| R.W. Schambach | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robert W. Schambach April 3, 1926 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Central Bible Institute, Springfield, MO, B.A. Theology |
| Occupation | Evangelist, Television personality |
| Employer | Shambach Ministries |
| Known for | Co-Founder and President of Schambach Ministries, Tyler, TX |
| Title | Rev. Schambach |
| Term | $50,000 and up ↑ (?) |
| Religion | Pentecostal (Christian) |
| Spouse | Mary Winifred Schambach, 1948-2010 (her death) |
| Children | 1 daughter, evangelist Donna Schambach |
| Website | |
| http://www.schambach.org | |
R.W. Schambach (born Robert W. Schambach on April 3, 1926)[1] is an American televanglist, pastor, faith healer, and author. His television program, Power Today can be seen on the DayStar Christian TV network aa well as over the internet in streaming podcasts.[2]
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An outgoing youth, Schambach, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became a born-again Christian as a youth on a street corner when an evangelist, the late C.M. Ward had given an altar call to receive Jesus Christ as Savior after preaching the gospel to the gathered crowd. Young Schambach felt an immediate call to preach, but decided to pursue other ambitions first.
Ordained as a pastor by C.M. Ward, Schambach, who was also a protégé of the evangelist/faith healer T.L. Osborn, received his formal training at Central Bible Institute in Springfield, Missouri, in the mid-1940s, after serving in World War II as a navy boiler-maker on a destroyer in the South Pacific and Asia. He then began apprenticing along the side of A.A. Allen, a well-known miracle evangelist of the 1940s and 1950s. The five years he served as Allen’s associate evangelist was his “school of the Spirit,” learning how to move in the gift of faith and the working of miracles. One of the controversial late televangelist's rising young protégés in the 1950s, Shambach began travelling even more extensively around the world with Allen on his "Miracle Crusades" during that period along with such up-and coming future televangelists such as Don Stewart, and Leroy Jenkins, who gained a following as "The Man With The Miracle Arm", an arm that had been badly severed during a home renovation project that was reportedly healed miraculously by God at one of Allen's crusades, held in Atlanta in 1960, with Schambach, Stewart and other prominent faith-healing pastors in attendance.
Schambach can regularly be seen, in addition to his syndicated TV program, on such Christian TV networks as Trinity Broadcasting Network's (TBN) Praise The Lord program segments, The DayStar network (where his program airs), and INSP. He continues to spread the message of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior regularly in crusades both in North America and globally. He is frequently a guest speaker on TBN's Praise-A-Thon fundraiser telethom program segments.
Schambach's wife of 62 years, Mary Winifred (born September 3, 1926, in Philadelphia), died from natural causes in Tyler, Texas, where they had been living since they founded their ministry, on April 20, 2010. The Schambachs's daughter, Donna Schambach, is in her own right a revered pastor and faith healer who, since 1982 has had a significant part as associate pastor in her parents ministry, which is based in Tyler, Texas, but also regularly runs crusades in Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia where Donna pastors a church sanctuary also based there.
Schambach was sampled into the late 1990s rave hit Injected with a Poison by Praga Kahn, where he was originally talking about the cult deaths in Jonestown.
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