Bongolo Kids

This is a picture of the Bongolo kids when I was a kid, around 1985.  All the kids in the photo were missionaries' kids.

Here is a picture of the kids who live on the Bongolo mission station as of 2012.  Most of these kids are the children of residents who are training in surgery down at the Bongolo Hospital.  They speak French and attend the local national school in Bongolo.  Luke and Sarah are the only missionaries'  kids in the picture.  They are home schooled by their mother (bottom right in the picture) and myself.  Bongolo has really changed since I grew up here, and I think the change is a healthy one.