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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I\u2019ve managed to get out a grand total of TWO blog posts during our home assignment, and it was May before that, so let me try and get some of these thoughts out.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This is our very first home assignment, a sixth month leave from Papua New Guinea to have our daughter Lucy Mae; it\u2019s also for learning how to be a family of three, raising some more support, and to hopefully get some rest before jumping back into ministry.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A Christmas-y walk through Disney Springs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
It has been amazing to grow into a family of three\u2026 our \u201cmom and dad shoes\u201d so to speak. At first, it was terrifying and overwhelming. This little person invaded every aspect of our lives. Honestly, there was a certain amount of mourning our 7-year-long-pre-baby-life\u2026 But then, fueled by the grace of God and cups of coffee, we started growing. The nights weren\u2019t quite so long and anxiety-inducing; we didn\u2019t cry quite as often; and we found that with some intentional\u00a0\u201cnormal\u201d\u00a0we can still just be us. Suddenly, she became a part of us, and not an intruder. We\u2019re so thankful for our little coconut!<\/span><\/div>\n
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We\u2019ve reached the point in our furlough where we are homesick for PNG, for our ministries, for our friends, and our home. It\u2019s been good being in America\u00a0\u2014 there are people we love, not to mention fast internet, fast food, shopping, and anonymity\u00a0\u2014 but now we feel ready to get back to the everyday life God called us to.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Can you pray for us? We have a few prayer requests weighing on us right now.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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  • Travel costs:<\/i><\/b> we need about $4500 for tickets and baggage back to PNG.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Partners:<\/i><\/b> our cost-of-living has increased with the birth of Lucy Mae; we\u2019re looking for more partners.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Phones:<\/i><\/b> we both need new phones, since ours each have one foot in the technological grave; it\u2019s required to have working phones for our ministries.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Medical Bills:<\/i><\/b>\u00a0obviously, having a baby is costly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    We are continuing to make our travel arrangements in faith,\u00a0knowing that the Lord provides what we need when we need it (and not a moment sooner), but it is heavy on us, and rather\u00a0discouraging at times. BUT GOD. He is good and faithful. As our friend used to say:\u00a0\u201cGod owns the cattle on a thousand hills; but He only feeds us one hamburger at a time.”<\/span><\/div>\n

    Save<\/span>Save<\/span><\/p>\n

    Save<\/span>Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I\u2019ve managed to get out a grand total of TWO blog posts during our home assignment, and it was May before that, so let me try and get some of these thoughts out. This is our very first home assignment, a sixth month leave from Papua New Guinea to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1080,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[448,112097,3,1550,91613,91837,1196,112094,68449,85834,638,152,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-2007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-ethnos360aviation","9":"tag-family","10":"tag-furlough","11":"tag-josh-and-erin-verdonck","12":"tag-josh-verdonck","13":"tag-missionary-aviation","14":"tag-missionary-aviation-papua-new-guinea","15":"tag-missionary-aviation-png","16":"tag-missionary-life","17":"tag-papua-new-guinea","18":"tag-partnership-development","19":"tag-prayer","20":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/josh-verdonck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}