Oral Roberts University Hosts Celebration of Healing Academic Conference and Tent Crusade
Oral Roberts University will host a weeklong Celebration of Healing April 6-10, 2015.
The celebration will begin with a Healing Gospel Academic Conference, held April 6-7,
and continue with an ORU Healing Crusade April 8-10 to honor the great healing crusades
of the 20th century.
“Oral Roberts University remains deeply connected to the modern-day healing movement thanks, in large part, to the life’s work of our founder,” said ORU President William M. Wilson. “As the world’s leading authority on the concepts of God and healing, the university is excited to host this event as a means to celebrate the work of ministers who shared God’s love through these tent meetings. We look forward to seeing how God will use these lectures and the healing crusade to touch the hearts, bodies and minds of those in attendance.”
The Healing Gospel Academic Conference will feature guest speakers Kate Bowler,author and assistant professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School; Candy Gunther Brown, author and professor of religious studies at Indiana University; Don Colbert, ORU medical school alumnus and New York Times best-selling author; John Crouch, president of In His Image International and of Good Samaritan Health Services, Inc.; and Craig Keener, professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and chair for the Institute for Biblical Research.
Main sessions for the Healing Gospel Academic Conference will be held on April 6 at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. and on April 7 at 11 a.m. and 1:10 p.m. in Christ’s Chapel. A banquet will be held on April 7 beginning at 6 p.m. on the 60th floor of Cityplex Towers. During this special session Crouch will give a personal review of ORU’s ongoing contribution to the integration of faith, prayer and medicine with his presentation titled “Healing through Faith and Medicine: How Oral Roberts’ Healing Vision Was—and Continues to Be—Fulfilled.”
Visit www.oru.edu/50/healing to register for the Healing Gospel Academic Conference. The pre-sale price of admission for the conference is $25. The price will increase to $40 on April 1, 2015. Admission to the banquet is $35.
The ORU Healing Crusade will mark the 80th anniversary of the university’s founder being miraculously healed of tuberculosis. The celebratory tent meetings will feature world-renowned speakers Paul Daugherty, lead pastor of Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Jentezen Franklin, New York Times best-selling author and senior pastor of Free Chapel; Marilyn Hickey, founder and president of Marilyn Hickey Ministries; Francis and Judith MacNutt, authors and founders of Christian Healing Ministries; and William M. Wilson, ORU president and Empowered21 president and global co-chair.
The first healing service will be held on Wednesday, April 8 in Christ’s Chapel at 11 a.m. A second service will take place that evening from 7-9 p.m. in a crusade-style tent on the ORU campus. A third service will be held on Thursday, April 9 from 7-9 p.m. in the crusade tent. A final service will be held on Friday, April 10 in the crusade tent at 11 a.m.
The ORU Healing Crusade is FREE and open to the public.
For additional information, or to register for the Celebration of Healing, visit www.oru.edu/50/healing.