George Roller received his B.A. in English from the University of Illinois and his Master’s and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees from the University of Miami. He taught English for 35 years, serving as English Department Chairman for many of those years. He was awarded the Outstanding Teacher of the Year for Miami’s Region IV.
As an attorney, he practiced law in the Miami area for 25 years—concurrently with his teaching career. An elder in his church, he served as Missions Chairman for two years and led three missions trips to Ukraine. He was also a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Florida. George was involved with Evangelism Explosion for over 38 years—as a trainer and as an clinic instructor.
In 2003, George assumed a leadership position at the D. James Kennedy CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP in Washington, DC where he served as a missionary to the Members of the United States Congress for 12 as executive director and for 2 years as the ministry’s ambassador. After having retired from CCS, George took a two month sabbatical to write a book and has now returned to his missionary work on Capitol Hill as ambassador for Hope to the Hill and as ambassador for its parent ministry Hope Ministries International.
George has been married to Linda since 1973, and they have five children and twelve grandchildren.