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What to Know About Reverse Culture Shock
You’ve heard of culture shock, but what about when your child returns home from abroad? Here’s what your kid wants you to know about reverse cultur ...
Rocky Reentry: encouragement for global workers in re-entry.
Thoughts, encouragement, and resources for the global worker transitioning back to their home country. Help with expat reverse culture shock, re-en ...
Before you return: thoughts on preparing for re-entry.
The last couple months I’ve chatted with a half a dozen friends who are preparing for their reentry or are just beginning to find themselves naviga ...
Why Missionaries Can Never Go Home Again
When a new missionary first gets to the mission field, it is obvious where home is. It is that place where you just left. It is the place where you ...
9 skills you can bring home after living and working abroad
Articles abound in the last few years about expats returning home after so many years overseas. Said articles often focus on the…
Mind the Gaps: Engaging the Church in Missionary Care
Mind the Gaps is intended to empower churches, to complement and enhance the efforts of the member care department of mission sending agencies, and ...
Returning Well: Your Guide to Thriving Back "Home" After Serving Cross-Culturally
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 ...
An Honest Reflection on Re-entry, Repatriation, and Reverse Culture Shock
Sooner or later we go back home and it can be a wrenching journey into re-entry. The longer you have been overseas the more difficult the process.< ...
Life in Motion: Growing Through Transitions
Life is filled with transitions. Sometimes they happen in one geographical place. We move from childhood to adulthood, singleness to marriage, heal ...
Expatica
Learn more about Expatica, one of the largest expat resources providing guides for expats about finance, healthcare, housing, and much more in 11 c ...
The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition
Third culture kids/global nomads have typically interacted with two or more cultures during their developmental years - those years that shape who ...
Serving As Senders Today: How to Care for Your Missionaries
Serving As Senders: How to Care for Your Missionaries While They are Preparing to Go, While They are on the Field and When They Return Home. The ti ...