It’s been a year
since Oral Roberts went home to be with the Lord. But his legacy lives on at
the university he founded in 1963. Oral Roberts University (ORU) continues to
focus on the vision and mission of one of this generation’s most effective
evangelists—and the school is paying tribute to its founder in an online collection
of photos and videos.
“Oral Roberts
was a great man who profoundly impacted the world for Jesus Christ. We are
deeply thankful for his life,” says ORU President Mark Rutland. “Nowhere is the
imprint of this man of God more evident than ORU. This university is the
enduring legacy of Chancellor Roberts.”
Roberts founded
ORU in obedience to God’s mandate to build a university on His authority and
the Holy Spirit. God’s commission to Roberts was to “raise up your students to
hear My voice, to go where My light is dim, where My voice is heard small, and
My healing power is not known, even to the uttermost bounds of the earth. Their
work will exceed yours, and in this I am well pleased.”
A year after
Roberts’ passing, the university remains committed to educating the whole
person in spirit, mind and body to prepare graduates to be professionally
competent servant-leaders who are spiritually alive, intellectually alert,
physically disciplined and socially adept.
“ORU is Oral
Roberts’ most enduring legacy,” says Thomson Mathew, dean of ORU’s College of
Theology and Ministry. “It represents everything he stood for—from healing
evangelism to whole person living to academic excellence.”
ORU is paying tribute to Roberts on its website. This
site includes photos and video of Roberts, a biography, comments from around
the world at his passing and a message from Rutland. ORU will also honor
Roberts at the first chapel service of the spring semester.
