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Sherry
& Ken Roberts
16915 Fonthill Ave.
Torrance CA 90504
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 God
is great all of the time! If someone would have told us two
years ago that the Lord would call us to ministry work with
people in Africa, we would have said, "No way - we have
so much that we have to do here." But as we all know,
God has a system of fitting the pieces of life together in
ways that constantly amaze us.
We
are Sherry and Ken Roberts, disciples of the Lord Jesus and
servants of His plan in a new ministry, "Loving
One By One", working in Uganda, Africa. The story
of how we came to answer His call to this wonderful country
began a little over two years ago - a time when we were contently
working our respective jobs, a church administrative assistant,
and an experienced sound engineer.
 A
God-scheduled meeting with a singing group from Kampala ministering
at our church led us to fellowship with the group's members
and ultimately to assist in its establishment of the first
Christian Recording Studio in Kampala, Uganda. As an experienced
sound engineer, Ken was obedient to God's call to help with
the set-up of the studio, and we were off to Uganda. What
we experienced during that first visit to Kampala ignited
a fire that we soon recognized as God's direction for our
lives.
The
needs of children and families in Uganda were more than we
could imagine. Lack of education, poverty, disease, poor hygiene,
lack of water, and the omission of so many other basic needs
became so horrifically real as we experienced them in the
eyes of beautiful children, refugees from war-torn northern
Uganda and Sudan who were now ostracized in Uganda's capital
city, Kampala. Obviously God was calling us to act - to continue
a ministry that I, Sherry, had not seriously considered until
now.
 My
mom, now 83, has been instrumental in fund raising efforts
which led to the building of 167 churches as well as orphanages,
parsonages, and water wells all over the world. God's command
was becoming more and more clear to us - we had to do something
to relieve the suffering of refugee children in Uganda. If
we could help only one child to have a better life and to
know the love of Jesus, then we would be obedient to the Lord's
will for our lives.
 Ken
and I are so excited to introduce you to "Loving
One By One," birthed soon after this first trip
to Uganda - a ministry based on the word of our Lord Jesus
as recorded by Matthew, "I assure you, when you did it
to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you
were doing it to Me." Our efforts focus on providing
education, as well as basic physical, spiritual, and medical
needs to refugee children and their families.
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