‘My work became more fulfilling when I became a Christian’

Li Wen, who spent her first 15 years at Amity Press working in the typesetting department, now works in sales. [WR410/11 PRC06DJ-430]

“When I started with Amity Printing Press in 1986, I knew little about what it meant to be a Christian,” says Li Wen, who spent her first 15 years at the press working in the typesetting department. “The only contact with Christianity I had ever had was through my uncle who used to tell me stories from the Bible when I was little.

“But at Amity I came into contact with another Christian who worked there. She witnessed to me, not just through words but also by the way she lived her life. She made me want to know more about God’s love. I went with her to church and in 1993 I became a Christian. My uncle was delighted and became my godfather when I was baptised.

Read it with my heart

“I had been given a Bible as far back as 1989 but I had never read it much. Also, even though I was working with biblical text all day at work, I had not engaged with the content or read it with my heart – I was concentrating on not making spelling, or other, mistakes. “So I had worked on typesetting the Bible for seven years without the words meaning anything to me, but after I became a Christian my work became more fulfilling. I could see the love of God in the paragraphs I was working on. If I came across something I could not understand I would ask someone who knew the Bible better than me – it became really important to me to understand the text I was working on.”

Enjoy the contact

As Amity Printing Press now outsources its typesetting work, Li Wen now works in the sales department, taking orders for Bibles from the China Christian Council. “I enjoy the contact that I now have with the churches through my job, but I miss my typesetting work, where I had daily contact with the biblical text,” she admits.

[Part of this testimony also appeared in World Report 374/6] (WR410/11-04.07) [2 photos]