To Wang Hui
Rev. To Wang Hui was born in Hong Kong. He is a son of a pastor and he received a call to serve the Lord during his teen age. But later he changed his mind because he found being a pastor is very difficult and demanding when observing his father working day and night. So he keeps refusing to serve God. But God’s calling never disappears. He continues to feel the call after marriage. His wife Grace also finds the call during prayers.

In July 1994, the couple made a very important decision .They decided to resign and give up their jobs and went to study at Regent College. After graduating in 1997, their church extended an invitation and they were asked to plant a new church in the north shore of Vancouver. In the beginning of the ministry, the work was tough and lonely. After a few months, the number of attendants began to grow steadily. The church developed smoothly and would soon enter the stage of autonomy, but at that moment, Rev. Hui was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a disease which mostly find among the old people. Parkinson patients suffer from stiffness of muscles, stony faces and very slow movement. Easy jobs in daily life become very difficult to achieve.

While searching for relevant material about the disease, Rev. Hui found that there were not many books about the illness and so he wrote in total two books to help people cope with Parkinson. The first one entitled “A Hot Stream Beneath the Frozen Man” focuses on the internal feelings of patients. The second one, entitled “On Sufferings: The Inward Journey of a Parkinson Pastor” focuses on how to help patients and their caregivers. The books help patients to understand suffering is not so uncommon and pain cannot be suppressed by one’s own method. The belief in God seems to be the most possible way to help.

At present, Rev. Hui has to face two diseases: Parkinson is chronic while liver cancer is fatal. Facing two kinds of illness, life becomes difficult and painful. However, one thing makes him able to overcome whatever hardship is the fact of having God in his heart. With God, he can feel pain without bitterness and he is disabled but not handicapped. By remembering God’s words from the Bible, he can feel God’s presence all the time. By the painful experience, he can see God face to face and learn how real and true He is.

• Born and grew up in Hong Kong.
• Graduated from Department of Communication of Hong Kong Baptist University in 1975.
• Taught for 6 years before studying abroad in University of London and graduated from the Department of History.
• Further studied in Education in University of Hong Kong while teaching at Carmel Secondary School.
• Loves teaching and treats it as life-time job.
• But responded to God’s calling and gave up the 16 years teaching career in 1994.
• Left for Canada and obtained his Master of Divinity from Regent College in 1997.
• Became a church planter of the North Shore Pacific Grace MB Church.
• Ordained as Reverend in the same church in 2000.
• Same year, diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and later liver cancer in 2004.
• Parkinson’s Disease is chronic while liver cancer is fatal.
• The facing of both diseases is painful but the experience can be seen as a valuable instrument for God to train his beloved servants.