Genealogy Harssema » Herman GOUDSWAARD (1930-2009)

Persoonlijke gegevens Herman GOUDSWAARD 

• Hij is geboren op 18 maart 1930 in Leiden Zuid-Holland Netherlands.
• Hij is overleden op 22 mei 2009 in Barneveld Gelderland Netherlands, hij was toen 79 jaar oud.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 1 augustus 2020.

Gezin van Herman GOUDSWAARD

Hij is getrouwd met Annie de VRIES.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Notities over Herman GOUDSWAARD

Herman Goudswaard (Leiden, 18 March 1930 - Barneveld, May 22, 2009) was director of the Dutch organization Near East Ministry and a known person in evangelical circles.

Goudswaard kuyperiaans grew up in a reformed family. In 1967 he underwent in Papua New Guinea a religious renewal. Of dissatisfaction with the liberal approach of the Dutch Reformed churches he transferred to a Pentecostal municipality. Later he would get into a protestant church.

He was a teacher at the Christian Higher Agricultural School. At the beginning of the seventies was Goudswaard member on Israel. He was an important massager behind the wakes who was at that time for the embassy of the Soviet Union were held in The Hague. The purpose of the wakes was the release and improvement of the position of Jews in the Soviet Union.

In 1978 he left the education for what it was and became director of the Near East Ministry in Voorthuizen. There he followed Jan Willem van der Hoeven. Goudswaard wanted to contribute to the building of bridges between Jews and Arabs; the NEM sees a prophetic reconciliation between these peoples. In 1996 Goudswaard saying goodbye to the NEC.

After his departure he continued to pay much attention to Israel. So he organized prayer meetings and he lectures regularly. He also wrote a number of books about the Old Testament and Judaism.

Also loved Goudswaard located after his departure at Near East Ministry concerned with the role of Japan during the Second World War. He wanted to make a contribution to the reconciliation between Japan and the victims by it. His wife Annie had during the war in a Japanese concentration camp. He helped her with her search for the tomb of her father as a forced labor in a coal mine in Japan had lost their lives. They succeeded in the end a monument with out to find her father's name.

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