Brother Andrew’s Open Doors at 70: Smuggling Bibles and seeing miracles

Smuggling Bibles to believers in Communist countries – that’s how Open Doors UK & Ireland began; 70 years on, the organisation has become an international ministry working for the good of the Persecuted Church.

In 1955 Dutch missionary Brother Andrew set off for Poland with a suitcase containing his Bible and hundreds of tracts entitled “The Way of Salvation”.

Behind the Iron Curtain (the divide between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the West during the Cold War) Brother Andrew discovered churches desperately in need of Bibles, support, and prayer.