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Families on the Move: Growing Up Overseas and Loving It
By PortalBot • November 07, 2020

More and more families raise their children abroad. This book helps these parents take their kids through the awkward and frustrating third-culture kid moments.

By: Marion Knell

Back Home -- Daily Reflections on Reentry -- For those who lived and studied abroad
By PortalBot • November 06, 2020

This guidebook by Lisa Espineli Chinn could be useful for international and study abroad students, short and long-term missionaries, and even those who aren't crossing international borders, but ar...

Tender Care providing pastoral care for God's global servants
By PortalBot • November 06, 2020

The heart and soul of caring for God's scattered servants. Written by "shepherds: for "shepherds" who feel called into a ministry of soul care to God's scattered servants. It provides practical and...

Looming Transitions: Starting and Finishing Well in Cross-Cultural Service
By PortalBot • November 06, 2020

When you go abroad to serve, you’re thinking about the language, the losses,and the excitement. When you return home you’re thinking about your friends and family, the losses, and the relief. Most ...

7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Celebrating Muscles
By PortalBot • August 23, 2020

Be honest, when you think of cross-cultural workers as a whole, we are not known for being great at celebrating. Instead, we might be known for working hard, caring deeply about those we came to se...

TCK Resources
By PortalBot • August 23, 2020

Books, videos, and websites, for Third Culture Kids. This website is designed to be a collection of resources for Third Culture Kids (TCKs): those individuals who have spent a large ...

Tips for parenting a child with special needs during a pandemic
By PortalBot • August 23, 2020

Changes in routine can be especially hard on kids with special needs. Rely on your strengths to guide your family through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: Mayo Clinic

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Fishers of Men (Coming Home)
By PortalBot • August 23, 2020

14 Reentry Bible Studies for those returning from career or short-term overseas service. 

NOTE: may be out of print, unavailable in Sept 2021

By: Howard and Bonnie Lisech