
A Letter Welcoming You (Back or For the First Time) {The Grove: Welcome to the Field}
Dear friend, You’re back in your host country. Welcome back! Or maybe you’ve just arrived for the first time. In that case, you are so...
Dear friend, You’re back in your host country. Welcome back! Or maybe you’ve just arrived for the first time. In that case, you are so...
Six and a half years ago, two wide-eyed girls arrived in Cambodia, full of hopes and dreams and two suitcases apiece. The humidity hit full blast as soon as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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