Leaving England

With our Father's help, we officially graduated from the Cross-Cultural Communications Course on the 24th of July to complete our two years of training here in the U.K. It has been an amazing experience for us and we are especially grateful for the opportunity to have learned so much and to have met so many great friends from all over the world. It has been difficult to say goodbye, and we know that some friends we may never see again here on earth. Others we hope to see again in the future.

Here we are receiving our diplomas:



We were planning on leaving for the States soon after graduation, but due to expensive ticket prices during the summer season, we have had to wait until a later time when the prices drop. It's funny how our Father leads, as we now have had the opportunity to spend quality time with the people from the local community that we have become a part of here. We also have had more opportunities to reach out to those that we have built relationships with outside of our community.

We have had accommodations from various friends and have lived in town, going to the shops and market days, living the "real" British lifestyle.

Here, we're at the market where we buy the local produce as well as the meat from the local butcher:


Here's Jadynn after eating the local vegetables:


The town we stayed in was right on the Prime Meridian, so you could take one step from the Eastern Hemisphere to the Western Hemisphere!


We were invited to the nearby beach with our friends and Jadynn enjoyed eating sand with her British boyfriend:


Many of our friends have stopped in to say goodbye, here we are with a staff family from our training:


We hope to be a help to those around us as we spend our last weeks in the U.K., and we look forward to seeing you all soon back in the States as we continue to prepare for our future. Thank you for standing with us through our training and please be thinking about us as we consider where and how to best serve in the future with the gifts and training we have received.

All our love,
Jonathan, Robynn and Jadynn