Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stringbean and The Fur Cost Club--Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 2:30 p.m.; Off the Wall Cinema, 15 Pearl...
TIME has learned that the remarkable mission, dubbed Project Pearl and executed with military precision last June, was engineered by Open Doors with Brother Andrew International, a nondenominational, evangelical missionary organization based in Ermelo, The Netherlands. The group has specialized in smuggling Bibles mostly into Communist countries for some two decades. The purpose of Project Pearl was to bring badly needed copies of the Scriptures to 5 million Chinese Protestants, who worship under the watchful eye of the Peking government in an estimated 50,000 "house churches." Many of these churches were formed after the Cultural Revolution of the late...
...Project Pearl, a name inspired by Matthew 13:45 ("The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls"), had its beginnings in late 1979, when Open Doors was approached secretly by a house church leader, who urgently requested Old and New Testaments. Under the guidance of Open Doors President Anne van der Bijl, 53, staffers began raising money for the mission in the U.S. through dinners, direct mail and TV spots. The aim of the campaign was disclosed, but not the way the mission would be accomplished. Cost of the venture: $6 million, of which...
...Project Pearl, meanwhile, already has inspired calls from potential donors willing to finance massive new Bible-smuggling ventures to China or behind the Iron Curtain. -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by Bing W. Wong/Hong Kong
Dragon Stew, It's So Nice to Have a Wok Around the House, Miss Nelson is Missing and The Island of Skog--Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 2:30 p.m.; Off the Wall Cinema, 15 Pearl...