While There Is Life, There Is Service—
Laboring in Service to the End of the Course
In September 2014, a long-cherished wish was realized, and I visited Taiwan for the first time. At that time Brother Wu had just had an operation and still had a second operation to undergo. Although the brother's body was extremely weak, he came out from the hospital to meet and fellowship with us, and he carefully arranged for us to visit a number of churches as well as the full-time training center, the Xinji Building, the central blending center, and the Full-time Adult Perfecting Class—it was truly thorough and tender, caring for us in every aspect.
The last time was in August 2019, when I went to Taiwan to visit the brother. It happened to coincide with a four-day perfecting training for the co-workers, elders, and responsible ones throughout Taiwan, and the brother arranged for us to attend. During that time, in fellowship with the brother, I heard him tell with his own mouth the process of how he had been healed. When he spoke of his own near-death experience, he treated it with the lightest touch, taking no account of life and death, talking and laughing freely, as though life and death were both small matters to him. The brother also fellowshipped about his going to America to host the promotion-fellowship of the Collected Works of Witness Lee—that was just a brief period after he had passed through a myocardial infarction, a long rescue effort, and a return to life through healing. The brother was truly faithful to the propagation of the present-day ministry, putting his own life and death out of his account. For four days I watched the brother, bearing an extremely weak and sick body, sit below the platform supporting the entire meeting. During that time, because he needed to return to the hospital for dialysis, and the round trip between the meeting place and the hospital took three or four hours, the brother went to the hospital for dialysis in the afternoon, yet the result was that the next day he was already sitting early in his seat at the meeting. He was a faithful slave, faithful unto death, serving with all his might.
After the conference ended, while we were touring the Xinji Building, I heard other brothers fellowship that Brother Wu was a person who would "go all out" for the Lord's interests. Although he was beset by sickness and pain, he still dragged his sick body and persisted in working for the Lord, coming to serve at the Xinji Building every day—even in a typhoon he came all the same. No matter how weak or sick his body was, it could not stop his service. Truly it could be said: while there is life, there is service. He labored in service to the end of the course, truly a drink offering, his whole person poured out for the Lord's church and the Lord's recovery.