Oral Roberts University is holding the memorial service for evangelist Oral Roberts

Oral Roberts died last week in California at the age of 91. He died of complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach last Tuesday.

Oral Roberts

Thousands of people assisted at the memorial service, some of them came from far away states, at the ORU campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The memorial service was opened for the public on Monday at 2 p.m. The memorial service was live on the Oral Robert website too.

Oral Roberts founded Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1963 and it was the President of the University until 1993. During his leading, he was involved in discussions and criticism about Christians and non-Christians, a very important subject being the personal wealth that he accumulated from donations.

In the 1960s and 1970s, he hosted a TV show called “Miracles Now”, reaching millions of people around the world.

He was married to Evelyn Lutman Fahnestock, who died also of pneumonia in 1988. They had four children: their daughter, Rebecca Nash, who died in an airplane crash, their elder son Ronald who committed suicide by shooting himself in June 1982 and a boy and a girl who are alive.