Apr 272 minAssisting Another Priestly Ordination(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...
Dec 31, 20212 min“ASK AN YOU SHALL RECEIVE, SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND, KNOCK AND THE DOOR WILL BE OPENED”(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...
Dec 21, 20213 minNew African Seminarians(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...
Dec 18, 20212 minHelping a Family & House Needing Attention!(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...
Nov 26, 20213 minSt. Charles Nursery Water Project(2021) ROTA received a request for assistance from Rev. Fr. Joseph Kasangaki of Masaka Diocese in Uganda. The request was approved and...
Oct 16, 20211 minPhase III: Floor Two(2021) ROTA has had much success with our partners in the Mission Diocese of Masaka Uganda. Through our investment dollars we have...
Oct 7, 20212 minHelping To Sing God's Praises(2021) Newly ordained Fr. Denning Achidi brought us a request from some of his acquaintances in Cameroon. He requested our support for a...
Oct 2, 20211 minA Piggery Project Indeed!(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...
Sep 27, 20211 min"Let There Be Light" And then There Was Light!(2021) When ROTA had majorly completed the building project of the Medical Clinic in the Village of Koiyom, South Sudan, it was still...
Sep 27, 20211 minTwo Are Called & Ordained(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...
Sep 26, 20212 minChildren Helping Children(2020) While on our African travels, our delegation had the opportunity to visit the school that benefited from collected fundraising...
Sep 26, 20212 minPhase II Building Project Completed(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...
Sep 26, 20211 minRejoicing In Two Vocations(2019) In June of 2018, Denning Batcha Achidi, originally from Cameroon, West Africa, who lived with us at St. Lawrence before his...
Sep 25, 20211 minROTA & FSSB Join Hands(2019) In 2011 at our ROTA Advisory Board had the opportunity to meet Sr. Paschalia Nyeura from Tanzania. She had been in Buffalo for...
Sep 25, 20211 minLocal African Family Burned Out Of Their Home(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...
Sep 25, 20213 minFormer “LOST BOY” Now A Priest Of Wau, South Sudan (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...
Sep 25, 20211 minMedicine Store Expanding For Yet More Service to Many(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...
Sep 25, 20211 minYouth Futbol In Khartoum(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...
Sep 25, 20211 minROTA To The Rescue(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...
Sep 24, 20212 minA New Priest For War Torn Torit(2018) Who would have thought that a Kenyan assistant to Bishop Paride Taban would respond “Yes” when Bishop Taban asked him to consider...