Getting Schooled (Monday, October 3, 2011)
About 19.1 years ago, Brian and I went to Nigeria for a year, filling in first for the business manager of Hillcrest School for 6 months, then filling in for the business manager for the CRC's mission office there for 6 months. We absolutely loved spending that time there. We loved the staff at the school, but most of all we loved the kids at the school. Particularly we loved the kids at that school who were with our mission, because we got to know them best of all. The Schras, while we visit with them in Vienna, have been gracious listeners to all our old stories that are still vivid in our minds after all these years. Those memories were even more vivid after visiting the International Christian School of Vienna, where we got a better feel for the school where Jeffrey and Lisa are working. ICSV is a small but robust school, adding students every year, and those students hail from countries around the world. It has all the wonderful attributes of Hillcrest: a Christian education...