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Robert William "R. W." Schambach (April 3, 1926 – January 17, 2012) was an American televangelist, pastor, faith healer and author.


Early life and faith

Robert W. Schambach was born on April 3, 1926, in
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, to Harry Ellsworth and Ann Moyer Schambach. He became a born-again Christian as a youth, in response to the evangelist C. M. Ward.


Ministry

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
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, in the mid-1940s, after serving in World War II as a navy boilermaker on a destroyer in the South Pacific and Asia. He then began an apprenticeship with A. A. Allen and worked for five years. Schambach began travelling extensively with Allen on his "Miracle Crusades" during that period along with Don Stewart and Leroy Jenkins. His television program, ''Power Today'', was seen on the Daystar Christian TV network.


Personal life

Schambach's wife was Mary Winifred Donald (born September 3, 1926, in
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, Pennsylvania). R.W. met Mary while she was a student at the Eastern Bible Institute of the Assemblies of God in
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(now the
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in
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). They married the following year, on September 4, 1948 (just one day after Mary's birthday). The couple subsequently had two sons and a daughter: Bobby, Bruce and Donna. Donna Schambach is a pastor and Word of Faith minister in the Tyler area. Schambach had six grandchildren: Rachel, Bobby III, Mark, Amanda and Christi. They had been married for 61 years when Mary died from natural causes in
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on April 20, 2010, at age 83. Less than two years later he died of a heart attack on January 17, 2012, age 85. He was interred next to his wife at the Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery in Tyler, Texas.


See also

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Faith healing Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice. Believers assert that the healin ...
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Glossolalia Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is an activity or practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers to be languages unknown to the speaker. One definition used by linguists is the fluid voc ...
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Pentecostalism Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a movement within the broader Evangelical wing of Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God in Christianity, God through Baptism with the Holy Spirit#Cl ...
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Word of Faith A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its ...
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Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit, otherwise known as the Holy Ghost, is a concept within the Abrahamic religions. In Judaism, the Holy Spirit is understood as the divine quality or force of God manifesting in the world, particularly in acts of prophecy, creati ...


References


External links


R. W. Schambach bio at official website
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