Born in Romania in 1932, Dumitru Duduman was brought up "..in a Christian home..""in the knowledge of God"1. After entering into his teenage years, however, Dumitru rejected God and signed up for Marine School to become a Marine Officer. Then, when he became an officer under a communist government, Duduman also became a persecutor of believers in Jesus Christ working zealously to confiscate Bibles on the Black Sea.
Duduman increased in rebelliousness and hostility towards the things of God seizing Bibles and arresting missionaries until one day he heard from heaven. God spoke to him in power, asking him not to destroy, but to help Christians unload the Bibles that they had brought to Constina, Romania. Subsequently, Dumitru obeyed the voice of God and helped believers who brought Bibles into Romania. But he did not fully come to the Lord until years later when he was touched by the ministry of the Holy Ghost through song and was then saved and filled with the Holy Ghost.2
As a new believer. Dumitru continued to grow in the power and the knowledge of the Almighty. Initially, being led through the Holy Spirit to preach, later on, he was led to smuggle Bibles into Russia. He grew Spiritually and in the power of the Almighty until God's Holy Spirit began to lead him into far-reaching tasks and difficult challenges. Finally in 1984, the Lord lead Dumitru to total dependence upon Him by asking him to take his entire family and to travel to an unknown lands.3
A highpoint of this time and of the Holy Spirit's leading in Dumitru’s life came when he was led to travel to the United States of America. In America, Dumitru had no personal contacts, no Christian or church contacts or friends, no money and no knowledge of the language. Dumitru was heartbroken and distraught.4 He had married and had a wife and children. He had obeyed the voice of God and he had been led by the Holy Ghost to smuggle Bibles and had suffered persecutions, tortures and severe beatings at the hand of his enemies. But, with great fear and trepidation he obeyed the leading of the Lord. He gathered up his meager possessions with his wife and his children and traveled thousands of miles to a land he did not know.
Shortly after arriving in the United States, Dumitru was destitute. On the evening of his greatest fear coupled with great feelings of subjection and abandonment, he sat homeless, penniless and alone and cried out to the Almighty asking, " Why did you bring me to this place to die, I could have died in Romania where my family has a home!"5
The Almighty spoke to Duduman's through his tears, answering his questions and pointing out the reasons why he was sent to America, and the answers were not pretty. But God, in His love for all people assured Duduman that he had a word through him for America. God honored His words to Duduman and sent him across America, to prophesy. Duduman traveled across American as well as to other lands and even back to his homeland in Romania. He spent his last day on earth on May 5, 1997, but his prophetic warnings to America can be seen on various internet sites and are recorded in his book"6. Dumitru Duduman was saved, a Prophet of God, filled with the Holy Ghost and he was used by the Almighty to bring a powerful message to America.
1 Hand Of Help Ministries
2 Ibid.
3 Dumitru Duduman's comments, Prophecy Club Gathering, Portland, Oregon, 1996.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Dumitru Duduman. ThroughThe Fire Without Burning, A True Story Of A Pastor Facing Communist Persecution. Hand Of Help Inc. 1992
