Coming home from the mission field can be ambivalent. Reverse culture shock is a hard thing to explain. You really have to experience it to understand. Little things seem so special; like walking on carpet, talking to strangers in English, streets on grid patterns, thick toilet paper, ice cubes, and silence.
But other things can be overwhelming. Growing in different ways from friends and family makes home feel foreign. The variety of choices in the grocery store can be crippling. The chasm between American wealth and third world poverty is heart wrenching. Stepping forward into your next season of life can feel daunting.
That is why Kingdom Dreams created Project: Searchlight for the hundreds of World Racers that come off the field every year. We want to take out the shock and anxiety of moving forward by providing coaching and networking into their next steps. 120 World Racers just came home this past week and we are expecting already more then 100 to come to the six day conference Project: Searchlight in January.
Here is a funny video my team made to welcome them home. Most of the video was filmed at my house in Georgia.
