What Have I Been Up to?

Hello Everyone,
 
I know that my updates have been few and far between but that is something that I am continuing to work on!
I have been back in the States, home from Cameroon, for a little over a year now. I want to thank you all tremendously for your support and prayers while I was in Cameroon. I know some of you are still partnering with me now and I am grateful for that and want to let you know where that money has been going. I am still a member of Wycliffe and am currently a career member which means I have plans to continue doing missions-work full time. I have been working both with the school in Cameroon and the Wycliffe recruiting department since I have been back. I don’t have many more details on what the future with Wycliffe looks like other than my top three options are: going back to Cameroon, serving as a broader educational consultant for Wycliffe (SIL), or working at a different overseas school. I am waiting on God’s timing to narrow down those choices. If you are still partnering with me your money is going towards my medical insurance with Wycliffe and some basic living expenses. I am grateful to have this support and be confident about my medical insurance right now.
 
You might also be wondering what I have been doing with my time since I arrived back in the states. While in Cameroon I got to know more of the needs of the educational community on the mission field. While there are great teachers, people who love MKs, and have the practical experience of having served them for years, there is a lack of current educational research knowledge on the field. I have always loved looking at the bigger picture of education and curriculum planning so when I came back to the states I enrolled in an M.S. program for Curriculum, Instruction, and Publication at Biola University. Through this program, I have been learning more about how education got to where it is today, the backgrounds of how students learn and the foundations of curriculum development. I have focused my research and studies on the needs of mission students (often more broadly known as TCKs). It has been a challenging program and I have a little over three semesters left.
 
I look forward to continuing to update you all on my plans, progress in my studies and share stories of my time in Cameroon. If you have any questions or specific requests on things to share, let me know! If anyone would like to meet up with me in person, I am back in San Diego for at least the next few months and would love to meet up for a physically distanced picnic or a zoom call.
 
Megan