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Published on: 12-22-2020
On March 22, 2020, the last Maranatha volunteers in the international mission field left the country of Côte d’Ivoire as the COVID-19 pandemic halted travel. In early December, a small group of volunteers landed in Côte d’Ivoire for Maranatha’s first international project in nearly nine months.
For Maranatha volunteer and board member Peter Thomas, who goes on multiple mission trips each year, the experience couldn’t have come soon enough. “I kept telling people that I had grass growing between my toes here at home,” Thomas said. “We had been staying at home, we’ve been locked down, and we finally went. The experience was really good — the airplanes are spotless now, everyone was socially distanced at the airports. The travel is very safe.”