11. Meet Aunt Du

Aunt Du was a missionary whom I had gotten to know when I studied in the university   in Hangzhou.    She always came to my house to borrow our car in order to pick up her relatives from overseas.  The impression I had of her was that she was very zealous for the Lord.  Whenever she met us she would tell about the Bible and how to carefully read it by using the Comparative Method initiated by Dr. Sung.  She urged us to use that method by orderly reading two chapters of the Scriptures every day.  I could hardly understand the Scriptures she shared with us, but I liked to be with her.  I felt she was very holy and whenever I was with her I felt closer to God even afterward.

Soon after China was liberated, I heard that she went back to Singapore and later to Taiwan.  I had not heard from her since that time.  It was before I came to Hong Kong that by chance I got her mailing address and wrote to her.  She answered my letter immediately.  How compassionate and loving her letter was when she learned the torment we had gone through in China.  On her way from Singapore to Taiwan, she decided to stop in Hong Kong especially to meet me.  It had been more than thirty years since we had last seen each other.  Now she was in her seventies and I had turned from a girl to an old woman.  We met in a hotel and talked heartily about what had happened since we had been separated from each other.  I told her how Uncle Chang had received the revelation of the demarcation of 48 cities of refuge while he was in jail.

Later while still there, he and his wife both died for the Lord.  I also told her how the Lord had shown favor to their daughter, Bao En, who had been working with me in China.  As soon as she heard this, she immediately told me to share with her the five hundred dollars of Singapore money she had given me.  I was very glad to do that.  Aunt Du was in poor health.  She had lost all her hair and had to wear a wig.  She was very frugal and only ordered a little rice soup for herself.  She said:  “I spent extra money for this trip because I added a stop on the flight so that I could stay in the motel and see you.”  She fully showed the love of God to me, her junior, at a price.  I also met her nieces who traveled with her.  These two were sisters and could not speak Chinese.  I used my poor English to encourage them to regard the Lord’s Word as important every day.  I also encouraged them to pay attention to the book of Proverbs lest they be deceived by this world.

                The Lord arranged this meeting with Aunt Du to prepare a way for us to start the sixth Home of Grace in America.  Aunt Du entrusted all her life savings with the youngest   daughter of her sister, before she passed away  Aunt Du told her to help the work of Home of Grace with all her effort.  This faithful maidservant of the Lord rested in the Lord in Singapore, shortly after I arrived in the United States in 1989.  (Perhaps it was in the same month.)  Her niece, Sister Lu and her husband allowed me to stay at their house for some time.  Later, they purchased a three-floor house for us in New Orleans, so that my co-workers and I could stay there and serve God day and night.