Aug 19, 2026

Why Missionary Kids Need Places to Be Seen

Missionary kids often grow up fluent in more than one culture. They learn to adapt, translate, observe, and build relationships across difference. Those experiences can form unusual empathy, creativity, and resilience. They can also bring repeated transition, complicated belonging, and the quiet pressure to appear capable. A young person may feel at home in several places and fully at home in none. Their strengths are real, but so are the costs of carrying change. Support should therefore...