Shannon's Corner

  SHANNON’S CORNER September 2021 You know you are a Third Culture Kid when…Your life story uses the phrase “Then we moved to…” three (or four, or five…) times. You know you are a Third Culture Kid when…You can’t answer the question:  “Where are you from?” TCK Identity I had the privilege of working with seven precious kids and teens, ages ranging from three to sixteen.  I was honored that they opened up their “heart packs” to me as we processed through their experiences and how it impacted their lives and the feelings attached with them.  Each one had a story to share about their experience of living overseas and returning to the states.   We did many activities and art projects to help elicit their story so that they could process their emotions.  One activity that all the kids and teens enjoyed was a journey through grief.  They had a map of where they were on reality mountain and had to get to springs of new normal but had ...

  SHANNON’S CORNER August 2021 As I reflect over this month to write this newsletter, one thing keeps bubbling up.  God nudging me out of my comfort zone, which has gotten a little wider since starting this mission journey back in 2004 when he first called me into full-time missions.  I feel God has been nudging me around equipping by producing more content regarding member care.  I have been producing content throughout the years, health education and Bible studies and more recently in developing some trainings for Safe Place Ministry and for BCM Peru.  In some of my conversations with Safe Place, I have received the opportunity to create and write content for a member care manual that would help in equipping missionaries and member care providers.  Safe Place Ministry would help to edit what I write and produce the manuals that would be sold on their website.  Safe Place Ministry is interested in developing webinettes (6...

   SHANNON’S CORNER July 2021 I remember the many times of touring the Franciscan Monastery in Lima, Peru, seeing the beautiful artwork and cathedral.  One part of the tour is to go down into the catacombs.  As you walk down you get this damp, musty smell that greets you.  The lighting is very dim, and it is pretty solemn.  As the guide is sharing about the history of the catacombs you are walking in between rows of dry bones that go three to four feet deep.  Most of the bones seem to be from the arms and legs.  Then you walk over to this big well-like or cistern like object and look over the edge and it is filled with skulls.  I know that this was their cemetery but it just felt so strange to walk among so many bones and I know that what we saw were not all the bones that were there in the catacombs just what was on display for tourists to see. When I read the passage in Ezekiel 37:1-14, God leads Ezekiel t...