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Powerful and compelling, I’ll Cross the River captured my heart with the reality of the suffering of our North Korean brothers and sisters. It is a moving story of bold spiritual courage—I highly recommend you read it, and pray!

Carl A. Moeller, Open Doors with Brother Andrew

Pastors Dennis and Kathy Balcombe & Family

I’ll Cross the River touches my heart—I am so impressed. I believe this book represents the situation of North Korea exactly so people can understand the most closed country and the lives of North Korean citizens. Please pray for God to bless them.

Too often we forget what goes on behind the closed doors of countries like North Korea. Often things that are hidden from day-to-day life get ignored by those of us who can do something and make our concerns and our voices heard. It is shameful that such aggression and violence toward the ordinary people in North Korea is tolerated by other nations who know better. Hope Flinchbaugh wants to draw your attention to the plight of the people of North Korea and hopefully we will all respond.

Tragically, because of the lack of access to North Korea, most people living in the free world have no idea of the horrible suffering of the people in North Korea. Even those few who travel to the country are carefully watched by “minders” and have no access to see the general population. Through her book, Hope Flinchbaugh has given us a picture of life for the average citizen who must struggle daily to survive, cut off from the rest of the world and enslaved by Kim Jong-il in what could arguably be described as the world’s biggest prison. Flinchbaugh, who has led a prayer team to help me with my work on this issue, rightfully reminds us that helping the North Korean people is as much a spiritual battle as anything else. Her central character, Young Soon, reminds us of the triumph of the human spirit. Emboldened by love, redemption, and forgiveness, Young Soon overcomes in a land gripped with fear, suspicion and condemnation. She embodies both the despair and courage of over 10,000 North Korean defectors who have fled their homeland. These defectors are a living testament that no matter how many years of darkness North Koreans have faced, the light of the human spirit can never be extinguished.