Download or read book Memories of a Missionary Kid written by Louise Joy and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of Louise Joy (nee Gault) daughter of medical missionaries.
Download or read book Every Full moon Night written by Dean Nelson and published by Beacon Hill Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And Gladly Teche written by Esther Lowell Hibbard and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grandpa Still Remembers written by Paul Henry Brown and published by Torchflame Books. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Changing Stories from Africa. In the heart of Africa, a young missionary kid's life is changed forever. Impacted by the lessons he learned while hunting birds, leaving home, or chasing girls, Paul Brown shares some unforgettable stories that could change your life. Enjoy the tale of The dumb African mud frog - don't take the bait, A boy with no real friends - the best friend, Hunting Guinea fowl - a bargain with God, Looking for treasure - yellow paint gold, and many more.
Download or read book The Year without a Purchase written by Scott Dannemiller and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year without a Purchase is the story of one family's quest to stop shopping and start connecting. Scott Dannemiller and his wife, Gabby, are former missionaries who served in Guatemala. Ten years removed from their vow of simple living, they found themselves on a never-ending treadmill of consumption where each purchase created a desire for more and never led to true satisfaction. The difference between needs and wants had grown very fuzzy, and making that distinction clear again would require drastic action: no nonessential purchases for a whole year. No clothes, no books, no new toys for the kids. If they couldn't eat it or use it up within a year (toilet paper and shampoo, for example), they wouldn't buy it. Filled with humorous wit, curious statistics, and poignant conclusions, the book examines modern America's spending habits and chronicles the highs and lows of dropping out of our consumer culture. As the family bypasses the checkout line to wrestle with the challenges of gift giving, child rearing, and keeping up with the Joneses, they discover important truths about human nature and the secret to finding true joy. The Year without a Purchase offers valuable food for thought for anyone who has ever wanted to reduce stress by shopping less and living more.
Download or read book Protestant missionary children s lives c 1870 1950 written by Hugh Morrison and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.
Download or read book Missionary Kid written by Margaret H Essebaggers Dopirak and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story delves into the mind and heart of a little girl who lived in two different worlds - one, of her white-skinned privileged American missionary parents, and the other, of the brown-skinned Indian people in whose country they worked and into which, in 1936, she was born. The narrative tells of the young girl's survival and coming of age in India and America, of tropical illnesses, a treacherous ocean voyage during wartime, long separations from her parents, seven years in boarding school, and at last, America and college.
Download or read book Mk cam written by David Lloret and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will sympathize, laugh, cry, or simply be amazed at what growing up in a foreign country is like for a missionary's child. Most "MKs" have exotic adventures in faraway lands and remote jungles. These, however, are the unique tales of growing pains, told first-hand, of an MK living in the capital city of Guatemala and other towns of Central America. mk.cam tells the stories of one child's life in the variety of settings encountered by MKs around the world. Parents will empathize with the usual child-rearing challenges made more complicated by life in a foreign culture. Anyone who has spent time in another culture will relate to the often humorous accounts and experiences this author faced while growing up in Central America. Here, then, are the memories of one MK's early childhood and teen years during the 1960s and '70s. "Pura Vida!"
Download or read book Mish Kid to Mystic written by Mary Lou McNeill Jacoby and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deeper Than African Soil An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary Third Culture Kid written by Faith Eidse and published by Masthof Press & Bookstore. This book was released on with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeper than African Soil captures the romantic, pores-open wonder of a child raised among worlds. It unveils the adventure and suffering of revolution, disease, boarding school trauma, wrenching farewells and losses deeper than most people endure in a lifetime. It explores the nature of memory itself, why we repress it and how to call it forth, all five senses open. Daughter of Canadian Mennonites, Faith Eidse was separated from family at the scariest moments of her life. Amid postcolonial tensions in Congo, Canada and the U.S., Faith and her sisters—Hope, Charity and Grace—lived vivid lives, bridging cultures from their home (Dutch Mennonite) to their host villages in southern Manitoba, the American Midwest and southwestern Congo. Yet home was always changing—sometimes drastically. Faith seldom felt she truly belonged to the places they lived. In the United States, Faith was an immigrant. In her parents’ passport country, Canada, she was a visitor. In Congo, she claimed friendship, longing and memories. She related to all cultures yet owned none, formed identity from bits of home (first culture) and host (second or third) cultures to create a unique third culture. “Third culture kids” each have their own enriched, complicated story but share a diaspora of the heart and longing for home. (352pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2023.)
Download or read book Crying for My Mother written by Philip Wik and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays reflect on my years as a missionary kid in Malaysia and in the United States in the 1960s and 70s. My autobiography In Memory Yet Green has the story of my childhood at boarding school and the boarding home. In this book, I go deeper into how my childhood experiences shaped me. Not all of us who trod my path as a MK triumphed. I explore why in Crying for My Mother. The theme of this book is that Mom and Dad's parenting and the mission's model for raising me as a child was good for me but generally harmful for other children.
Download or read book The Missionary Family written by Dwight P. Baker and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book points to a feature—the missionary family—often considered to be a distinctive of the Protestant missionary movement. Certainly the presence of missionary families in the field has been a central factor in enabling, configuring, and restricting Protestant missionary outreach. What special concerns does sending missionary families raise for the conduct of mission? What means are available for extending care and support to missionary families? These issues are the focus of the chapters in part 1 of this book. In recent years an increasing number of reports have surfaced of sexual abuse in mission settings. Some reports have been based on “recovered memories,” the assessment of which raises difficult questions. Clearly sexual abuse in mission settings and how to understand allegations of abuse based on recovered memories are matters of grave concern to mission agencies and mission supporters as well as to missionary families. Part 2 serves the mission community by scrutinizing such matters, offering legal, historical, and psychological perspectives on the topic. In a new feature, “Forum on Sexual Orientation and Mission: An Evangelical Discussion,” the Evangelical Missiological Society takes up a pressing issue of our day. Fourteen evangelical scholars participate in the discussion found in part 3. Far from being the final word, this forum is presented with the prayer that it will serve as an opening to and basis for ongoing missiological conversation about an urgent and timely topic.
Download or read book A Child in the Eye of God written by Peggy Ross and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of the life of missionaries Winston and Gerry Wheeler and their three children, Christi, Peggy and Mori. Their middle daughter Peggy Wheeler Ross invites you to take a journey with them back in time as she shares their many adventures in foreign lands. You will get to experience the customs and realities of life in the jungles of Africa and Brazil. She shares with you the dangerous times and joyful memories of missionary families as they infiltrated the African and Brazilian villages taking the gospel to the lost. She invites you into their home to share with you God's wonderful calling on their lives. You will experience their laughter and their pain as well as their fears. These missionary families served the Lord together, putting life as they knew it aside, for the kingdom of God. Welcome to kingdom living, a new way of life.
Download or read book Raising Resilient MKs written by Association of Christian Schools International and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not So Holy Living written by Jesse S. Mattix and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missionary kids have the best adventures growing up in distant lands and under trying circumstances. The trick is to add some humor - of course time helps the humor to develop. These are stories originally written for my own children and family about growing up in Bolivia. Some of these stories you may find hard to believe, certainly not going to happen in your world... but they are true. Well memories do tend to color over time, and lose those details that fade away. Each story will stand alone as an event but there is a sequence so it is worth reading thru from start to finish. I pray you are encouraged to adventure on in life and if you are a missionary family you and yours will surely relate.
Download or read book Mission Affirmed written by Elliot Clark and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will it take to accomplish Christ's mission in our lifetime? That's the question evangelicals have been asking for over a century, but our efforts to reach the unreached and finish the task have often sacrificed the important for the immediate. The greatest challenge in evangelical missions isn't a lack of urgency, but a lack of discernment. As we've prioritized movements that are simple and reproducible, the gospel and faithful churches are now threatened. Our mission itself could be disqualified. In Mission Affirmed, Elliot Clark seeks to reshape our motivation by considering the example of Paul the missionary. The desire for God's approval is what formed his ambition and directed his methods, and it should guide ours too. In these pages, we rediscover how pursuing God's praise can both motivate and regulate our gospel ministries. We also refocus—as missionaries, pastors, churches, and individuals—on what matters more than a mission accomplished: a mission God affirms. Biblical Ministry Advice: Provides a holistic look at Paul's ministry, methods, and motivation A Great Resource for Church Leaders: Helps churches vet and send missionaries First-Hand Ministry Insights: Provides a practical solution for common weaknesses in modern missions, with descriptive examples from the author's experiences as a missionary Published in Conjunction with the Gospel Coalition (TGC)
Download or read book A Place to Call Home written by George Kraft and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly evoking a time of tremendous transition in China, one marked by internal civil strife, as well as an all-embracing world conflagration, this volume rings with the uncompromising determination of a couple's faith in Christ and in their mutual calling. It also deals honestly and poignantly with the cost of that uncompromising faith as it brings hardship to children who often felt abandoned, painful separation from families left "at home" in the United States, and ubiquitous health threats to missionaries, far from modern medical care.In the late fall of 1934, twenty-nine-year-old Pearl Strot set sail for China on a Japanese vessel. A recent alumna of Moody Bible Institute's program in mission preparation, she was embarking on her new vocation. A year later, George Kraft, six years her junior, also set sail for China. Although he had not completed his college degree, he was destined to become a world-class linguist and a compiler of a rare textbook in Tibetan.What compelled these two children of Minneapolis to travel halfway around the world to serve as missionaries in the forbidden reaches of Tibet? What drew this unlikely pair, stationed hundreds of miles from each other, to wed and raise three children in pre-World War II China? What was the fate of their "mish kids," educated in a series of boarding schools-a three weeks' journey away from their parents-run by the China Inland Mission? These are the penetrating questions that drove Kraft in the compilation of these memoirs.Through all of these uncertainties and challenges, George is a grateful son who revels in his unique adventures and experiences that would not only enrich his life but also leave him longing for a place to call home. Ultimately, this is a story of triumph as George finds a community to call his own, one in which he would make a career and be able to draw on his myriad of unlikely stories to enliven and broaden that new community, that "home."
