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5 Great Places to Hide a MicroBible while Traveling

Brother Andrew and his Bibles

Our story begins in Poland during the Cold War.  No one was allowed to have a Bible in their home, and house churches were illegal.  During this time, Brother Andrew risked his life. He would hide printed Bibles and bring them into Romania.  God used him to strengthen the church behind the communist curtain, which was at risk of dying out.

The Bibles Brother Andrew brought in were big enough to see.  Yet God faithfully closed the eyes of the border patrol guards.  He had to bring them in because he could not hide a printing press big enough to print Bibles inside of the USSR.

Webcams can see in the dark.  You can hide a High Definition 1080 Video camera inside of a pen.  Drones, both small and large, can keep an eye on us from almost any altitude.

A 256 Megabyte MicroSD Card can hold MicroBibles in over 100 languages at once!
A 256 Megabyge MicroSD Card can hold complete MicroBibles in over 100 languages at once!

Things have changed a lot since the Cold War era.  With the advancement of technology and the internet, governments have a much easier time keeping an eye on their people.

At the same time, the technology has also advanced in favor of the Bible smugglers!  A 256 gigabyte MicroSD card is only the size of your thumbnail.  Yet it is big enough to carry audio Bibles in over 100 languages at once!  And as soon as it gets into a country where the Bible is illegal, its contents can be loaded millions of times into computers, cellphones, and other electronic devices!

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How to pray for those who travel to Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic

February 2, 2021: Travel to Africa during a worldwide pandemic is not easy. Each airport and airline has its regulations and restrictions to maneuver.

Getting on the Plane

Travel to Africa during a worldwide pandemic is not easy; let's pray for those who are doing it. 2020-03-06 — Coronavirus – Flyers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport wearing facemasks Image Copyright: © 2020 Chad Davis, as found on Wikimedia Commons

These are the early stages of travel to Africa from the United States. So few planes are flying east, and so many travelers are trying to get to Africa. Some of our co-laborers are reporting that they have to cancel and reroute their flights a couple of times. Once they find a flight that works, the planes they are flying on are overcrowded, and the air “soooo thick”.

If ever in your life there is a risk of catching the virus, here it is!

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Waiting patiently, but waiting in vain

“Wait patiently” doesn’t mean the same thing in Africa as it does in the United States.  In America, we might decide to come back later if the line has seven people waiting in it.  We might call back if the waiting time is longer than ten minutes.  Even 5 minutes microwave cooking time can seem like too long to wait!

Waiting in line to go to a concert in Germany

And yet, when we wait in line in America, we expect that our patience is rewarded in the end.  One of the features of life in the Third World, or where a disaster strikes, is that our patience isn’t always rewarded as we would hope.

How can we learn to make the most of the times we spend waiting for something, even if it ends up being waiting in vain?

Back in September 2010, our family needed to find a place to live in eastern Chad.  We had just arrived back in Chad and were living in the capital city of N’Djaména, 14+ hours west of Abéché.  A friend in the capital promised that we could rent his home in Abéché.

To start moving in, all I needed to do was to pick up the key from the Sultan, his brother. (more…)