Have you recently returned home from a mission assignment and now feel a sense of loss and disorientation? You are experiencing a certain level of re-entry adjustment. What used to be your home culture doesn’t feel like it anymore. It’s a kind of culture shock all over again. But the issue goes deeper: You are …
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Listening to the IWM podcast episode entitled “From Missionary Kid to GC President,” I was encouraged and inspired by the personal testimony and experiences shared by Pastor Ted Wilson. Like me, Pastor Wilson was a third culture kid, growing up and living in several countries. Pastor Wilson shared insightful stories from his childhood and adulthood, …
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I grew up close to my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and lots of cousins, and I was very happy. I thought that as long as I lived close to my family, I would always be happy. What I did not know was that God had special plans for me, to be happy even if I had …
(tran zish uhn) n. 1. The process of changing from one state or condition to another. 2. A period of such change. Transition is an inevitable part of life. Some transitions are considered normative—birth, children leaving home, retirement. Other transitions are nonnormative or outside of expectable life cycle changes. Both types of transition are a …
