Anneke Companjen is the wife of the president of the Open Doors organisation which was set up by Brother Andrew to help Christians in closed countries.
She has recently written a book entitled, Hidden Sorrow, Lasting Joy that tells the stories of women suffering for the gospel in many lands and the need to support them. Rose Smith interviewed Anneke for EN.
EN: Anneke, what is your background?
AC: I live in the Netherlands. Through Brother Andrew's ministry my husband, Johan, and I dedicated our lives to the Lord while we were still young. We were in Bible college in England and then went to Vietnam as missionaries. In 1975 we had to be evacuated when the North Vietnamese took over the South and Vietnam became a Communist country. Soon after we got home Brother Andrew asked us to join the work of Open Doors because Vietnam had, of course, become a closed country.
