[Video] Your Story Time Episode 315: Painter Weng Dengke Tells His Story in "Praise on Canvas"

Episode 315 of Your Story Time, the online interview series hosted by the Jason Wang Foundation, aired online at 7 p.m. Pacific Time on November 9 under the theme "Praise on Canvas." The guest was Weng Dengke, a Taiwan-born painter living in Canada, who spoke with host Xianzi about his journey from an orphanage and earning a living by sketching portraits on the street to founding an art academy. The episode video was released on the GSM Official YouTube channel on November 11.

Weng Dengke was born in Taiwan in 1960. Both of his parents died when he was young, and he grew up in an orphanage. As a teenager, he worked in a garbage dump to pay for his schooling and made a living drawing portraits on the street.

At age twenty, Weng contracted severe meningitis and came close to death. He survived, but was left with partial hearing loss. According to the program's introduction, it was after the illness that he discovered he could paint with his own hands, and he devoted himself to art creation and education from then on.

After immigrating to Canada, Weng founded the True Light Art Academy in Vancouver and put forward his "Trinity School" concept of painting. In the episode, he tells his story against the backdrop of his own paintings and presents several of his works. According to the program, Weng often says his path was not traveled by his own strength alone, but that his faith led him, step by step, out of orphanhood, illness and hearing loss into a life of serving through art.

Your Story Time is produced by the Jason Wang Foundation and features one guest's life story in each episode. The full video of this episode is now available on the GSM Official YouTube channel.

Related: Your Story Time Episode 314: Pastor Yeh Kao-Fang on "Half a Century of Love, True Love for the World"

(Source: Jason Wang Foundation)

Source: Jason Wang Foundation

Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)

Photo: 图：《小人物大故事》第315期视频画面：画家翁登科在自己的画作前讲述人生故事。GSM Official 群星传媒官方频道视频截图。 / Photo: Painter Weng Dengke speaks in front of his own artwork in Episode 315 of Your Story Time. Still from the GSM Official YouTube channel video.

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