E. Kent Rogers graduated from Bryn Athyn College with a BA in religion in 1995, and he earned an MS in mental health counseling from the University of Massachusetts in 2012. A series of events coinciding with a powerful spiritual experience led him, with the help of others, to create the Loving Arms Mission, a not-for-profit fundraising organization dedicated to creating and supporting New Life Children's Homes in Nepal. In 1999, Kent moved to Nepal to set up the first home, intending to return to the United States after three years. However, while caring for the home's ten children, he met Shovha Budhathoki, a Nepali coworker. In 2002, they married and decided to become permanent parents to those ten children, in addition to Shovha's daughter from a previous marriage. They went on to have two biological children of their own. After the children from the orphanage all became successfully launched adults, Shovha and Kent moved in 2016 to Willow Grove, PA. Kent has worked as a psychotherapist and teacher. He is also the author of 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth.