Exodus, Chapter 1

Today the first of many families/people left Tenwek for the US.
By August, five of the seven missionary families living here will have left for a year (at least)-long furlough. (Of course, there will be more coming back from the US to make up for that.)

But this afternoon, right after church, the exodus began.  One of the families is just going home for a few weeks for a family wedding, but there were two others leaving for an undetermined amount of time. (Both are hoping to return, but are not sure when.)

Most of them flying out tonight, so please keep them in your prayers, especially the two who are leaving more permanently.

The next group will be another family and me, heading out Thursday morning. A week or so after that, another family takes off. There will be a few months of relative stability before two more families leave later in the summer.

We have planned a pretend-everything -is-normal-and-no-one- is-missing party tonight to cheer ourselves up. We'll see if it works.

Have a happy Sunday! Hope your weather is as nice there as it is here. 

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