Driven Into the Wilderness to Find Her Mission
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom was arrested for hiding Jewish families in her Haarlem home. Within weeks, she was transported to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Mark 1:9-15.
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom was arrested for hiding Jewish families in her Haarlem home. Within weeks, she was transported to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp. She had answered God's call — sheltering the vulnerable, saying yes to a dangerous commission — and almost immediately, she was thrust into a wilderness more brutal than she could have imagined. The parallels to Mark's Gospel are striking.…
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