About deputation “When we go to churches, everyone knows me, but I don’t know them.” “Everywhere we go, people say, “I know you.” But they don’t really know me.” “Now we’re finishing our deputation, I won’t be a missionary kid anymore and that makes me sad. But mainly just because […]
Our children tell me they’re too old for dragon stories now. They have a point: they now see through them and can easily identify what I’m trying to teach them and why. I suspect our days of dragon stories are numbered but for now I insist it’s just a story, […]
A few weeks ago when Callum was having trouble getting used to wearing shoes to school, I told him this Callum the Dragon story… Once upon a time there was a little dragon called Callum. He had a big brother named Elliot the dragon and there was Dadda dragon and […]
One evening last week as we prayed at bedtime, Elliot said to me, “I think ‘We’re all in this together’ should be the theme song for this transition.” The next morning as Callum snuggled into bed with me, he whispered, “What about ‘Livin’ on a prayer’ for the transition, Mama?” […]
As I try to help our children process our big move, I have revived the Elliot the Dragon stories as a way of teaching through story as we walk to school. However, it is Callum who is particularly tickled by them at the moment, so I have been telling them […]
In conjunction with the other resources I’ve put together for TCKs, our calendar, our farewells, our transition journals, and our practice of lament, we are using some activities from Amy Young’s book Looming Transitions: Twenty-Two Activities for Families in Transition as we prep for our repatriation to Australia. It’s a […]
A while back, as we began to think about how to prep for our big move, Arthur and I went to a Missions Interlink online seminar on helping TCKs enter Australia. One of the things they recommended was transition journals, so we duly went out and bought some. The journals […]
Meet Jesus at uni 