Transition

After two weeks of medical tests in Bangkok, Nancy's breast cancer was confirmed and the decision was made to return to the United States for treatment. It has been a very difficult two weeks in ways that would take a long chapter or two to tell.

Plans seem to change every morning we wake up and check our email, but at this point we're aiming to go back to Hanoi, pack up a few things, and then travel to Greenville, SC . We'll spend the next several months there as Nancy goes through surgery and follow up treatment. I didn't expect to be watching the Super Bowl in the US this year.

Nor was I expecting to be away from teaching for the spring semester. What happens when two team leaders are unexpectedly sidelined and have to withdraw from a program where they're supposed to be mentoring three new teachers?

Provision happens.

A few weeks before Nancy even noticed anything was wrong, a friend of ours in Ohio, who has had years of experience as a team leader with the China Teaching Fellowship, was feeling led to return to Asia. The CTF Program Director and our VN Country Director contacted her and she agreed to come to Hanoi and take our place. This is another reminder, as bad as all this has been, that it was not unexpected by the one who wrote all of our days in His book before one of them came to be.