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Today's Christian, January/February 2001
Missionary Roots
by Randy Bishop
Paul Young, 45, won $250,000 on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and got to tell a national audience about his missionary-kid years in Irian Jaya (West Papua), the Indonesian province on the island of New Guinea.
In 1956, his parents traveled there to work as missionaries to the Dani tribe, then a stone-age group who practiced cannibalism for ritualistic purposes. Young was one year old. The family left New Guinea about eight years later. During their appointment, many tribespeople became Christians thanks to a strong missionary presence among several groups. Today, there is a large indigenous church in Irian Jaya, Young says.
A Canadian citizen (he was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta), Young lives with his wife Kim and six children in the one-stoplight town of Boring, Oregon, outside Portland. Since his appearance on the show, which aired September 12, he has received numerous letters from other believers who were encouraged by his willingness to share about his childhood, as well as the Christian school his youngest children attend. Many also appreciated that he told his 20-year-old son Chad "I love you" on TV after his son helped him answer a question by phone.
The Youngs attend Eastridge Evangelical Covenant Church in Clackamas, Oregon. With the newly won money, they plan to pay off debts, save for school and college expenses, and might even take a family vacation, which would be their first in years.
A Christian Reader original article.
Copyright © 2001 by the author or Christianity Today International/Today's Christian magazine (formerly Christian Reader).
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January/February 2001, Vol. 39, No. 1, Page 57
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