February 6, Day 4: Two Traditional Activities

There are two activities that our teams do every year at Holy Cross: touching base with the Holy Cross graduates we've supported through high school, and adding new team members' names to our wall in the cafeteria. Walking around the school, it's easy to spot 25 or 30 of these murals noting mission trips to Holy Cross from congregations in many states and countries.

Our current St. Luke's student Leticia - a freshman at San Pedro High School - came by Holy Cross to drop off her report card and to see our team. The report card is outstanding: a legitimate GPA of 3.78, with no Honors, AP, etc. classes to contribute numbers greater than 4. Leticia herself has grown and matured so much in the 12 months since we last saw her: in height alone (based on our height and weight data from last year) she has grown more than 2 inches. St. Luke's will be supporting Leticia for three more years in high school.

We have also made arrangements to visit with our previous St. Luke's student Kevin. After four years of support from St. Luke's, Kevin graduated from San Pedro High School last June. We heard that he is working a fulltime job during the day, while also taking night classes as the high school working towards something roughly equivalent to a junior college degree.

Our other activity is adding new names to our wall display. Since other congregations send members to Holy Cross as part of our teams, our display shows St. Luke's in the center and the other congregations alongside it. 

Janet added her name to the list for Trinity Episcopal Church in Mt. Airy, doubling the length of the list. This is the third year that WendyT has joined us from Mt. Airy.

While Doug had been to Holy Cross on an earlier St. Luke's trip, it was before we started recording team members' names on the wall. So he added his name this year.

As a true first-timer, Mary added her name to the wall as well.