Other editions of book In My Father's House : The Years Before the Hiding Place

Over 50 photosWhen Corrie ten Boom was in her early fifties, she became a key figure in the Dutch Underground Christian Resistance movement during World War II. The account of Corrie's experience during this time period can be read in her best-selling book, The Hiding Place. In My Father's House is the story of Corrie's life with her mother, father, her siblings, and aunts before World War II began. This book is a testament to how God prepared one family through a father's faithfulness to his Savior and the Word of God for the most sacrificial service a family could do.Beginning in the years before Corrie was born, In My Father's House paints a beautiful story from which families today can glean valuable and eternally-lasting lessons.

Corrie ten Boom was fifty years old when she began harboring Jews during World War II. She was imprisoned in a concentration camp, and after her release she traveled the world, proclaiming the gospel. What happened in those earlier fifty years to prepare Corrie for all that lay ahead? In My Father's House (over 250,000 copies sold) explains how God used life's small beginnings and everyday happenings to prepare Corrie for the suffering and victories to come. The eighth book of the Corrie ten Boom Library, it is the first in the series to focus on the years leading up to World War II and the events of The Hiding Place. More than merely a collection of memories from Corrie's colorful life, this book explores the human side of one of the most authentic Christian witnesses and the faith that kept her going strong. This book was previously published by Revell in 1976.

Concentrating upon her family and their life in Holland before the war, this inspiring and revealing book describes in moving detail living above the family watch shop in Harlem and her memories of the family together before their lives changed for ever with the advent of war and persecution. Corrie believed that this life helped prepare them for carrying out God's work later and gave her the strength to survive the war, brutal hardship and persecution and begin her worldwide ministry. This much loved book is being re-issued in B format with a contemporary cover.

In My Father s House is the story of Corrie s life with her mother, father, and the rest of her family before they began hiding Jewish people in their home. This book is a testament to how God prepared one family through a father s faithfulness to his Savior and the Word of God for the most sacrificial service a family could do. Beginning in the years before Corrie was born, it tells the story of Corrie s father, who was a loving husband to Corrie s mother and no ordinary man he was determined to raise his children in the ways of the Lord. The book describes the extension of her father s devotion to God as Corrie herself becomes committed to the ministry of young people throughout her young adult life. All of this prepared her for her role in helping to save the lives of hundreds of Jews.

This autobiographical account describes the years before "The Hiding Place", telling the story of Corrie's childhood in Holland. The ten Boom home was a narrow, three-storey stucco and brick watchshop in Haarlem, Holland, called "the Beje". Corrie was born there and in the book recounts the memorable characters who shaped her early life. With an ever-changing entourage of "adopted" ten Booms - unwanted foster children, displaced refugees, hunted Jews - the "Beje" was a home where everyone felt welcome. Corrie ten Boom was the author of "The Hiding Place", which records her family's underground activities to protect Jews against the Nazis in Holland. The book launched her into a ministry of speaking, teaching and writing as she became famous the world over - a ministry which lasted until her death in 1983 at the age of 91. "In My Father's House" is being re-issued to coincide with the centenary of her birth alongside "The Five Silent Years of Corrie ten Boom" by Pamela Rosewell.