10/27/2025
From the Grace Lutheran Nashua Mission Team, written by Anuja Khan
Today our time at PoGA reaches a sacred pause, not an ending — a moment of accession, of rising higher together in the work God has begun here.
We came as visitors, but we leave as witnesses.
Witnesses to faith lived out in classrooms and disciplined hearts.
Witnesses to children who sing with more joy than the world often gives them reason to.
Witnesses to a church that prays with power, and loves with action.
To every child who held our hands,
to every teacher who served quietly and faithfully,
to every pastor who watched over this flock with tears and prayer —
you have written yourselves on our hearts.
The songs you sang —will travel back with us across oceans. Long after our suitcases are emptied, your voices will still echo in our spirits like a second heartbeat. We will hear them in the quiet of our mornings, in the stillness of our commutes, in the ache of missing this place.
It is not easy to leave children who look at you with trust.
It is not easy to walk away from hands that reached for you in prayer.
It is not easy to say goodbye to a place that taught us how rich faith can be when life is simple.
But we do not leave empty — we carry you with us.
And we do not leave alone — the same God who guards you, walks with us too.
This is not the final chapter. It is only the closing of a page so the next one may begin — in your life, in ours, and in the story God is still writing at PoGA.
Until we meet again — whether in this world or before His throne —
may the grace of Christ, the love of the Father, and the fellowship of the Spirit keep us one.n
