dad went on to be with our Heavenly Father on january 3rd at 3am. we thank God for dad's life, for the father and friend that he's been to us, for his dedication in serving God and His people, for his continual passion in disciple-making, and for the blessings and love we received during our time with him.
we miss you, dad!
與您在天家再見...
父親已於一月三日零晨三點返回天家與天父在一起。我們為父親的生命感謝神，感謝他既是我們的父親，也是我們的朋友，感謝他對事奉神和神的子民的奉獻，感謝他對門徒訓練持續的熱誠，也感謝他與我們一起的日子對我們所付出的愛和祝福。
我們懷念你，父親。
(Translation by The Oaks)
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Tien, Patrick, Joshua,
ReplyDeleteYour dad was my schoolmate, ministry partner, learning peer, intimdate friend, and good brother in Christ. I enjoyed his company for more than 55 years. This memory will never fade and he will be remembered.
You should be very proud of your dad who is a great role model to all of us.
I look forward to that day when we will meet again.
With prayers,
Uncle Edmund from Vancouver
Dear Tien, Patrick, Lum Lum, and Joshua,
ReplyDeleteMay you know that we also share your loss. May Uncle Benny rest in peace and enjoy the wonders of seeing God face to face.
Here's a prayer from the prayer book:
"Loving and merciful God,
we entrust our brother, Uncle Benny, to your mercy.
You loved him greatly in this life;
now that he is freed from all its cares,
give him happiness and peace for ever.
The old order has passed away;
welcome him now into paradise
where there will be no more sorrow,
no more weeping or pain,
but only peace and joy
with Jesus, your Son,
and the Holy Spirit,
for ever and ever. Amen."
Let us know if you need anything or any help. We are always here for you all.
With love in Christ,
Anson, Charis, Alethia, and Sophia
Tien, Patrick, and Joshua,
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry to hear that Benny is rest in peace. He was my co-worker in FES, HK, in 1975. I can still remember this summer I talked to him on the phone when I was in Vancouver, but I am so sorry that we could not meet each other due to some reason. Now, I can only meet him in heaven.
May our Lord be with you all in this moment of sorrow.
Benny, see you in heaven!!!
David Cheng (Philip Cheng's father)
Tien, Patrick, Lum Lum and Joshua,
ReplyDeleteWe will remember you in our prayer. There will be an staff prayer meeting at AFC Vancouver tonight where most ex- and current staff members will be present.
We will remember Uncle Benny as our mentor and friend. His ministry has forever changed our lives. We will always be grateful for what Uncle Benny gave us with his life.
If there is anything that we at AFC Vancouver can do to help, please let us know. Please keep us updated about funeral arrangement. I may be able to make a trip to attend, be it in HK or Toronto.
In Christ,
Alan Yu
天人，天融，Patrick,
ReplyDelete我的心情是「難過」，我捨不得你們的爸爸的離去；是「喜樂」，因為如今他釋辭了世上的勞苦，可以到天父的身邊去享受天父自創世以來，為他所預備好的福樂了！還有，他可以在天上與你們可愛的媽媽、我可敬的姐姐永遠相聚了，不是可喜的事嗎？！
希望你們也不要傷心難過，聖經《智慧書》上說：『義人的靈魂在天主手裏，痛苦不能傷害他們。 在愚人看來，他們算是死了，認為他們去世是受了懲罰，離我們而去，彷彿是歸於泯滅；其實，他們是處於安寧中；雖然在人看來，他們是受了苦；其實，卻充滿著永生的希望。他們受了些許的痛苦，卻要蒙受絕大的恩惠，因為天主試驗了他們，發覺他們配作自己的人：他試煉了他們，好像爐中的黃金；悅納了他們，有如悅納全燔祭。他們蒙眷顧時，必要閃爍發光，有如禾湝間往來飛馳的火花。』
讓我們永遠懷念你們的好爸爸、我的好姐夫、上主的好僕人北斗；願天父接納他的靈魂，在祂的懷中永遠安息！
2Yee
Dear Chins,
ReplyDeleteMy heart is with all of you. Many at Enoch and at Church of Good Shepherd have been praying for you. "Dau Suk" has left a legacy in all of you as well as an many of us who are blessed to have to opportunity to be touched by his life. Even though I haven't really known him for very long, I remember the few times that we talked and have coffee together.
Jackson Choi
Dear Tien, Patrick and Josh
ReplyDeleteMay God comfort you in your grief and strengthen you through His presence and the love of all those who love you and care about you.
Benny: we'll see you again in the resurrection!
Remembering you all in prayer and thoughts
Stella and Philip Yeung
尊敬的斗叔，rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteDear Tien & Patrick & family, peace be with you.
Dear Tien & Joshua,
ReplyDeleteWords couldn't express our sorrow. We will remember your family.
Goodbye 斗叔, our good mentor and uncle.
Raymond & Naomi.
rest in peace
ReplyDeletewake up to a wider kingdom
Dear Josh, Tien and Patrick
ReplyDeleteOur love and prayers are with you.
May the love and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ embrace you all.
「在耶和華眼中看聖民之死，極為寶貴。」（詩一一六15）
Kit-lin & Kwok-ting
Dear Tien, Josh, Patrick & Lum Lum,
ReplyDeleteMy prayers are with you all at this time of loss. I have known your Dad since our Winnipeg days. We served together under the FES, HK umbrella for some time, he with FES and I with Breakthrough. All these go back a long time ago.
May His comfort be yours. May He uphold your grandma and aunts during this difficult time.
"Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you." John 14:27
Auntie Ruth
Dear Tien, Patrick and Josh,
ReplyDeleteUncle Benny has been my Bible Study teacher in ATS, and a great coach when I was in many of my crossroads for the past 10 years! His guidance and caring have led me closer to God in service.
Pray for you as you grieve over the lost and strength as you handle the aftermath. May you see and experience God's more than sufficient grace and comfort!!! Let me know if you needed any help in hk!
Love, Winnie
Dear Tien and Patrick,
ReplyDeleteCry as you will, sleep as you will, rest as you will, eat as you will...I know how hard, tired and sad it is when you lose your loved one.
My mom passed away 1.5 month ago after a long battle of cancer and some painful time before her last days. She passed away on 17 Nov, the very day when your Dad had a stroke.
I was there in HK for the last several months when she was very ill. I still feel the pain, as you might be so. But all the darkness we experience heralds the dawn, and I trust that the dawn will finally come.
Hang in there my friends.
Gin - Vancouver
I knew Uncle Benny from working at AFC. His insights were endearing. So glad I met him.
ReplyDelete- Mati
Dear Josh and Tien,
ReplyDeleteWe're sorry for your loss and please know that you're in our thoughts and prayers.
Esther & Kazdin (from HK)
斗叔....不捨得您。
ReplyDeleteTommy Law
R.I.P. we miss you.
ReplyDeleteChloe Ho (Hong Kong)
天人, 天融, PATRICK:
ReplyDelete我在FES文字部的六年, 有幸能得到斗叔的教導, 可說他是我的師傅, 為此我要深深感謝他, 也為他感謝上主.
在禱告中記念你們, 和你們的祖母與姑母.
仲芬
Remember Uncle Benny and will see him in the future!
ReplyDeleteMay God comfort you and we'll keep you in our prayers.
Suet Ching
FES, HK
Dearest Tien, Patrick, Joshua and Lumlum,
ReplyDeleteOur hearts are with you. May God give you the comfort that you need in this difficult times. We will always remember the precious time that we had with Uncle Benny in QEH. We are sad over his departure but we know that we will meet again later in Heaven. Please take good care of yourself and hope things will going on smoothly for the funeral.
Philip, Connie, Abby and Elly
Dear Tien, Patrick, Joshua and LumLum,
ReplyDeleteVery sad to hear this. May you be brave, and we are with you.
Cream, Lawrence and Charisse
My heart & prayers will be with you and your family ~.~
ReplyDeleteFrom,
Willette
Dear Tien, Patrick and Biugoh,
ReplyDeletewe are very sorry to hear of uncle's passing away.. please do know that our hearts are with you and the family, and may God comfort and strengthen you and the family through this difficult time. when my grandmother passed away in march last year, i so happen to come across the below extract in my leisure reading and have found enormous comfort- i have you do too. please stay strong!
An extract from 'Adonais: An Elegy On The Death Of John Keats' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,
He hath awaken'd from the dream of life;
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings. We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
He has outsoar'd the shadow of our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
And that unrest which men miscall delight,
Can touch him not and torture not again;
From the contagion of the world's slow stain
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain;
Nor, when the spirit's self has ceas'd to burn,
With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
He lives, he wakes - 'tis Death is dead, not he;
Mourn not for Adonais. Thou young Dawn,
Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee
The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!
Cease, ye faint flowers and fountains, and thou Air,
Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown
O'er the abandon'd Earth, now leave it bare
Even to the joyous stars which smile on its despair!
He is made one with Nature: there is heard
His voice in all her music, from the moan
Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird;
He is a presence to be felt and known
In darkness and in light, from herb and stone,
Spreading itself where'er that Power may move
Which has withdrawn his being to its own;
Which wields the world with never-wearied love,
Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above..
sending lots of love,
Dai Kau-Fu, Hing Yee, Ching and Yan
Dear Benny, Dou Suk,
ReplyDeleteRest in Peace! See u and continue our chat in heaven! We have not finished our long air conversation yet, a lot of thigs to share, please wait for me!
During my stay on earth, I will take care of your mom! Your mom is my mom, oh, since I met her continuosely and intimately for almost 19 years now! Don't be jealous, she love me so much!
You are now well take care by our Lord and surely Siu Ping, please pray for us who are still living with groaning on earth!
Dear 天人，天融，Patrick,
We are proud of your father who had lived his life in Christ! Take good care, our Lord will surely wipe your tears and give you peace and comfort with love! Let us pray for one another!
Lo Lung
Dear Tien, Patrick and Joshua,
ReplyDeleteWe are sad to learn of the passing of your dad, but we also thank God for the way he has served his Lord and Savior.
we will always remember Benny with fondness in our hearts.
May God grant you His comfort and peace at this difficult time.
Lena & Stephen (Toronto)
我們親愛的斗叔，
ReplyDelete昨天晚上，當教會細胞小組組員在我們家舉行新年聯歡派對過後，我倆整夜輾轉反側，不能入眠，想到您的離去，不禁悲從中來….
……當我們正期待著您再次的到訪，盼望您來共享晚膳，摸摸已突破發展障礙的e-諾仔, 看看他還像不像Bob The Builder沒有……...之際，赫然您在安靜地沉睡中……
……您成為了許多許多人的屬靈生命師博，為主發光發熱，天上榮耀的冠冕必為您存留….. 感謝您成為我們人生中寶貴的屬靈長者……作為後後後輩的我們有幸得到您的啟迪，實在是天父給我們的恩典…
……就讓我們將對您的敬重和思念，化成我們以及e-諾仔愛的資產。此間讓我們盡情哀傷，讓悲痛沉殿轉化，一天我們將再天家再聚………
別了，親愛的斗叔……
Raymond, Naomi & e-諾仔
tien and patrick,
ReplyDeletemy condolances to you and your family on your loss...you guys are in my prayers~
love, brian
Uncle Benny,
ReplyDeleteI am and will keep living out your words as a Free Agent.
Thanks for teaching me this new term in my early 30s.
With His love,
Houghton
Dear Tien, Patrick and Joshua,
ReplyDeleteOur hearts and prayers are with you all. We miss Uncle Benny, but we know that he is now resting in peace with our Heavenly Father. May God give you peace and comfort at this time. Take care.
Joyce, Benson, Hanniel and Hanoch
Tien and Patrick,
ReplyDeleteWill pray for you and your family. May God's consolation be with you and give you peace and comfort.
In my prayer,
Sherrien
Tien & Patrick,
ReplyDeletethough your daddy passed away and right now he is with our Heavenly Father, i thank God, who gave your father and you time together for over 30 years--the moments that you cherish and that you held each other with laughers and tears.
May God comfort you when you are grieving!
ralph
Uncle Benny,
ReplyDeleteI remember the chat we have together and talk about ministering workplace Christians.
Miss you and Shalom.
Walter.
Dear Joshua, Tien & Patrick,
ReplyDeleteIt has been a great shock after coming back from Urbana to know that 斗叔 has gone to the presence of the Lord.
The very last message in Urbana was a tribute and challenge to student ministry, of which a life-long commitment of 斗叔. It was through student work, that I was able to meet with 斗叔, it was also student work, that I was able to be mentored and learnt from him. Benny was never tired of doing Bible study with students and staffworkers, and has been very innovative in missions, discipleship, leadership and marketplace ministry.
It was a great loss not only to you, the family, but also to the larger Christian family that has served under Benny's vision in student ministry.
We surely miss Benny, and thank God for given us all such a humble, cheerful and insightful brother, mentor and pioneer as role model in ministry and life.
May you all find comfort in Christ that Benny is now safe and secure in the arms of God, and waiting for the call to receive God's reward in heaven.
In Christ,
Peter Lau, Toronto, Canada
尊敬的斗叔，rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteDear Tien & Patrick & Joshua & family, peace be with you.
Nicole
Peace with you all
ReplyDeleteChester
Dear Josh, Tien, Patrick,
ReplyDeleteWe were deeply saddened to hear of your father's passing, our thoughts are with you and your family as you go through these difficult times.
Love,
TinChi & Rikki
我雖未曾親身遇見斗叔~
ReplyDelete只曾讀其文字~
但我也懷念你~
斗叔~
斗叔雖然走了....但他留下了佳美的腳踪。此後，有公義的冠冕為他留存!
ReplyDelete願主親自安慰您們一家!
Candy
Dear Tien, 請好好保重，原諒我不知怎樣去安慰你，因為你的難過是不能用言詞可以表達，很掛念著你們！為你們禱告，願神在你們當中安慰你們，给你們平安！我也很難過...請禳我們知道你的需要, 好嗎？
ReplyDeleteCool family
Sue & Jeremy
Dear Tien and Patrick,
ReplyDeleteMay God's peace and comfort fill your family.
Drema