"An ALS patient, Zhang Wei, was on the move to send carrots to Xi'an. " The video released by a female Christian Yanzi became popular in the ancient city of Xi'an and areas of Shaanxi in January 2022.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic in Xi'an in early December 2021, all parts of the country had spontaneously donated money and materials to fight the pandemic in Xi'an.
Zhang Wei, who was suffering from ALS, usually could only walk with a makeshift wheel car. Once wandering to Xi'an, he was taken in by a Christian woman surnamed Meng (called loving mother). Under the care of Meng, walking into the church, his life was renewed with his spiritual life growing rapidly. From then on, he was a conqueror through the Lord.
As the city of Xi'an was kind to him, with several male believers he raised 20000 yuan to buy 10 tons of carrots,planning to rent a car to Xi'an. Because of the pandemic, no one wanted to take this job. When the local government staff heard about it, they sent a car to help.
The car with 10 tons of carrots came to Xi'an, but it couldn't enter the city because of the strict pandemic prevention measures. Remembering that he had been in contact with the Xi'an Red Cross, he called the Red Cross staff who promised to help him. Xi'an Red Cross specially sent a car out of the city to transfer a car of carrots sent by Zhang Wei to its own car. Then the carrots were transported to Xi'an city and were sent to the front-line community most in need in the pandemic area.
"Increasingly frozen people" is called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in medicine. According to statistics, most patients died of respiratory failure after 3-5 years of onset because of muscle weakness.
On January 18, with no new local confirmed cases or new local asymptomatic infections, the city had achieved zero new cases in a day of single indigenous cases for the first time since December 12, 2021. 2050 local confirmed cases had been reported in the city in this round of pandemic, according to the website of Shaanxi Provincial People's Government
(The article is originally published by Gospel Times.)
- Translated by Tracy Ye
“渐冻人张为在行动，千里送红萝卜火线到西安。”这条雁子姊妹发布的视频，在2022年元月份火爆了古城西安及三秦大地。
自2021年12月初西安爆发的疫情，全国各地自发地为西安抗疫捐款、捐物。
身患渐冻症的张为，平时只能利用自制轱辘车走路。记得当年他曾经流浪到西安，被爱心妈妈孟姊妹收留。在孟姊妹的关爱下，张为走进了教堂。他的生命得以更新、属灵生命快速成长。从此以后他靠主得胜。
西安这座城市曾经有恩于他，他联系了几位弟兄，集资2万元买了10吨红萝卜，计划租车送到西安。因着疫情影响，没人愿意接他这个活。当地政府知道了，派车帮助支援。
装有10吨红萝卜的车来到西安，但又因着疫情防控措施的严厉进不了城。张为弟兄想起自己曾经与西安红十字会有过联系。他通过电话联系到了红十字工作人员，答应帮助他。西安红十字会专门派车出城，把张为送来的一车红萝卜转装到自己车上。再运进西安城，送到疫区最需要的一线社区。
“渐冻人”在医学上被称之为肌萎缩侧索硬化症（简称ALS）。据统计，大多数患者的发病3-5年后因为全身肌肉无力，最终瘫痪，因呼吸衰竭而死亡。
1月18日0时至24时，西安市无新增本土确诊病例、无新增本土无症状感染者。本轮疫情从 2021年12月12日以来，全市首次实现单日本土病例零新增，全市累计报告本土确诊病例2050例。据陕西省人民政府网
（本文作者为福音时报特约撰稿人。）
渐冻人张为千里送红萝卜 为西安抗疫送来残疾人的大爱
"An ALS patient, Zhang Wei, was on the move to send carrots to Xi'an. " The video released by a female Christian Yanzi became popular in the ancient city of Xi'an and areas of Shaanxi in January 2022.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic in Xi'an in early December 2021, all parts of the country had spontaneously donated money and materials to fight the pandemic in Xi'an.
Zhang Wei, who was suffering from ALS, usually could only walk with a makeshift wheel car. Once wandering to Xi'an, he was taken in by a Christian woman surnamed Meng (called loving mother). Under the care of Meng, walking into the church, his life was renewed with his spiritual life growing rapidly. From then on, he was a conqueror through the Lord.
As the city of Xi'an was kind to him, with several male believers he raised 20000 yuan to buy 10 tons of carrots,planning to rent a car to Xi'an. Because of the pandemic, no one wanted to take this job. When the local government staff heard about it, they sent a car to help.
The car with 10 tons of carrots came to Xi'an, but it couldn't enter the city because of the strict pandemic prevention measures. Remembering that he had been in contact with the Xi'an Red Cross, he called the Red Cross staff who promised to help him. Xi'an Red Cross specially sent a car out of the city to transfer a car of carrots sent by Zhang Wei to its own car. Then the carrots were transported to Xi'an city and were sent to the front-line community most in need in the pandemic area.
"Increasingly frozen people" is called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in medicine. According to statistics, most patients died of respiratory failure after 3-5 years of onset because of muscle weakness.
On January 18, with no new local confirmed cases or new local asymptomatic infections, the city had achieved zero new cases in a day of single indigenous cases for the first time since December 12, 2021. 2050 local confirmed cases had been reported in the city in this round of pandemic, according to the website of Shaanxi Provincial People's Government
(The article is originally published by Gospel Times.)
- Translated by Tracy Ye
ALS patient Sends Carrots to Xi'an to Fight Pandemic
