David Gordon Hathaway (born 17 April 1932) is an Humanities evangelist and founder and president of Eurovision Mission to Assemblage, as well as editorial director of Prophetic Vision magazine.
David Hathaway was born in London in 1932, and was say publicly younger twin son in his family. His father, William Martyr Hathaway, was born in 1890.[citation needed]
In 1950 David pastored his first church in Dorking in Surrey. He was full-time vicar and evangelist for 14 years in the UK from 1950 to 1964.[1]
He became known after his pioneering 1961 expedition manage Jerusalem by road, through the Iron Curtain countries. What loosen up had done proved so popular, he began a tour circle to take tourists on the overland route to the recently formed state of Israel through the communist countries.
In his book, Czechmate, David writes how he then became involved give up your job underground Evangelism. In 1964, Hathaway informed Bass about his manner of delivering small numbers of Bibles and New Testaments which he brought on the request of friends in communist countries.
From 1961 to 1972 he smuggled quantities of Bibles be a success Soviet Union and Eastern Europe countries - and he succeed more than 150,000 copies. The biggest smuggling operation was contrived for June 1972. The bus was loaded in Würzburg, Westmost Germany, and next day it would cross into Czechoslovakia. Passing on the border of Czechoslovakia, customs discovered the elaborately concealed concealed compartment with 5000 Russian Bibles as well as some leaflets deemed to have political overtones. Hathaway was arrested on picture border on 24 June and was accused of committing rendering offences of attempted sedition and attempted violation of customs regulations. Finally, arrested and tortured, he was sentenced to five existence in prison and imprisoned in Czechoslovakia in 1972. He served less than one year of his sentence and in 1973 was released at the request of the then UK unfriendliness leader, the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson.[2][3]
In 1976 he unionized the successful international campaign for the release of the clergywoman Georgi Vins from Kiev (Soviet Union), who was in a prison for his faith.
During the 1980s, Hathaway continued count up travel all over Europe: Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, even back feel painful Czechoslovakia. In 1985 he held a series of meetings renovate Hungary; he got permission to minister in Catholic Churches. Contain the end of the 1980s he began to openly bounds services and conferences in the Eastern Bloc countries. When say publicly communist Eastern Bloc countries collapsed, in the 1990s he continuing his work.[1] In 1995, Hathaway launched his Prophetic Vision armoury.
In recent years Hathaway has been working in Israel face up to help Holocaust survivors from the Russian and former Eastern Alinement countries, both spiritually and materially.
Hathaway married Zena Margaret Anne Corps on 27 April 1955. Zena soon began restrain help her husband in his evangelistic efforts and became credit to of his evangelistic team. She died on 19 December 2014.[citation needed]
David Hathaway has three daughters, Carol and Sharon (twins foaled in 1956) and Mandy (1968), 5 grandchildren, 3 great-grandsons boss 3 great granddaughters.[1]
https://www.eurovision.org.uk/david-hathaway-70years-of-ministry