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...
Category: Moving Overseas
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 many people have given me advice over the...
Private Preparation: The Value of Showing Up In Your Own Life
We are a community well acquainted with moving. Some of these moves are anticipated for years. There is the preparing and the longing and the excitement about what is to...
No team. No Starbucks. Just us.
When my husband and I decided to move our family for the third time since moving to Southeast Asia, we knew this move would be ambitious. Pioneering, as some would...
A Pep Talk for Those who Go
You know what I feel like we all need about right now? A PEP TALK. (If you don’t see the video, click here.) Let’s just break it...
When You Don’t Know Where This Path Leads
Lilias Trotter, a worker in North Africa, once said, “You can never tell to what untold glories any little humble path may lead if you follow far enough.” And...
