{"id":3421,"date":"2016-08-22T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T17:53:50","slug":"teaching-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/p\/3421","title":{"rendered":"TEACHING CAREER (Yvonne\u2014My One and Only Beloved)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Paul Lai<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Translator: Henry Lam <\/span><\/p>\n

Even though this illness came with much bodily pain, you still had unending thankfulness.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Before your illness, you were a doctor\u2019s secretary and your pay helped with the household finances.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Afterwards though, you were not able to move freely and could no longer work.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>However,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God\u00a0wonderfully supplied for us in every which way.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Once you read about a woman restricted to a wheelchair.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Because she was unable to go out and work, the woman began to teach storytelling and English.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>After reading this story you were very happy because you saw that you could teach French in the same way this woman taught English.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was from this moment that you started teaching \u2013 beginning with our own children.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>However, simply teaching your own child was not interesting enough.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>You let your son bring his classmate to learn alongside him for free.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>This classmate\u2019s mother thought that this was good and sent another child along. Eventually, one after another, more students came to learn French.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>This teaching career spanned 44 years from 1969 to 2013 when your teaching career came to an end.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>In the midst of your teaching you had many opportunities to bring many students to the LORD. <\/span><\/p>\n

1) Apart from teaching French, you always found time to disciple others.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Within a short period of time you saw them grow quickly and gained great joy.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Once, at a prayer meeting, you were moved to see one of your own students pray.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>He had progressed from not believing to believing; and then from a new believer to one who relies on God for all things.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>His life had changed immensely.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>He also told you that he was preparing to take a teaching ESL diploma in order to go to China for a year to share the Gospel through teaching English.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>You told me that he was originally a lonely and hurt teenager. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>He used to always listen to New Age music, but after you patiently guided him, he finally came to accept Salvation. <\/span><\/p>\n

2) There was also another student, Wong. After believing in the Lord, he passionately started to share the Gospel by passing out pamphlets on campus and sharing through email. <\/span><\/p>\n

3) For one student, not long after she came to faith in Christ, her mother always forced her to go to a tutoring centre.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was difficult for her and she came to you and asked what she should do?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>You cleverly said to her, \u201cIf you were my daughter, I would encourage you to worship God.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was this simple statement from which she decided to no longer go to the tutoring centre and chose to go to church to worship God.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Not long after, she was baptized and became a daughter of the Lord. <\/span><\/p>\n

4) In the summers you decided not to teach French, but to use the time to freely invite the students and their friends to picnics, games and sharing the Gospel.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It was in this way that many new friends came to Christ.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>There was one new brother, Lam, who shared his testimony:<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span><\/span>Mrs. Lai is my first ever Sunday school teacher who laid down the foundation for my faith.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>She led me in reading the Bible and analyzing God\u2019s word.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>She taught me about the importance of prayer and how best to pray.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>She encouraged me to serve; moreover, she encouraged me to serve in the church.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Even though I was only at Fountain Alliance for 3 years, I still live out what Mrs. Lai taught me after 20 years.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Today, Mrs. Lai\u2019s influence still touches many lives.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Her teachings and influence is my inheritance from her.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I am determined in this life to pass this inheritance on.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

(Note: Brother Lam\u2019s mother later told Mrs. Lai that when Brother Lam was 12 years old, his father abandoned the family and that she brought the 3 children to Canada.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>In the midst of all the worry about her children, she had a dream that angel wonderfully came into their home to take care of the children.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>From then on, Brother Lam\u2019s life was transformed by God and he was no longer an unhappy child.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>She wholeheartedly thanked God and thanked Mrs. Lai for her loving teachings.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By:\u00a0 Paul Lai\u00a0\u00a0 Translator: Henry Lam Even though this illness came with much bodily pain, you still had unending thankfulness.\u00a0 Before your illness, you were a doctor\u2019s secretary and your pay helped with the household finances.\u00a0 Afterwards though, you were not able to move freely and could no longer work.\u00a0 However,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God\u00a0wonderfully supplied for us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainbowpaullai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}