Taking the Initiative; Careful Planning
Keeping Fellowship
In 1995, after being discharged from military service, I entered the full-time training. From then on, because of the needs of service and coordination, I interacted and spent time with Brother Wu many times. In him I saw much that all who bear the ministry and who love and serve the Lord ought to learn.
In the summer of 2013, just as the Zhongyi meeting hall (today the Sixtieth Meeting Hall of the church in Taipei) was completed and the second-year trainees of the Taipei training center were, according to plan, to move in, somehow I never heard Brother Wu mention when we should act. Seeing the opening day of the training drawing near, my heart was anxious and I did not know what to do, so I could only ask Brother Wu when we could move. I only heard him ask, "Is it ready? Can it be moved into? The meeting hall has just been completed; cleaning it up is not so easy, is it?" So the next year all the trainees thoroughly cleaned, from top to bottom, the completed five-story meeting hall, which included fifty hospitality rooms, a dining room and kitchen seating a hundred, and a meeting hall holding nearly three hundred. When I invited Brother Wu to come inspect, in my heart I actually worried that he would pick out many faults. But he scarcely mentioned any faults, and instead said it would do. We were full of joy and quickly completed the move.
For the training in Taipei, that was nothing less than a major milestone. Looking back now, in this matter, I believe he was training me to take the initiative, to be positive and careful, to plan and prepare in advance, and to keep fellowship. And with his meticulous, high-standard character, after inspecting the result of our cleaning, that he said nothing of the faults—I think it was not that we truly did very well, but that in his humanity he considered us and also took into account that the training needed to enter its normal routine as soon as possible.