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Digging in the Dirt: Musings on Missions, Emotions, and Life in the Mud
By PortalBot • July 22, 2024

We like the mountain tops and the sunshine. We like green grass under a clear blue sky. We like victory and breakthrough and answered prayers. But sometimes it rains, the shadows deepen, and life t...

Ministry Essentials
By PortalBot • November 18, 2021
The #MeToo Reckoning
By PortalBot • October 26, 2021

The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse in every sphere of society, including the church. But all too often, churches have been complicit in protecting abusers, reinforcing patriarchal power ...

Treating Trauma in Christian Counseling
By PortalBot • October 26, 2021

With extensive experience treating complex trauma, Heather Gingrich and Fred Gingrich have brought together key essays representing the latest psychological research on trauma from a Christian inte...

Understanding Sexual Abuse - A Guide for Ministry Leaders and Survivors
By PortalBot • October 26, 2021

What does the path to healing look like for survivors of sexual abuse? And how can ministry leaders, pastors, and counselors best help them as they walk this difficult road? Drawing on both his own...

Hijos expatriados: niños de la Tercera Cultura
By PortalBot • September 13, 2021

El Chico o Chica de Tercera Cultura es el hijo o hija de una familia de empresarios, diplomáticos, emigrantes o misioneros que se han mudado de su país natal a otros país. Sus hijos tienen la difíc...

Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids: A Practical Guide to Preventive Care
By PortalBot • September 11, 2021

If we could ensure that our TCKs would grow up healthy and resilient, we would do it in a heartbeat. In Raising up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids, Lauren Wells has gifted us with a gent...

The Grief Tower: A Practical Guide to Processing Grief with Third Culture Kids
By PortalBot • September 11, 2021

Children who grow up outside of their parent’s passport country, Third Culture Kids (TCKs), experience a significant number of losses, grief-inducing experiences, and traumas during their developme...

The Journey Back to My True Identity Walt Heyer & Kathy Grace Duncan (Part 2 of 2)
By PortalBot • April 02, 2021

Offering hope to those struggling with their sexual identity, Walt Heyer and Kathy Grace Duncan discuss their transgender journeys, during which they lived a period of their lives as the opposite g...

The Journey Back to My True Identity - Walt Heyer & Kathy Grace Duncan (Part 1 of 2)
By PortalBot • April 02, 2021

Offering hope to those struggling with their sexual identity, Walt Heyer and Kathy Grace Duncan discuss their transgender journeys, during which they lived a period of their lives as the opposite g...

The Journey Back to My True Identity - Walt Heyer & Kathy Grace Duncan (Part 1)
By PortalBot • April 02, 2021

Offering hope to those struggling with their sexual identity, Walt Heyer and Kathy Grace Duncan discuss their transgender journeys, during which they lived a period of their lives as the opposite g...