Andrew van der Bijl grew up poor in the Netherlands and lived through the 1944 famine, when he ate tulip bulbs to survive. After he gave his life to God, he began reaching believers behind the Iron Curtain. In 1955 he slipped away from a government tour of Poland to visit underground churches. In 1957 he made his first smuggling run into Yugoslavia, with Bibles hidden in his blue Volkswagen. Watching guards search the cars ahead, he prayed, “When you were on Earth, you made blind eyes see. Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind.” His story became the 1967 book God’s Smuggler, and the world knew him as Brother Andrew. He died in 2022 at 94. God still opens doors that look locked tight.
