And through her lifelong experiences, she has learned a few lessons in God's great classroom which she shares with the readers of Tramp For the Lord. In her own words: "My life had been given back as a gift.for a purpose."Īfter her release from the concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom set out to become what she calls a "tramp for the Lord," traveling around the world at the direction of God, proclaiming His message everywhere. Her brush with death lent a new meaning to her life.
This remarkable woman of eighty-one years served time in a German concentration camp during World War II for the "crime" of hiding persecuted Jews and survived to tell the story in her best selling book, The Hiding Place. As I have walked the world-a tramp for the Lord-I have learned a few lessons in God's great classroom.For the past twenty years Corrie ten Boom has crisscrossed the globe, slept in more than a thousand different beds, and lived out of suitcases.all to fulfill her God-given mission to tell people everywhere that Jesus Christ is reality, that He Lives, that He is Victor. "Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown. But remarkably, throughout this turbulent time, from her near-destitute days in postwar New York to her heart-stopping adventures in Africa, Corrie sustained the faith in God that helped her become one of the most beloved evangelists of her time. Before long, the Nazis captured Corrie and her family and sent them to a concentration camp, where Corrie lost both her sister and father. Armed with the gift of their faith and their belief in doing what was right, this devoutly Christian family provided sanctuary for persecuted Jews. In 1940, Corrie ten Boom was living with her father and sister above their watch shop in Haarlem when their country was invaded. Continuing from her bestseller The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom's inspirational life story proves that miracles do happen.
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