by Kayla Norris | May 18, 2018 | Missionary Kids
“This food isn’t great. How do you handle eating it every day?” a new student on the YWAM (Youth With A Mission) campus asked, her face scrunched up. I was sitting at the cafeteria, the plates in front of us heaped with chicken and rice. Instead of her question, I...
by Kayla Norris | Apr 27, 2018 | Missionary Kids
Culture shock hits me hardest in Target. In New Zealand, Target is a furniture store no one seems to go to. In America, it’s my first stop for just about anything (well, except Costco pizza). Sure, it’s not the best quality and you could go to other places for cheap...
by Kayla Norris | Jan 30, 2018 | Missionary Kids, Missions Trips, YWAM DTS
Just after takeoff, I wipe my face and my forearms voraciously– as if I can wipe off the Himalayas in a minute. Is a city stuck to my skin? Is a country underneath my fingernails? It would appear so. The tan line from shoulders-covered and modest pants, the hints of...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 20, 2017 | Loving Jesus, Missionary Kids
It was scripted long ago: Surely I am coming soon. Yet most of my life I’ve had a detached view on that statement, while feeling guilty that I really should feel more when I hear it. End times, Revelation, the whole Bible is lunging toward the second coming of Jesus....
by Kayla Norris | Feb 5, 2017 | Missionary Kids, University
I think everyone who has moved countries remembers the first time they arrived. You just can’t help it. There’s something about “firsts” that stick in your memory– the thoughts, the smells, the feelings, the sights. You protect the memory with a mysterious jealousy,...
by Kayla Norris | Dec 21, 2016 | Missionary Kids
I’m dreamin’ tonight of a place I love Even more than I usually do And although I know it’s a long road back I promise you, I’ll be home for Christmas It started when I was two years old. I had my first “international” Christmas...
