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(2022) In early March we received an inquiry from a young man in Cameroon, West Africa. He had been ordained a Transitional Deacon in the...

(2021) In our ministry at ROTA, this little line from the Gospel of Matthew 7:7 is lived out with each new mission project. Just at the...

(2021) Over the years ROTA has had the pleasure of assisting in the support of several African young men who had been studying for the...

(2021) One of our area African families experienced the tragedy of the sudden death of the forty-five year old father of the family. They...

(2021) ROTA received a request for assistance from Rev. Fr. Joseph Kasangaki of Masaka Diocese in Uganda. The request was approved and...

(2021) ROTA has had much success with our partners in the Mission Diocese of Masaka Uganda. Through our investment dollars we have...

(2021) Newly ordained Fr. Denning Achidi brought us a request from some of his acquaintances in Cameroon. He requested our support for a...

(2020) We first met Fr. Joseph Kasangaki when he was an associate Pastor of a parish community. Soon after we met him he was appointed...

(2021) When ROTA had majorly completed the building project of the Medical Clinic in the Village of Koiyom, South Sudan, it was still...

(2020) There is nothing to compare to the joy of making a journey with one of our African Sons as they dedicate their lives to Ministry...

(2020) While on our African travels, our delegation had the opportunity to visit the school that benefited from collected fundraising...

(2020) Back in 2012, a group of four Western New Yorkers traveled to the Diocese of Masaka, Uganda,, in order to witness the blessing and...

(2019) In June of 2018, Denning Batcha Achidi, originally from Cameroon, West Africa, who lived with us at St. Lawrence before his...

(2019) In 2011 at our ROTA Advisory Board had the opportunity to meet Sr. Paschalia Nyeura from Tanzania. She had been in Buffalo for...

(2019) One of our local refugee families were the unfortunate victim of an early morning fire that quickly engulfed a 2 1/2-story house...

(2019) At the end of last summer ROTA was blessed to finally meet Abuna (Father) Kuol Dut, one of the former “Lost Boys of the Sudan” who...

(2019) It was only in 2012 that four of us from Buffalo made the journey to Masaka Uganda to attend the dedication of the Kitovu Medicine...

(2018) Only a few short months ago Jenaro Aken made a journey back to his birth home of Khartoum, Sudan. Along with many celebrations of...

(2018) When Fr. Joseph, the head of Communication of the Diocese of Masaka, Uganda had a terrible car accident he put his car into the...

(2018) Who would have thought that a Kenyan assistant to Bishop Paride Taban would respond “Yes” when Bishop Taban asked him to consider...