SNAPSHOTS: A SON REMEMBERS HIS FATHER

If you're new to the ministry of The Voice of the Martyrs one of the things I want to share with you is a little bit of the history of VOM. 

The picture in this post is of Richard Wurmbrand, the Founder of The Voice of the Martyrs, and as you can see on his left arm and shoulder there is a massive scar that he received as a result of being a follower of Christ Jesus.

Last year VOM's founder would have turned 100 years old, and because of of this VOM put up a new website celebrating the life of Richard Wurmbrand.

One of the pages on this beautiful website is a page from the son of Richard Wurmbrand, about how he remembers his father.  Here's a snapshot of that for you today.

“Look to the heavens and see …” (Job 35:5)

In December 1965, my father, Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, was invited to speak at the First Baptist Church of Rome, in Italy. It was his first Sunday in the Free World. He was freshly ransomed from communist Romania for $10,000 by Scandinavian Christians after 14 years of torture in prisons there. The pastor of the church was to be absent, so an American missionary who attended the church invited my father to speak. However, the Baptist minister did not leave Rome so he came to the service and listened to my father.

Hardly had my father, who was fluent in Italian, started his sermon when this minister stood up and interrupted him. “In this church you cannot say one word against communism. I am a Communist and a Baptist,” the pastor shouted. My father asked him loudly, “How can you be a Christian Baptist and at the same time a communist when communists are atheists? Communism denies the existence of God?”  Read the rest of the story here.