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Looking
back
we
can
say
that
we
have
known
very
big
changes
in our
lives
but
have
experienced the faithfulness of an unchanging
God. Becoming Christians early in life, we were active in our
local church while maintaining a growing interest and
involvement in mission. In March 1985 we gave up our jobs in
marine engineering and nursing and began to work with a mission concentrating on
the then Communist world.
David's experience was put to immediate use maintaining
vehicles that travelled into Eastern Europe
where
the only garages were
controlled
by the communist state.Breakdowns
were
to be avoided!
David had been told be an expert that the best way to snare an animal was to
find where it slept! This valuable advice helped David
contact Eastern European truck
drivers visiting England.
Soon
more than 1,000 testaments per year were going into Romania
mainly Romanian,
Bulgaria and
Hungarian this way.
We also became involved in contacting Eastern European factory ship workers who visited Scotland each winter. One 'secret police' officer told us that we were wasting their time. He had a stack of books so high on his desk. We smiled inwardly knowing we had given many, many more! Sometimes a Christian would dance in the street on obtaining a Bible in his own language. Much later a colleague visited a church in Bulgaria where one of the elders used to go to the docks as a refuse collector, knowing there would be Bibles in coded sacks.
Between 1985 to the end of 1989 we balanced these three areas of work with visiting Eastern Europe to deliver scripture to church leaders, and then everything changed.
With the fall in the Berlin wall and the Romanian revolution
suddenly there was openness within countries that had previously been closed.
David began teaching in Romanian churches and in a
Romanian bible school, Nancy
was now sending literature by the
ton to many parts of Europe and beyond.
In 2000 it was all change again when the mission we worked with stopped working in Eastern Europe, and, by agreement, Operation Timothy was born.
David still does bible teaching, by invitation, Nancy does the
clerical work
that keeps things going and is usually chief chauffeur on our visits to Europe.
We are able to support several national workers, and wish to expand this side of
the work in
future.
Has it been easy? No, there have been many tears as well as the good times. Has it been worth it? Yes, every step of the way.
We are constantly amazed at the ways that God has used and led us in the past and look to Him to continue to lead in the future.
David and Nancy