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Richard Lee Roberts (born November 12, 1948) is chairman and chief executive officer of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and previously served as president of Oral Roberts University (ORU) for 15 years. After Roberts stepped down, the outgoing ORU board of regents elected him president emeritus. ==Early life and education== Richard Lee Roberts was born on November 12, 1948, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of evangelist Granville Oral Roberts (died 2009) and school teacher Evelyn Lutman Roberts (died 2005). The third born of four Roberts children, he had an older sister, Rebecca Ann, who along with her husband, Marshall Nash, was killed in a plane crash in 1977, and an older brother, Ronald David, who died in 1982 in what was determined to be suicide. Robert's younger sister, Roberta Jean Potts, is a practicing attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma.〔''Expect A Miracle-My Life and Ministry'' by Oral Roberts, 1995, Thomas Nelson Publishers, pp. 195-248.〕 As a young boy, Roberts watched his father travel the United States and the world conducting healing meetings where he would preach and pray for the sick. At times, his father and mother were gone for periods as long as six weeks. When school permitted, Roberts accompanied his father on trips and dreamed of having a healing ministry of his own; many times walking by his sided as his father prayed for people in the "invalid tent".〔"Claim Your Inheritance by Richard Roberts, 2002, The Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, pages 19-20,"〕 During the portions of the services where people were getting prayed for,〔"You Can Touch Heaven With Your Faith by Richard Roberts, 1991, The Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, page 23,"〕 Roberts was often standing on his chair clapping when people were healed.〔"Expect A Miracle-My Life and Ministry by Oral Roberts,1995, Thomas Nelson Publishers, pages 195-248",〕 At a young age, Roberts’s music talent was evident to those around him. At the age of 5 he had his first public performance at an Oral Roberts crusade in Baltimore, Maryland, standing on a chair in front of several thousand people singing "I Believe."〔"He’s the God of a Second Chance, 1985", page 12〕 Also at an early age, his father began to teach him the game of golf. With his first swing of the club, while in their front yard, he sent a ball right through the living room window of their home. In his book, ''Expect A Miracle My Life and Ministry'' by Oral Roberts, Oral talks about the bond they gained though the game of golf. Roberts eventually became an excellent golfer and played with notable celebrities.〔"Expect A Miracle-My Life and Ministry by Oral Roberts,1995, Thomas Nelson Publishers, pages 195-248",〕 Though drawn to ministry, Roberts was made uncomfortable by all the attention his father received. He was often teased by classmates and even teachers, and even got into fights about his father. "I came home from school many a day with my shirt torn and my nose bloodied from being in fights with the other kids who made fun of me, my dad and the healing ministry of Jesus Christ." 〔"He’s the God of a Second Chance, 1985", page 9〕 As a teenager, with the negative press his father was receiving and pressure from his father to sing at crusades, he began to pull away from involvement with his father’s ministry and began pursuing other talents and interests, such as singing.〔"Faith to Try Again by Richard Roberts, 1997, Albury Publishing, page 13"〕 As a teenager he learned to play the guitar and began singing in pizza parlors and eventually nightclubs around the state of Oklahoma. There was a new dream in his heart, to become a nightclub singer in Las Vegas.〔"He’s the God of a Second Chance, 1985", page 13〕 In 1966, during Roberts’ senior year in high school he played the lead in his high school play The Sound of Music. He then was offered a music scholarship for the summer to the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Traverse City, Michigan, by the founder Joseph Maddy, when Maddy brought a performing group to the Oral Roberts University campus. According Roberts’ autobiography, he landed the male lead in the camps production of "Annie Get Your Gun.〔"Claim Your Inheritance by Richard Roberts, 2002, The Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, pages 14,"〕 Graduating from Memorial High School in May of 1966〔"Tulsa People Magazine, Volume XI, Number 77, May 1998, page 19"〕 Roberts was accepted to three different universities and chose the University of Kansas to attend college due to its well known music program and it being the farthest distance from Tulsa.〔"Claim Your Inheritance by Richard Roberts, 2002, The Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, page 15,"〕 During the summer of his freshman year he worked at the famous 8,000 seat, outdoor Starlight Theater in Kansas City,〔"https://plus.google.com/u/0/+kcstarlight/about"〕 with a number of performers including Shirley Jones.〔"He’s the God of a Second Chance, 1985", photo〕 He also had been working in a number of night clubs and had been offered a contract to sing in Las Vegas.〔"Expect A Miracle-My Life and Ministry by Oral Roberts,1995, Thomas Nelson Publishers, pages 195-248",〕〔"Claim Your Inheritance by Richard Roberts, 2002, The Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association, page 21,"〕 While at the University of Kansas, Roberts gets sick and has to go to the hospital, possibly needing surgery. The surgery was avoided but soon after returning from the hospital, while alone in his room, he hears a voice, coming out of nowhere, telling him he is in the wrong place. "Where am I supposed to be?, he asks. The voice says, Oral Roberts University.〔"He’s the God of a Second Chance, 1985", page 20〕 In the Fall 1967, Roberts dropped out of the University of Kansas and enrolled in Oral Roberts University.〔"http://www.oru.edu/prayer_tower/"〕 In 1968 at the age of 19, two weeks before his birthday, Roberts dedicates his life to Jesus Christ〔"He’s the God of a Second Chance, 1985", page 25〕 and he joined his father’s ministry as a singer on television and in crusades.〔"Faith to Try Again by Richard Roberts, 1997, Albury Publishing, page 35"〕 Roberts received his bachelor’s degree in communication arts from Oral Roberts University in 1985. He received his master’s degree from the Oral Roberts University School of Theology and Missions in 1992〔''Oral Roberts University Alumni Directory'', 1998, p. 313.〕 as well as his Doctor of Ministry degree in 2002 from Oral Roberts University.〔"Roberts Passes Helm to Son", ''The Bulletin'', January 28, 1993.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Roberts (evangelist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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