Heartbeat banquet to feature pro-life speaker
Rogers to discuss life, tragedy and faith
McALISTERVILLE — Robert Rogers is pro-life.
He believes in cherishing life at all stages.
Rogers also realizes how loss of life can be devastating and life-changing.
In 2003, he was in a car accident with his wife and four young children in Kansas following catastrophic flooding. He was the lone survivor.
His entire family was gone in an instant.
Rogers, who resides in Fort Wayne, Ind., is the guest speaker this year at the Heartbeat Community Services Banquet, set for 6 p.m. Oct. 28, at Bunkertown Church of the Brethren.
Registration is due by Oct. 20. Cost is $20. Guests who are 19 years old and younger may attend for free but must be registered. Send reservations to Heartbeat Community Services Inc., P.O. Box 25, Millerstown, PA 17062.
Heartbeat Community Services offers free services as alternatives to abortion. Confidential counseling by trained volunteers, free pregnancy test kits, maternity clothes, baby clothes and supplies are available to anyone presenting need. Services also include prenatal and childbirth education information, school and community resources on chastity, pro-life issues and related topics.
Rogers said he and his wife had endured three miscarriages early in their marriage.
“I held a five-inch baby boy in my hands,” Rogers said.
The loss of his family all those years later, he said, helped put life into perspective even more.
Rogers said he clung to his Christian faith in the hours, days and weeks following the tragedy. The first time he shared of his faith was at a police press conference about the accident. His words of encouragement, hope and scripture, he said, “just poured out.”
Since then, Rogers has taken his message of hope to various locations. He speaks 80 times per year and has shared his story 1,100 times.
Rogers said he hopes to encourage people who attend the Heartbeat Banquet to “know God intimately and personally,” and to “live a life of no regrets.”
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