At 19 in 1947 Andy van der Bijl was a commando in the Dutch East Indies, so crazed with killing and so defiant he flaunted a bright yellow hat so the ‘rebels’ could see him better. One day Andy’s squad rained a merciless barrage on a village. At his feet later lay the lifeless bodies of a woman and her nursing baby. Was there no limit to Andy’s violence?How could such a merciless killer change? He returned home not only with a drinking problem, a lame leg and a soldier’s guilt and anger but he was poorly educated because of the long Nazi occupation of Holland.Yet Andy van der Bijl did change. He did what no one else dared to do. Learn how he became the legendary Brother Andrew. Learn how he smuggled millions of Bibles into the communist countries. Learn how he founded Open Doors.In 1994 the Queen of Holland knighted Brother Andrew. In 1997 he received the World Evangelical Fellowship's Religious Liberty Award. In 2011 the Youth Pastor Summit awarded Brother Andrew the Lifetime Achievement/Hero of the Faith Award.Learn what Brother Andrew is doing now, how he once again is doing what no one else dares to do. This time into the countries of Islam....
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