Cedarville Magazine, Fall 2020

completed their mission in two months. Good news for sure, but before he could rejoin his family, he would have to quarantine in Detroit. “We were tested for COVID while we were still in Detroit and, thankfully, all 85 of us came back negative,” Woodruff said. “We were going to be quarantined in hotels for two weeks, but then we got a call from higher up after two days saying that since all of us were negative, we would be able to quarantine at our homes.” Although Woodruff was grateful for the successful and swift completion of their mission, the sudden shift did have consequences. At the time of deployment, Woodruff was 128.5 hours deep into the required 200 clinical hours for his M.S.N.-FNP. “I was faithfully going to clinicals, faithfully studying every morning, putting in the hard work, and then the deployment happened,” Woodruff said. “If I couldn’t finish my clinical hours, I’d have to retake the whole semester.” Then he received an email from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing saying they had waived 75 of the 200 direct clinical hours; 125 was the new temporary standard. In addition, the School of Nursing allowed him to finish the remaining three weeks of the academic part of the semester at any time and all his grades would count, so he wouldn’t have to retake spring classes. “You have to pray and rest in the fact that God is in control,” he said. “One of the things Kayla and I would tell each other is, if we trust God with our eternal security, why wouldn’t we trust Him with our present circumstances?” “Jesus has always been faithful to us, and we knew He would continue to be. In Him, we had peace.” Clem Boyd is Managing Editor of Cedarville Magazine . Nicole Hackett ’21 is a student writer for Cedarville University Public Relations. Cedarville Magazine | 15