{"id":2564,"date":"2014-03-24T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T03:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2014-03-24T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T03:54:49","slug":"a-cold-start-to-our-furlough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/2014\/03\/24\/a-cold-start-to-our-furlough\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cold Start to Our Furlough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After a few long days of travel, we are back in America!<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2567\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2014\/03\/IMG_6199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2567  \" title=\"IMG_6199\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2014\/03\/IMG_6199-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2014\/03\/IMG_6199-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2014\/03\/IMG_6199-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2014\/03\/IMG_6199-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2014\/03\/IMG_6199.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back Home!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We left PNG early on the morning of March 18 and after almost 24 hours of traveling, we arrived in Los Angeles on the afternoon of March 18 &#8211; a very long day!!\u00a0 After getting some sleep, we arrived in Pennsylvania the next day and were greeted at the airport by some of our family and friends from our home church.<\/p>\n<p>The day after we arrived back home, we woke up to freezing temperatures and snow on the ground!\u00a0 In addition to adjusting to the time difference, we were scrambling to find some warm clothes!\u00a0 Our boys (two of whom have only seen snow in pictures) were very excited and promptly went outside and made a little snowman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please pray for us as we continue to adjust to life in the U.S.<\/strong>\u00a0 It&#8217;s great to be back home and able to see family and friends, but there are adjustments we are facing as well.\u00a0 In the upcoming 10 months of our furlough, we look forward to visiting our supporting churches and connecting with more friends and family.\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t have internet in the tribe, so now that we are back we will be able to update our blog more often.\u00a0 Be sure to check back or <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe<\/a> for more news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for being with us on this journey of taking the Gospel to the Amdu people of Papua New Guinea!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few long days of travel, we are back in America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-ministry","category-praises","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}