Milestones |
Achievements
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1955 BOLD
BEGINNINGS | Brother Andrew smuggles Bibles into
Eastern Europe for the first time. |  |
1956 BEETLE
DRIVE | The first of many tips to the Soviet
Union in Brother Andrew's blue
Volkswaen Beetle which was to travel
over 200,000 miles |  |
1955-78
EXPANSION | Open Doors extends its network
throughout Eastern Europe and the
Soviet Union and then expands to
bring Bibles and encouragement to
persecuted Christians | |
1967 GOD'S
SMUGGLER
PUBLISHED |
Brother Andrew's biography, God's
Smuggler, becomes one of the best-
selling Christian books of all time. |  |
1978 MIDDLE EAST
MINISTRY | Contact with churches in the Middle
East begins. | |
1981 PROJECT
PEARL |
One million Bibles are delivered to a
beach in China in just one night. Time
magazine calls is a "bold expedition.” |  |
1982 SEVEN-YEAR
PRAYER CAMPAIGN
LAUNCHED |
Open Doors organises seven years of
prayer for the Communist bloc. It ends
with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
- the region is opened to the Gospel
and Christian prisoners are released! |  |
1985 PROJECT
CROSSFIRE | Five million pieces of literature are
distributed in Latin America and
thousands of youth are discipled to
share their faith in Christ.
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1989 TARGET ONE
MILLION | Open Doors delivers one million New
Testaments to Russia. | |
1992 PROJECT
SAMUEL | One million children in the former
Soviet Union get their very first Bibles,
many in remote areas.
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1992 CHINESE
STUDY BIBLE |
New Bible for church leaders and
evangelists printed and distributed. | |
1993 BIBLES TO
ALBANIA | Brother Andrew presents the
President of Albania with the first copy
of the full Bible in Albanian. Albania
had previously declared itself the
world's first atheistic state!
|  |
1994 CHINESE
CHILDREN'S BIBLE
STORYBOOK |
Delivery of first print run. | |
1996 AGAPE
STUDY BIBLE | in Latin American Spanish printed and
delivered | |
1997 RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY AWARD | The World Evangelical Fellowship
presents Brother Andrew with the
International Religious Liberty Award. |  |
1998 OPERATION
DAILY BREAD | Open Doors launches its first relief
project: Food and supplies are flown
in to remote areas of war-torn
southern Sudan. |  |
| 1999 FEEDING THE REVIVAL | Open Doors delivers over two million
Bibles and Christian study materials to
Chinese believers. |  |
2002 OLYMPIC OPPORTUNITY |
Open Doors launches a new seven-
year prayer campaign - this time for
China, leading up to the 2008 Beijing
Olympic Games. |
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A History of Open Doors
