I Will Most Gladly Spend
and Be Utterly Spent for You
Every day Brother Wu would first go into the chief deacon's office on the fifth floor of the Shin Kee Building, and then go up to the Gospel Book Room on the twenty-second floor. He would give instructions about who was coming to fellowship with him shortly, and at what time someone else would come; the saints all loved to fellowship with him. His capacity was very great, and brothers and sisters from various countries were also attracted and looked forward to coming to Taiwan for blending. He had spiritual insight and was on a high plane. Once, when I fellowshipped with him about a matter—though it belonged to another profession, another field—he nevertheless knew all about it. Because brothers and sisters engaged in all walks of life often fellowshipped with him, he became one who knew everything, having a vision from God to view persons, matters, and things.
Brother Wu's heart was very tender and fine; he would take care of many minute matters and remind us of the details we ought to attend to. In Brother Wu's mind there was an inexhaustible store of church history. When brothers and sisters came to fellowship with him, he would begin to speak of history—how a certain meeting hall was in its early days, which saints had offered themselves, how those saints had been for the Lord—speaking with ease and recounting one by one the grace of God. Brother Wu was sincere and full of humor; often with just a sentence or two he would lift everyone's burden, and the atmosphere would become relaxed and joyful. The churches in every place had received tremendous help from him. He also greatly cherished the children of the saints. My younger daughter studied at National Taiwan Normal University and was Brother Wu's junior schoolmate; whenever he saw her, he would encourage her, saying that she studied well and should keep on striving. With just a few brief words he stirred up the flock. Many saints felt very close to him, even though some of them had met him only a few times.
As everyone knows, Brother Wu was very faithful in his following of the ministry's leading, exerting his utmost to coordinate, bearing the same yoke. He brought all the saints into the ministry and brought all the churches into the blending, so that the speaking of the Lord's servant in one locality became the speaking of the whole earth. He gave his all for all the churches, not regarding his own life. Even as his body grew progressively weaker—to the point of undergoing dialysis three times a week—he still exerted his utmost to go to America to attend the on-site winter and summer trainings. Under Brother Wu's leading with his whole being and all his strength, the churches throughout the earth were blended together, and every member in the Body of Christ exercised its organic function. Each time the full-time brothers and sisters returned from overseas propagation to visit their families, they would also come into the office to fellowship with him. To see so many Lord-loving young people in the fellowship of the one new man, overcoming the differences of language, culture, and race, and bringing in a testimony of the one new man—how glorious!
Brother Wu was very concerned for the spiritual welfare of the saints. He assigned me to serve in the weekly bulletin of the Church in Taipei. The front page was always about the morning-revival holy words of the messages from the seven annual conferences, and the writers were all personally arranged by Brother Wu. Brother Wu's memory was extraordinary; once he had seen the list of brothers who had registered for a conference, he remembered it, and he arranged the registered brothers into the order of writing for the front page. The fourth page was about the truth-promoting reading guides for the spiritual publications, and he arranged for the young brothers to take turns writing about the ministry publications, so that they might be more equipped and exercised to give utterance.