Very useful learnings here. In all my years of Christianity I never viewed/heard any video/podcasts addressing this topic until now.
@louisetrott5532
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Ooh how interesting, I am a Third Culture Kid (from the multinational oil business): English father, Australian mother, grew up in Kuwait, PNG, England (at a boarding school for expats), before coming to Australia aged 13. I lived in 11 different houses up to the age of 14. I have never really had a sense of belonging anywhere. But in a way I feel like I belong everywhere, its a positive thing.
@VillageChurch.Sydney
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Hi Louise. Wow. All this time I have known you and I didn't know that. I think of my cousins growing up in a diplomatic house in (Egypt / Canberra / Seoul / Canberra / Baghdad / Canberra / Rome vs my family growing up in Reading UK (till I was 4) then Sydney after that. And I think our upbringing was so much more grounded/friends etc. - Warmly Dominic
@louisetrott5532
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@@VillageChurch.Sydney I think having a strong family unit makes a huge difference. My parents gave me a wonderful stable and loving childhood (even though they divorced when I was 13), and we all approached the travelling and living abroad with gusto. We all loved it. We were also very close with my mother's Australian family (in the Mid North Coast & upper Macleay Valley, as well as some on overseas postings) and we visited them often while we were on leave from Kuwait & PNG. And we had a house in England so we also visited my father's family while on leave in the UK. For my parents generation (born in the 1920s), it was usual to go overseas to live, starting with WW2 service, and both my parents were adventurers. So I have always found the notion of living in the one place rather odd! And not surprisingly I married another expat Third Culture Kid, the son of an Irish Guards RSM. Irish father, English mother, he lived in the UK (Reading, Sandhurst, Windsor, & boarding school), Germany, & Hong Kong. He moved to Australia as an adult. So we are both English, Irish, & Australian in background, and worldwide in outlook. And we both feel rather hard-done-by to have missed out on the amazing colonial expatriate lives lived by our parents. We can remember it all, and we know what we are missing! Happily, via Facebook, there are lots of Groups for keeping in touch with the Kuwait Oil Company kids, the St Michael's School girls, the l Lived in PNG folk, the Ela Beach Primary kids, and so on. And that's just representing ages 0-13, before starting on friends made at high school, university, college, etc! I have childhood friends all over the world, it's a wonderful thing.
@TheHooverUtube
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Since I serve in a leader care ministry, these findings and observations are very helpful. Thank you. It created quite a discussion at our table tonight with a group of pastors and their wives. I’m wondering if a summary PDF of the key points could be made available???
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