On this episode, we talk with TCK, friend, and co-founder of the podcast, Colton Shrader (TCK to Peru).

Join our conversation as we talk about leading with your God-given strengths and how we can find hope and joy knowing that God is good and has purposes beyond what we can understand in a singular moment. You’ll hear Colton share about what God is teaching him through his Master’s in Organizational Leadership to become a ‘courageous follower.’ This episode offers great perspective to high school and college seniors who are considering their future.

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HOST: Michelle Ellis

SONG: Sunscreen by Vic Davi

SHOW NOTES:
11:30, 29:16 | CliftonStrengths Assessment 2.0
25:10 | Daniel 2:36-45 - Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and expresses his concerns
25:45 | Daniel 6 - Daniel opens his windows to pray
28:34 | The Courageous Follower by Ira Chaleff
39:08 | Ica, Peru

KEY QUOTES:
18:14 | “He's a strategic God that thinks way farther ahead than we have the ability to think, and He placed you where you are with a purpose.”
18:43 |  “We have this unprecedented opportunity as TCKs to be developed in ways that so many people would never have an opportunity to do".”
20:29 | “A ‘successful’ TCK will look at that and accept that there will be threats, but there will also be opportunities. So how do we take advantage of those and choose to say, ‘I'm going to approach this from the perspective that I'm not a victim [but] that I am a chosen son of God or daughter of God.”
23:27 | “We don’t have to approach [things] with hopelessness and despair.”
26:12 | “The spirit that  I think we need to have as TCK is this, ‘no matter where I am, no matter the circumstance; I'm in a new culture, I’m in a new place, but my God is good and He has not abandoned me. At no point did my God abandoned me.”
37:01 | “Trust God that He’s designed you for this time and this place.”

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COMMON TERMS:
TCK - third culture kid
MK - missionary kid
LAC - Latin America Caribbean