Carol (Nerge) Gurung graduated from Oak Grove in 1976. A co-valedictorian, Carol graduated from Concordia College in 1980. She returned to Oak Grove to teach home economics and family life for one year before attending Holsby Bible School in Sweden. Carol was a Bible courier to the former Soviet Union and other communist countries in Eastern Europe before being called to Nepal as a missionary in 1984. She was involved in community development in remote areas, served as a cross-cultural communication teacher, wrote Nepalese Sunday school materials, taught English as a Norwegian mission school and taught junior high science at Katmandu International Study Center and at a Nepalese Christian School.