All joking aside, the excitement I have as I anticipate my first trip back to Tenwek in four and a half years is hard to describe. Just a year ago, I wasn't sure how this could happen. I thought God was paving my way back to Cleveland, pointing me toward a job that would be amazing, but wouldn't necessarily make it easy to re-engage in missions. Instead I sit on my couch tonight in Boston, with a last-minute miracle of a job that not only kept me in a city I had come to love as home, but gave me a boss who has been more supportive and encouraging of my desire to pursue international work than I could have ever imagined or hoped for. Every day I am grateful.
As I look toward Tenwek, I've kept in touch with enough friends to know that plenty has changed since the fall of 2008: I'm going to experience the learning curve all over again, and it will, in all likelihood, be exhausting and heartbreaking some days. But I'm also confident that it's still a place where the work of the cross is going on, that people I care about and miss are still laboring and loving there, and that being a part of the Tenwek community - even for the short term - is an incredible privilege.
I look forward to sharing it with you.
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