ADVENTURES with the
Episode №2 harlands
Luke, Belle and baby Salem are the Global Interaction
Ethnic Thai team’s newest recruits.2 They’ve unpacked
their suitcases, worked out where to buy nappies and
navigated their way around town. Here they reflect on
what the transition has been like so far.
W
hen we first decided that
we wanted to work crossculturally one of our pastors
and close friends jokingly said he would
try to scare us out of it. He’d previously
worked in Lesotho and had seen the
rougher side of what a cross-cultural
worker's life could be like, whereas we
had very rose coloured lenses about it
all. He wanted to test our commitment
to this new dream. You’ll be glad to know
that he didn't manage to divert our path
but did start the process of preparation.
He and his wife were the first people
to be totally honest with us about the
struggles of serving cross-culturally.
Right throughout our partnership
development in Queensland we
were intentional about keeping our
expectations realistic. We tried not to
assume too much about the way things
would go and have entered the country
with