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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By David Jasper / The Bulletin
August 30, 2009
When Meri Tracy was 5, she told her Sunday school teacher she would one day teach in Africa.
Then she grew up. Went to college. Got married.
In 1998, she became a teacher, too, at Crook County Christian School.
"(I) did the whole life thing and forgot about Africa," says Tracy, 34. The....