Who or What is Open Doors?

Sanctify them in Truth. Your Word is Truth.  - John 17:17

During the summer of 1955, a young Dutchman named Andrew travelled behind the Soviet Iron Curtain to Warsaw, Poland, with prohibited Christian literature hidden in his suitcase. There he found believers facing extreme persecution and oppression, lacking Bibles and isolated because they had rejected communism and chosen to follow Jesus Christ.

Today, operating in over 65 countries and 27 international offices, Open Doors delivers Bibles, children's Bibles, scriptural books and assists with pastoral training, literacy training and more, all with the purpose of strengthening the Persecuted Church so they remain God's light in our world. 

Open Doors is a unique ministry to persecuted Christians, the only one with hundreds of staff members worldwide implementing significant projects on the frontlines of faith. Open Doors currently is conducting far-reaching and comprehensive programs in most countries where Christians are embattled for their faith in Jesus Christ.

God's Word is vital to spiritual growth and essential for knowing God's Truth over competing faiths and ideologies. Imagine how lost a new believer would without a Bible, having to struggle to nurture a young faith despite the pressures of their culture and the false teachings that are embraced where Christianity comprises only a small minority.  Can you even believe that some churches are forced to survive on only one Bible?

In 2006, Open Doors delivered 6.9 million Bibles and other Christian resources in response to this vast need. We can do this only according to the faithful support of Christians like yourself, reading about the need and understanding the importance of serving our persecuted brothers and sisters. Jesus recognized this and acknowledged this importance in the garden, knowing the persecution that His disciples would soon face. He prayed, "Sanctify them in truth; Your Word is truth" (John 17:17).

While supplying Bibles and conducting Biblical training remains at the core of our global ministry activities, below are examples of what the faithful partnership of our supporters is allowing us to accomplish ...

In Africa, Open Doors is:

• Personally distributing nearly 100,000 Bibles and Christian materials!
• Individually training nearly 3,600 pastors and Christian leaders!

In addition we are ...

• Taking God's Word into war-torn countries
• Encouraging Sunday school teachers to inspire a new generation
• Showing Christians how to witness to their Muslim neighbors

In Asia, Open Doors is:

• Personally distributing  2,300,000 Bibles and Christian materials!
• Individually training  20,000 pastors and Christian leaders!

• Giving study Bibles to pastors and illustrated Bibles to children
• Training leaders of intensely persecuted house churches
• Delivering hymnbooks to put a song in believer's hearts

In Latin America, Open Doors is:

• Personally distributing nearly 320,000 Bibles and Christian materials!
• Individually training nearly 6,500 pastors and Christian leaders!

• Giving practical support and love to widows and orphans
• Visiting falsely accused Christians in prison
• Encouraging church leaders under fire

In the Muslim World, Open Doors is:

• Personally distributing nearly 280,000 Bibles and Christian materials!
• Individually training nearly 38,000 pastors and Christian leaders!

• Helping young Christians attend Bible college
• Teaching believers to read and study the Bible
• Giving sets of study books to pastors.