Milestones

1955: BOLD BEGINNINGS

1956: BEETLE DRIVE

1956-78: EXPANSION

1967: GOD'S SMUGGLER PUBLISHED

1978: MIDDLE EAST MINISTRY

1981: PROJECT PEARL

1982: 7 YEAR PRAYER CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED

1985: PROJECT CROSSFIRE

1989: TARGET ONE MILLION

1992: PROJECT SAMUEL

1992: CHINESE STUDY BIBLE

1993: BIBLES TO ALBANIA

1994: CHINESE CHILDREN'S BIBLE STORYBOOK

1996: AGAPE STUDY BIBLE

1997: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AWARD

1998: OPERATION DAILY BREAD

1999: FEEDING THE REVIVAL

2002: OLYMPIC OPPORTUNITY

Achievements

Brother Andrew smuggles Bibles into Eastern Europe for the first time.

The first of many trips to the Soviet Union in Brother Andrew's blue Volkswagen Beetle which was to travel over 200,000 miles.

Open Doors extends its network throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and then expands to bring Bibles and encouragement to persecuted Christians.

Brother Andrew's biography, God's Smuggler, becomes one of the best-selling Christian books of all time.

Contact with churches in the Middle East begins.

One million Bibles are delivered to a beach in China in just one night. Time magazine calls it a "bold expedition."

Open Doors organises seven years of prayer for the Communist bloc. It ends with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 - the region is opened to the gospel and Christian prisoners are released!

Five million pieces of literature are distributed in Latin America and thousands of youth are discipled to share their faith in Christ.

Open Doors delivers one million New Testaments to Russia.

One million children in the former Soviet Union get their very first Bibles, many in remote areas.

New Bible for church leaders and evangelists printed and distributed.

Brother Andrew presents the President of Albania with the first copy of the full Bible in Albanian. Albania had previously declared itself the world's first atheistic state!

Delivery of first print run.

Study Bible in Latin American Spanish printed and delivered.

The World Evangelical Fellowship presents Brother Andrew with the International Religious Liberty Award.

Open Doors launches its first relief project: Food and supplies are flown in to remote areas of war-torn southern Sudan.

Open Doors delivers over two million Bibles and Christian study materials to Chinese believers.

Open Doors launches a new seven-year prayer campaign - this time for China, leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.