..........taking a story of hope, forgiveness and reconciliation to the world’s only Jewish state. "Their work is "truly one of the most outstanding tributes to our Lord Jesus Christ that I've ever seen, " exclaims Dr. Ed Young, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church in Houston, in a public endorsement."Let us pray that many Jewish citizens will see Christ through this Christian presentation.
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Ten Boom and her family, all strong Christians, had become very active in the Dutch underground in 1942, hiding refugees and rescuing many Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazi Party’s “Shield Squadron.”
After about two years of taking in refugees, the ten Booms were arrested in 1944 and sent to Scheveningen prison, where Corrie’s father died after ten days.
Corrie’s sister also died later after the family was moved to the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. Corrie was eventually released on Christmas Day of December 1944 due to a clerical error.
The women prisoners her age in the camp were killed the week following her release.
"God does not have problems. Only plans," she said following her release. Continues
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