来自南胜、板仔、国强等地。
住在安仁楼的这个大家庭中有一位年纪80多岁的林老爷爷，我常到他房间和他聊天，得知他们家也是信仰基督耶稣的。
这位老爷爷回忆起他解放前也曾经来我们五寨乡下乡任教，五寨人民经常请他吃自家种的地瓜。他还记得一些同事的名字，其中有一个名字是我五姑婆，他说我五姑婆非常漂亮，而且唱“闽南圣诗”很好听！
林老爷爷经常鼓励我要认真读书，并给我讲了很多人生经验和道理。他以前在平和一中里面教书，有好几个儿子，儿媳妇，孙子，也都在当老师，孙女在福建师范大学当教授，还有的在福州某中学当领导、教师。
更重要的是，他告诉我，他一生都比较乐观，都从小跟随主的脚步，家族人都很长寿！2005年林老爷到福州与子女团聚，2012年正月初六在福州逝世，享年96岁。
林爷爷的老伴蔡阿婆，她每天七点多都站在门口，叮嘱同学“路上要小心，上课要注意听讲哦”等等。每当下课，回到安仁楼的时候，她都问同学们："今天有进步了吗！要加油哦！”
在与林老爷爷和蔡阿婆日常的一些交流当中，我认识到了“基督教文化”自信的重要性，我想这也是我性格比较开朗，并且能乐观面对生活的一个原因。
我也感受到了一个基督化的家庭的重要性。老爷爷和老奶奶都信仰基督教，而且他们把儿子女儿也都从小带到主耶稣的面前。
蔡阿婆用她的一生的言形举止来教养她的下一代，并且影响到下一代的下一代。2020年11月24日19点35分，蔡阿婆蒙主召回天家，享年105岁！
我终于明白，林老师转来的天堂车票的含意，就是《圣经》约翰福音3章16节所言：“神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生”。
期望我们每一个信主的人，都能够把自己的家人，带到主耶稣面前，成为一个基督化的家庭。学习“安仁楼”里面的这一对老夫妇：一生寻求主，一生做好事，一生和睦相处！
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怀念“安仁楼”里的两位慈爱的老人
For the past few days, I have been sharing about the wonders of a "ticket" shared by a teacher in Pinghe, Fujian Province. This ticket from earth to heaven was marked with God as the seller, Jesus Christ as the fare, and the departure time was in God's hands.
Talking about this teacher makes me happy because I lived in his house for three years while I was in high school. More than 20 years ago, students of Pinghe No. 1 Middle School used to live in this rented building called the Anren Building in their house. The "Anren Building", was a large, three-story building designed and built by believers in the Lin family, in the late 1980s in memory of Pastor Lin Qinmin (courtesy name "Anren") of the Zhangzhou Christian Dongbanhou Chapel.
Over the past two decades, nearly a hundred students who attended and lived at Pinghe No. 1 Middle School have mostly been admitted into colleges and universities. In fact, the students here have such a high advancement rate due to the management of the landlord in the "Anren Building", which provides a learning environment and atmosphere for the students who live here. The atmosphere is like this: "If you are serious, I want you to be even more serious so that you can catch up with me and get better and better academic results."
The Anren Building is located near Pinghe First Middle School, about a five-minute walk from the school.
The Anren building is a courtyard house. There are five houses with only one gate. In addition to the landlord's own family, there are extra rooms in each house for students from various towns to study at Pinghe First High School. I lived in this building for three years. I came from Wuzhai, but there were other students from Nansheng, Banzai, Guoqiang, and other places.
In this large family living in the Anren Building, there is an old man named Lin, who is over 80 years old. I often went to his room to talk to him and learned that his family also believes in Jesus Christ.
The old man recalled that he once came to our town, Wuzhai, to teach before the liberation. Wuzhai people often invited him to eat home-grown sweet potatoes. He remembered the names of some of his colleagues, one of whom was my fifth aunt. He said she was very beautiful and very good at singing "Hokkien hymns!"
Mr. Lin often encouraged me to study hard and shared his life experiences and truths with me. He used to teach at Pinghe No.1 Middle School and had several sons, daughters-in-law, and grandsons, all of whom are also working as teachers; his granddaughter is a professor at Fujian Normal University, and some are leaders and teachers in a middle school in Fuzhou.
More importantly, he told me that he had been more optimistic throughout his life, that his family had all followed the Lord's footsteps from a young age, and that his family members had lived long lives. In 2005, Master Lin went to Fuzhou to be reunited with his children and died there on the sixth day of the first lunar month of 2012 at the age of 96.
Mr. Lin's wife, Mrs. Cai, stood at the door every day after seven o'clock, urging her students to "be careful on the road and pay attention in class," and so on. Whenever she returned to Anren Building after class, she would ask the students, "Did you make progress today? You have to make the extra effort.
During my daily interactions with Mr. Lin and Mrs. Cai, I realized the importance of a confident "Christian culture," and I think this is also a very important source of my cheerful personality, and my ability to face life with optimism.
I also felt the importance of a Christian family. The couple were both Christians, and they brought both their sons and daughters up in the way of the Lord, from childhood.
Mrs. Cai used her life's words, deeds, and behavior to educate and influence her next generation. At 19:35 on November 24, 2020, she was called back to her heavenly home at the age of 105!
I finally understood the meaning of Mr. Lin's ticket to heaven. It was the words in the Bible, John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
We hope that each and every one of us who believes in Christ will be able to bring our own family to the Lord Jesus and become a Christian family. Learn from the elderly couple in the "Anren Building ": a lifetime of seeking the Lord, a lifetime of doing good, a lifetime of living together in harmony!
- Translated by Nonye Nancy
Reminiscing on Two Loving Elderly People at Anren Building
