Although Caroline is from Louisville, Kentucky, she has spent the past fourteen years growing up in Cambodia. Her family moved overseas when Caroline was two, so her dad could be a director at a children’s hospital in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Today, her parents run a pediatric hospital in Kratie, Cambodia. […]
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Preparing the Heart for The Field
When someone decides to become a missionary, the majority of decisions revolve around training, language learning, and other important steps in the process. Although these all are necessary parts of preparing to be a missionary, Christians also need to ready their hearts. Anyone who decides to follow Christ and teach […]
Necessity of Missionaries Learning their Host Country’s Language
Often when moving overseas, missionaries come face to face with a new culture, including, but not limited to a new language. Some missionaries may feel reluctant to learn a new language because it requires months to years of strenuous efforts. However, if they refuse to study the host country’s language, […]
Highs and Lows for TCKs
Sometimes when Christians move to serve the Lord overseas, they bring children or have children in that foreign country. This inherently creates a complicated sense of home for these children. They may be from their passport country, but that’s not the community they grew up in. These complications create third […]
Jim Elliot and The Example He Set for Missionaries
Jim Elliot serves as a prime example of a Christian applying mission work to every part of his life. His loved ones explain that from growing up and carrying a Bible around in high school in Portland, Oregon to serving as a missionary in rural Ecuador in adulthood, Elliot consistently […]