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The Outreach of the Oral Roberts University (Fall 1964) Oral Roberts University Oral Roberts University Digital Showcase Oral Roberts University Outreach Oral Roberts University Collection Fall 1964 The Outreach of the Oral Roberts University (Fall 1964) Oral Roberts University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/oru_outreach Recommended Citation Oral Roberts University, "The Outreach of the Oral Roberts University (Fall 1964)" (1964). Oral Roberts University Outreach. 11. https://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/oru_outreach/11 This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the Oral Roberts University Collection at Digital Showcase. It has been accepted for inclusion in Oral Roberts University Outreach by an authorized administrator of Digital Showcase. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I~ . if;'I We have a debt to pay ORAL RoBERTs, President Tirn IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY with high aca­ this young woman, to understand that vi­ demic standards and centered in Jesus sion and translate it into a living reality. Christ has been burning in me for years. \Ve have no choice but to build the uni­ I have seen young people with a spark in versity. We have these young people on our their eyes, a dream in their hearts, but with hands. As Paul said, "We are debtors." no place to go for full expression of the tal­ God has spoken to our hearts. We have ents God gave them. Across the years they faith that just as He has led us in the other have come to our crusades and caught the outreaches of this ministry, He is with us vision of our ministry. They are the great in this undertaking. potential of the world, and of the kingdom Picture in your mind hundreds of young of God. They are our future ministers, people of great promise coming from all scientists, business and professional people, parts of the world to this campus. See them educators, leaders of our country. studying in an atmosphere of real faith, not What is going to happen to them? Where hampered by cold unbelief. See them living can they go to study in an atmosphere of these important years of their college life true learning-where the whole man is and learning about their world, knowing educated and trained? that it is God's world and they have a The crusades still catch their vision, but unique place in it. the university will help this young man, These are your sons and daughters, as rrwhere can our boys and girls go to study in an atmosphere of true learning where the whole man is educated?" well as mine, that I am talking about. We tian experience, character, talents and train­ brought them into the world and we owe ing are uniquely fitted for them to teach and them something ... something better than influence the youth we commit to their the world can give them. We owe it to charge. These are dedicated people, these them to build a university that is worthy of are Christian educators with the finest of the great promise God has placed in them. academic qualifications, people who have I believe with everything that is in me caught the vision of what we are trying to that this is God's University, and this is do. This same vision our evangelistic team God's time to build it ... and to build it has, they have, and they will spend their right! People who know this ministry at all, lives helping instill that same vision into know that because we are led by God, we eager, young minds and hearts. don't listen to man; we put everything we Even though God leads us, it is not with­ have into what we undertake for the Lord. out sweat and toil of our own ... and even Whatever it takes in faith, in effort, in sacrifice. Whether it is securing faculty money, we depend completely upon the members, students, or partners to be cola­ Lord as the source of our supply, and as the borers with us, we know that it is out of our One who will bring it to pass. hands. God will speak to the individual. Just as He has brought together our evan­ Perhaps, right now, as you read this, you, gelistic team, He is assembling a faculty for too, will catch the vision and take your this university of that same caliber of men place by the side of those faithful ones who and women. These are people whose Chris- are with us. THE OUTREACH of the Oral Roberts University FALL ISSUE • VOLUME 1 • NUMBER 3 Second-class postage paid at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Published quarterly by the Oral Roberts University, a nonprofit, educational corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74105. FOUNDER AND EDITOR IN CHIEF: Oral Roberts. EDITOR: William C. Armstrong. EDITORIAL BOARD: Oral Roberts, Chairman, John D. Messick, Ph.D., R. 0. Corvin, D.R.E., Leon Hartz, C.P.A. EDITORIAL STAFF: William C. Armstrong, Alice Duncombe, Rosie Bates, Copy Reader. ARTISTS: Gerald Mobley, Charles Ramsay. PHOTOGRAPHER: Jim Nash. Whether in the crusades or at 0 RU seminars, young people have caught the vision of this university. On the following pages you will meet cation oF our students being planned for us young people who want to attend the uni­ by <l Holy Spirit filled physician. You will versity, some of the faculty people who have sec a tvvo-page spread or the beautiful cam­ alre<idy signed their contracts with us, and pus <ls it will he when completed. And the ehm1cellor and provost upon whose whether you arc a student, a foculty person shoulders the academic program of the uni­ or a partner, you can find your own unique versity rests. You will read oF an exciting place in helping pay "your deht" to the new concept in the physical or hca 1th cdu- youth oF this and future generations. Why I chose throughout life. Now is the time we'll begin to work toward God or away from God. To help us young people work toward God, we should have a good, healthy, Christian atmo­ sphere in which to study and develop. For this reason I believe it is important that young peo­ ple should consider a campus that is centered in Jesus Christ. "Choosing the right college is hard for just about everyone and I was no exception. Then the Lord provided opportunity for me to visit the new campus of the Oral Roberts Univer­ sity in Tulsa. I was amazed at the beautiful bt{ildings already built and others under con­ struction. I was especially impressed with the educational media planned for installation soon. "This left only two questions in my mind: "THE PRIMARY REASON most young people Will there be a good spiritual atmosphere? give for going to college is to further their Will there be a good curriculum? I was assured education in order that they may be better of both of them when we were informed bv equipped in the secular world. However, I Dr. ]. D. Messick that the faculty would be feel that as Christian young people we should Godly men and women and that the curricu­ set our goal higher. We should add to this lum was to follow closely that of top univer­ secular reason-spiritual education. sities. I was convinced that this was the college "Adolescence is the time in a person's life the Lord wanted me to attend." when he begins to form his habits. Things that we experience now will be remembered Paul D. Brigandt, Denver, Colorado "IN THIS UNIVERSITY I can get not only a first-rate ed­ ucation with superb facilities, but I will also be able to receive the fellowship and healthy atmosphere needed by a Christian person in the critical years of training." Steve Shakarian, Downey, California Oral Roberts University ... l "I HAVE JUST RECENTLY graduated from high and was introduced to an academic program school, and some of the problems that I met that far exceeded my fondest dreams. Since I there made me realize the importance of a live in Tulsa, I have also had the pleasure to Christian environment in higher education. meet some of the fine Christian instructors at "So in my thinking and planning for a the university. Also, I have had the privilege college education, I started looking for a liberal of seeing the vision of Oral Roberts University arts college that was high in academic standards become a reality before my eyes. and yet preserved the Christian teaching and "The beauty of the school and the seemingly principles in which I believed. unlimited learning potential impressed me "This proved more of a problem than I had first. But the crowning quality that made me anticipated-or at least, it was a problem until decide on ORU is the abiding Christian atmo­ I accepted an invitation to attend a youth sphere I found there." seminar at the Oral Roberts University. I felt Jolene Davis, Tulsa, Oklahoma here the warmth of a Christian atmosphere HUGH DAVIS Ph.D., Harvard University heads social studies "IT WAS A COLD DAY on the campus of Harvard The three men prayed together and parted. University, that I, a young man, alone and Not long afterward, Dr. and Mrs. Davis were discouraged, became conscious of my need for invited to attend a Laymen's Seminar at ORU. a Savior and of His great love for me. Shortly "At that seminar," says Dr. Davis, "I met thereafter I was thoroughly converted and com­ such a cloud of witnesses! They glowed with mitted my entire life to Christ." Christ's Spirit.
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