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Luella Youngman Youngman

True Story Of Healing, Miracles, Life As A Missionary And Church Planter In Africa And The Arctic

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Call From On High Copyright 2002 by Luella Youngman. Published by PageMaster Publication Services Inc. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided by Canadian copyright law. Most scriptures from the King James Version of the Bible, others from the Amplified Bible as it brought out the meaning a bit better. Cover and book design by Dale Youngman Editorial work by Joan Youngman First Printing, 2002 Digitaly printed in Canada by PageMaster Publication Services Inc. www.pagemaster.ca. E-mail: go-digital@pagemaster.ca

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Acknowledgements
Dedicated To the Glory of God.
Special thanks to: Vera for working on the computer, and her husband Frank, while we spent hours at the computer working on this. Kimberly, my grand daughter, who types a bit faster than I do. Joan, for taking dictation, word processing, and editorial and Jean Hill for her help with proofreading. Dale, for putting the book together and making this thing a reality that I can hold in my hands. Muriel, Candice for work on computer and sending e-mail My late husband Alex, for his part in my life. If it werent for him, I wouldnt be writing this book. He was a faithful partner in it all. All the people who prayed for this books completion and those

who helped throughout this process.

Thank the Lord for his faithfulness to see us through, like Paul said in 2ND COR 4:7-14, 16: BUT WE HAVE THIS TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS THAT THE EXCELLENCY OF THE POWER OF GOD AND NOT OF US, WE ARE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE, BUT NOT DISTRESSED, WE ARE PERPLEXED, BUT NOT IN DESPAIR, PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN, CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED. ALWAYS BEARING ABOUT IN THE BODY, THE DYING OF THE LORD JESUS, THAT THE LIFE ALSO OF JESUS MIGHT BE MADE MANIFEST IN OUR BODY. 16, FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FEINT NOT, THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, OUR INNER MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY.

I saw a greater reality of this 16th verse when my dear husband passed away to his reward. His body was failing but he interceded in his heavenly language in those last months. He is now dancing on the golden streets in heaven.

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Forward
An Adventurer in Faith

s you read this book about an amazing life of adventure in Gods faith-fullness to His people, you will meet a wonderful lady that I have known for many years, Luella Youngman. I first met Luella and her now late husband, Alex, in the church we were attending in Central Alberta. I was immediately drawn toward her intensity of prayer and prophetic style. Her relationship with Jesus was evident in the manner in which she spoke the Word of God with authority and knowledge. Things seemed to change somehow after she spoke. I realized that Gods Word had gone forth with dunamis power. I know in reading about this adventurer, your faith will be challenged and increased. Time after time through both trial and blessings I have watched as God has proven Himself to Luella. She continues to be an encouragement and an example of Christ-likeness to us. Although this is her story, all is not written because she is still living the adventure. Go for it Luella! Rev. Tom Dorsey River of Life Church and Ministries Edmonton, Alberta
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Table of Contents
1 Dreams ..................................................................... 1 2 Tragedy on the Ranch .............................................. 5 3 Newly-Weds .............................................................. 9 4 A Miracle ................................................................. 16 5 The Call of God ....................................................... 21 6 My Training Field ................................................... 25 7 The Land of the Midnight Sun .............................. 31 8 Ministering in the U.S.A. ....................................... 45 9 Heading Back North ............................................... 53 10 Mid-Arctic ............................................................... 67 11 The Second Airplane .............................................. 75 12 Establishing Headquarters .................................... 79 13 Arctic Visit .............................................................. 87 14 From the Frozen North to the U.S.A. .................... 93 15 Back to the North ................................................... 97 16 Be Prepared .......................................................... 103 18 Bitter Herbs .......................................................... 109 Prologue ............................................................... 127

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Location highlights

Manning, Alberta Portland, Oregon Accra, Gold Coast (now Guyana) Edmonton, Alberta Fort Smith, NWT Yellowknife, NWT Hay River, NWT Bathurst Inlet, NWT Tuktoyaktuk , NWT Cambridge Bay, NWT Stanton, Kentucky Elkhart, Indiana

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Dreams
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t was a beautiful spring day in the Canadian foothills of Central Alberta as I rode my faithful steed over hills and along swampy lakes. These were familiar trails for many miles around as my father was a rancher, guide, outfitter and trapper since the early 1900s. My life was lonely as an only child with few neighbours. In those early days of the depression, life was simply a struggle for survival. Our homesteading area had no churches and I was simply taught good principles, however no Christian realities. I worked to help my parents; and did the heavy work of a man. There was little time for the day dreaming that teenage girls enjoy. This sunny spring day as I was riding in search of my fathers lost horses, my daydreaming was interrupted with a real vision. This was a frightening experience. The vision was about a man I had met years ago at an old-time country dance. For years my parents played for country-dances at community halls to help support our ranch. One time at a wedding dance, I met a handsome man and we enjoyed each others company. Over the period
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of a year, we saw each other at two more wedding dances. Now on my ride I realized it had been five years since we had heard of or had seen each other. As I saw his smiling face in this vision, I was frightened by the experience. I had never heard of visions, not knowing about the Bible or even about superstitions. However my daydreaming took on a different train of thought. My thought was that Alexander Youngman was probably married long ago, so forget this dream. Then a little later, for the second time that day, his captivating face was before me once again. Then I became worried, Maybe you are cracking up, Luella. Get yourself in hand here. Go home and do your chores!

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Many miles away on a Caterpillar, breaking land, was Alex, ambitious to make money. This had become his priority over girlfriends for the time being. Christian Lutheran parents had raised Alex. He knew God answered prayer, and that He existed. But that childhood upbringing was now in the background. However this lovely spring day, Alex sat on his Caterpillar possibly day dreaming a bit too. SUDDENLY, he had a recollection of a girl he had met five years ago at a wedding dance. He didnt know her name or her whereabouts, except that her parents played for those good oldfashioned country-dances. Well, he resolved, maybe Ill investigate this later. The later became sooner. His roommate, Harry (from Sundre, Alberta), asked if Alex would drive him to see his cousin, Luella Lamb, to her home near Caroline, Alberta. The divine intervention of a mighty God and our creator was beginning as Alexs dream, which follows, tried to show him.
As I was sleeping I had the same, identical dream three different times, troubling to a young boy. I suddenly would be falling over a precipice and calling out to my
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 Dreams parents to come and save me. I could see them, their backs were to me, they never responded, and then the scene changed, and I saw a beautiful blue sky and out of it came a LAMB and spoke Ill take care of you.

Alex and I met once again and began our courtship. Somehow we just knew it was the right thing to do and that we were meant for each other. He came to visit the ranch every weekend and our relationship blossomed. By Christmas of 1947, we were engaged to be married.

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