This is part 4 of a 5 part series, titled: The Boarding School Dilemma – Balancing Mission and Family – The Kids’ Viewpoint. So far in this series, you learned about the challenges of handling the dilemma of serving in missions while sending your children to a boarding school for 8-10 weeks at a time. That was followed with an episode describing the Ubangi Academy (UBAC) and how the school and dormitory ran and functioned. Then the parents viewpoint was Episode 3, and their struggles in justifying their ministries while separating their families. This episode will focus on the kids. I interview 3 kids that entered the UBAC experience at differing ages and from different background circumstances. In addition, I cite numerous comments from the surveys I’d circulated to dorm attendees, to get a broad spectrum of experiences and perspectives. What is clear, is that especially for the young children sent away, many experienced emotional and physical trauma. Others fared well and thrived in the environment and have no negative feelings as adults as to the experience. Many positives from the dorm tenure led to life traits, character building and shaped people as adults. Others struggled into adulthood from some negative aspects of the dorm experience and their stories are shared as well. Special thanks to my interviewees: Peter Eales, Peter Transburg, and Tom Peters. Also, thanks to Lynda Garber, Brad Cairns, Jeff Aiken, and Christine Thorpe for their audio clips. Thanks too for the kids that returned the surveys, and the numerous voice-over contributors to quote the survey responses from many others.
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Another great episode. Thanks, Jeff.