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Jul 2022
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Smuggling Bibles and What I Learned

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In the 1980s, Jeff helped smuggle Bibles into the Soviet Union. In this episode, Jeff shares about that experience and the incredible people he met there who had such great faith and such great dependence on God that their witness still impacts his life today.

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“I encountered people who gave so much even though they had so little.”

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