Eva Timothy grew up in communist Bulgaria where religion was banned, Christmas did not exist, and her father hid a copy of the U.S. Constitution like a treasure. At 14, after the Berlin Wall fell, she saw two missionaries on the street carrying a picture of Jesus Christ. A prompting told her to stop and talk to them. She had never prayed in her life, but at her first church meeting in a rented room above a soccer stadium, she spoke to God for the first time and felt His love fill her entire body.
In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with Eva to hear how she and her family were baptized just weeks later as some of the earliest members in Bulgaria, how her father became a district president and defended the Church before government officials, and how she eventually made it to America through a series of quiet miracles. Eva also shares how her faith now shapes her art, including the story behind her decision never to show the Savior's face in her photography.
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