TCK Tales

Rachel Bear, who was in episode 9 of this podcast comes back to talk about the new position that she has accepted working for MTI (Mission Training International) She talks about how her TCK experience has lead her to this position, and the way that being a TCK has both qualified her and disqualified her for this new role.  Rachel is actively raising support right now. To learn more about her and her ministry visit her website. Email Rachel at rbaer@mti.org Check out more information about MTI Connect with me on Facebook Email Web --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

This week, Jon sits down with Stephen Black, the host of TCK Care. Another podcast about being a TCK hosted by a TCK from Nigeria. Stephen talks about why he went into TCK Care as a career and ministry, the importance of living in tension, and what he would tell himself and others about his TCK experience. Check out Steven's Podcast here: https://tckcare.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

Because I didn't have enough to do, I have a second super cool podcast to tell you guys about! The Missional Student Podcast is an extension of Missional Student.com. They have weekly blogs, free e-books and tools to help you learn how to live more and more on mission every day in your everyday life, plus a fun podcast with great conversation and content. Check out Missional Student at https://missionalstudent.com/podcast/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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.   --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

Today I sit down and talk with Veronica, who though is not a traditional TCK has spent quite some time in the US. She talks about adjusting to American culture, adjusting to Moody culture, and being in an interracial, and intercultural relationship.  If you want to look into the ministry that Veronica was saved though check them out here http://www.estherschildren.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

Katya Green reflects on three specific instances where she has seen good in her cross cultural experience. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/t-c-k-tales/support