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TCK Tales

TCK Tales

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Stories told by Third Culture Kids, kids who grow up surrounded by two or more cultures due to parents traveling, the family culture of adoption. This could be expat kids, missionary kids, military kids, transracial and transnational adoptees, or multi-ethnic kids. These stores are about both the adventures and realities of growing up in between two cultures.
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019 An Ever Growing Theology of Home

TCK TalesDec 05, 2018

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033 A TCK in TCK Care
Nov 13, 201930:14
032 A Look At Korean Missions

032 A Look At Korean Missions

This week, Jon talks with Joo Eon Ko about his experience as a South Korean Missionary Kid growing up in Cambodia. Then they move in to a conversation about the origins of the church in Korea and how it sends Missionaries, the way that missions works in Korea and the difference between American and Korean Missions.

Aug 15, 201938:02
031 A Conversation with an MK
Jul 24, 201923:44
030 When You Feel Alone

030 When You Feel Alone

Samuel Bowen shares a deeply personal story of transition and his battles with depression. He talks about the affects that growing up as a TCK in the Middle East affected his battle with depression and is isolationism.

Jul 10, 201922:44
029 The Importance of Being Called as a Family

029 The Importance of Being Called as a Family

Jon talks this week with Gavin Chase and about how both his parents and Josiah Venture were very particular about making sure that not just the parents were called to mission work, but that they were called as a family. Feeling called did not minimize the struggle of changing cultures at 12 years old, but it helped with life got hard for Gavin.

Jun 19, 201921:12
028 Wisdom From Someone Who Knows Something
Jun 05, 201928:27
027 Introducing Missional Student
May 22, 201922:24
026 The Aftermath of Cultural Rejection

026 The Aftermath of Cultural Rejection

This week I sit down with the President of the International Student Fellowship, Tim Gabuna. He talks about what it was like growing up Filipino in Canada and how he reconciled the two cultures growing up, and then as he has been preparing for ministry.  

May 15, 201928:26
025 The Realities of Being Gray

025 The Realities of Being Gray

Jon sits down with Patrick Nelson who is a person of mixed racial decent. Jon and Patrick have an open and honest conversation about what it is like to grow up ethnically ambiguous and what the world could look like in the future. 

Apr 24, 201934:12
024 Interview with an International Student
Apr 18, 201925:28
023 How Not To Raise Your International Student

023 How Not To Raise Your International Student

Lisa Guilbride speaks very openly and honestly about her first experience coming to the US. All the good, the bad and what helped her adjust to the culture and what made the cultural adjustment hard. 

Apr 10, 201923:20
022 Life After Conversion

022 Life After Conversion

Today's story is told by someone who grew up in a Muslim country and has since become a follower of Jesus. She talks about the hardship and the loneliness that comes from changing cultures, religious, and being alienated from one's family. A profoundly honest look at life after conversion for a Muslim Background Believer.

Apr 03, 201926:33
021 Racism in Africa

021 Racism in Africa

Ayanda Khumalo comes back on to talk about the race issue that has hit Zimbabwe, South Africa, and various other countries in southern Africa. He talks about what has been done to make change and puts forth his ideas on how to make lasting change in racial reconciliation. 

Mar 27, 201916:31
020 This is America; As Seen by an African

020 This is America; As Seen by an African

Ayanda Khumalo talks very openly, honestly and intelligently about what it is like to be an African Immigrant, living traveling and working in the US. He speaks about racism and why in all the talk about immigrants in the news recently, Africans are not really brought up that much.

Mar 20, 201925:19
019 An Ever Growing Theology of Home

019 An Ever Growing Theology of Home

As Season 2 draws to a close, Jonathan Walthour tells his story, the inspiration for this podcast and how his concept of home has changed throughout his life and through this podcast.

Dec 05, 201820:35
018 Place, Family, and Stability

018 Place, Family, and Stability

Katya Green reflects on three specific instances where she has seen good in her cross cultural experience.
Nov 28, 201812:29
017 Serving God Without Passion

017 Serving God Without Passion

Grace Choi talks about her experience moving back from Africa to South Korea and the way that God showed her that anybody can do ministry wherever they are, not just in a cross cultural context.
Nov 14, 201830:25
016 Home is Not Where your Family Is

016 Home is Not Where your Family Is

Tim Pablo, talks about what it was like moving from the Philippines, to Canada to work in a Chinese church and the major identity issues that he and his family had to overcome and are still working on overcoming.
Nov 07, 201814:59
015 The Wall Between Us

015 The Wall Between Us

James Hasdak talks about what it was like growing up in Bangladesh as a Bangladesh native in a missions compound. The child of national missionaries. He speaks of the separation that he felt from people who looked like him but lived a very different life then he did. He also discusses the importance of not assuming someone's cultural background before talking with them. Even the most well meaning comments can be frustrating.
Oct 31, 201821:23
014 Similar but Different

014 Similar but Different

Caleb Hartwig talks about what it was like growing up as an American in Canada where his parents were missionaries to the First Nations people in British Columbia. He talks about how different, but similar his experience was to many of the TCK's he has met at Moody.
Oct 24, 201823:34
013 The Identity Crisis of History

013 The Identity Crisis of History

Tirzah Walker talks about what it is like to be Jewish walking through, not just America but also in the world in general. She speaks of some of the similarities between growing up Jewish and growing up in a different culture or country.
Oct 17, 201823:57
012: My Identity is...?

012: My Identity is...?

John C Hughes talks about the realities of living out what "This is Us" tries to portray. Being an African American man adopted into a Euro-American family. How he struggled, and still does struggle, with his identity but ultimately finding that identity in Christ.
Oct 10, 201820:22
011 Am I an MK?

011 Am I an MK?

Katie Walthour shares a Creative Nonfiction piece that she wrote in processing her answer to the question Am I an MK? Katie talks about her doubt in her identity and feeling like a MK poser. Katie and Jon then discuss how the parts of their story have played into the development of their identity.
Oct 03, 201828:05
010 For the Sake of the Gospel

010 For the Sake of the Gospel

Abigail Newport tells of all the many losses that she experienced as a result of her parents calling to cross-cultural ministry. How she dealt with them and what happened when she was finally able to talk about them to her peers.
Sep 26, 201824:09
009 The Fence Protects Me

009 The Fence Protects Me

Rachel Bear talks about the toll that internalizing a message that boundaries do not matter has taken on her life and relationships, the importance of setting binderies and what that looks like in her life.
Sep 19, 201820:29
008 Where is God in Silence

008 Where is God in Silence

Lizzy Sullivan shares a fiction short story that she wrote about how to deal with times of silence from God.
Sep 12, 201824:04
007 Facing Your Demons

007 Facing Your Demons

Joabe Sena Anrade tells his story and what helped him face his demons and become fully whole.
Aug 15, 201830:35
006 I Don't Miss You

006 I Don't Miss You

Dawn and David Sagar talk about the idea of detachment and the effects that multiple transitions have on personal and family relationships.
Jul 31, 201819:51
005 Where Do We Belong?

005 Where Do We Belong?

Jonathan (Jonyo) Hall goes tells his life story, chronicling the search for belonging he is still on.
Jul 18, 201817:02
004 Processing Grief

004 Processing Grief

Esther Bendele shares a story of how not being given the space to process grief felt from her families major moves has affected her and her siblings as they have grown up.
Jun 27, 201809:25
003 I Love Home, I love Home Not

003 I Love Home, I love Home Not

Josh Schumacher tells two stories of two different transitions back to the US and how differently he responded to them. He talks about the dangers of both transition attitude extremes.
Jun 14, 201810:55
002 Knowing the Family Buisness

002 Knowing the Family Buisness

Listen to Annessa Voss share a story about her involvement with her parents ministry and the importance for TCK's to know why they are in the country that they are living in and what their parents are doing
May 30, 201811:09
001 God's Provision on the Border

001 God's Provision on the Border

Intro to TCK Tales, term definition and Cameron McManus tells an incredible story of God looking out for him and his family on one of their many drives across the Mexican American border.
May 10, 201810:55