In 1991 I was challenged to do more to get Scriptures in to Romania. We had bought New Testaments printed in Oskosh, Wisconsin, but they were too expensive to buy in bulk. Keith Vanderlinden at Source of Light Ministries referred me to Gilbert Lindsey, a printer in Richardson, Texas. Brother Gilbert had a contact in Minsk in Belarus at a printing company. Just after the iron curtain had collapsed in 1989, the Russian Academy of Sciences printing operations had run out of funding, and had stopped printing. They had presses and workers, but no money and no work. I contracted with them to print 40,000 Romanian New Testaments and 10,000 Russian new Testaments. They sold them to me for 30¢ each, delivered to Romania! We couldn’t even get New Testaments shipped to Romania from America for that price if we had them for free! They were delivered to Chernovski, Ukraine and Alba Iulia, Romania and we distributed them the following summer. I was amazed at how God had worked! I grew up under the Cold War cloud of Soviet aggression. The USSR was a constant threat with its atheism and iron-fisted control over its people. But God is in control of the world. In 1991, New Testaments were printed in Russia, on government presses, and then exported to Romania!
