The past two days we've been wrapping up until next time: making to-do lists, report ideas, listing memories, buying a few little gifts, and a final snorkel, our moment of heaven on earth at Plage PK18.  My sister, a flight attendant for United Airlines worked the trip down here Tuesday night and joined us yesterday and today. We gave her our whirlwind tour of the island, all the while talking through the whole Christian missionary scene in Tahiti.  It was quite wonderful.

Siblings on the Bridge at Trois Cascades, Tahiti

Late tonight we take the redeye flight from Papeete to San Francisco, and thence home to Denver tomorrow afternoon.  I was remembering departure day from this past July, when I was more than a little sad, thinking it might be the last time I see the island.  Not so this time around.  It's been a good day full of eagerness to return and confidence about the Lord's work through us here.  There are more than a handful of opportunities waiting to blossom into significant avenues of service in the Great Commission.  Best of all, these opportunities are in the form of relationships with people we enjoy, love, and respect in the Lord.