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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Third culture

 In the early 1980s, I was invited to a strategic gathering. 

Large group. All different ages. Raised in countries on every continent. Brought together on purpose. 

Why? To gain understanding of a term coined by Ruth Hill Useem in the 1950s. 

And now found in Webster’s dictionary.

Third culture kid. TCK.

TCK. At church in Indonesia.
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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples Memoir

Untracked land

Untracked land. Most vivid on days marked by change. Upheaval. 

When planned schedules sit. Unattended. Calendars, set aside. 

And we enter unknown spaces. 

On such a day, I remember the quote. Handwritten on a scrap of paper years ago. Placed on my desk. 

Amy Carmichael’s words. 

Untracked land.
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