Terrance Herbert Law

Dr. Terry Law was born Terrance Herbert Law on April 8, 1943, to the Reverend Herbert and Ann Law of Four Corners, Saskatchewan, Canada. He passed into the presence of His Lord on August 31, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Terry was preceded in death by his wife, Janice (D'Arpa) Law. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Law, and children Misty Law Flurry, Scot Law, Rebecca Law, Shawna Law Lawrence, Jason Law, Laurie Law Wilson, and David Wolfer, and 10 grandchildren.



A celebrated graduate of Oral Roberts University, Class of 1969, Terry Law’s ministry as an evangelist and humanitarian for Christ spanned some fifty-four years, taking him into more than 75 nations, from the plains of western Canada to the deserts of Iraq, with special emphasis on so-called closed nations.



Dr. Law’s primary career began in early 1969, when he and the late pianist, Larry Dalton, formed “Living Sound,” a ministry that pioneered contemporary music concerts with straighforward preaching. During its seventeen-year run, Living Sound grew from its original thirteen members into four fulltime teams that won tens of thousands to Christ in dozens of nations on six continents. Along the way, he devoted himself to both evangelistic preaching and extensive humanitarian efforts, whether personally smuggling bags of rice across a frozen river into North Korea, delivering food, medicine, and clothing to refugees from ISIS, or preaching to audiences as large as a quarter million people in Poland. For these and his other efforts, Dr. Law gained the trust of such luminaries as his friend, Pope John Paul II, and the Presidents of transitional Iraq and today’s Iraqi Kurdistan, where certain religious freedom iniatives he began in recent years are still in progress.



For all these achievements, Dr. Law’s proudest accomplishment and greatest legacy are the lives of his children, as well as the hundreds of ministries that sprang up from not only his preaching, but especially from his example of personal perseverance, breaking through barriers thought impenetrable and running into the storms that everyone else fled. He was, as the name of his life story suggests, a true “Storm Chaser.”



A memorial service for Dr. Law will be held at Christ Chapel, on the campus of Oral Roberts University, on Tuesday, September 8 at 1:00 p.m.