Whistle Blower

Today we have another special speaker at our church. He is from the European Commission – Paul van Buitenen. He is an assistant-auditor in the Commission’s Financial Control Directorate. He is also a whistle blower that exposed and fought against some internal fraud of European Commission.

I was doing the translation up there at the auditorium when he starts sharing his testimonies on what its means to be a Christian in European Commission. It didn’t occur to me that he is ‘somebody’ for he seems to be an ordinary Dutchman working for European Commission and he looks like any other Dutchman on the street. Our God uses a simple man to do extra-ordinary thing so that His name is glorified.

This is the quote I found on his personal website which perfectly depicts his sharing this afternoon, that ‘the world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.´ (Albert Einstein). Paul has also written a book ‘Blowing the Whistle: One man's fight against fraud in the European Commission’.

For more information check out http://www.paulvanbuitenen.nl/