Blog Entries on Serving
Are You Ready for Transition? Again?
“Did you ever consider staying home? Getting settled and looking for a job?” This was the burning question I just had to ask.
Are You Ready? Again?
Before you are ready again you need to be fairly whole and healed from your past experience, otherwise it will be a dark cloud hanging over you, a feeling of something breathing down your neck, or a part of your unhealed heart which will slowly eat you from the inside.
Can I Leave Now?
We persevere through the frustration, alienation, and anxiety, trusting that if we seek first the coming kingdom then our loving Father who knows exactly what we need will provide for us—even in the midst of China’s latest storm. Maybe that’s why he keeps us here.
The Coronavirus Dashed My Dreams
Thoughts from a TCK about Her Senior Year
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. My last semester as a senior was supposed to be fun—and memorable.
Serving Effectively in the Face of a Pandemic
How do we remain a strong light if indeed the darkness looms in the form of disease?
Returning “Home”
Thinking through What Matters For Families
We continue to hear of cross-cultural workers and their families leaving China—often returning to a "home" culture that no longer feels quite like home. How can parents help their children through this transition?
Learning to Be Hospitable
A family learns new ways to show hospitality and build relationships in China.
Talking about Sensitive Issues
The conversation taught me the importance of relational trust and humility in addressing sensitive historical topics and the vital role of self-critique in forming the most important of connections: ones that bring us closer to our shared sense of brokenness and the need for grace beyond what we can muster.