Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tan is a former Muslim who had been seeking Jesus since the time she was nine and first heard about Him in a private Dutch school she was attending. When finally she came to Christ over twenty years later her decision to follow Him proved enormously costly. Her enraged Muslim husband issued her an immediate divorce decree. For six years thereafter Tan and her young daughter endured much persecution in the country whose population is eighty percent Muslim.

As God miraculously opened door after door for the spunky new Christian, Tan moved to Malang, East Java where she attended the South East Asian Seminary.

Two years later she received a scholarship to study at Azusa Pacific University in the United States of America. She left behind a well-established career as a journalist and columnist, and recognition as Indonesia’s first Christian novelist. Her in depth knowledge of the 1965 Indonesian Communist coup and God’s handiwork within it, is captured in her first American novel, THE CALLING.

In 1996 she founded IN HIM Ministries, “a sobering and unpretentious outreach” to the unsaved and those in bondages. One of the ministries' ongoing missions is the mentoring and discipling of young Christian women.

Tan's testimony of God's grace and faithfulness is unfolded in her finished auto-biographical novel, IF I RIDE THE MORNING WIND.  This title is taken from Psalms 139, an antidote for those who struggle with issues of rejections.

When she left for the United States an Immigration official in Indonesia had, unbeknownst to Betsy, stamped on her passport the word “missionary”.   Betsy saw that as an assignment from God and in whatever she does in Jesus' name, outreach is always her intent.

A TRUTHFUL, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER

Tan is an experienced, Christian motivational speaker who speaks the Truth
with compassion and great sense of humor. As a strong prayer warrior she proclaims the Victory of the Cross, having gone through many fires in her lifetime.  She will be available for individual prayers after the sessions.

Tan has never charged a speaking fee, relying instead on the body of Christ to provide for travel and lodging expenses . A portion of any love offerings received will be donated to the persecuted Church in Indonesia.