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Citizens of the World - A conversation about MKs and TCKs with Michèle Phoenix. by BFA Life Podcast • A podcast on Anchor
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Listen to this compelling conversation with a leader in the field of educating, training, and caring for missionary families and their children. We talk about the unique perspectives and challenges...

Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: Practical Storytelling Techniques That Will Strengthen the Global Family
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

The only thing you can be sure you can move around the world is your child's ability to increase his or her interpersonal skills. In today's global world, each of us is searching for effective tool...

The Means That Make Us Strangers
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Home is where your people are. But who are your people?
Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia as the white American daughter of an anthropologist. Then her family moves to South ...

My Very Exciting, Sorta Scary, Big Move: A workbook for children moving to a new home
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Moving is one of the most stressful life events for kids, but this award-winning book will help make it less hectic and more exciting. "My Very Exciting, Sorta Scary, Big Move" guides kids from wor...

A Color of His Own
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

The classic story about searching for somewhere to belong, from four-time Caldecott honor winner Leo Lionni.Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. He is purp...

An Interview with Sara Saunders, Author of the TCK Book - SWIRLY
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

There have been a lot of books written about Third Culture Kids but not so many for them, especially for young TCKs. Swirly, written by adult-TCK Sara Saunders and illustrated by Matthew ...

SURVEY OF ADULT MKs
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

RETURN TO THE MINISTRY PAGE [This data is yours to use at no cost, but I do request that you link to this website if you quote or share it. There are Facebook, Twitter and email links at the very b...

Funny Things Third Culture Kids Say
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Kids say the darndest things. Parents make the darndest lists out of them. Writers published the darndest lists of the darndest things those kids say. Sorry. Some of these are from my own Third Cul...

Don't Ask Where I'm From, Ask Where I'm a Local
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the ...

Anchoring Yourself as an MK: A Review of Jeanne Harrison’s "Hiding in the Hallway"
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

MKs (missionary kids, third culture kids, TCKs) face challenges that few realize. Harrison's book offers honesty, empathy, and grace for the challenge.

By: Jenilee Goodwin

Hidden in My Heart: A Tck's Journey Through Cultural Transition
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

When Taylor Murray arrived in Japan, she felt like she was on an adventure-an adventure that God had called her family to take. The unique food, the strange language and the foreign culture were ex...

Particle Physics Finally Explains Third Culture Kids!
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Similarities between neutrinos (subatomic particles) and TCKs. Am I just plain crazy to see this metaphor?

By: Elizabeth Trotter