Wilmore, KY—Asbury Seminary dedicates Corrie ten Boom clock December 9 following Wednesday’s chapel service at 11. The clock is on loan from Ellen de Kroon Stamps, who served as Corrie’s assistant from 1967-1976. Ellen Stamps will also be the chapel speaker.

This Friesian clock belonged to Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author of The Hiding Place, and was used in the film of the same name. It originally hung near the workshop of Corrie’s father in Haarlem, Holland, in which Corrie was apprenticed as a watchmaker.  Corrie’s father often reminded her “Not to ever let the Friesian clock run down.” The clock belonged to the family for 150 years.  

Corrie and her family helped rescue hundreds of Jews until the Nazis arrested them in 1944. The last thing her father did before being taken away was to wind the clock.  He died 10 days later.

Corrie and her sister, Betsie, were sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany. Betsie died there later that year.  Corrie survived, and upon her release began a lifelong ministry of reconciliation and evangelism around the world.

The clock is on loan to Asbury Seminary from Ellen and her husband, Robert Stamps, who was Dean of the Chapel at Asbury Seminary from 2011 – 2014.  Ellen and Bob were the first Kalas Village Mentors and retired in 2015.