Furlough, according to Merriam Webster, when used as a transitive verb can mean “to grant a furlough to” or “to lay off from work.”

For five days throughout the remainder of this fiscal year (including today), ArchBalt is utilizing the second definition.  We are closed today without pay.  (San Bernardino has done the same.)

Thankfully, we are allowed to trade in a personal day or a vacation day so as to not have our paycheck diminished and I had plenty in reserve (but that’s not the case for all my co-workers.)

Anyway, when the office closes like this, I’m gonna repost this so that you know and we all remember that we need to keep the economic crisis on our screens -  people are hurting, our peers are being impacted with lay-offs due to diminished investments, families we serve are being impacted – and we need to be about prayer for each other. . . which is how I hope to spend part of my furlough days.