Brother Andrew. A Miraculous life.

[Justin Adams]

I have been there. I was stopped at the Bulgarian border and searched in a haphazard manner. It is unnerving.

Brother Andrew:

As he prayed, a bold idea came to Brother Andrew. “I know that no amount of cleverness on my part can get me through this border search.  Dare I ask for a miracle? Let me take some of the Bibles out and leave them in the open where they will be seen.”

Putting the Bibles out in the open would truly be depending on God, rather than his own intelligence, he thought. So when the guards ushered Andrew forward, he did just this. “I handed him my papers and started to get out. But his knee was against the door, holding it closed.”

And then, the almost unbelievable happened.

The guard looked at Brother Andrew’s passport and abruptly waved him on. “Surely thirty seconds had not passed,” he remembers.

Brother Andrew started the engine and began pulling away, all the while wondering if he was supposed to pull over so the car could be taken apart and examined. “I coasted forward, my foot poised above the brake. Nothing happened. I looked out the rear mirror. The guard was waving the next car to a stop, indicating to the driver that he had to get out.”

God had cleared the way for Brother Andrew to smuggle the Bible to Christians who had no access to God’s Word.

[teddyv]

There are some very brave souls doing similar things like getting Bibles into North Korea.

[David1701]

On 4/25/2021 at 12:24 PM, Justin Adams said:

I have been there. I was stopped at the Bulgarian border and searched in a haphazard manner. It is unnerving.

Brother Andrew:

As he prayed, a bold idea came to Brother Andrew. “I know that no amount of cleverness on my part can get me through this border search.  Dare I ask for a miracle? Let me take some of the Bibles out and leave them in the open where they will be seen.”

Putting the Bibles out in the open would truly be depending on God, rather than his own intelligence, he thought. So when the guards ushered Andrew forward, he did just this. “I handed him my papers and started to get out. But his knee was against the door, holding it closed.”

And then, the almost unbelievable happened.

The guard looked at Brother Andrew’s passport and abruptly waved him on. “Surely thirty seconds had not passed,” he remembers.

Brother Andrew started the engine and began pulling away, all the while wondering if he was supposed to pull over so the car could be taken apart and examined. “I coasted forward, my foot poised above the brake. Nothing happened. I looked out the rear mirror. The guard was waving the next car to a stop, indicating to the driver that he had to get out.”

God had cleared the way for Brother Andrew to smuggle the Bible to Christians who had no access to God’s Word.

I remember reading "God's Smuggler", when I was newly saved; it was inspiring!

[chongjasmine]

I like his story. It inspires me greatly to care for the persecuted.

[hishandmaiden]

I think Brother Andrew really is a man of God. Not many people are willing to care for the persecuted churches or risk their lives to help persecuted Christians yet this man, brother Andrew risked his life.

Another person I recommend reading about is Paul Hattaway. He is the founder of Asia Harvest, an organization that helped persecuted Christians. You can read his story in An Asian Harvest: An Autobiography. He is another man of God, that specialized in helping persecuted Christians.

Occasionally, I will give to Asia Harvest some parts of my income and I hope you do the same, too.

[LaMonte]

He comes to Sacramento, Calif in the late 70s. I and my wife went to a dinner they had for about 100 couples. He was trying to get support for his ministry on getting Bible into Russia and shared about his book God's Smuggler.

[LaMonte]

On 9/21/2024 at 9:14 AM, hishandmaiden said:

I think Brother Andrew really is a man of God. Not many people are willing to care for the persecuted churches or risk their lives to help persecuted Christians yet this man, brother Andrew risked his life.

Amen

He comes to Sacramento, Calif in the late 70s. I and my wife went to a dinner they had for him, there was about 100 couples there. He was trying to get support for his ministry on getting Bible into Russia and shared about his book God's Smuggler.

[Who me]

Ok Brother Andrew was inspirational!

 

That means he encouraged others to do the same or similar work!

https://www.opendoorsuk.org/about/our-history/brother-andrew/

 

Is a link to the organisation he formed, are you inspired enough to support it?

 

James2:⁴ What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? ¹⁵ Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. ¹⁶ If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? ¹⁷ In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.