This afternoon, I just had a phone call from home.
今天下午我收到一通台灣打來的電話

My parents talked to me on the line for the first time.
我和父母第一次透過忠僕號的電話網絡通話

At the end of the conversation, my mum told me that one of my best friends had been taken from God.
我母親最後跟我提到 我一位好友今天早晨被主接去

His name is Shi-Yo Lai, my good friend since high school.
他的名字叫賴世友 我高中時候團契的學長

He got cancer two years ago right after he finished the military duty which was two or three years ago.
兩三年前就在他退伍的那一天 他發現身上有腫瘤 並判定為末期

He is such a fighter and mentally strong.
在很多人的心目中，他是一個心智堅強的鬥士

One day before I took the flight to Germany, I visited him in his place.
我前去德國受訓的前一天，我去他家拜訪他

He was really excited about my coming days. However, both of us had already known this might be the last time we saw each other.
他對於我將前去的挑戰非常興奮，然而，我們都知道
這也許是我們最後一次相見

We had a great fellowship that afternoon, and before I left , we prayed together for my mission and his illness.
我們那兩個小時 相談甚歡 在我離開之前我們彼此互相代禱
為我前去遠方的負擔 也為了他身體的病痛

I learned a lot from this man. Integrity, determination, patience, solid will, and the faith toward life, and after life.
我從這個人身上學到許多
正直，決心，忍耐，堅強的意志，和對於生命的信心

I don't undersatnd why did it hurt so bad. But for now, he don't have to suffer any more. The viurs and the weak body can not bother him any more.
我不瞭解為什麼 我會這麼難過
但是我確信 現在他不用再為身體的病痛所苦
癌細胞 病毒 和虛弱的身體不會再是他的負擔

And one day we gonna meet again.
我們一日在天堂相會

Best,

Ray Peng from Doulos in Dakar, Senegal
書睿 在忠僕號， 達卡 賽內加爾

(We will be page "dial 9" if it's a phone from outside of the ship.)
註：如果有外線電話，我們會收聽到廣播『書睿彭，請打按九！』

我雖是自由的、無人轄管，然而我甘心作了眾人的僕人、為要多得人...
向甚麼樣的人、我就作甚麼樣的人．無論如何、總要救些人。
凡我所行的、都是為福音的緣故、為要與人得這福音的好處...
For though I am free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

台灣差派一個自己的孩子，到那真正的『遙遠』去，
那個屬於海洋、島嶼和沙漠的夢想，我希望用我的一雙眼和一枝筆，替你多走一
哩…