What Have We Accomplished?

We have come to the end of our year. It has been both an honor and a privilege to work with the wonderful faculty, staff, and kids of Rising Star Outreach and Peery Matriculation School for Rising Stars. Gordon has served as school principal and school director. Vickie has served as hostel warden, medical clinic aide, and assistant to the doctors for our leprosy colony medical outreach. Let us share these last few photos and some thoughts about our year.

What have we accomplished? We taught and learned and held nighttime homework sessions in the cool outdoors.




We hosted families for Parents Day on the first Saturday of each month.


We provided medical care, even when there was no electricity.

We played together, especially cricket and football.

We ate together.

We got to know and love our village neighbors.

We made many wonderful friends of all sizes.

And we learned to work together.

So now it's time to say goodbye. Vickie and I will go back to America and the kids will go home to their parents and grandparents to enjoy a holiday and prepare for another school year. It has been good. Perhaps we have done something useful. We hope so.

We love you, Rising Stars.