TRANSITION Articles

Jerry Jones helps global people do their thing better. He has helped hundreds of expats find their way abroad and back again. Check out his free resources, blog and ...

The blog collective ‘A Life Overseas’ provides that place of online connection for Christ-following missionaries and humanitarian aid workers living in foreign countries– from the past, present, or...

For those who exist between cultures.  This website is for people who move, have moved, or will move; who come from mixed cultures, or who live in a culture that is not their own. This is for ...

Taking Root While en Route, we are a group of expat women who want to reach out to other expat women around the globe and encourage them to take root, right where they’ve been planted.

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Melissa Chaplin, author or “Returning Well” helps us understand what it’s like for workers to return “home” after cross-cultural service. Melissa offers insight to churches to help them lovingly ca...

Once when I was introducing a workshop for global workers on the topic of transitions, I conducted an experiment. I asked the attendees to introduce themselves to someone new and to only talk about...

Waiting is one of those things we may not realize will be part of expat life when we're starting out. But it is oddly common: a season – short or long – where you are pulled out of your n...

A timing question. We all leave the field eventually. So when is the right time? When I was a field director in Congo I would say, I sure hope the family comes back for the second term. The first t...

I wrote Looming Transitions with known transitions in mind. But what the world has been experiencing recently is the exact opposite of a looming transition. Instead, it is akin to an abrupt transit...

I have moved to a third new country in seven years (and that’s not counting all the moves back and forth to my passport country.) Your story is probably similar if you are reading this blog, and le...

Promoting good practice in the management and support of aid personnel

"Suitcases," an original TCK song, focuses on resilience rather than grief, and instead of lamenting the absence of a traditional sense of home, claims the term by redefining it.