Tag: Transitions

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Crisis Plans and Communication Challenges

Support from Sending Organizations

With compromised computers and uncertainty as to which forms of communication were still OK to use, organizations struggled to be in regular contact with their workers and acknowledged that some of their people felt left out and lonely when they needed their organization's presence and support.

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The Impact of Leaving on the Kids

How to help children face the uncertainties and trauma of an unexpected departure. 

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The Need for Professional Help

Having to leave your home in China suddenly is not just difficult, it is a trauma and should not be taken lightly.

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When Our Dream Came to a Halt

That was the beginning of a month and a half of interrogations until we left China, my husband with a “ten days to leave the country” stamp in his passport.

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When the Dream Comes to a Halt

A series on caring for those who have left China. 

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If You Sell and I Give Away—Can We Still Be Friends?

Sell, sort, ship, give away, or leave by the curb? What do we do with our stuff when it is time to move?

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Home, James

A Book Recommendation

"It takes more than a passport to feel at home."

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Supporting Children in Cross-Cultural Transition

A reader responds to "Kids in Transition."

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Transitions Large and Small

Transition can point the way to a time of searching that reveals something deeper taking place in one’s life.

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Of Returns and Runways

The author shares the experiences of his family and God’s provisions after leaving China and returning to the United States.