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Andy Van Der Bijl Research Paper

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Andy van der bijl, known as Brother Andrew, was born in 1928. His father was severely deaf and his oldest brother was severely handicapped. He was the third of six children in his family and lived in the small house in the village of Witte in the Netherlands. Bas, his oldest brother, died when Andy was only eleven. Bas died from his handicap. As a young boy, Andrew helped the Dutch underground. The Dutch underground was a group of rebels, which fought against the Nazis in the Netherlands. At about the age of eighteen he joined the Dutch forces and was a notorious commando. Andrew was shot in the ankle at age twenty and returned home crippled. He felt horrible for all the people he had killed in the military and turned to God. God told

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