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By Simon Johnson Simon and Helen Johnson are in New Zealand on home assignment until the beginning of 2019. In this article, we asked Simon to reflect on the topic of resilience, and to discuss [...]

By Gemma Creasy   The New Arrival As I walk down the streets with crowds of people all around me speaking words unfamiliar to my ears, it all blurs together into background noise. Between those [...]

By Averil Bennett TCK is shorthand for Trans-Cultural Kid, or Third Culture Kid. The word “kid” is an amercanism, but also reminds me that TCK’s can have some goat-like characteristics, shared by [...]

by Sylvia Yuan and Timothy Chen 聽到媽媽說，我可以請假跟她到新加坡好幾周，真的很興奮呢！「海外基督使 團」（OMF）這個名稱我已聽過很多次，早前陪媽媽去上候選宣教士課程時，我就已和鈴木家的三個小朋友交上了朋友，他們的爸爸是日本人、媽媽是中國人。這次因為兩家人都去新加坡參加使團的「迎新課程」，我可以和鈴木家的孩子們在那邊待上一個月！每天見面一起玩，耶！ [...]

By Susan Murray – OMF New Zealand’s TCK Advisor Recently I had the privilege to travel to Thailand, Singapore and Cambodia with OMF, as their TCK (Third Culture Kids) advisor for New [...]

We both felt God’s prompting to mission work from a young age, and were inspired and challenged by hearing of the people who had served God in this way. We met and were married while at Otago [...]

By Jonathan Fuller, National Director of OMF Canada The question was addressed to one of our retired workers attending the annual OMF Thailand Field Conference. Ben and his wife served amongst [...]

By Gemma Creasy When I first arrived here in the Philippines I had the awesome opportunity to go scuba diving in a nearby coral reef. To be honest it was something that I never actually wanted to [...]

By Ailsa Barker Wirawan. A testimony of ministry to an unreached people on the east coast of SE Asia, pioneered by a local church and now part of a national missionary organization. It was a [...]

By Jill.   Owned, loved, cherished, affirmed, cared for…these are all words that come to mind as I think of our last month of Home Assignment (HA) in New Zealand. I’m waiting for the plane [...]