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1955 |
Brother Andrew's first missionary trip to Eastern Europe while smuggling Christian literature. |
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1957 |
Brother Andrew's first trip smuggling Bibles to the Soviet Union in his blue Volkswagen. Over the next decade, Open Doors expands its network throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. |
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1965 |
The first Open Doors team travels to China. However, they are unable to make contact with any Christians. |
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1967 |
God's Smuggler is first published as Brother Andrew's biography. |
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1975 |
Open Doors sponsors "Love China" conference in Southeast Asia to encourage ministry to China. |
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1978 |
Open Doors sponsors "Love Africa" congress in Malawi. Dozens of mission agencies and churches gather to promote a vision for reaching Africa with the Gospel. Contact with churches in the Middle East begins. |
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1981 |
Project Pearl: one million Bibles are delivered to China in a single night to thousands of waiting believers. |
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1983 |
Seven-year campaign for the Soviet Union begins. |
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1985 |
Project Cross Fire: five million pieces of Christian literature are distributed in Latin America to help evangelize and disciple Christian youth. |
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1986 |
Project Timothy: training program begins for Christian leaders in southern Africa, which ultimately has trained many thousands ( this project continues today). |
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1989 |
Target One Million: delivery of one million New Testaments to Russia in cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church begins. |
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1990 |
Ten-year prayer campaign for the church in the Muslim world begins. |
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1991 |
Operation ABC: delivery of one million Children's Bibles to the former Soviet Union (completed in 1994). First feature film is released about the life of a Chinese evangelist, called Bamboo In Winter. |
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1992 |
In cooperation with New Life Literature and The Bible League, Open Doors develops and delivers the first Chinese Study Bible in simplified Chinese script. |
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1993 |
50,000 copies of the first printing of the full Bible in the Albanian language is presented to the President of Albania, a country which had up to that point declared itself as totally atheist. |
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1994 |
Five-day evangelistic campaign is held at Qaddafi Stadium in Pakistan at which thousands attend. |
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1995 |
The second feature film, Behind the Sun, is released worldwide to demonstrate the hardships faced by a Muslim convert in his homeland; it is honoured with two Crown awards. |
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1996 |
Brother Andrew publishes his tenth book, The Calling, which documents his life story from "God's Smuggler" forward. |
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1997 |
The 1996 Religious Liberty Award is presented to Brother Andrew during a ceremony hosted by the World Evangelical Fellowship. |
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1998 |
In order to continue training and delivering Bibles to believers collapsing from starvation, Open Doors launches its first-ever economic relief project to fly in food and supplies to southern Sudan. |
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1999 |
Ministry to North Korea begins with the delivery of 10,000 Bibles. |
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2000 |
One million Bibles and one million pieces of Christian literature are delivered inside China, the largest annual delivery since Project Pearl. |
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2001 |
Over 30,000 Bibles, New Testaments, and other Christian materials are delivered to the former Soviet Union, now known as the Turkic Field. Brother Andrew's youth version of God's Smuggler - called The Narrow Road - wins the 2001 Gold Medallion award. |