#Friendship, #Loneliness, #Community You expected to miss your overseas community. You didn't expect to come home and feel just as lonely. For many returning ministry workers, friendship is one of the quietest losses of re-entry. The friends you left behind overseas became family. The friends you came home to have built lives that don't quite have the shape for you anymore. Group texts you used to be in have grown new inside jokes. Couples have new babies. Schedules are full