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Welcome to this blog for SIM MKs, survivors of abuse from other missions and anyone else who knows and loves these people. I believe SIM should be taking a more active role in helping their MKs who were abused at Kent Academy and other boarding schools. I also talk about developments at other missions related …

News From the Front, and How YOU Can Help

It's been a while! Things are beginning to happen in the survivor's struggle during the last couple years. We are starting to see some tiny chinks in the armor of SIM, who has up until now been turning a blind eye to historical abuse of their MKs. If you haven't heard about some of this …

Ethnos360 (formerly New Tribes Mission) and Child Safety

Ethnos360, formerly called New Tribes Mission, released a document in February 2020 called Ethnos360 and Child Safety, where they give a historical account and explanation of their response to child abuse within their organization. They released it publicly on their website, only in a place where most visitors are unlikely to ever stumble across it. …

A Look Back and A Look Forward

It has been a while since I wrote on this blog, so I decided to do an update of  the mission organizations that I have been following, and what is happening with SIM. Ethnos360, formerly called New Tribes Mission: Wonder why they changed their  name? To go back about 10 years, MKs from other boarding …

New Tribes MKs Speak Out on the Today Show

I can't begin to tell you how much I love these courageous women who are continuing to speak out about their abusers, who have still not been held accountable! The first video is the clip from the Today Show. Follow the second link to hear comment from Boz Tchividjian. https://youtu.be/S0rrcoFZI-0   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/embedded-video/mmvo1439146563666

Missionary Kid: How I Learned to Say Goodbye by John Haines

“You see, dear reader, the past is never far from any of us. Its presence has a way of growing as more and more time goes by. Like a continuous but imperceptible whisper, the past is always there. ” In his book Missionary Kid: How I Learned to Say Goodbye, John Haines gives a humorous …

SIM swings from one extreme to the other on child abuse policy.

Recently an MK contacted me to tell me about a situation that has been going on with his family and SIM USA. The story is written out in detail on the blog SIM Persecution. This is basically a story of a man who served with SIM for 25 years, suddenly being accused of child abuse …

Understanding Grief as an MK

As missionary kids we have a history of abuse and/or abandonment.  If it didn't happen to us, we saw it happening to someone else.  We were not unique among the children of the world. No matter where you go there are plenty of children living in horrific situations. One thing that does make us unique is …

Read a Letter from SIM International Director to MKs

A dear friend and fellow MK who attended Kent Academy messaged me the other day to see if I had seen this letter. It came to her from simroots@sim.org. As you can see it is addressed to all SIM Mks. I never received a copy even though I thought I was on the Simroots mailing list. …

When We Were Young in Africa by Carol Claxon Polsgrove

"O waste of lost, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this weary, unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.” ― Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward …

The Years the Locusts Have Eaten

Today (Saturday May 14) I added some information to the post about the Pii investigation. I realize it was a long post to begin with, but if you scroll down the page you will find the new paragraphs are in italics and easy to spot. They are in the section titled "The Timeline of Abuse". Have …