Echoing the word
Rev. Daniel Holstege reflects on a conversion narrative from Jean Kortering's missionary work in Asia, highlighting how God uses faithful witness and the preaching of the gospel to call sinners from darkness into light. The article emphasizes the sovereignty of God's work in salvation while calling believers to be faithful witnesses of Christ's truth in their own communities and beyond.
Rev. Daniel Holstege, pastor of the Wingham PRC in Wingham, Ontario, Canada In her book Say Among the Heathen the Lord Reigns, Mrs. Jean Kortering tells the conversion stories of several individuals in the continent of Asia. The first story is about a young girl in Singapore named Poh Li who was raised by a strict Buddhist mother and a father who was a gambler and drunkard. One day, a young woman named Karen of the Covenant Evangelical Reformed Church saw Poh Li in a store studying a picture of...
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