Encouraging TCKs to live victoriously in Christ through articles, interviews, poetry, and letters
TCK life can be lonely and turbulent, but we’re here to help you thrive by inspiring you to root your identity in Jesus. By publishing nonfiction and creative writing around the themes of nomadic life and the Christian faith, we seek to encourage and challenge teenage and young adult TCKs around the globe, reminding them that they are not alone in their struggles.
Every month, we send out an email written by another TCK, sharing stories and lessons from their life.
It’s like getting a letter from a friend who understands just where you are! Subscribe now to get the TCK Letters. Highly relatable. Often entertaining. Always encouraging. Forever free.
Read our interview series: TCK Voices
TCKs seem to be few and far between because we’re scattered all over the globe. Our TCK Voices series exists to show that there are many others like you so that you can be inspired by their stories and learn from their journeys.
If you have a prayer request, share it with us anonymously and our team members will join you in prayer.
We are meant to join each other in both supplication and thanksgiving. Christ does not want us to bear our burdens alone.
Line by line, verse by verse.
Sometimes, the only way to express the experience is through poetry.
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Write for us
Enjoy writing? Consider submitting an article for our blog, a letter for our email list, or even a poem for our collection. We’re looking for the encouraging, the challenging, and the honest.
Tell your story
If you don’t write but still want to share your experiences, we’re always looking for people to feature on our interview series, TCK Voices, so if you have a story to tell, you’ve come to the right place!
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Frequently Asked Questions:
What is a TCK?
TCKs (Third Culture Kids) are people who have spent a significant amount of their developmental years in a culture other than their native culture. The influences of two or more cultures blend together to create a “third culture” that TCKs experience and inhabit.
The TCKs we serve include the children of missionaries, businessmen and women, military personnel, diplomats, multicultural families, etc.
Why write for TCKs?
Firstly, there are a lot of TCKs in the world (upward of 230 million, according to estimates, and only growing with increasing globalization). Secondly, there are a lot of Christian TCKs. (If the number of foreign missionaries in the world is anything to go by — around 430,000 or so — imagine how many missionary kids there are!)
Most people are unaware of Third Culture Kids (including many TCKs themselves) and don’t realize how the TCK experience affects their view of themselves and the world. TCKs face a unique set of challenges. Because they undergo great environmental changes during developmental years, they especially struggle with a sense of identity, cultural belonging, and the continuous experience of grief.
We want to be here for this large, diverse, growing demographic. We want to encourage TCKs because we are TCKs ourselves who have suffered our share of grief and have discovered that there is hope and healing in Jesus.
What about MKs?
Christians are most familiar with MKs (Missionary Kids) — the children of missionaries serving abroad. The difference between MKs and TCKs can be confusing. Because they grow up in a country other than their own, MKs are also TCKs. However, because there are many other kinds of Third Culture Kids, MKs are considered a subset of the umbrella term TCK. All MKs are TCKs, but not all TCKs are MKs.
At TCKs for Christ, we certainly write for MKs, but not only for MKs. There are many Christian kids and teens among other TCK subgroups, and we write for them too. We use the term TCK rather than MK in order to encompass the many different circumstances of Christian kids who grew up abroad. If you’re a Christian and you grew up outside your native culture, then we’re writing for you.
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