saying goodbye

                                              goodbye to students at Eden

                                       goodbye to Iris a former student and fellow dancer all the way back from 2006

                                           goodbye to dear Teresa who has been a huge part of our lives in KM

                                          last minute cooking lessons from Xiao Li. Oh how I miss her!!

                                            dear friends and encouragers

                                             Gillian

                                             our daily lives-lunch with Xiao Li and our beautiful spring city

Our dear friend Mary's adorable nieces

The weeks leading up to our June 9th departure from Kunming to Shenzhen were a mad flurry of packing, mothering, team leading, and most painfully, saying goodbye. God blessed us so richly in Kunming with dear friends and it was very hard to to leave them. But as the saying goes, "I would rather have loved and lost than to have never loved at all."