"God’s Smuggler" Caught on HD

Amersfoort, Netherlands, April 04, 2008 --(PR.com)-- A magazine was lying on a stack of books with a cover photograph of communist students marching in Eastern Europe. It struck right to the heart of the man now known as “Brother Andrew” who founded the Open Doors charitable organisation. He then attended another march later and began to feel a deep burden to smuggle Bibles into the USSR where ownership of one was a rarity. Single handedly and with the help of a small VW car he was able to place thousands of Bibles into the hands of Christians behind the “Iron Curtain.” His book, “God’s Smuggler,” is the story of those adventures and has sold over 10 million copies in English, alone, and been translated into over 40 languages, including a comic book edition for the youth. Nowadays, this 80 year old has traded thoughts of retirement for making unannounced visits to the training camps of the Taliban, al Qaeda and Hamas to share the love of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. His recently released book, “Secret Believers,” tells the stories of those whose faith in Jesus Christ puts them at odds against local religious beliefs.

Harvest Fields Commissioning International, a U. K. based charity and its media outreach, OLI Productions, met up with Brother Andrew at his home in Holland recently. The outcome of that meeting is a special 56 minute High Definition edition of their TV program and DVD film “Principles of Leadership: Brother Andrew.” In the interview the best-selling author shares his insight from over 50 years of experience as the Founder of Open Doors, a ministry that reaches out to the suffering church worldwide in practical ways. Brother Andrew joins a list of guests in the series which includes New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyers, international evangelist and author Dr. Luis Palau, The “Vicar of Baghdad” Canon Andrew White, from Cyprus, Canon and evangelist J. John, Operation Mobilisation founder George Verwer, Youth with a Mission’s founder Loren Cunningham, Baroness Caroline Cox of Christian Solidarity Worldwide, the popular ALPHA program’s Nicky Gumbel and an extensive list of other notable personalities.

Previous interviews in the “Principles of Leadership” series are currently being broadcast across the Middle East on Sat 7, Alkarma TV (in Arabic across North America & Mexico), on The Australian Christian Channel, the Alfa and Omega Network (Romania and worldwide), Premier TV (U.K.), Shine TV (New Zealand), U Channel (Indonesia), the Family 7 Network (Holland), CNL (Russia, CIS and worldwide) and IFBN (Israel).

Harvest Fields Commissioning International is a U.K. Registered Charity with the purpose of assisting in raising up and encouraging churches and leaders in 39 countries and on all 5 continents for work in churches, charities and other humanitarian assistance groups. Its websites are at: http://www.agapelive.net and http://www.hfci.net.

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