It was 1993 and we were in Craiova distributing New Testaments. Craiova is in the Southwest corner of Romania not far from the Danube River. Yes, it is blue. We had about six people in each of our three rented vans and each trunk area was packed with Scriptures. We would find a deserted area and pull over to the sidewalk. As we were getting out, curious people would begin to gather to stare at our nice vehicles. As we opened the backs of the vans and bystanders saw our boxes, they got excited. Boxes meant that we had stuff to sell. But when they saw we had Bibles, they really got excited. The only trouble we had was convincing folk that the New Testaments were really free. Within minutes we were swamped and people were grabbing more than one New Testament. We would pack up and move to another deserted spot and begin again. We found a particularly nice area and began our drill. Soon pushy people were everywhere. Then two policemen demanded that we stop – we were causing too much noise right in front of the mayor’s residence. I gave each of them two New Testaments. After examining their gifts, they shrugged and let us stay. They said just to keep the noise down.
