It was on the Richard Roberts television program, Expect a Miracle, that I learned about the vision which Oral Roberts had a few years ago. Richard Roberts told how his father’s vision had to do with evangelism and mission, that it involved sending missionaries to the ends of the earth - doctors, first, to treat and care for the sick, and then evangelists to preach the gospel to people in countries where Christ is not known at all.

Oral Roberts also spoke of the revelation: "God told me I am on the last rung of the ladder ... He gave me a year to set up this project." He said that his wife tried to convince him that God’s "year" might be a different measurement of time than ours, but Roberts rejected such reasoning and called for offerings of $8 million over a two month period, so that ev…