Hi friend! My name is Arjan Koopmans and I am Dutch. It’s great to meet you in My Personal Source and it is my wish that it will bless you and your loved ones.
After Monique called me to share her business plan about this Digital Source I was immediately excited! Being a lifelong entrepreneur myself and having multiple businesses, I saw the uniqueness and the endless possibilities of this God given Source. I recognised how it could help ministries and people all over the world. At that time I was praying about how to move on with my business as a trainer, speaker and coach. Covid-19 made life as an entrepreneur a lot more challenging. I was asking God what I had to do and then I got a phone call from Monique who I have known many years ago in my first church. We hardly knew each other. After hearing her story and plan I was immediately impressed and enthusiastic. The reason she called me was to ask for advice. During this phone call she asked me to become her business partner. I saw this as a sign of God, an answer to my prayer, so I decided to agree on her proposal to team up with her.
“I saw it as a sign of God,
an answer to my prayer…”
My hobby is genealogy. That means that I resurge about my ancestors. Names and dates of birth are leading me to stories about how my ancestors and others lived. Such as their life circumstances and habits. I have studied the Bible where there are answers about our existence. I also found answers about our life purpose and the many more keys the Bible has to give. I just love what history can teach us for now and the future. Besides these passions I also really enjoy biographical stories and movies.
About my background
I was born and raised in Rotterdam and I married Thea, the girl who I have known for so long because she has lived next to me. We have been together now for more than 40 years. Together we have the same attitude, and that is Trust God and Do Good. We help people in need wherever we can. Being entrepreneurs we have always worked very hard. We have a son, a daughter and also a grandson and we love spending time with them. Besides my natural family we have also adopted 2 sons in Africa. Isaac from Uganda and Lamin in The Gambia. I love helping people in Africa! I do this together with my friend, Wilbert Sluiter, a medical doctor. Together with him we started the Jamorai Foundation for Gambia. We are supporting a medical clinic for the poor, a basic school and some families who are in need. The people in my church in the Netherlands are supporting me together with some other dear partners. We are helping people in Pakistan and the Philippines. Furthermore I visit prisons nearby my home to coach the prisoners and to support them on their journey to freedom, home, work and rebuilding a social network. Together we make a difference in people’s lives. My goal is to help many more people in need and to support them in developing a Christ like mindset of Trusting God and Do Good.
Accepting Jesus as my saviour
I am raised in a home of faith but at the age of 13 I was glad to escape from the church. I did not understand what the pastor was preaching and I found it incredibly boring. I left God but He didn’t leave me. When I was 40 years old my daughter became very ill. We were afraid she was going to die. I felt so incredibly desperate that I turned back to the One who never turned back on me. I prayed that if God would heal my daughter that I would start reading the Bible. Then, she became well within a few days. After this life changing prayer God gave me the desire to read ánd understand the Bible. He guided me to a great church and God touched me and my wife in a profound way. My wife and I got baptized and I started to dig in God’s word. I followed all kinds of studies and started preaching, speaking and evangelising. Thank God for his mighty hand in our life!
My Personal Source fits exactly with my life, my passion and my goals. I am so grateful to God that I can be a part of this Source and his plan to bear fruit all over the world.