brightest in the darkest

brightes in the darkest

The darkest moment in

human history…….

Holodomor (1932-1933)

Holocaust (1941-1945)

Apartheid in S Africa (1948-1990)

Khmer Rouge (1975-1979)

Rwandan genocide (1994)

9/11 in USA (2001)

Trip to the Holy Land 1st Most Visited Tourist Site

Western Wall / Wailing Wall

“Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future”

Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum)

Trip to the Holy Land 2nd Most Visited Tourist Site

The darkest moment in

human history…….

Holodomor (1932-1933)

Holocaust (1941-1945)

Apartheid in S Africa (1948-1990)

Khmer Rouge (1975-1979)

Rwandan genocide (1994)

9/11 in USA (2001)

Over 6 million Jews murdered in Europe during World War II More than 1.2 million children

“The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.”

“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”

“The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”

Adolf Hitler

(Vision & Mission)

(Object of Mission)

(Strategy)

The Hall of Names

The Children’s Memorial

“Garden of the Righteous Gentile”

The darkest moment in

human history…….

the brightest light shines….

Holocaust (1941-1945)

Corrie Ten Boom 15 Apr 1892 – 15 Apr 1983

Haarlem, Holland

The Ten Boom Family

Beje

Betsie

Willem

Nollie Corrie

From 1921 – 1940,

• Haarlem’s Girl’s Club

• Club for mentally-handicapped

young people

Corrie’s Pre-War Ministry

10 May 1940 – German (Hitler) invaded Holland

• Dutch army lost after 5 days of fighting

• Dutch newspaper stopped

The 2nd World War

• All radio sets confiscated

• Ration cards needed to buy food

• Curfew

• Jews started disappearing

Dutch Underground Movement

• Work secretly against Germans (Nazis) to help the Allies (Britain, France, Holland)

• Try to free Dutch people who are arrested

• Hide the Jews from the Gestapo & Nazis

"We have an old watch,

with an unusual face. Do you know someone who would like to

buy it?"

Secret Codes

The triangular "Alpina" sign (barely seen through the curtains) was a signal that it was safe to enter the ten Boom house.

Illegal ration cards

were hidden in the stairwell.

The Hiding Place

The hiding place was entered through the back of Corrie's bedroom closet.

During practice drills, the illegal residents of the house would have to climb these steep stairs to Corrie's bedroom to hide in the prepared hiding place

Feb 28, 1944 (Nazi Raid)

•30 people arrested

• Four Jews and two members of the Dutch underground survived by hiding in "the hiding place.”

Two days after the raid, the six persons in hiding were able to escape through this window with the

help of the Dutch Resistance.

Corrie & Betsie

• Scheveningen prison

(Feb 28, 1944)

• Vught Labour Camp in southern Holland (June, 1944)

• Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in Germany (Sept, 1944)

Ravensbruck Concentration Camp

“Cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible

to the normal mind”

Crematorium Oven

Gas Chamber

"History knows no parallel of such destruction

of human life.”

• Released on Dec 31, 1944

• 2nd World War ended May 1945

• Speaking in over 60 countries

• 1968 – honoured by Israel

• 1975 – “The Hiding Place”

• 1977 – settled in California

• 1978 – Stroke – unable to speak

Corrie’s Post-War Ministry

• 1983 – Died on her 91st birthday

Lessons From The Life Of Corrie Ten Boom

1. Living for God’s glory “The measure of a life, after all,

is not its duration, but its donation.”

2. Forgiveness – an act of the will

“God will give us the love to be able to forgive our enemies”

“Which will bring my Father the greatest glory? Going to be with Him now or enduring the 5 years of suffering?”

Lesson #1 – Living for God’s glory

“Staying here and enduring 5 more years.”

“.... Then that is what I choose.”

Lesson #1 – Living for God’s glory The true story of Corrie ten Boom’s struggle to communicate her love for her God during five years of stroke-induced silence.

Pamela Rosewell

Matt 5:16

Matt 5:16. "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven."

1. Light-shining living

2. Pursuit of good deeds

3. Not a “do-gooder” that brings no glory to God

Eph 2:10. "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."

My harness is easy and my burden

is light.

Lesson #2 – Forgiveness

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chain of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”

"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart."

1. Forgiveness is not

• Excusing the behaviour

• Ignoring the hurt

• Denying the pain

• Justifying the wrong

2. Forgiveness is

• Choosing to keep no record of wrongs

• Refusing to punish

• Not telling what they did

• Absence of bitterness

3. How do I know when I have truly forgiven? • No longer dwell on it day & night • No longer talk about it all the time • No longer feel the need to seek

revenge • No longer live in bitterness &

anger • Can honestly wish the person well

4. Both an event and a process

When we forgive, we take our hand off the rope. But if we've been tugging at our grievances for a long time, we mustn't be surprised if the old angry thoughts keep coming for a while.

They're just the ding-dongs of the old bell slowing down.

5. Forgiveness Reconciliation

Reconciliation requires forgiveness, but forgiveness does not demand reconciliation.

brightes in the darkest

The darkest moment in

human history…….

the brightest light shines….

Holocaust (1941-1945)

“Trying to glorify God and forgive others in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the life of Jesus just flows out of you.”

“Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.” - Corrie Ten Boom