August 17 was my last day of work at the Children's Library. As I mentioned earlier, I was sad to leave my job, even though I'm really excited about our adventure. Amy and Jenny (amazing and talented ladies) made me this incredible scrapbook as a going-away present, and now I have pictures of the kids and the staff and notes of encouragement and contact information, so I can keep in touch with people in Scranton!
Yesterday my parents were gracious enough to host a going-away party for us for people in Center Moreland. It was great to see everyone and to be able to spend a little extra time with them. The Center Moreland UMC has a covenant relationship with one of the churches in the Red Bird Missionary Conference (of which Henderson Settlement is a part), so our choice of Henderson has something to do with that history, and it'll mean more to the church, too, that we're in a place that they're already familiar with.
One last thing: our departure date has changed slightly. Dejuana from Henderson called this morning and said that there was a group of volunteers that had requested use of the Zoochi House a year ago, and she asked if we could push our arrival date back to September 29 (a difference of only three days). Actually, this will probably be even better--we won't be arriving there in the middle of a week, and we'll probably have a day or two to rest before we dive into working!
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