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Burn Up or Splash Down: Surviving the Culture Shock of Re-Entry
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves confused and in a state of panic at coming home. Whil...

The Re-entry Roadmap: Find Your Best Next Step After Living Abroad
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Are you returning “home” after living, working or studying abroad? Warning: for most people, re-entry (repatriation) is the hardest part of the entire abroad experience.That’s why the Re-entry Road...

Life in Motion: Growing Through Transitions
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Life is filled with transitions. Sometimes they happen in one geographical place. We move from childhood to adulthood, singleness to marriage, health to chronic illness. Other times they occur when...

Returning Well: Your Guide to Thriving Back "Home" After Serving Cross-Culturally
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Do you want to return well? You can. Returning Well invites you into a guided conversation with your Creator that will reveal and apply invaluable insights as you reflect on your recent season of c...

The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Third culture kids/global nomads have typically interacted with two or more cultures during their developmental years - those years that shape who they are as human beings. As they go about living ...

Mind the Gaps: Engaging the Church in Missionary Care
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Mind the Gaps is intended to empower churches, to complement and enhance the efforts of the member care department of mission sending agencies, and to reduce the attrition rate of missionaries by e...

Home Keeps Moving: A Glimpse Into the Extraordinary Life of a Third Culture Kid
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

'Home Keeps Moving' follows Heidi and her missionary family on their many moves through the eyes of a Third Culture Kid (TCK) and the unique phenomena of having four very different home countries t...

Re Entry
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Peter Jordan's vital, insightful teaching on the challenges and opportunities that await returning missionaries makes this essential reading for every short- and long-term out-reach participant and...

Leon the Chameleon
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Leon the chameleon has a problem. When the other little chameleons turn green, yellow or blue -- he turns red, purple or orange! Leon doesn't turn the opposite color on purpose. He just can't help ...

Swirly
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Lila is born in the Blue Country, but moves with her parents to the Yellow Country when she is a little girl. As she gets older she discovers that she isn’t all blue—she has swirls of yellow from g...

Grandfather's Journey
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

A picture book masterpiece from Caldecott medal winner Allen Say now available in paperback! Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid -- words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was ...