![]() Also during this time, the Irving Chinese Fellowship Church (now called New Life Gospel Church) was established. While working on this project, Yu was also battling and then recovering from prostate cancer. A total of 510 VCDs were recorded during an eight-month period. With the enthusiastic backing and encouragement from several members of the church, Yu fulfilled his promise of recording the New Testament. This help came when, from 1999-2003, he was asked to act as the interim pastor for the Dallas Chinese Fellowship Church. The VCDs were not compatible with any equipment in the United States, so he needed assistance in fulfilling this promise. After recording 60 VCDs, he returned home. He was in poor health at the time, and instead of going himself, he promised to record his sermons on VCDs. Bi Yushu? Clarence Pi), a seminary in Brazil was also established.ĭuring the annual revival meetings in Hong Kong, several Christians from China asked Yu to go to China. The Seminary is now known as Christian Witness Theological Seminary. By the late 1970’s and early 1980’s the school had received degree granting authority from the State of California and were able to issue Bachelor and Master’s degrees. In 1973, Christian Witness Theological Institute was established in Berkeley, California, with seven students. Though he was content to be a pastor to all these churches, in the early 1970’s he sensed God’s leading to start a Chinese Seminary. Eventually, seven churches had been founded by him in the Bay Area and Fresno. The first was the Berkeley Gospel Church, now known as Hilltop Gospel Church. In 1960, their youngest child and second daughter, Gloria, was born.ĭuring the next 15 years, he pastored and established several “Gospel” churches. Always the student, he went back to the United States and entered the Baptist Divinity School, now known as Baptist Theological Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California, from which he received his Master of Divinity. He felt it was a great honor, but realized that God had other things in mind when they were denied an extension of their visa. In 1958, he was asked to become the 1st Principal of the Singapore Bible College. From 1954-1958, he began his pastoral ministry at the Church of the Nazarene in San Francisco. Seeking further education, he went to Wheaton, Illinois where he graduated from Wheaton College with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy. Soon after, Yu received his Bachelor of Biblical Education from Columbia International University, then known as Columbia Bible College. The Moses Yu family arrived in Oakland, California, on Thanksgiving Day in 1949, then moved on to Columbia, South Carolina where their son, Michael Robert, was born in 1951. ![]() Why would he want an old single missionary woman to care for his two sons? The next day she knew. At that time Margaret Oppelt wondered why he would make such a request. The day before Yu’s father was killed, he went to Margaret Oppelt and said, “Please take care of my boys if anything happens to me”. Margaret was named after a missionary who had a great influence on the Yu’s family. ![]() In 1948, she gave birth to a daughter, Margaret. He said to his brother upon seeing her for the first time, “I feel sorry for whoever marries that girl she looks like trouble!” In 1946, he became the one that married “that girl,” Xu Zhennan (? Cornelia Hsu). Sometime during this period, he caught a glimpse of his future partner. He participated in the College Student Revival in China from 1944-1949, and assisted in establishing the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship in Chongqing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Guangzhou. This experience shaped his emphasis on student work for the rest of his life. Zhao Junying (? Calvin Chao) asked Yu to join him to minister on university campuses in the inland parts of China. Yu attended the Alliance Bible Seminary in Wuzhou, Guangxi, graduating in 1942. It was also his desire that the world be filled with love rather than hate. This event strengthened his resolve to make the Good News heard, in the hope that God would purify the souls of the invaders as well as the Chinese. In 1939, when he was 19, his first sermon was given at the Alliance Church in Guilin, China, where his father was killed by a Japanese bomb. ![]() In 1938, stepping out in faith, Yu left Shandong with his father and eldest brother and went on foot to Wuhan province. In 1931, at the age of 11, while attending meetings during the Shandong Revival, Yu trusted Christ as his personal savior and at the same time sensed God’s leading to serve as a minister of the Gospel. His mother, who played a huge role in his life, was a “Bible Woman” she would often leave her boys with their grandmother and father while she went off to revival meetings. Yu Ligong was born into a Christian family on May 1st, 1920 in Shandong Province, China.
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