klahoma Conference as a clerical delegate. That same year Oral began to be busy and productive. He conducted revivals all along the East. In such states as North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. Also in 1941 he accepted a call to pastor a church in Fuquay Springs, North Carolina. This signaled a sharp change in career aims and lifestyle.He had published two books at this point and recorded two songs with Evelyn. He had been Chairman of the Conference Committee on Education and Publication. While Chairman he sponsored a fund-raising service for Emmanuel College at the Eastern Oklahoma camp meeting. He raised $70 to furnish a dormitory room in the new building at the college.During his pastorate in Fuquay Springs Oral did what he had to do to build up the church. He preached everywhere he could. Including street corners and sometimes he put a loud speaker on top of his car and drove around playing records to attract attention. When a crowd gathered he would preach to them. He left the church in Fuquay to return to Oklahoma. Where he accepted a call to pastor a church in Shawnee. He stayed there three years. In which time the church membership grew from 42 to 95 and the yearly revenue grew from $1,700 to $8,700. When Oral arrived in Shawnee he immediately began broadcasting over two radio stations. Paying for the broadcasts out of his own pocket. By 1945 he was being paid $2,366 a year, the highest salary in the Eastern Oklahoma Conference.By the mid -1940’s Oral had changed his field of expertise to religious education. He began to view himself as a Sunday school expert. He attention was also captured by the establishment of a Pentecostal Holiness college in Oklahoma. Oral toured until the end of 1944 raising money for the new school. He resigned from the church in Shawnee to return to school and get a doctor’s degree. That idea was short lived when Oral agreed to be a pastor in North Georgia in the fall...
