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Stepping out!:
For some time Peter and Jan from Stanthorpe in Qld felt led to offer for some voluntary work in another country. In 2003 they "put their toe in the water" and worked for six weeks at the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, India. That experienced confirmed that India was where they would like to go if suitable positions became available.
So, in January 2007 they left for Hebron School in Ootacamund, in Southern India. This was to be their home for nearly six months while working there under the School's International Guest (IG) Program. (Hebron School is a boarding school which caters mainly for the children of missionary parents, providing an extremely high standard of education which ensures that the students are equipped to apply for any University in the world).
The IG Program involves mostly young people fresh out of High School or University but for them it was a "second wind" experience, coming out of retirement to participate. IGs normally assist in the classrooms, the dormitories and the sporting and musical programs but Peter and Jan were both given full-time jobs - Jan as a classroom teacher and Peter as the cashier in the Accounts Department - as well as being dorm parents for the last nine weeks of the school term. Most of all they were thrilled and excited to see how God was working in the lives of so many of the students and staff.
(They highly recommend the IG program for other second wind people.)
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