I started reading this book, Night of a Million Miracles about a week ago. I just finished it and it’s absolutely incredible! Project Pearl has always seemed sort of unreal…it happened when I was 1 year old, and I never really understood the significance of this project.
What is Project Pearl, you ask? Time magazine called Project Pearl “the largest operation of its kind in the history of China.” (See story HERE.) Time Beijing bureau chief later described it as one of the “most unusual and successful smuggling operations of the 20th century.”
June 18, 1981, was the delivery date for Open Doors’ Project Pearl. Using a tugboat and a specially-designed barge. Twenty men secretly delivered one million Chinese Bibles – 232 tons – in one night to thousands of Chinese Christians waiting on a beach in southern China. But the untold story is the million miracles that occurred in getting to that night of delivery.
This story of Project Pearl will help you understand how and why the revival sweeping through China was fueled by the infusion of one million Bibles.
Printing Bibles Today
Project Pearl certainly had an impact on the future printing of Bibles inside China which continues today. Shortly after the project was completed, China’s Three Self Patriotic Movement announced the first official printing of Bibles inside the country. Noted author and China watcher, David Aikman, wrote in his book, Jesus in Beijing, last year, “[Project] Pearl had a major long-term impact on the overall availability of Bibles in China.”
But more important are the personal evaluations from Chinese believers: “These gifts were more precious than gold!”
If you haven’t read the book I highly recommed it! You can purchase it by clicking HERE.
Aikman’s book is a great read and highly informative. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in China and the Church. I lived and worked in China for close to six years and saw first hand the remarkable events taking place there in terms of the growth of the faith in all levels of society. Signs and wonders are almost common there and it leads one to believe that the Holy Spirit is doing something very special with these ardent and committed believers.
I have several articles regarding the Chinese Church on my blog as well. It is at http://lifebrook.wordpress.com.
Although God has given me a call for the past twenty years to work in Haiti I have wanted to go to China. What would it take to go and witness what God is doing?
I have been working in Haiti for the past ten years and have witnessed the power of the word. What would it take to go and be a part of what God is doing in China?
My mother was telling me about htis book in Canada and how she really wants to read it.
I sounds extremely interesting and I too would love to read it but have no idea how to get it.
It says that it is out of print.
Can you tell me how I can get this book, and how much would it be?
Alex