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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 3396500" data-attributes="member: 7900">There is a Christian mission system out there called Eastern European Mission that began by smuggling Bibles into the Soviet Union back when the Wall was in place.&nbsp; In the years since, things have improved and EEM now provides Bibles in local languages to some of the Russians, Ukrainians, and others.&nbsp; With those parts of Russia and Ukraine, the schools in those areas requested Bibles for their schools so that they could use them to teach morals.Folks over there were desperate for the Bible.&nbsp; One gentleman who had been involved with the smuggling was reading his Bible on a train one day while traveling to Vienna.&nbsp; A Russian &quot;official&quot; saw him, knew who he was, and told him that he really didn&#039;t need that book.&nbsp; The official grabbed his Bible and threw it out of an open window on the train.&nbsp; The gentleman didn&#039;t worry too much because he knew he could get another Bible.Two years later, he received his Bible back in the mail.&nbsp; In with the Bible was a note stating that they were sorry that it took so long for them to return it to him, but it took them the two years to copy the Bible by hand.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 3396500, member: 7900"] There is a Christian mission system out there called Eastern European Mission that began by smuggling Bibles into the Soviet Union back when the Wall was in place. In the years since, things have improved and EEM now provides Bibles in local languages to some of the Russians, Ukrainians, and others. With those parts of Russia and Ukraine, the schools in those areas requested Bibles for their schools so that they could use them to teach morals. Folks over there were desperate for the Bible. One gentleman who had been involved with the smuggling was reading his Bible on a train one day while traveling to Vienna. A Russian "official" saw him, knew who he was, and told him that he really didn't need that book. The official grabbed his Bible and threw it out of an open window on the train. The gentleman didn't worry too much because he knew he could get another Bible. Two years later, he received his Bible back in the mail. In with the Bible was a note stating that they were sorry that it took so long for them to return it to him, but it took them the two years to copy the Bible by hand. [/QUOTE]

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