We can do it by Richard Roberts
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS You remind me, one of the largest furniture dealers in this part of the country lives right here in Tulsa. And he said to my dad and me, “Whenever I get discouraged, I drive my car out onto the ORU campus and I get over in this Mabee Center parking lot just outside this building and I park my car and I just look around and I say, “Look at what faith did. My business can go. Look at what faith did.” That’s what you’re saying.
SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW That’s accountability.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Yeah.
SPKM ARLIE WHITLOW That works. And when a pastor can come here from Washington, D. C. and come out here–yesterday I walked all these grounds. I went up in the City of Faith and I walked over here in the Mabee Center, went through all this, through the campus, and I could feel faith enter my bones. And that’s what God’s using in this hour. He’s using Oral Roberts University and Richard Roberts to inspire a whole lot of folks.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, Arlie, we need some special help this summer. I want to SU03 take you out on the campus in just a moment and show you some of the things that we’re doing. You know, when the students are gone we do the maintenance and repair work at ORU during the summer because you can’t do a lot of things when school is on because you have students everywhere and faculty, and I guess when you get us all together there’s more than 5,000, maybe 5,500 of us. And you can’t do the type of work that you can do when the summertime comes. We only have from now until August to get this work done. And I’ve been sharing with the people about some maintenance work and things that we’re doing.
And right now I want to take you out on the campus and show you some of the cooling towers and some of the things that are going wrong that’s got to be fixed. In fact, right now you’re looking at one of the cooling towers that has a pretty good size leak in it, due to normal wear, rust, normal–you know, the normal, normal things happen. There you can see one of the leaks. It’s going to cost about $1,500 to $2,000 in repairs on this chiller, I guess they call it, air conditioning unit. I’m not sure what building that’s for. Oh, that’s for the aerobics center. And then we go over to the main cooling towers for the campus buildings. The insides of it are wearing out after years, and it’s going to cost us a great deal of money to do the reworking of the guts of this building. You can see some of the leaks and things that have to be done and we go over to some of the chillers and cooling towers outside of the dormitories.
There’s one out there behind the four twin tower, quad tower dormitories, as we call them. There are some major leaks and problems, going to cost thousands of dollars to do this work this summer. We have, we have buildings that we have to put some new roofs on. We’ve been doing some painting. We’re getting ready to pain the Classroom Building. You’re looking at it right now. We’ve got to paint this building. And we have students that are working this summer. We need some money. We’ve got the paint coming, but we’ve got to pay for it all. And this is the Johnston Baseball Stadium, and we need to patch the roof, repair the roof, going to take $27,000 to do the work on this roof in our baseball stadium.