In this episode of Life Unwasted, Kyumin and Caleb talk with Micah, a Brazilian missionary kid who grew up between West Africa and South America, in dangerous neighborhoods and strict boarding schools. Micah shares what it meant to live between cultures, lose a close friend in high school, and slowly reevaluate — and ultimately leave — the faith that shaped his childhood. Join us for this incredible interview with another fantastic missionary kid…

In This Episode, We Talk About:

• Micah’s parents’ experience of being sent to boarding school in Senegal at a very young age

• Growing up Brazilian while being educated in Western, evangelical school systems

• Learning English quickly and living in a part of Africa where daily life included real danger

• Attending a New Tribes boarding school in Brazil and what that environment was like

• The death of a close high school friend and how that loss shaped Micah’s view of God, risk, and calling

• What it feels like to live “between cultures” without a clear sense of home

• Micah’s outside-looking-in view of American white evangelicalism

• The long, quiet process of questioning and eventually leaving the church

• How he’s now thinking about meaning, community, and his own story on the other side of faith