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Study Section 15: Heroes from 1950s to today

15.1 Connect.

Have you ever seen God work in amazing ways? Sometimes he works through circumstances,
arranging them to meet your needs. Other times, He may even do something miraculous to
demonstrate His power. But in every situation, God is working in your life to accomplish His
perfect will. And quite often, He demonstrates His power to us in amazing ways. Today, the two
missionaries we will examine both encountered the mighty hand of God in their ministries.
Thousands of lives have been changed because these two individuals were willing to give God
everything in their lives. They are modern heroes of the faith! Let’s examine their lives…..

15.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to describe the life of Joannie Shetler to see how God directed in
bringing an entire people group to Him through her faithfulness.

2. The student should be able to describe the life of Brother Yun, how he endured tremendous
torture for Christ, and how God used that to bring literally thousands of souls to Him.

15.3 Joannie Shetler 1950 –

http://www.thetravelingteam.org/articles/joanne-shetler

Joanne was a typical young farm girl, full of fanciful thoughts, always
dreaming about what the future had in store. She said, “I’d dream
about the house I’d have some day: a big, beautiful farmhouse with a
white fence.

Cows would graze on the rolling hills surrounding it. Best of all, my
house would be crowded with happy people. Occasionally in my dream, I’d leave my
house and friends and go to the hospital where I worked as a nurse, like my mom. To me, it was the perfect
life.”

At such a young age she had already dreamed up such a beautiful plan for her life, but she didn’t yet have sight
of what God had in store for her. Joanne gave her life to Jesus at the age of 11 during a Bible club meeting. She
says that the Gospel “was the best news [she’d] ever heard of, it was like discovering gold.” Soon she came to
understand the mandate to go into the world to make disciples of nations. A missionary visited her church one
Sunday, sharing “that 90 percent of the ‘goers’, ‘tellers,’ and ‘makers-of-disciples’ were concentrating on only 10
percent of the world’s population.” She knew that she had to be part of the 10 percent that reach the 90. After
significant struggle, Joanne surrendered her perfect life dream to Jesus and told him she’d go anywhere, having
no idea what that really meant. Joanne began to pray that God would prepare a people group to hear the Good
News that she would take to them.

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