ABOUT mkPLANET
mkPLANET is a growing community designed and run by current missionary kids (MKs) and adult missionary kids (AMKs) as an active community providing information, interaction, and support.
OUR MISSION & VISION
Mission Statement:
- mkPLANET is a growing community designed and run by current missionary kids (MKs) and adult missionary kids (AMKs) that strives to provide a safe and open environment for interaction, information, and support on MK/TCK-related issues.
Vision Statement:
- Community:
To become a multicultural community that focuses on the growth of meaningful connections among MKs, their families, and member care workers, to provide them with social and emotional support, and to facilitate dialogue among MKs surrounding issues unique to the MK/TCK lifestyle. - Networking:
To develop partnerships and facilitate a growing network of helpful supports and resources among MKs, their families, MK/TCK care agencies, sending churches and mission organizations. - Resources:
To offer MKs of all ages the opportunity to recognize, sharpen, and take ownership of the knowledge and skills that the MK/TCK lifestyle provides, and to equip them for the unique role they can play in the world around them through print and digital material, conferences, seminars, workshops, and networking.To provide educational material and resources that MK/TCK care agencies, sending churches and mission organizations can use to better serve the MK community.
To continue to explore other ways to support and/or facilitate work with and by MKs both in their home countries and abroad.
ABOUT JOEL & DANA
Dana
Founder, Administrator, Moderator
In October 2004 Dana founded mkPLANET with the hope of bringing together MKs of all ages from around the world for fun, friendship, and support. Spending her childhood as an MK in Germany and Austria, Dana returned to Canada at the age of nine. Here she and her family continued the nomadic lifestyle, moving to several locations in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario. She and her husband, Joel, currently live in Ontario where she is completing her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree. Future hopes and plans include a career in community-based social work, having a family, and continuing to serve MKs through mkPLANET.
Joel
Administrator, Moderator, Tech Guy
Joel was born into the life of an MK in 1973, while his parents were still in missions training in Missouri, and at the age of 11 months he arrived in Indonesia where he grew up. The language and culture became second nature to him and often took precedence over his native born background of the US. In 1993 he attended Bible School, and it was there that he first learned what being a TCK is all about. Over the years Joel has realized more and more that he has a passion for working overseas and being involved in the lives of other MKs and TCKs.
