Leading up to November sweeps, WDAF Fox 4 is checking in with subjects of past stories. Reporter Tess Koppelman caught up with Robert Rogers, whose wife and four children died when a flash flood in Emporia, Kansas, washed their car off the road in August 2003. Rogers has been touring churches around the country ever since, spreading his message about living for today.
According to Koppleman's story, Rogers remarried three years ago and
now lives in Indiana with his new wife, Inga, and their two children.
Everyone grieves differently, sure, but there was a strange calmness in the way Rogers reacted to the loss of his family, even on the night they drowned.
In his 2004 story, "Walking on Water," former Pitch reporter Kendrick Blackwood took
a closer look at Rogers' soggy story. He tracked down emergency
responders at the scene and found that they were nagged by the
suspicion that, as the sole survivor, Rogers didn't try very hard to
save his wife and kids.
These days, Rogers tells Fox 4, he's using the proceeds from his ministry, his book sales
and his speaking engagements to one day fund five orphanages on five
continents in honor of the five members of his "heavenly family."
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I saw the same man speak at our church March 6, 2005 & got the exact opposite reaction. I have recently lost 3 family members. 1 from old age, the other a massive sudden stroke, and the other a homicide. You never know how you are going to react. With my 3 family members I reacted completely different with each one. Dont judge, after all it is only our fathers job to judge not us!
D. Smith
Good News Church
formerly known as Glad Tidings Church
Topeka, KS.
I watched in church as Rogers shared his story. I was a little troubled with his complete lack of emotion when sharing his story. So troubled that I searched on line for more info on Rogers. Only to find that first responders such as Mark Muccune the officer on the scene to first interview Rogers was even troubled with the calmness he showed while his family was being swallowed up by the river!
So should we all react to tragedies like johnson county housewives and cry and pray and hold candlelight vigils?
"Is this really what the Pitch has come to these days?"
This must be your first time reading the Pitch.
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