God's Smuggler, 60th Anniversary Edition by Brother Andrew, with John and Elizabeth Sherrill and published by Hodder Faith. Later visits also included trips to Pakistan in the 2010s, where van der Bijl attempted to meet with members of the Taliban. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I had apparently started reading it back in 2008, judging from a bookmark left in it, but for some reason, never got more than a few pages into it. He went to Czechoslovakia when the suppression by Soviet troops of the Prague Spring had put an end to relative religious freedom there.I have heard about this book for most of my life and, while I didn't doubt the quality of the content, I expected it to be hard to read. From the people who supported and inspired him in his early walk with the Lord, to those behind the Iron Curtain ready to receive the Bibles Brother Andrew was supplying, this book reminds me that GOD IS IN CONTROL and that God WILL provide and that God IS building His kingdom. Brother Andrew was his name and for decades his life story, recounted in God's Smuggler, has awed and inspired millions. Only as I grew up and learned more about the Soviet Union did the full implications of those hints start to gain their full force. Winding along the road to Emmaus, Join two friends on the road as the joy of the first Easter dawns.

Summary: The story follows Andrew from his childhood growing up in Holland during World War II, to his years fighting with the Dutch army in Indonesia, to his conversion to Christianity and his early years of ministry. Now, sixty years after Brother Andrew first prayed for God's miracle protection, this expanded edition of a classic work encourages new readers to meet this remarkable man and his mission for the first time.

This reissue of God's Smuggler has new material from interviews with Brother Andrew and, for the first time, a photo section with photos spanning the many years of Brother Andrew's ministry.

We officially know that God can interact in the activities of humans, but we expect Him at best to do so in vague "spiritual" ways.His journey from a non-believer to a powerful force spreading the gospel was beautiful to read, as was seeing how God worked in his life to further His purpose. Andrew van der Bijl (born 11 May 1928 in Sint Pancras, Netherlands), known in English-speaking countries as Brother Andrew, is a Christian missionary famous for his exploits smuggling Bibles to communist countries in the height of the Cold War, a feat that has earned him the nickname "God's smuggler".