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Danielle Bean

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Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea: Musings of a Catholic Mom (Pauline 2005) and Mom to Mom, Day to Day: Advice and Support for Catholic Living (Pauline 2007). Though she once struggled to separate her life …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and together they are the parents of five lively boys. Besides being a mom, she is also a writer and a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has maintained her personal blog at Testosterhome.net where she …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

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Robyn Lee is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law …
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Hallie Lord

Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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Sara Fox Peterson

Sara Fox Peterson
Sara Fox Peterson is the wife of one wonderful man who was (finally!) baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in 2008 and together they are the parents of four young children. She holds and B.S. in biology and an M.S. in human physiology, both from Georgetown University, and has been …
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How Tithing Saved A ‘Lost Boy’

"miracles started happening at a rate that would scare us"

You may know the story of Lopez Lomong, the champion runner whose Olympic teammates elected him flagbearer for the U.S. Olympic team in Beijing. He was one of Sudan’s “Lost Boys,” abducted by guerillas in the middle of Mass one morning when he was six years old. His captors intended to make him a child soldier, but he and two friends escaped from prison camp through a hole in a fence and fled to Kenya on the backs of some older boys.

His is a marvelous story, but equally impressive are the foster parents who took him in. Barbara & Robert Rogers responded to a notice in their parish bulletin about the Lost Boys, and Lomong was only the first of six such young men they ended up fostering (two years previously they’d taken in an entire family of refugees from Kosovo for a time, and they were known in their parish for generosity to priests and religious).

They weren’t always so generous, however; their journey to more serious faith began with a business failure and massive debt. Listening to Christian radio inspired them to begin tithing—first their income and then, when they saw how that was blessed, their time and effort, too. Read their story and see a delightful interview with them about their most famous foster child at the link. (And here’s the current track and field schedule so we can cheer Lopez on when he runs the 1500 meters.)


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What a wonderful testament to the power of trusting in God and sharing His love.  On a more personal note, I was happy to read that the boys refer to the Rogers as Mom and Dad and don’t feel as though having white parents was a detriment.  My husband, daughter and I are white and our son is black.  While I know he will likely encounter racism at some points in his life I believe that being well grounded and sure in the knowledge of his worth as a child of God and beloved son of ours that he will have a firm footing to withstand others’ fear and ignorance.

 

It always nice to hear a story like this one.  I pray that the Rogers family will continue to be blessed.

 

Thank you for writing about this, I wasn’t aware of any of it.

 

i hope usa will win the Beijing 2008 Olympic Medal Tally Latest Update

 

A little update: Lomong advanced today to the semi-finals (to be held Sunday).


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