{"id":651,"date":"2010-05-30T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2010-05-30T14:29:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T21:29:45","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jon Post<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019re back in Maputo. It is so good to be here. We were married in June of 2008 and since then we\u2019ve been in someone else\u2019s house or in a hotel or in a tent. Tomorrow\u2026 for the first time\u2026 we have a home. We can finally<\/em> unpack our bags. We have an address and a residence that\u2019s not on wheels (we\u2019ve mostly been living out of our Land Cruiser for nearly 6 months now).<\/p>\n

We have a home.<\/p>\n

We went back to the hospital on Friday. It felt good. The peeling paint, the smells, the cold concrete floors, all of it so familiar and so packed with emotions. Memories of intimate moments flooded back to us as we hugged familiar faces and kissed new ones on the cheek in greeting.<\/p>\n

We have a home.<\/p>\n

We bought a couch, a table, a refrigerator, a bed\u2026<\/p>\n

We have a home.<\/p>\n

Maputo isn\u2019t what we had in mind when we first set out on this journey. We went to Angola back in 2008 to see a country we hoped to live in. We saw that we needed to learn Portuguese so we went to Portugal in 2009 to learn it. We met missionaries Arem\u00e9nio and Elizabeth Anjos there who introduced us to Jorge and Alice Pratas, missionaries to Mozambique. We came to Maputo at the end of 2009 to keep up with our Portuguese as we awaited God\u2019s timing for a move to Angola. And here\u2026 in Maputo\u2026 God whispered \u201chere is your home.\u201d<\/p>\n

We have a home.<\/p>\n

Our journey has been long both in time and in distance. In the last 5 months we\u2019ve driven more than 6000 miles and lived in 5 different countries.<\/p>\n

We have a home.<\/p>\n

Rejoice with us dear friends and family. We are planted and we are pursuing long-term ministry with kindred spirits whose heart for loving and serving people is nearly identical to our own.<\/p>\n

We are here.<\/p>\n

\"Done<\/a>

Done Traveling For Now<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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