Articles
Debriefing Aid Workers: A Comprehensive Manual
Promoting good practice in the management and support of aid personnel
The Means That Make Us Strangers
"Christine Kindberg's fiction explores the complexity of identity, love, and faith with extraordinary intimacy and skill. Her bracing prose draws y ...
The Waiting Place
As part of my former job, I used to help run the kids’ program for pre-field training for staff heading overseas. It was a fairly intense, five-wee ...
5 Tips for Leaving Well With Teenagers
Moving overseas with teenagers can be daunting for both the teen and their parents. Having personally moved overseas as a young teen, I can speak t ...
Good Grief: Helping TCKs Navigate Their Unresolved Grief
I grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I only moved there when I was ten but had lived a few places before then. So when we got there and stayed ...
Transitionitis: Also known as Happy and Sad Syndrome (HASS)
Written in jest (but only partly)... ABOUT Transitionitis/HASS is a very common ailment affecting hundreds of travellers each year. It is caused ...
Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local
When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of "multi-local" people, wh ...
The Long-Term Impact of Boarding School
The long-term impact of boarding school can manifest itself as 'boarding school syndrome' - a condition counsellors need to be aware of and work wi ...
Hiding in the Hallway: Anchoring Yourself as an MK
Written specifically to missionary teens, Hiding in the Hallways offers MKs a biblical context for their faith in light of their unique circumstanc ...
7 Lies Christians in College Tell Themselves
Christians in college are susceptible to these lies. Here’s how each can be debunked.
10 Things to Expect When You Take TCKs HOME
When the time comes for your family to move back to your passport country, you can bet it’s going to be a big transition for everyone. Aside from a ...