Category - Faith

Reentry often brings many faith questions info focus. Here are some posts about navigating the fog of faith as we walk through reentry.

I didn’t sign up for this…

“I didn’t sign up for this.” I’ve said that a lot this last year…a season that I was hurled into without my choosing...

Losing the Celebrity Status

When you live overseas sometimes people treat you like a celebrity. “You must be super spiritual to be able to put up with the...

10 Reflections on Ten Years of Reentry

It’s been 10 years! Ten years since I made the unexpected move back to the US after working internationally. This morning I...

Navigating Church in the Reentry Season – Part B

We’ve talked about how church can be complicated in re-entry for many people… I feel like as I’ve talked with people about...

Navigating Church in the Re-entry Season – Part A

I heard it again recently… “I thought coming back to the US that church would be the one place I would feel most at home, and...

When leaving the field feels like leaving your faith.

The other day someone asked me why I no longer live overseas. “What made you move back?”. I haven’t been asked that...

Losing our Innocence on the Field

Recently I attended a gathering where a couple was sharing about their future move to Asia. They were excited, passionate...

Re-entry Poem

A poem from my journal…a couple years after moving back. RE-ENTRY The place where sorrow and hope collide where a multiplicity of feelings well up inside The space where fog invades our...

Why Reverse Culture Shock is Worth It {5 Gifts from...

What are some of the benefits to living through reverse culture shock? Sometimes during re-entry, life just feels hard! Our days are filled with longing to be in a different place...

When you’ve got nothing cool to write for the...

When we have nothing “cool” to write… I got it last week…the quarterly alumni magazine from my Bible college Alma Mater. I read about different updates to the campus {a lot has...

Reverence {#OneWord365}

Reverence {#OneWord365} I’ve heard the idea for several years…pick one word for the year. And I’ve thought: that’s a nice idea, maybe someday I’ll do that. But I’ve never...

8 Things I wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Moved...

To all of you who have recently returned after living overseas, you have a special place in my heart because not too long ago, I was walking in your shoes. So here it is…my letter to...

Unpacking the Suitcase of Shame

We end up back in our “home” countries for different reasons… …maybe our time or term has ended. …maybe we’re longing for freedom from our life overseas. …maybe this was the...

Interview: Church & Reentry

Today We’re Interviewing: D. Just the Stats: Returning From: Asia Years Overseas: 3.5 Years back in the States: 5 Mom of 2 preschoolers. Currently: raising support to move back...

Advent: Expectations & Reentry

Advent. Until last year, that word for me brought childhood memories of trying to make the candles stand up in the fake wreath on our kitchen table. Then someone introduced me to the...

Patient Trust by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Potter’s Inn {a retreat center in Divide, CO…check out their resources for missionaries and those in reentry…some great stuff that has been a huge help to me in my reentry journey}...

Redeeming the seasons of fear

“Fear not…I have redeemed you.”I know I’ve read these words before in Isaiah 43, but tonight they struck me in a new way. They sound very churchy…very “easy answer” to hard...