As a youth of 19 in 1947, Andy van der Bijl was a commando in the Dutch East Indies when the Dutch were fighting Indonesian 'rebels'. Andy was no half-hearted soldier either. He was the most daring of the daring. He once single-handedly captured ten armed guerillas on sheer bravado. He defiantly wore a bright yellow hat so the enemy could see him better.
"Get smart. Lose your mind!" chorused Andy and his buddies.
But one patrol soured everything.
As Andy's unit drove through a village, an explosion shattered their ranks. One of Andy's buddies was killed by a landmine buried in the road. The angry Dutch commandos condemned the entire village, reasoning the inhabitants had to know about the mine to avoid it themselves. Andy and his buddies raked the village again and again with semi-automatic weapons. Andy only realized the depth of evil he had done when he saw the bodies of a young woman and her nursing baby - freshly killed by just one bullet. For the next two years Andy cycled from drunken lechery to daredevil killing, each vice drowning out the guilt of the other - for a while…
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Amidst the millions of committed Christians in each generation, a handful rise to special prominence.
Brother Andrew is a hero of the faith, not for his preaching or teaching, but for the millions of Bibles he's smuggled into countries opposed to the gospel.
Brother Andrew prayed, and the guards passed his car bulging with Bibles across the Yugoslav border in 1957. He began his mission to bring the Word to worshipers cut off from their religion. It was a mission fraught with peril and pathos, financed by faith, supported by miracles.