Lorella Rouster
Lorella Rouster is an American author, Christian educator, missionary and activist, co-founder of Every Child Ministries. She has published hundreds of articles on Christian education, Bible and science, child trafficking and slavery, and Islamic terrorism and supremacism and is a frequent speaker and internet contributor on these topics.
Life Work
Rouster worked as a public school teacher of English and journalism and as a freelance writer and area news correspondent before becoming a missionary with her husband in 1981 to DR Congo (then Zaire). In 1985 she and her husband John founded Every Child Ministries. She served that organization as Director of Teacher Training, missionary, and International-Co-Director for 30 years and initiated projects to street children, children in ritual servitude, children affected by war, and children with albinism, as well as Bible teaching in schools and an albinism awareness program for schools. On January 1, 2015, Mark Luckey became International Director succeeding the Rousters, and Lorella continues to serve as missionary consultant, project advisor on child trafficking and slavery, and communications specialist. [1]
Publications
Rouster’s publications include “Jonah, Don’t You Care?” CEF Press, 1979; Sunday School: Teaching Children, ECM Publ., 1985; Ritual Servitude—Everyone’s Problem, ECM Publ., 2012; and Anti-Slavery Activism 101, ECM Publ., 2013. Her book, Sunday School: Teaching Children went through several revisions and has been published in seven languages.[2]
Education
Rouster has earned a M.R.E. from Covington Theological Seminary and B.A. from Tri-State University (now Trine University), also having attended Moody Bible Institute, Jackson Community College, and Indiana University. She is also certified Christian counselor with National Christian Counselor’s Association and holds ministerial credentials with the National Conservative Christian Church.
References- ↑ African Jewels, Every Child Ministries, January 2015.
- ↑ Interview with Lorella Rouster, March, 2015
External Links
www.ecmafrica.org
www.moderndayabolitionist.blogspot.com
www.mamalorella.blogspot.com
