Brother Yun, the heavenly man!

We sat still in the auditorium at Storsalen in Oslo on the morning of the twenty-third of November 2003, but the stillness was not from the cold of the snow falling outside, it was from the grip of the words of ‘The heavenly man’ as he’s sometimes called.

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- We were gripped as he told of being arrested 30 times, staying in and out of prison serving a total of seven years behind bars for the gospel.

He was speaking Chinese to a congregation of Norwegians, his interpreter was speaking Swedish with a Finnish accent. But you didn’t need to understand Chinese to know that this man was very passionate about the gospel of Christ. Watching brother Yun preach just convinced you that this is a man who has endured the baptism of fire for the Gospel.

This was his last day in Norway, he had spent eight days in the country and he would leave the following day. But he is a man who leaves a part of him with you once you have met him; something has to rub off of him onto those he talks to.

We were gripped as he told of being arrested 30 times, staying in and out of prison serving a total of seven years behind bars for the gospel. And then the final arrest on the seventh of March 1997 when the secret police busted a meeting of the leaders of the house church movements, whom he had helped unite the previous year.

- He was speaking Chinese to a congregation of Norwegians, his interpreter was speaking Swedish with a Finnish accent. But you didn’t need to understand Chinese to know that this man was very passionate about the gospel of Christ.

Brother Yun had been on China’s list of most wanted criminals since the early 1990’s, and so his arrest was a big victory for the authorities. In fact, he was told that he would never leave prison. And to ensure that his fate was sealed, he was tortured into a cripple, and placed in solitary confinement.

It was in these circumstances that the Holy Spirit intervened on the fifth of May the same year, healing brother Yun, opening the cell door and four more doors that he had to walk through to get out of the prison.

Before the year ended, he had miraculously left China and set up base in Germany from where he travels across the world. His mission; not only to preach the gospel, but also invite brethren to partner with Chinese people both in prayer and financially, for the fulfillment of the mission to send 100,000 missionaries out of China.

According to his spokesperson, it is a hard task selling this vision, mostly because Christians in the western world consider China to be a mission field waiting to be evangelized, not a source of missionaries.

His stay here had taken him across Norway, along the west coast, visiting churches, meeting pastors and different church leaders, and presenting the vision of the Christians of China.

Brother Yun is no stranger to Norway, his family’s first contact with the gospel was through a Norwegian missionary who preached to his mother and led her to Christ before the era of communism. When his father was dying from cancer, his mother, who had been backslidden, remembered to pray for healing from Jesus.

At the age of sixteen, brother Yun got saved after witnessing God heal his father of cancer. A year later, God called him to evangelism.

The impact of his visit is yet to be seen as Christians in Norway continue to commit themselves to partner with Chinese Christians, But judging by the crowds that swarmed around him after the service at Storsalen, and the sale of 2000 copies of his book, the people of Norway have been stirred by his visit.