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After being baptised at only 5 years old, Katie felt a clear calling to serve in Asia in her late teens and ended up in Taiwan doing her masters. During this time, she put down roots with a local church, starting a prayer room in her house with some friends and seeking God's will for their area, in Danshui, near Taipei. It was laid on Katie's heart that she was to dedicate her life to this area and, after meeting her Taiwanese husband, they planted a church in the area which they now lead. 

During this interview, Katie explains her heart to walk in God's calling, even at the expense of other dreams, she gives insight into seasons of seeking God and she shares her desire to facilitate opportunities to step out in faith, as Jesus sent out His disciples in Luke 10.

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Christine interviews Ruth Van Reken, member care expert and world-renowned author of bestseller 'Third Culture Kids'. Learn more about Cross-Cultural Kid here.

Ruth discusses her childhood as a TCK - 'Third Culture Kid' and how she did not come to terms with the impact on her life until adulthood. At the age of thirty-nine, she began journaling, trying to understand the full impact of my childhood. Eventually, this journaling became 'Letters I Never Wrote', later re-published as Letters Never Sent. Through that, she not only looked at her story but met and interacted with countless TCKs and adult TCKs (ATCKs) of all backgrounds and nationalities as well. 

Ruth had a desire to be a missionary, which did not go completely as she would have planned it, but throughout a variety of trials, she has learnt much about trusting God and overcoming the difficulties of her upbringing. She is amazed to find just how far-reaching her work has been - not just to expats and refugees, but even children of cross-cultural marriages!  This fascinating, honest and encouraging interview is a worthwhile watch for anybody with involvement in cross-cultural work.

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Grant and Jean are missionaries from South Africa. In this interview, they share their journey leading to work in China, what it was like to have and raise children in a brand new culture. They tell us about continuing to seek the Lord's will throughout their life in mission.  They challenge us not to leave our callings unpursued, but to seek out the Lord's will with the burdens he lays on our hearts. We love this quote from the interview: "We're really trusting God that...people can see if they are willing as well and put up their hands that God can give them an eternal inheritance that far, far outweighs anything we can get in this world!"

Watch this interview as a video: https://fieldpartner.org/interview-grant-jean

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Lydia David is a missionary who has worked in China & Turkey. She was working as an occupational therapist when she was called to serve in China, where she ended up living and working for five years before moving to Canada. A remarkable chain of signs (including a famous shark!) indicated a new calling which led her to Turkey where she moved next, before having to return to the UK for the time being due to health reasons. 

Lydia shares her heart for mission and the many ways the Lord has been faithful in different stages of her life so far, from dealing with the loss of a parent during her youth, to the current struggles of shielding during COVID lockdowns.

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Jennifer Bishop grew up in Burundi and has since lived in various parts of the world. In this interview she shares with Christine about what it is like to be a 'third culture kid' - how it can influence your life and can broaden your world-view. She also tells us about her work with refugees through her church in Australia and the perspective it gave her on the public's perception of these people. 

Jennifer is part the FieldPartner team and also works as a freelance marketing and business consultant. Learn more: http://jenbishopconsulting.com

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Christine Paterson Interviews founder of Great lakes Outreach Simon Guillebaud, who has dedicated most of his life to the nation of Burundi, including becoming a citizen! Simon tells the story of his journey to faith and his remarkable early experiences as a young missionary - expecting to die for the gospel (to the extent of warning his new fiancee that she may be a young widow)! He shares some of the principles that GLO is built upon, to identify, equip and empower the best local leaders of passion, integrity, gifting and vision for the transformation of the nation.  

You can discover more about Great Lakes Outreach (GLO) and their weekly Zoom prayer meetings, as well as watch Onesphore's prayer for Europe & the developed world at the links below. Also, check out our interview with Onesphore Manirakiza - Burundian National Director.

greatlakesoutreach.org 

greatlakesoutreach.org/pray 

Read 'When Helping Hurts' by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert: moodypublishers.com/when-helping-hurts  

FieldPartner is proud to be partners with GLO, you can learn about more of our partners here: fieldpartner.org/our-partners

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A fascinating interview with Brad Thurston, one of the early collaborators with FieldPartner. We get a insight into Brad's remarkable story of faith. From his experiences as a 'missionary kid' in Lebanon during a period of conflict, to his extraordinary journey to faith - spending a year preaching without a personal faith of his own! We hear of his early ministry and the amazing way that God brought Brad and his wife, Jan, together.  

About Globe Mission: "We as a missions agency believe that God has given us the task of assisting individuals with a call to missions both during their time of preparation and once they have reached the field. In doing so we seek to support local sending churches in their worldwide outreach."

Check out Globe Mission here: www.globemission.org/en 

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Henry and Betsy share their experiences of coming to Christ after their marriage, how they felt called to bring to gospel to unreached people after hearing just how many places the gospel has yet to go to. They share their experiences of mission in Mozambique, how many of their colleagues struggled with lack of training which caused them to set up Didasko.

Check out the Didasko Website: www.dasko.org 

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Peter Askew serves cross-culturally in the north of England! His title is “Operations Manager for the Antioch Network Manchester”, an Anglican initiative, which plants churches in ethnically diverse communities and on housing estates across the Diocese of Manchester."  

Pete is an old friend of the Patersons, Ross and Christine knew him when he was growing up in York, where his parents and they were involved in planting a church together (now known as Gateway Church in Acomb). In this interview Pete speaks of his own experiences as a young person working in different parts of Africa. But the real challenge he gives to the church in the UK is to see that “the world is now on our doorstep” - so many nationalities from across the globe now live within our borders that we can now obey the Great Commission just by crossing the street! However, we might still be well advised to get some cross-cultural training, and Pete kindly recommends FieldPartner’s courses to that end.

For more on the Antioch Network in Manchester, go to: www.antiochnetwork.org.uk 

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Christina Winrich was born in Wisconsin, came to faith as a musician working in France and then rashly offered the Lord a whole year of her life to serve Him in missions! After taking 3 short-term mission trips (one to South America and two to China), she landed up on a a year’s cross-cultural programme run by our Antioch School of Missions in China.  

Her one year ultimately became five in China, largely spent using her skills as a special needs educator, then teaching oral English in a university. After that, she went for specific Bible training in Canada and eventually moved on to serve in Japan with Overseas Missionary Fellowship.  

In this interview Christina shares openly about the challenges and joys of serving God in another culture (or two!). She shares movingly of how the Lord redirected her towards “less than 1% Christian” Japan and about the hard work of mastering a second Asian language with characters (though it does have a kind of alphabet as well!).

For more on OMF Japan, go to: www.omf.org/asia/japan 

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