Learning how to communicate effectively with people who live and work overseas is a complicated thing. For you and for them. Numerous email accounts. Social Media accounts. Newsletters. Communicate, communicate, communicate. That is a major part of what is required from overseas workers. With the insertion of technology on the missions front, the fishbowl has…
Oh, the days of getting ready for missionary furlough… “Can you facetime?” came my sister’s text across my phone while I prepared for my daily run. “Sure.” “I’m at Goodwill. 50% off winter coats and clothing.” “Nice.” or something like the above conversation. It happened twice yesterday. Browsing through the clothing racks over the phone…
You hopped over because you wonder how you know you live overseas. Well… A friend and I were chatting on the phone the other day and we both were sharing some of the funny things we’d noticed about ourselves or our new lives living in Africa. I told her that I’d been mentally making a…
You’re a first termer. There are things I would tell a first term missionary working overseas, a first termer just like you. You’ve finished raising your budget and you’re off to unknown lands. {If you are still budget raising, I have 22 things to tell you too} You might have visited your new country once…
I’m learning that women living overseas say some of the funniest, craziest, most interesting things during the course of the day. The way of life in another country isn’t wrong or weird. Yet, as women living overseas who are learning to experience life in another culture, time and place, we can for sure say some…
There was a phrase that I needed but it was not coming to me. Don’t you hate that feeling? A phrase had been running through my head for days and I could NOT remember where it was from… a movie? a song? Instead of being able to match it with something solid, the phrase seemed…
Imagine your daughter is standing before you, red face and tears. Her sniffling nose and tired eyes are speaking to you louder than her words. “Yep. Bedtime,” you think to yourself while grabbing a kleenex from the box next to you. You can see the signs all over her that she needs a break and…
Over the past years, we’ve taken you along on a journey. This is a journey past the five minute window at your church, behind the prayer card in your Bible and directly into the life of workers overseas. The real life. Not just the cut and paste happy moments that make their way into a…
Sometimes our days of missionary life lead us into unexpected places. Sometimes our days lead us on a very special visit to a small village. When we leave our gate in the morning, there is always a feeling of apprehension or hesitation because we just don’t know what is coming up around the bend of…
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