Short Intro to Peter Y. Woo
胡蔭磐簡介

I was born in Hong Kong, where my father pastored a church for 70 years since 1927. God preserved us during WWII there.

1963: B.Sc. in Math and Physics, Univ. of Hong Kong.

1965: M.A. and 1968 Ph.D. in Pure Math, Univ. of Southern Calif., Los Angeles.

1968 - 1988: System Software designer.

1988 - 2005: Associate Professor in math and computer science, Biola Univ.      

Ministry: Adult Sunday School Teacher, at First Chinese Baptist Church, Fountain Valley, from 1982, for 30 years. Taught young adults, in English, and 30-60 years old Cantonese immigrants till now. Like to get people to love singing hymns older than 1980.

Go to China for weeks or months yearly, from 1997 till now, getting friends to support poor students, and then see them being led to Christ. "my happiest 15 years".

Articles, some in Chinese 中文

• 著有小書山雨後、果子多 "After the Rain"

• 父親的床﹕Father’s Bed

• 母親溫暖的手 "Mother's arms"

• More articles

• How to Be An Overcomer of Self (3 sermons from 1993)

• Poems and stories by Gloria Woo

• About Woo Yan Tak 胡恩德
  
  

Listen to my hymns on piano ♫♫♫

• 紀念我母親

• Hymns from Church in China

• 2008 Carols on Piano

• Selected Hymns October 2009

• 2014 Christmas Carols

• Medley of Hymns in 2015

• 2016 Christmas Carols on Piano

• 2017 Hymns Nite

• July 2023 medley 

• more piano music

Personal sharing

• Some stories of my childhood (2020)

• Prepared to Meet God (1987)

• Spiritual Biographical Sketch (1995)

• My thoughts at 72, 73, lessons from sparrows, how I know God is real (2012)

• 60 Years Ago ~ Reflections (2000)

• Reflections on the last 45+ years (2008)

• Reminiscences about Aunt SaySum

• My Feelings for Uncle Onward Szeto

• Eulogy on Mrs Elsie WooLaiSaan Szeto

My Short Bio 

Peter Y. Woo 8/31/ 2020

I was born in 1940. First born to my father. I love to read Pilgrim’s Progress and Little Women, and Three Musketeers, Jane Eyre and Cuore(愛的教育) by Amicis, that my relatives gave me at Christmas. My Mom one day showed me the report card of my Father, and wow, he got A’s on everything.

A revival hit HK during the fifties, and I remembered some boys and girls of my age cried and cried because they disgraced their parents at home. They at summer camps then wrote postcards confessing sins to their parents. I accepted Christ into my heart in Oct. some year. Father told me stories of D.L. Moody, of my great grandfather Him Hunk who almost got killed because of his faith.

After this I enjoyed sharing Gospel tracts, at the gospel meeting on my street, every Chinese New Year. At HKU I noticed a girl giving a great testimony of her life. Afterward I fell in love, and proposed. It scared her, because I was so blunt. Later on, she became my wife, Gloria. We married in Los Angeles in 1965. Our two girls Celest and Rachelle were born 1967 and 1969.

One day in 1985 the doctor said, “Sit down, I have something to tell you. You, Peter has 2nd stage cancer of the lungs. . . .” Later on we told it to the kids, and they cried. That same night we told it to the Pastor, and he called me to come up on the pulpit. He prayed for me, much tears. Strangely, the black spots in my lungs X-rays got fainter and fainter every month and I said to the Doctor after a year, “where is the cancer”? “All gone, maybe they are from some virus in the dessert . . . “

Afterwards, I began teaching Sunday School in English, in a Chinese church at Riverside, Calif. But I began to go to Mission meetings. I was feeling I am living on Borrowed Time, from God.

In the Nineties I visited Chungking, China. Then in 1998 or so, a classmate’s father is dying. The classmate’s sister one day leaned on his bed and cried, in tears, “Father, if you believe in Jesus please wink your eyes once. (Since you cannot talk…) if not, wink twice. The father winked clearly once. So they rejoiced. Soon, the father died happily, and Gloria is invited to sing, and I played the piano.

Soon I met a famous girl Gail Law at the memorial service. She asked us to visit Ching-Yuen near Canton, where she helped to finance some kids. We visited her in China, and our hearts were moved by how poor the kids were. Even in high school they have to pay $30 USD a month. So we supported a few. Then they all came to our rented home to learn English. Of course, the Bible is the textbook. 

From then on, we go every summer to SW China till 2012. We went to Chungking and visited several tribes. I was not a missionary, but doing some missions work. That was my happiest 15 years in our life: 1997 to 2012. I hope you can do some such work also. Gail Law is older than me by 1 day. It is good to plan your 80-90 years old years by writing to such kids in foreign land, China or else.

Sincerely, Peter Y. Woo