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How tall is Oral Roberts?
6'9"6'9" 210 lbs So.
What disease did Oral Roberts have?
Roberts was found to have a case of tuberculosis so advanced that he was not expected to survive. While he was bedridden, a healing evangelist named George Moncey held worship services in a tent in Ada.
Has Oral Roberts died?
December 15, 2009Oral Roberts / Date of death
Is Oral Roberts Pentecostal?
Oral Roberts, in full Granville Oral Roberts, (born January 24, 1918, near Ada, Oklahoma, U.S.—died December 15, 2009, Newport Beach, California), American Pentecostal evangelist known for his televised faith-healing ministry.
What did TL Osborn died of?
February 14, 2013T.L. Osborn / Date of death
How did Oral Roberts get saved?
* Roberts said he was 16 and suffering from tuberculosis when his parents took him to a faith healer in Ada, Oklahoma. On the way, he said God told him he would be cured and given healing powers of his own. Roberts said the powers took effect 12 years later while he was preaching.
Is all Roberts still alive?
December 15, 2009Oral Roberts / Date of death
What is ORU's mascot?
EliOral Roberts University / MascotORU's mascot is Eli the golden eagle, who hatched out of his papier-mâché egg on November 17, 1993, before the start of an exhibition basketball game as the official symbol of a new era in ORU athletics. The mascot's name is an acronym for education, life skills and integrity.
How old is Billy Graham?
99 years (1918–2018)Billy Graham / Age at death
Was Oral Roberts a good man?
Oral was a brilliant man, but never completed his college degree. But he loved education. Roberts believed that by building a university, he would replicated his ministry in the students who would go far beyond what he could accomplish as one man.
How far did Oral Roberts go?
Oral Roberts finished fourth in the Summit League but won the conference tournament to automatically qualify for the NCAAs. Led by Abmas and Kevin Obanor, the high-scoring Golden Eagles knocked off second-seeded Ohio State 75-72 in overtime and seventh-seeded Florida 81-78 to become the second No.
Is Oral Roberts a good school?
Oral Roberts University is ranked #7 in Regional Colleges West. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence.
Overview
Ministry and university
In 1945, Roberts resigned his pastorate in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to hold revivals in the area and attend Oklahoma Baptist. But in the late summer of 1945, while preaching in a North Carolina camp meeting, Roberts was asked by Robert E. "Daddy" Lee of Toccoa, Georgia, to consider becoming pastor of his small, eighty-member church. Roberts suggested they pray about it, and unexpectedl…
Early life
Personal life
Roberts was married to Evelyn Lutman Fahnestock (1917–2005) for 66 years from December 25, 1938, until her death from a fall, on May 4, 2005, at the age of 88. Their daughter Rebecca Nash died in an airplane crash on February 11, 1977 with her husband, businessman Marshall Nash. Their elder son, Ronald Roberts, died by suicide on June 10, 1982, five months after receiving a court order to undergo counseling at a drug treatment center and six months after coming out a…
See also
• Healing revival
• List of television evangelists
Further reading
By Roberts
• The call: an autobiography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.
• Expect a miracle: my life and ministry. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1995. ISBN 0-7852-7752-8
• Oral Roberts' life story, as told by himself. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1952.
External links
• Oral Roberts at Find a Grave
• Webcast of Chancellor Oral Roberts' Memorial Service
• Oral Roberts Ministries
• Oral Roberts University