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[…]were catching up with the crew. Memories of home grew rosier as the weeks dragged by. Modern-Day Jonah It was my first deployment–far different than merely venturing away from home as I’d done before. Key among the differences was the absence of a “real church,” the kind that I grew up with. A lay leader directed church services on Sundays, but it seemed like I could never attend for one reason or another. Sometimes I was on watch. But for the most part it was a willful decision from a faltering relationship with God. I was a modern-day Jonah trying […]