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Michael Wurmbrand, Help for Refugees, PO Box 5161, Torrance, Ca.
90510, USA,
Email: mw@helpforrefugees.com
Dear
sisters and brethren in Christ:
This sad letter you are reading comes from Michael Wurmbrand,
the son of the late Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, who suffered fourteen years in the
communist prisons of Romania, author of the book Tortured For Christ, a book of
valiant Christian testimony under communist persecution, translated in over 85
languages. My mother suffered nearly three years for her faith in communist
labor camps. My parents died in 2000-2001.�
Against my express request NOT TO DO SO,
the mission Voice of the Martyrs (VOM)
of Bartlesville,
VOM Chairman commits suicide!
Tom White, the past Voice of the Martyrs Chairman for more
than 20-years, committed suicide in April, 2012, only two to three hours after
an accusation of suspected child sexual molestation (pedophilia) of a 10-years
old girl was formally filed by her parents with the local police, and while the
Bartlesville, OK. police were searching to arrest him. This terrible event made
world news.� At the time of his committing
suicide, Tom White had a $140,000+ yearly salary, plus perks and very
substantial travel and expense accounts used in his extensive and
frequent international travel year after year.� Since the suspected perpetrator was dead, the
police closed any further investigation of the sexual molestation. The police
chief and the former mayor of the town of
I asked in writing of the Voice of the Martyrs Board of Directors
for an independent investigation, to be undertaken from outside of VOM. The
investigation in the famous legal action in England of Jimmy Saville, the BBC
children program head while alive, started with only 2 cases BUT there were
more than 600 pedophilia complaints after Saville died.� From 2010 to 2013, the state of Arizona for
instance, failed to investigate 6,000 cases of children molestation.� Being the son of Richard Wurmbrand, a person
of my background and position could have more inside information, than I
can discuss publicly. I asked therefore for an independent investigation! The
main question in the letter I wrote to the entire Voice of the Martyrs Board of
Directors was worded as follows: �In a Christian spirit of love and
faith, if you want to continue using the names, persona and copyrights of my
parents, I ask first that you do not try to accomplish this in an adversarial
way through lawyers, etc. but rather in an amiable way by fulfilling only one
request for the board to decide and approve:�
Please allow and pay for an
independent �blue ribbon� commission ... to investigate within the next two
months, back at least two� years, all Tom
White�s travel points, contacts and especially financial expenditures to
establish and put to rest any suspicions re. child molestation. �. Sorry, whether
you like it or not, this unpleasant event that happened to VOM with its
Chairman during twenty years cannot be dispensed with as just �a family affair�
or an unfortunate sudden decision. If
you do not intend to accept the above request, the other decision I ask you to
take is not to use the name Wurmbrand any more�.�
Only 4 days after I addressed
this letter to the board of directors I received a curt letter of termination
of employment, containing only canned paragraphs. No �sorry� and no �thank you�
for my founding the organization or the many years of service! My letter now
for more than five years, has not been answered!� I should be entitled to
make such a request since:
Donations to VOM Used to
Build 28 Million Dollars US Headquarter!
Donors should be aware that:
�
Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) spent $28 million dollars -- not on the mission field but to build
its own headquarter thus in economic times difficult for us all, encouraging
construction in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA, a town of only about 35,000. To my
knowledge, the previous headquarters of VOM in the same town cost in the
neighborhood of about $90,000! To read more type in your
internet browser:�� http://michaelwurmbrand.com/vom-construction-costs.pdf�� After Tom White�s suicide, the chairman of
VOM was a former mayor of Bartlesville, and was part of the city leadership. This
was done in secret, until the buildings were erected. Neither I nor the donors were
told of such grandiose projects. �It is
hard to believe this could be done but correspondence I display on the web see
link below, should convince you. I worked with VOM from
Donations
to VOM used to make Loans to a Convicted� Embezzler!
�
A repeated offender 3rd degree felon, who was as of 2013,
STILL UNDER A-10-YEARS CONVICTION SENTENCE AS AN EMBEZZLER, was named the Voice
of the Martyrs Vice President. Tens of thousands of dollars out of your
contributions for supposed missionary work were extended as a loan to him to
pay back some of what he stole and escape eventually parole supervision. To
read more on this convicted felon, type in your internet browser:� http://wurmbrandmichael.com/Lindquist-file.pdf �and http://wurmbrandmichael.com/amarillo_lindquist.pdf All of
the above occurred while, at the same time... Without any reasons proffered, they
sent a termination of employment letter to me, Richard Wurmbrand's son, who
founded the mission, four days only after I asked for an independent
investigation of the expenses and travels of the suicidal and suspected
pedophile past chairman of VOM, USA.
�
Voice of the Martyrs had agreed reluctantly in 2001 to help about
100 believers who were imprisoned 5-10 years for their faith in communist
prisons in Romania, currently destitute in their 80s and 90s, with less than $1 (yes, one dollar) a month. As outrageous as it sounds,
considering tens of millions of dollars solicited from you, it is documented. It
was raised in the following year to the value of about 2 tanks of gas/month worth
of help only because I wrote feet of email messages and renounced a total
of over $100,000 of my salary over four years (For years I accepted being paid
only $500/month!) just so these Christian martyrs would be helped.� To read more on the �VOM claims of pretended lack
of money� type in your internet browser:�
http://michaelwurmbrand.com/VOM-claims-lack-of-money.pdf
� A
fundraiser for VOM was promised to be paid a percentage or cut of the funds he
raised! We are far indeed from charitable actions through which one sacrifices
for the interests of others.
After I brought all of these facts to light, I was
asked also to keep quiet, not to rock the boat. Before being laid off I
was offered substantial contractual financial incentives not to �badmouth� VOM.
Some of the organizations endorsing
Voice of the Martyrs had interrelated employees and interests. When I
approached them, they were shy and sore afraid for their own interests to insist
my letter be answered. Some pathetic answers like: �Do not cast the first
stone,� �king Solomon made mistakes,� �we might also sin� or �promise to keep
correspondence private only� displayed
the hypocrisy to protect the flow of donations rather than any interest in protecting
possible children victims! Some answers were outright sarcastic, as if my
requesting a proper investigation regarding suspected pedophilia among �Christian
missionaries� would be some joke.
���
��� In the past Voice of the
Martyrs had written a dedication about myself sent to tens of thousands
stating: "To the Rev. Michael Wurmbrand, who has lived his life in a
fishbowl among both friends and enemies, and has done so with dignity to the
glory of God. We are grateful for the numerous personal interviews in which he
shared his memories with patience and enthusiasm." ��As soon as I asked for this independent
investigation, the VOM attitude of respect towards myself I enjoyed for years
turned into one of incredible vindictiveness. Christians who were in the know
could not believe how it was possible. The false answers given to those who
inquired were that this is a personal (?!?) conflict with Michael Wurmbrand we
try to solve with prayer and mediation! VOM tried to make light of my raising
these issues, claiming all being some personal grudge. Moreover in reply to
this letter, VOM sent a deceptive reply, not answering any of the issues, misleading
donors to believe I complain of former VOM persons who �are no more connected to the
organization, when in fact they still are in different indirect ways.� In reality, VOM employees were expressly forbidden to have contact with me,
so as not to lose some income and employment positions from this possibly second
largest employer in Bartlesville, OK. Same employees had before vied to
be photographed with me and get my autograph.�
Movie Actress Calling for
Public Sex and Same-Sex Marriages, �Hired to Portray My Mother!
Voice of the Martyrs showed lack of Christian ethics by using at
least $28 millions of donor money taken from the
mouths of persecuted widows and children into financing tens of millions of
dollars building in Bartlesville. Now Voice of the Martyrs shows
the same lack of Christian ethics by the unapproved use of my persona and of
the persona of my father and that of my mother to which I have moral and
registered legal rights. To portray
my mother Sabina, admired worldwide for her Christian sacrifice, Voice of the
Martyrs WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE, used in this movie AN ACTRESS KNOWN IN ROMANIA AS
A PUBLIC ADVOCATE OF HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES, ADVERTISING PUBLIC SEX (type in your
browser:http://wurmbrandmichael.com/RB-Blog.pdf
) How would you or your family like your own Christian mother be
portrayed by such a person?� Imagine how
would you feel if your family name, your children and your money were used like
that by others to make profits that go to generous salaries and a $28
million-dollar building, rather than reaching the actual hands of the persecuted
and suffering? �How could I have foreseen that in a case of blatant suspected
sexual-child-molestation some Christian VOM leaders I approached, imitated the
priest and Levite in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, trying their best re.
suspected pedophilia, to �pass by on the other side,� so as to maintain their
perks! John the Baptist was not beheaded because he sermonized in general
asking people to repent. Against his own personal interest, he put his life at
risk to denounce the sin of Herod, the ruler of the day. ��What
about "missionary outreach" to poor "persecuted
Christians?" Voice of the Martyrs, with its opulent ($28
million) headquarter built out of your sacrificial contributions, makes a
mockery of the sacrifice of persecuted Christians like my parents. Imagine a
surgeon insisting to operate, having no time to clean his hands after searching
in garbage. What patient has any use for such a surgeon? The betrayer of
Lord Jesus, Judas, in his apparently most �unselfish� enunciation of a project
to help the poor, was but a thief. (Indeed, the Gospel of John 12:6 writes:
"This he said, not that he cared for the poor, BUT BECAUSE HE WAS A
THIEF!")� VOM published even how within
months of our arrival in the United States, from 1967 on, I worked together
with my parents Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, to start what is now Voice
of the Martyrs. Recently released documents from the archives of the Romanian
secret police prove the communists had issued an order to kill our entire
family.� See: http://michaelwurmbrand.com/killing-wurmbrands.htm.
We started what is now Voice of the Martyrs under a communist sentence of death. When I was only a child, the
communists forcefully took away my parents to communist prisons. I suffered
plenty. My parents died with a good name. I do not want allow VOM take away �my parents� good
name, to raise money under false pretenses. I wrote the VOM directors: �If you
enjoy, for motivations of your own, to wallow in the mire of suspected
pedophilia go ahead �. If you do not want to accept an independent
investigation and complete transparency of your dealings, I begged you do not
use my father' long years of suffering in communist prisons and the intense suffering
of his whole family to raise money from naive donors �.�� �I was
written by VOM, when asking help for formerly persecuted Christians under
communism, now in their 90s, �we are technically out of money!...there will be NO check requests approved for anything
other than absolutely essential�� only to find out later that $9.5 million were
available not for mission work, but for construction work in Oklahoma (see
above link.) ����Christian
parents please protect your children! Consider how grave it is to allow your
children to trust and be reached by a missionary organization having had a case
of suspected pedophilia and a suicide because of it in its midst, and then terminating
me, its founder so as not to have to respond to a request for an independent investigation
of possible sexual child molestation. After all the laudatory words published
of me, they also tried to badmouth me. If you are a minister, I can only beg
you to share this letter with your congregation. If you had respect for Richard
Wurmbrand, my father, please send this letter to all your email and affiliate
lists, Christmas lists, spread it among your friends. �I tried to document the facts recited above
but think on your own: How can �Christian missionaries� in a good
Christian conscience even indulge to build themselves an opulent $28,000,000 headquarter
from your donations, while withholding help to persecuted Christians in far
away lands badly in need of your donations? �
The best email I got from various donors, following my appeals was
the shortest. Here I quote it: "That 28-million-dollar building is the
deal-breaker.� VOM is dead to me."
Love of money is the root of all evil. A way to stop evil, is
to stop financing it. If you were inspired by the Wurmbrand family story
of suffering to donate to Voice of the Martyrs or its international affiliates
in the
( http://mcanawconstruction.com/gallery?id=24
) AND ASK YOURSELF, "Where did my donations really go?" The answer
should be obvious to you. How can I allow the hoax of making donors think their
undesignated donations raised by using the name of the Wurmbrand family are destined
to persecuted widows and orphans while going to support opulent constructions
in the United States?�� Tortured for Christ circulated
throughout the world with more than 10,000,000 copies. Inside the $28
million Voice of the Martyrs headquarter prominently named as the