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Technically, I and a team of student missionaries did smuggle Bibles into another country back in the early ’80s. The country wasn’t closed and persecution didn’t exist there as it does in many other countries today, but evangelism was technically illegal. We had a van of Bibles and other materials we were taking to a church for a Vacation Bible School we were assisting with. We arrived a few days early and planned a little R&R at a lake famous for bass fishing. On the way back, we came upon a roadblock set up by armed soldiers. The soldiers yanked open the doors of the van, machine guns in hand, and demanded to know our business. Fortunately, they were looking for drug smugglers, and our fishing gear laying in the middle of the van floor convinced them that we were tourists. They didn’t search the van. I don’t know that we would have been thrown in jail had they found the Bibles, but the thought that we could have found ourselves in jail in a foreign country with limited access (if any) to contact someone who could help was very scary. Getting across the Border, where they did search our van, only required a little money under the table (which was common knowledge). Had this been another country where we knew we would have to smuggle the Bibles past authorities, perhaps we would not have gone. Our mission was to assist with the VBS and hold a revival at a small church, not to smuggle Bibles.