Missionaries are usually the last ones to claim super-human or super-spiritual status. In fact they often readily admit to battling feelings of insecurity, weakness, inadequacy and failure.
Julie Fehr would have been the first to acknowledge all of the above.
But God stepped into her life and took a reluctant young school teacher, who barely passed high school and college language courses, and made out of her a Bible translator and director of Theological Education by Extension for all of West Africa.
In 1993, in what appeared to be an opportunity to become a missionary to the world, she was chosen to be the missionary-scholar-in-residence at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton Graduate School. Within months, however, she suddenly faced the final call of her Lord.
In Gabon - and heaven - thousands remember Julie by her Gabonese name - Monyepi, ÒThe Beautiful One.Ó