Johanna Janssen

Johanna Janssen

Historical Stories Meant to Inspire and Bring Hope

Johanna Janssen was born in southern Ontario among rolling vineyards, fragrant orchards and strawberry patches, where in winter, the sunlight glints off the snow. Before this, her parents left the shores of the Netherlands, boarded the S.S. Waterman with three young children for Halifax harbor, leaving family, friends and most of their belongings behind.
Johanna, now a retired nurse and former Stephen minister, writes inspirational fiction, fights for joy in the dark pages of history as much as she does in real life. โ€œStories of immigrants like my parents, and of those earlier pioneers looking for a place to call their own, captured my heart.โ€ The passing down of faith, of core values, throughout the generations and how that looks through fiction, inspired her work in progress, and is loosely based on her parentsโ€™ journey through WW2 that eventually led them to Canada. The faith those early settlers took with them across the waters to the new land is what kept them. And it wasnโ€™t easy, and is what is inspiring her to write her next manuscript.

โ€œFor the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.โ€

Psalm 100:5.

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