You're Invited!!


Please Join Us on the Rogers' Friend & Family Trip!! 
Come serve with us in the Dominican Republic July 17-24th as we work alongside local leaders to redeem people, renew communities and restore Creation! 
 
We will be celebrating Vicki's 11th year with the ministry and Jeff's 10th with any of you that care to join us. For those of you who have never been, experience our ministry first hand and serve alongside of us. For those that haven't been in a while, please come back with us!

The focus of the trip will be helping to construct the G.O. Medical Center, serve children in our nutrition centers, children's ministry and more!

Cost for the trip is $950+airfare.

If you are interested in this trip please email Vicki

We need final commitments no later than March 26th. We would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see you there!!

One Miracle to Another

Scars cover his body from unsuccessful surgeries.  But two scars in particular take this mom to my knees.  He showed me during his last hospital stay.  One on his hand and one on his shoulder.  With his timid smile he told me it was from biting.  His mom further explained that his pain is so intense that he bites himself to endure it until it passes. 
Today, about 20 people gathered around this little boy with the courage of a lion.   Even facing the biggest surgery of his life, his smile brightened the room and the spirits of everyone around him.  He has a way of doing that.  Of capturing your heart with his smile.  Of breaking your heart with the suffering he’s endured in his short nine years of life. 
We prayed for Wilson’s healing.  We prayed for peace for his faithful mom, Tatiana, who has been a warrior for her son.  Who was so willing to put her 9-year-old son on a plane and send him to a foreign land with a foreign language to live with a family she did not know in the care of doctors to save his life.  By the grace of God, she was able to come with him, however, she painfully left two children behind with her mother.  Hope in the face of despair.  Determination in the face of suffering.

Today, at 8:00am two surgeons will begin restoring his broken body.  In a scheduled six hour surgery they will be repairing Wilson's urethra and the fistula using tissue from the inside of his mouth. In addition, they will be reconstructing the anus, rectum and the colon.  It’s a huge feat for such a little boy.  Over the weekend he began asking his mother difficult questions about his mortality. 
After several people prayed today and the pastor began thanking everyone for coming, my 6-year-old Sophi spoke up and said she wanted to pray.  She put her little hand on her friend Wilson and asked the same God that restored her 2 pound body that had holes in her heart, spots on her brain from a brain bleed, multiple blood transfusions, a bad staph infection, and 61 days in the NICU where she teetered back and forth between life and death.  She spoke boldly to the God who held her when I couldn’t and asked Him to heal Wilson too.  She prayed that he wouldn’t be scared.  She prayed that he would be wisdom, peace and light in the world.  And with that, our little miracle said amen. 
Today, we pray for another miracle for Wilson with the same boldness that Sophi prayed.  Please join us.

Red Beans, Rice & Gingerbread with Wilson


We were blessed to host Tatiana and Wilson at our home for a day during Christmas break.  The girls got to play with Wilson while we treated them to a Roger’s style red beans an coconut rice.  Wilson was not a fan of the coconut rice but enjoyed the beans well enough. 




After dinner they settled in around the table and constructed gingerbread houses.  A good time was had by all.  We’re so grateful for the opportunity to share with them as they await what we all pray will be life enhancing treatment from Kosair Children’s Hospital. portunity is to sign up for a 15 minute period during the day of his surgery. We would like to cover the surgery in prayer, for Wilson, his recovery, his family and his country. Please take this opportunity to sign up for a time using this link: https://www.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UUc5RFlZNWo4VVVXfGRlZmF1bHR8MzJlNTE2ZTA3ZjQ0YjExYmZjMDVjMzU4Y2UyZWYwY2M
Please ask those who you know that have been following Wilson's journey to consider committing to signing up for a time to support Wilson in this way.


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One Dollar


I was passing the hospital where all my girls were born and thanking God for His amazing provisions of giving life to each of them when our van sounded like it needed a trip to intensive care.  It eventually started purring again and I settled back into daydreaming until I got home and told Jeff about the episode.  The next day, she started coughing again, this time with a massive fever that ended with Jeff and Ella being stranded on the side of the road.  Thankfully, Dave Vogt, a great friend and longtime supporter just happened to be driving by, and rescued them.   Another good friend, supporter and mechanic took a look at it and gave us the bad news.  Our faithful companion was gone.  Engine blown, no chance of revival, destination…junk yard. 
 Our Dead Venture

We borrowed a car from Jeff’s parents and began praying for another car.  Old faithful had been paid off for years and we didn’t have the money for another car.  However, over the years we’ve certainly learned that God supplies all of our needs according to his riches.  He has this way of showing off.  Just flexing His muscles and charming Creation to remind us who He is and who we are in Him.  He tells us not to worry about what we shall eat or drink or wear.  We figured He meant what we should drive as well so without a worry (seriously, this was a victory learned over time), we put it to prayer.
My best friend and longtime supporter of our ministry called me asking for prayer because she was discontent.  Now this sister is typically not discontent, especially when it comes to material things.  She saw a van (the day before ours blew up) and couldn’t get it out of her mind.  She wanted it and was even dreaming about it.  She was frustrated because her van was perfectly fine.  But man, she wanted this new van.  I prayed with her about it and somewhere in our conversation I mentioned our van. 
I didn’t think much about the conversation until Jeff and I were sitting at a leadership conference where the speaker was talking about being generous leaders.  My phone beeped with a text message and I admittedly and possibly even rudely checked it during the session.  It read, “We would love to give you our car once we have bought another one – if you want it, that is…we love you, friend!”  I tearfully passed it over to Jeff who smiled and choked back tears.  Seriously, a big show off our God is!  We were so grateful (Jeff’s parents may have been more grateful because they would get their car back! J).  We were floored even more as I thought they were talking about their older car.  She later clarified it was their family van.  Wow, humbled.  I felt like one of the silly disciples who cast my net over the boat with low expectations only to be overwhelmed with a net so bountiful I could not pull it in.
So, with God’s provision, our friends’ faithfulness, and $1, we now are owners of a van that the girls say is a racecar and draw it with flames coming out of the back (I think that may be because of the way daddy drives it J).  Today, if you’re burdened by what you should eat, drink, or wear, or maybe how you will pay that bill, let me encourage you to turn to the One who owns all the cattle on a thousand hills.  He is faithful and He loves to show off!

Our Living Voyager!

And for each of you out there that support our ministry financially and through prayers serving vicariously through us, you continue to be a regular means of how God shows off his faithfulness to us and we thank you and Him for that!