{"id":898,"date":"2021-04-02T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2021-04-02T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:23:07","slug":"leaving-kenya-lord-willing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Kenya (Lord willing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/04\/Check_List_lr-500x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Check_List_lr-500x236.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Check_List_lr-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Check_List_lr-768x363.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Check_List_lr.jpg 1343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a few hours I head to the airport to start my journey home. I am trusting and praying that I have completed all the COVID formalities (negative test, Africa CDC QR code, UK form, etc&#8230;) and will be allowed to board.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving Kenya is bittersweet. I am excited to soon be reunited with my family. At the same time, I am disappointed that I was not able to teach, that I had to leave my Kenyan friends and colleagues early, along with that I am leaving some projects uncompleted.<\/p>\n<p>Once in the USA, I will quarantine. \u00a0Kenya is a pretty hot spot for COVID right now and I do not want to be the one who brings a new strain to the States.<\/p>\n<p>A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the course change costs. I will not know all the costs until I actually make it home, but it looks like the contributions are going to cover everything.<\/p>\n<p>Praise God with me that I am headed home and for God&#8217;s gracious provision for the costs. Pray for Kenya and those I am leaving. Ask for God&#8217;s help with all the COVID formalities. Finally pray for my family and me as I quarantine; we will be so close but still separated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few hours I head to the airport to start my journey home. I am trusting and praying that I have completed all the COVID formalities (negative test, Africa CDC QR code, UK form, etc&#8230;) and will be allowed to board. Leaving Kenya is bittersweet. I am excited to soon be reunited with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}