THIS IS ALL ABOUT SAYING HELLO AND GOODBYE!
The missionary heartbreak is so many good friends and co-workers in so many places! We have to say good bye soooooo often!
This is a little mini album of the friends we had to say good bye to! Just a few of those who work in the fields of people God loves.
I have literally thousands of photos of our other friends, the national Kenyans, Ugandans, and Tanzanians who are the fruit of the ministries of those who choose to "GO!"
But this note today is just about the ones we labor together with, who have given up home country , families, and cultural comforts to work somewhere else, because Bob and I are so thankful to them all.
These are just a few of the friends who have prayed us through hard times,(stolen vehicles,compuers, and funds, ) rejoiced with us over victories, (3 heart attacks and cancer) and laughed uproariously along with us as we make blunders and mis-communications.
We commiserate over things we could have done better, times we could have tried harder, and times when we feel like we are getting nowhere!
These are some of our family of the field!
We see each other sporadically, Kyle and Laura work in northern Uganda, Dennis and Darlene work in Uganda and Canada, Phil and Starlene work in Kenya,(Nairobi to Garissa to Orma) , Donnie and Hughena work in Kenya (Lake Victoria) and Canada, and the McNeals? Well, you know about us, a little Tanzania, a bit more Uganda, and mostly Kenya.
We are thankful God has given us co labourers, and such dear ones! We help each other with natural stuff, like meals together, shared homes, airport carting and hauling, running errands, and so much more.
So, for anyone taking the time to look at this page, just know that we really need one another out here. And the good byes are never easy, even though the hellos! to our families in Canada and the States are awesome, we also have to say good bye to them.
GOODBYE, HELLO! this is the echo in our hearts, and it never gets easier, but it is little enough to pay for the awesome privilege of sharing God's message to a hurting world!
Come out sometime, and see the needs, they are vast and varied!
Who knows, you too might be called into the world of
Goodbye! -Hello!
Love and Blessings, Paulette and Bob
