In her message, she stated to the women to come together and help the orphans, needy children and widows in Owens Grove because she believes in unity and prayer, they can stand. While in Liberia Lucy met with Mr. & Mrs. Alex Clarke, the founded of Children’s Rescue Center in Mount Barclay, Liberia. It was during this time Mr. & Mrs. Clark decided to relocate to Monrovia because they had lost everything including the houses on the campus, caused by the civil war. Lucy and the Clarke family decided to work together to help orphan and abounded children in Liberia from county to county. Upon returning home to the United States, Lucy reported her experience in Liberia, to her Pastor Ray Hampton of Trinity Christian Church the lives of the people in her country and the terrible living condition her people were going through.
Pastor Ray Hampton, after receiving the report of Lucy, decided to travel to Liberia with Lucy in December 1999 to witness 1st hand the condition of the children and the women Group. While in Liberia Ray Hampton was touch by the sufferings and living condition of these children decided to work with Lucy to help the children and the widows. Lucy Roberts and Ray Hampton decided to raise funds through donations, gifts, and prayerful support for the children and caregivers through networking with churches in the United State, principally through Trinity Christian Church in Texas. During this process two dormitories and a church were built in mount Barclay for the children.
In 2001, Ray Hampton launched a new church in North Richland Hills Texas, the Christ Family Outreach in which Lucy L. Roberts were the Mission director. The new church became the primary benefactor of the ministry in Liberia and the second orphanage was established in Grand Bassa County, Compound #1. The Founder of Children’s Rescue Center donated three acres of land to Christ Family Outreach Church for the continuation of the orphanages. As the result of the significant task of raising funds to provide for the Orphans and widows in Liberia a decision was made to incorporate a separate ministry with that task as its specific purpose. Out of this decision grew the ministry and the name of the ministry was change from Children’s Rescue Center to Children’s Rescue Outreach International (CROI). On December 29, 2004 the ministry was accredited by the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs of the Republic of Liberia as a recognized Non-profit/non-governmental Ministry.
In 2005, after the death of the founder of Children’s Rescue Center, Mr. and Mrs. Clark, their family decided to take over the Mount Barclay orphanage; they decided to change the name back to Children’s Rescue Center in Liberia.
Presently, Children’s Rescue Outreach International (CROI) did published five acres of land in Grand Bassa County, Compound #1. (CROI) built two dormitories for girls and boys, a temporary school and a church by Christ Family Outreach in Texas, U.S.A.