by Kayla Norris | Dec 12, 2016 | Missionary Kids, YWAM DTS
There are damp tissues in my coat pocket. “Are you okay?” Justine calls out behind me in the dark. “No,” I moan, and march on ahead. I drop her freshly-packed bag on the backseat of my car, Henry (named for Mr. Ford), and then collapse behind...
by Kayla Norris | Nov 12, 2016 | Kids & Teaching, Missionary Kids, Missions Trips
I have some catching up to do. At the beginning of the year I set a goal to read 16 books and blog about each. The general idea was 16 new books, but I failed at that as soon as I picked up an Anne of Green Gables book. And when I found The Help in a Fijian secondhand...
by Kayla Norris | Nov 12, 2016 | Missionary Kids
Dear America, I spent most of my life being ashamed of you. My US passport made it easy to travel, but I was always more proud of my New Zealand passport. I told myself it was because it was different, unique. But the underlying truth was that I was glad to have an...
by Kayla Norris | Sep 20, 2016 | Missionary Kids, YWAM DTS
“He invented DTSes?!” I thought they were always in existence. I mean, as a six-year-old I knew YWAM wasn’t as old as Christianity, but it kind of felt like it. I was shocked when I found out that one of our most common speakers at Ohana gatherings was actually a...
by Kayla Norris | Apr 16, 2016 | Missionary Kids, University
“Do you know, I’m beginning to feel a little bit like a stranger in Avonlea now? It makes me sorry – but it’s true. It’s quite appalling to see the number of children who have shot up into big boys and girls – really young men and women– these...
by Kayla Norris | Mar 6, 2016 | Missionary Kids, YWAM DTS
Write a blog post about going home after DTS, sounds simple, right? We got “Reentry” teaching in Debrief Week. You know, the pot-holed road of arriving back after international travel, finding a community to connect to, staying touch with friends across...
