This week's Mom who is changing the world is my dear friend Tricia Blackford, who is raising her children cross-culturally with her husband as missionaries in Chad, Africa. We have a rich conversation about a gratitude-filled life, raising 6 young children in another country, exploring race and culture with children and encouragement for home schooling/distance learning. Plus she is an author of three books to help those living cross-culturally, sharing prayer with children and adults, and coping when a partner travels for work.

Tricia Blackford was born in New Jersey to Armenian-American parents. She moved at age 5 to Dallas/Forth Worth Texas and grew up there. Tricia studied Kinesiology and Science at College Texas Women's University then earned her Physical Therapy degree at Texas Women's University on 2000, worked at the county hospital before moving to Sudan to work in 2006. Met her American husband in Sudan and married in 2008 and has lived in Sudan, Egypt and Chad. She has six beautiful, "world-hearted" kids ages 1-11 years.  

Host: Ekua Walker, Peds NP and CEO - Chief Encouragement Officer

Producer: Koby Blankson

Podcast Art: Esther and Joel Ishler

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