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I do make donations. By clicking on web sites. I’m fighting with hunger, supporting free child healthcare, I’m protecting rainforest. I’m saving the world in other words ;-) There is absolutely no charge for the donation - it is fully paid by the sponsor(s). It takes about 5 seconds. Not much effort. Last month I found new web site http://www.thebiblesite.org/. By clicking on the button you can donate one book of the Bible which will be provided to a persecuted Christian. The Bible Site is an outreach effort of Open Doors an international nondenominational Christian mission founded in 1955 by Dutchman Brother Andrew, best known as the title of his best-selling autobiography “God’s Smuggler. What touched me was the story of Brother Andrew which, surprisingly, is part of my own story.

In 1955, a young Dutchman called Brother Andrew took a trip to Warsaw, Poland, behind the Iron Curtain. He found he could sneak away from his tour group and meet secretly with Christians. But what he found shook him…the church in Poland was very weak, and had few Bibles to read. A few days later, Andrew sat on a park bench and watched a parade of hundreds of communist youth marching through the streets of Warsaw proclaiming the glories of their revolution. Looking down at his open Bible, his eyes fell on Revelation 3:2, “Awake, and strengthen what remains and is at the point of death.” It was Andrew’s call to wake up from his complacency, and begin to help persecuted Christians who lived in some of the world’s most difficult areas. Open Doors was born as Andrew, and others the Lord added to his team, began to smuggle Bibles through the Iron Curtain, bringing encouragement and help to the seemingly forgotten Christians.”

I live in Warsaw, Poland. 53 years after Brother Andrew was here. Communism is over. I have on my bookshelf several Bibles. Church is not persecuted any more. It is so easy to forget that once was. For me it is history. For many Christian it is still reality. Please do click. Help to change someones story.


January 14, 2008 | 4:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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