Just Before the Sunrise
My husband and I have been living through the first stages of metamorphosis as we prepare to uproot our life and move to Japan. Most...
Category: Moving Overseas
An Opportunity to Teach Overseas
As a member of the Velvet Ashes community, we’re going to guess that being abroad is a significant part of your life (or one day will be). Maybe you’re...
The Faithful Who Stay {The Grove: Parents}
I was one of the lucky ones, one of those who had parents who prayed for me and always prayed the will of God over me. When I left in...
Two Little Words
Think with me for a moment on the power of two small words. I do forges a lifelong commitment. Forgive me can turn enemies to friends. So long can potentially...
Live Your Change Inside The Unchanging One
I moved cross-culturally for the first time 16 years ago. I was terrified. I had never been to the university I was going to go to; I had never even...
Remembering Specific Provision
When my husband and I first signed up to go to China, we were unsure about support raising. We didn’t have a clue where to start and many days we...
Welcome to Team! Again . . .
After spending four years huddled in close quarters with small, close-knit teams on the twentieth floor of a concrete apartment block on a college campus in one of the largest...
Five Ways to Succeed on a Team Overseas
Growing up when I heard of overseas workers, they were the greatest adventurers I had ever heard of. I heard of people getting on ships and later...
Weird Ways I’ve Had to Adapt
Oh dear reader, welcome to the wild, wonderful, infuriating, fulfilling, expanding life overseas. Part of this journey of serving and giving a part of your heart to another culture is...
Bring Your Great Expectations to the Field
We have such high expectations when we move overseas. Of ourselves. Of our ministry. Of our God. And...
