Pastor Richard Wurmbrand Biography
 
Pastor Richard Wurmbrand

 

Pastor Richard Wurmbrand is an evangelical minister who spent fourteen years in Communist imprisonment 
and torture in his homeland of Romania.  He is one of Romania's most widely known Jewish Believer leaders, authors, and educators. In 1945, when the Communists seized Romania and attempted to control the churches for their purposes, Richard Wurmbrand immediately began an effective "underground" ministry to his enslaved people and the invading Russian soldiers. He was eventually arrested in 1948.  Richard spent three years in solitary confinement, seeing no one but his Communist torturers.


His wife, Sabina, also Jewish, was a slave laborer for three years.   Due to his international stature as a Messianic Jewish leader, diplomats of foreign embassies asked the Communist government about his safety.  They were told he had fled Romania.  Secret  police, posing as released fellow prisoners, told his wife of attending his burial in the prison cemetery. Pastor Wurmbrand was released in a general amnesty in 1964. Realizing the great danger of a third imprisonment, Christians in Norway negotiated with the Communist authorities for his release from Romania.  The "going price" for a prisoner was $1,900.  Their price for Wurmbrand was $10,000.    In May 1966, he testified in Washington before the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee and stripped to the waist to show eighteen deep torture wounds covering his body.  His story was carried across the world newspapers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.  Read a portion of this report. Communist Exploitation of Religion Pastor Richard's Testimony from 1966 
 

Pastor Wurmbrand has been called "the Voice of the Underground Church."  His books are best sellers in over fifty languages. You may receive a free copy of the Pastor Wurmbrand's book, "Tortured for Christ" 
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Sabina Wurmbrand Biography
Portrait of Sabina Wurmbrand

 

Not many women have their faith tested like Sabina Wurmbrand.  Her husband, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, was imprisoned and tortured for his faith for fourteen years. Many times the communists told her, "Divorce him, he is dead". But Sabina listened to the still small voice of God, knowing her husband was alive.  During that time, Sabina selflessly helped other Believers of the Underground Church they had started together while struggling hard for her own and her little son's survival.  Sabina was subjected to unbelievable hardships and suffering. The Nazi's murdered her parents, 4 siblings, and 5 adopted children, yet she never became bitter or resentful but continued to show love to all. Sabina never relented in her endeavors to continue the work her husband had begun, to unite the Underground Church.  Living in daily fear of discovery, her faith was tested to the limit and held firm to her love of the God of Israel.  She herself was arrested for subversive evangelism in 1948 in Romania and spent three years as a slave laborer on the never completed Danube Canal.  Nevertheless, she survived to tell her story and is truly a remarkable woman of God. I highly recommend her  book,


 
Articles from Voice of the Martyrs &
Videos of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand
Pastor Wurmband's Incredible Testimony Preparing for the Underground Church
Supernatural Living Double Doses of Love
Wurmbrand Time Line 1930-2000's From VOM Canada Lips Are For Smiling
 
 
 Online MP3s and Videos of Pastor Wurmbrand Sermons
NEW ARTICLES

Jug Of Water by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand Audio
Badges of Honor for Jesus (video)
The Beauty of Nothing Audio
Jesus Appears To The Imprisoned Pastor (video)
Church  Triumphant Audio
Communist Brainwashing Techniques (video)
Hosanna Audio Tortured With Salt (video) 
In Chains, Yet Free Audio The Faces Of God (video)
The Underground Church Audio
The Return (video)
What is my Authority Audio Tortured For Christ (video)
God's Peace Audio Cartoon Of Mihai and His Father From VOM
Reading the Bible Slowly Audio Pastor Richard Wurmbrand Sermons 
13 in Romanian
FREE BOOK: "TORTURED FOR CHRIST" FOR 3 FRIENDS FROM VOICE OF THE MARTYRS
The Pastor's Wife Tortured For CHrist In God's Underground The Oracles of God 100 Prison Meditations

The Pastor's Wife

by Sabina Wurmbrand

Tortured for Christ

by Richard Wurmbrand

In God's Underground

by Richard Wurmbrand

The Oracles of God

by Richard Wurmbrand

100 Prison Meditations

by Richard Wurmbrand

From The Lips Of Children Alone With God In The Face of Surrender With God In Solitary Confinement With God In Solitary Confinement

From The Lips of Children

By Richard Wurmbrand

Alone With God

One Available Used By Richard Wurmbrand

In The Face of Surrender

by Richard Wurmbrand

With God in Solitary Confinement

By Richard Wurmbrand

Christ On The Jewish Road

By Richard Wurmbrand

Marx and Satan

By Richard Wurmbrand

If Prison Walls Could Speak

By Richard Wurmbrand

The Sweetest Song

By Richard Wurmbrand

Reaching Towards The Heights

By Richard Wurmbrand

The Answer To The Atheist Handbook

By Richard Wurmbrand

 

The Overcomers

By Richard Wurmbrand

   

 
 
B
OOKS
BY PASTOR RICHARD WURMBRAND
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Tortured For Christ

By Richard Wurmbrand


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PERSONAL:
 
 

The Wurmbrands were the dearest and most loving people we have known. Pastor Wurmbrand went home with his Messiah at 91 1/2 years old. Sabina was 87 years old when God took her home.  My husband John and I, (Andrea) were adopted into their family and they were our grandparents.  When we visited them in their home,  there was love, kindness, compassion,  understanding. Sabina always had the teaching of kindness on her tongue. She embraced those who were needy and hurting. Sabina encouraged me over and over again to "take an orphan in and adopt a baby". I am forever grateful to Sabina for telling me this, because now we have our Esther (http://adoptchinese.org, whom we adopted from China in 2002.
 "This is the day that the Lord has made" was one of Sabina's favorite songs. Pastor Richard loved it when I brought him Halvah candy from Israel and fresh baked Challah for dinner.


My matzah balls chicken soup brought back happy memories from Sabina's childhood Shabbat dinners.
A special thanks (and as Sabina would say,  "I give you kisses)" to Lidia and her lovely family, Bianca, David, Tony, Florica, Cathy, Miszua, Ginny &  Steve, Chris and Maya, Justin, Samona, 
whose hands are instruments of love and service to the Wurmbrands. 
We miss you our dear Oma and Opa and know you are rejoicing and dancing up there in heaven!


 
 
PHOTOS
Sabina and Richard at VOM Conference
Wurmbrands and Friends
Pastor Richard Wurmbrand
Andrea, Oma and Opa, John

 


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Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, 
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 
James 1:27
Take An Orphan In!
Orfelinatul Agape Orphanage in Pascani Romania
Founded by Pastor Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand IN GREAT NEED NOW TO HELP 50 CHILDREN
Dr. Job's Mission To the Persecuted Church In India
Orphans In Peru
Adopt Chinese Babies
This web page is Dedicated to
our daughter Est
her
Our  Treasure
Whom We Adopted From Hunan, China
June 2002
Thank you Grandma Sabina
for teaching us God's heart regarding adoption
We miss you!
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