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Memoirs of a Bible Smuggler by Jeana Kendrick is a true story set during the Cold War, an era in the East Bloc when many who resisted the Communists' godless decrees faced prison or death. The persecuted Christians were brave and daring, willing to risk all for Christ. A naïve thirty-year-old housewife in the East Texas piney woods, Jeana dreamed of being a Bible smuggler. She and her husband Jeff, a building contractor, began praying an extra hour in the evenings. Before long, Door of Hope International (DOHI) President Paul Popov asked Jeff to remodel the mission's Austrian base of operations for covert Bible deliveries. The Kendricks arrived in Spittal on der Drau, Austria in the early spring of 1980. The DOHI base there was thirty minutes from both Italy and the former Yugoslavia. While Jeff remodeled the base, Jeana refurbished the interior and prayed for the chance to smuggle Bibles and meet the suffering faithful. God answered her prayer. The couple smuggled Bibles into Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that summer. Popov said they were naturals and asked the couple to return for a full year the following spring. Back in Texas, six weeks before their departure for Europe, a falling tree struck Jeana who suffered a compression fracture and was briefly hospitalized. Nevertheless, the couple left as planned. After several years, the Kendricks were appointed co-directors of DOHI's literature distribution into Eastern Europe. They developed a network of contacts behind the Iron Curtain and teams of trained couriers to deliver Bibles. Carpenters, bankers, nurses, stockbrokers and others used their vacations annually to help smuggle thousands of Bibles. Confronted by challenges like the mission's RV that was busted at the Romanian border or their own arrests in Russia, the Kendricks rejoiced at God's continued deliverance. Once border guards drilled into a camper between two rows of Bibles, hitting insulation instead of paper. One day the Kendricks gave away the last of their money, one thousand dollars. An hour later, they learned that someone had anonymously deposited five thousand dollars into their bank account. God was faithful. When the Iron Curtain came tumbling down, the Kendricks were there to test the new freedoms and to help. During their thirteen years as missionaries, the many miracles, obstacles overcome and victories won, enriched their lives and those of countless others.

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"""FROM THE DAYS OF TYNDALE TILL TODAY BIBLE smuggling has been controversial as well as dangerous. Not many people are brave enough to venture into this often-perilous calling. My father Haralan Popov always said, 'A Bible brought into Communist lands, is like a bullet in the heart of Satan.' Jeana Kendrick and her husband realized that while the Cold War was raging between the Judeo Christian world and the humanistic atheistic world of Marxism, the battle could best be fought by changing the hearts and minds of people rather than by military confrontation. Their interesting and well-written story is a story of success in which they witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989."" -Door of Hope International President Paul H. Popov ""This could pass for a well-crafted work of suspense fiction, except that every word is fact. In this story the reader cannot avoid unearthing a stark personal truth that is basic to survival."" -Dr. Guida Jackson, author of Traditional Epics, Women Who Ruled and other books ""Taut, well written, and insightful, Kendrick's Memoirs of a Bible Smuggler shares firsthand knowledge of what it was like for Christians during the Iron Curtain era. Young and idealistic, she and husband Jeff joined Door of Hope International and embarked on a thirteen year journey to smuggle banned Bibles into Russian held territories. Fraught with danger, fear of discovery, and life threatening experiences, her faith in her Savior provided the courage to continue the quest. Times were not always grim for she recounts many amusing experiences in chapters that could stand alone. I would recommend this memoir to everyone, no matter which religion or non-religion they adhere to, for it imparts an understanding of what it's like, to be persecuted for worshiping as one pleases, and for those who have the courage to stand up for that right."" -Jacqueline Pelham, author of Under the Rose and A Promise to Die For ""Not all battles are fought by armies. Jeana Kendrick's Memoirs of a Bible Smuggler, beautifully written, tells the true story of unsung heroes of the Cold War, men and women who risked everything in the service of Christ."" -Donn Taylor, author of Lightning on a Quiet Night, Rhapsody in Red, and other books"

FROM THE DAYS OF TYNDALE TILL TODAY BIBLE smuggling has been controversial as well as dangerous. Not many people are brave enough to venture into this often-perilous calling. My father Haralan Popov always said, 'A Bible brought into Communist lands, is like a bullet in the heart of Satan.' Jeana Kendrick and her husband realized that while the Cold War was raging between the Judeo Christian world and the humanistic atheistic world of Marxism, the battle could best be fought by changing the hearts and minds of people rather than by military confrontation. Their interesting and well-written story is a story of success in which they witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. -Door of Hope International President Paul H. Popov This could pass for a well-crafted work of suspense fiction, except that every word is fact. In this story the reader cannot avoid unearthing a stark personal truth that is basic to survival. -Dr. Guida Jackson, author of Traditional Epics, Women Who Ruled and other books Taut, well written, and insightful, Kendrick's Memoirs of a Bible Smuggler shares firsthand knowledge of what it was like for Christians during the Iron Curtain era. Young and idealistic, she and husband Jeff joined Door of Hope International and embarked on a thirteen year journey to smuggle banned Bibles into Russian held territories. Fraught with danger, fear of discovery, and life threatening experiences, her faith in her Savior provided the courage to continue the quest. Times were not always grim for she recounts many amusing experiences in chapters that could stand alone. I would recommend this memoir to everyone, no matter which religion or non-religion they adhere to, for it imparts an understanding of what it's like, to be persecuted for worshiping as one pleases, and for those who have the courage to stand up for that right. -Jacqueline Pelham, author of Under the Rose and A Promise to Die For Not all battles are fought by armies. Jeana Kendrick's Memoirs of a Bible Smuggler, beautifully written, tells the true story of unsung heroes of the Cold War, men and women who risked everything in the service of Christ. -Donn Taylor, author of Lightning on a Quiet Night, Rhapsody in Red, and other books

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During the Cold War, Jeana Kendrick and her husband Jeff co-directed Door of Hope International's (DOHI) literature distribution into Eastern Europe, traveling extensively behind the Iron Curtain. In the '90s, she became DOHI's communications director and managing editor overseeing the quality and on-time production of its USA and Canadian publishing. Still an editor and writer with DOHI, her projects include the 2005 and 2018 revisions of the bestseller"" Tortured For His Faith"" and the 2020 revised edition of ""The Fugitive"". Her novel ""St. Abient Run"", a contemporary European intrigue, the first in a Conspiracy Series, was published by Panther Creek Press in 2002. Her short stories are in ""Fall From Innocence"", Page One Publications, and in ""Suddenly"", ""Suddenly II"" and ""Suddenly IV"", Martin House. Kendrick's novels ""The Paris Conspiracy"" and ""The Last Bridge Across Mostar ""are also slated for publication.

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