Moments ago a missionary couple came to collect some visual aid left by another colleague. They are going to stand in for the missionary on leave, running a course in empowering a village community to make their own decisions on literacy work.
The missionary on leave went back to take care of her father with Alzeimer's. I really sympathize with that as I see how my cousin struggles with the care of her mum. This couple who just left said that they are going on furlough in June. The convention is four years in the field, one year home on furlough. If they decide to come back, it would make a lot of sense to find a few tenants to live in their present rented house for the year that they will be away. Otherwise it would mean that they have to find an alternate site to place their household goods in storage for one year.
Next to pastor's kids, missionary kids are the one group of people that grew up with periodic upheavals throughout their childhood. Yet I have met a Swiss couple from Bern and Zurich respectively, and their daughter who married an American. All four of them are missionaries, the senior couple have been in South East Asia for most of their lives. The junior couple so far have served in different parts of Asia.
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