This year’s Tuesday Conference Prayer Breakfast will be with Open Doors.

David Burrowes assistant to the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion & Belief will be speaking at this event.

Open Doors originated in 1955, when a young Dutchman started smuggling Bibles to the persecuted church in Communist Europe. He became known as Brother Andrew and his work led to more than six decades of support for the persecuted church

The publication of God’s Smuggler in 1967 catapulted Andrew to worldwide renown. An entire generation caught the vision of supporting the persecuted church.

Open Doors grew in the 1970’s due to the international travel of Andrew, who met and recruited ‘mini-Andrews’ to work among the persecuted in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

In particular, the Love China conference in 1975 brought the issue of Christian persecution in China to a much larger audience. And it was in China where one of Open Doors most famous projects took place – Project Pearl, where a staggering one million Bibles were delivered in a single night in June 1981

In the late 1990s, Open Doors also began developing more targeted advocacy work. Since then speaking to the powerful on behalf of the powerless has become a core part of our work, from speaking to the Prime Minister to equipping the local church to know its legal rights.

Open Doors’ name came as Brother Andrew is quoted as saying

“I literally believe that every door is open to go in and proclaim Christ, as long as you are willing to go and are not worried about coming back."