Oral Roberts to Climb Into Tower in Fast for Funds
Television evangelist Oral Roberts, claiming his life is at stake, says he will climb into his prayer tower Sunday to fast and pray for about $1 million more in donations for his medical missionary program.
Roberts’ spokeswoman Jan Dargatz said Thursday the evangelist will enter the tower every day until the end of March.
“When Oral does this, it’s almost like a marathon, but he has trained for it,” she said. “He prays every day.”
The tower will be closed to visitors during this period so Roberts’ prayer sessions will not be interrupted, she said.
Roberts has said God told him “I’ll call you home” if he did not raise the entire $8 million fund by March.
He apparently escaped an earlier do-or-die deadline from God. A Dallas paper reported it had tapes of the evangelist telling an Easter service that God said Roberts would die last December if the $8 million was not raised then.
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