Today was our day to meet with Bishop Cutting, the Bishop of Agra. The only problem was that while we had set a date, we didn't set a time and we didn't know how to get in touch with him. But we are in India and somebody knows somebody and it turns out that the young man at the travel desk of the hotel went to a CNI school and Bishop Cutting used to visit there all the time. So not only did he know who Bishop Cutting was, he knew how to get in touch with him. We got in touch with the Bishop and went over to his house.
The meeting was very interesting. We talked about Etah and the Prentiss Girls School and ideas of what we could possibly do to help. One piece of information that was new to us was that the hostel had closed in the girls school, making it difficult for children from outlying villages to attend. We talked about the idea of perhaps doing some microfinance arrangement to get a van or bus to bring children in from the villages. The bishop likes the idea, so we'll discuss it with the people in Etah.
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