No butterfly is born with wings — and few would guess that a caterpillar would one day be reborn as a beautiful creature with coloured wings proclaiming the glory of God.

None of our Starfish Asia schools looked very promising when we began to support them. In fact, some were failing and about to close. But they were led and run by men and women with a vision for change — and a passion to serve their own Christian community. In this issue we celebrate several whose projects started life looking like a hungry caterpillar — yet now are being trans- formed into something like a glorious butterfly. Many others are still in the chrysalis stage.