Ship School: Resources
Missionary Kid Issues
Articles
Links
There is a wealth of information about missionary kids on the Internet. Here are a few links that I have found to be very insightful.
Book Resources
Below you will find some excellent resources about Third Culture Kids. According to Ruth Hill Useem, “A third culture kid is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside their parents’ culture. The third culture kid builds relationships to all the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the third culture kid’s life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of the same background, other TCKs.”
The Third Culture Kid Experience - Growing Up Between Worlds
- David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken
Fitted Pieces
- Edited by Janet R. Blomberg and David F. Brooks
Raising Resilient MKs
- Resources for Caregivers, Parents, and Teachers - Joyce M Bowers
Missionary Children - Caught Between Cultures
- Dr. Doris L. Walters
Raising Global Nomads - Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World
- Robin
Families On The Move - Growing up overseas - and loving it!
- Marion Knell
Unrooted Childhoods - Memoirs of Growing Up Global
- Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel, Editors
Overseas American - Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics
- Gene H.Bell - Villada
Letters Never Sent - One Woman’s Journey From Hurt to Wholeness
- Ruth E. Van Reken
The Expert Expatriate - Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad
- Melissa Brayer Hess and Patricia
Hidden Immigrants - Legacies of Growing Up Abroad
- Linda Bell
Notes from a Traveling Childhood - Readings for Internationally Mobile Parents and Children
- Karen Curnow McCluskey, Editor
Children of the Call - Issues Missionaries’ Kids Face
- Charlene J. Gray
Of Many Lands - Journal of a Traveling Childhood
- Sara Mansfield Taber
Contact
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Brian Blackburn
Chief Administrator
P.O. Box 2020Garden Valley, Texas
75771-2020
academy@mercyships.org
