2010 Speakers
Annemie Grosshauser | Annemie Grosshauser is a psychologist and member care consultant within the international missions community, specialising in trauma and crisis counselling. She has previously worked in East Africa and Central Asia. She has 4 adult TCKs of her own. She will present during the plenary session on families in crisis. |
Janet Chapman | Janet has been involved in TCK ministry with OMF International since 1984. She taught TCKs in Malaysia and then The Philippines. Now also a trained counsellor based in the UK, she makes annual visits to Asia. She has developed children's orientation materials, co-leads ReKonnect re-entry camps for 6-12 year olds and leads international teams on TCK programmes at conferences. She will co-present the seminars on pre-field orientation for children and on re-entry camps for younger children. |
Gill Bryant | Gill Bryant is a TCK who is the international MK Consultant to WEC along with Steve. Gill was at Bourofaye Christian School along with Steve and their 3 sons from 1990 to 2001 where she taught history and French. She now also teaches English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) at Wiltshire College. She will be leading the English Language Learning seminar. |
Steve Bryant | Steve Bryant is the International MK Consultant to WEC International along with his wife Gill. They taught at Bourofaye Christian School in Senegal from 1990 to 2001 where Steve was the headmaster from 1993 onwards. Steve will lead one of the seminars on multilingualism and coordinate the teachers & educational consultants' discussion group. |
Kezia Schoonveld | Kezia Schoonveld is the MK Consultant to WEC Netherlands. Along with her husband Alex she worked for several years in Ghana before returning to the Netherlands to take up her current role. In recent years she has also taken on chairing MK Focus Netherlands, the cross-agency group dedicated to the care and education of Dutch MKs. She will lead the workshop on Care from the Word Go. |
Marion Knell | Marion Knell has worked for many years with Global Connections in the UK. She previously worked with her husband Bryan for Arab World Ministries and they have 3 adult children and are now grandparents. Marion is the author of well-known books such as "Families on the Move" and "Burn-up or Splash-down" Marion will lead the workshop on TCKs in transition. |
Gill Cheffy | Gill Cheffy is the European MK Consultant to Wycliffe Bible Translators. She and her husband Ian worked in Cameroon for several years where she home educated her children. She is a regular participant at the IMKEC conferences. Gill will be organising and contributing in a number of different places throughout the conference. |
Carola Keil | Carola worked at Murree Christian School for some years before returning with her family to Germany. She is now part of the MK Care Germany team with a responsibility for school and educational issues. As a member of the EIMESC group formed out of Eurotck 2007, she has a keen interest in promoting education for European MKs including learning the academic mother tongue. She will lead the second multilingualism seminar on this issue. |
Solveig Lande | Solveig has worked for many years with her husband Bjoern in psychiatry in Norway. They are regular contributors to member care and TCK conferences and have specific interests in child protection and welfare issues. They will lead the seminar on attachment theory and its relevance to TCK development. |
Käthi Schmid | Käthi served as teacher for several years in Ivory Coast. Since returning to Switzerland she has continued to serve missions as OMF Switzerland's TCK Adviser and working on various mission committees. She is committed to debriefing and re-entry support, both within OMF and more widely in French-speaking Switzerland. She and her husband have 3 adult TCKs who were all born in Ivory Coast. Kathi will co-lead the Debriefing workshop with Debbie Lovell Hawker. |
Wania Honman | Wania is a Brazilian married to a South African living in the UK. They both serve at WEC International's centre to the north-west of London. They have 2 children, Lydia 5 and Daniel 4. She gives pre-field orientation for the WEC candidates' children and is learning "on the go" the mystery of being in a cross-cultural marriage and lifestyle. She will present in these seminars. |
David & Janet Kronbach | David and Janet have been involved in TCK care for almost 14 years, first as dorm parents in W Africa, then at Gatehouse Ministries home for college-age TCKs in Redding California, where 42 young people lived with them over 8 years. The now serve with Barnabas International, where one of their roles is to direct a 13-day programme for TCKs in transition to university. They live now in Seattle with their 2 adult sons and daughter-in-law. |
Marjory Foyle | From 1949 Marjory worked as a mission doctor in India and Nepal before specialising in psychiatry and directing the Nur Manzil Psychiatric Centre in Lucknow. On "retirement" in 1981 she began to travel worldwide to investigate mental and general health needs in the mission community. She also founded Membercare, wrote a thesis on expatriate mental health for London University and wrote 2 books "Honourably Wounded" and the autobiography "Can it be me?" She will co-present the workshop on psychological health issues with Rachel Cason. |
Stephen & Yolanda Jerrard | Stephen and Yolanda work with New Tribes Mission. They served as house parents for several years in W Africa and Papua New Guinea. They are now based at NTM's European Training Centre in the UK. Their ministries involve member care, personnel and TCK care. They have 3 children of their own. Yolanda will co-present the seminar on pre-field orientation for children and share about their own evacuation experiences in the Families in Crisis plenary. Stephen will be helping coordinate the evening discussions and worship times. |
Claudio Muzzi | Claudio has been involved in mission for 19 years in training, humanitarian aid and leadership development across Latin America, Africa and Europe. Orginally from Argentina, he has lived in the UK since 2000 with his wife, Miriam, and their 4 children. They have experienced the challenges and joys of settling and working in another culture. He now serves as an independent cross-cultural trainer and member care provider, assisting individuals, families, teams and agencies in many countries. |
Guillermo (Bill) Eddy | Bill was born to missionary parents in Cuba and raised in Panama. He and his wife have been ministering in Spain since 1980. 5 years ago they started the Kampa CTC; an all expenses paid camp for Latin American teen MKs from Spain and neighbouring countries. They help MKs in their adaptation to the host country and in coming to peace with who they are and with Jesus. In the last 2 years they have held numerous events for Latin American and Arab immigrant teens. He is also involved in evangelism and running retreats for Latin American and Spanish pastors. Bill will lead the workshop on supporting TCKs in the host country. |
Ann Christian | Ann served with SIM at Carachipampa Christian School (CCS) in Bolivia from 1991 - 2007 as a science teacher and for ten years as director. CCS has a bilingual student body with 45% Bolivian students. Having also spent a year as the principal of Sahel academy, Ann has a wide experience of international schools and the problems of trying to meet the needs of a range of nationalities amongst the staff and students. She now works with SIM UK as a regional mobiliser and education consultant. She will contribute in the Europeans in International Education workshop. |
Moira Smith | Moira trained as a primary teacher in Scotland. Her first mission experience was 2 years as a home school tutor in rural Thailand back in the 1980s. In 1999, after 11 more years in Scottish primary schools, she returned to Asia to teach at Chefoo School in Malaysia before moving to Singapore as the Coordinator for Home School Support with OMF International. Until 2009 she was also a part-time educational consultant with the Asia Education Resource Consortium. She will lead the workshop on "Non-Traditional Education - A Blessing or a Burden?" |
Christine Bryant | Christine has been teaching at Bourofaye Christian School (BCS) in Senegal for 3½ years. BCS is run by WEC and caters for missionary kids whose parents are working with a range of different missions across West Africa. They have more than 16 different nationalities amongst the student body. Having first taught for 6 years in Australian secondary schools, she now teaches science, French, English and maths to scondary students. She will contribute to the Europeans in International Education workshop. |
Rachel Cason | Born and raised in West Africa to missionary parents, Rachel is now pursuing her Sociology Doctorate to better understand the ways in which being a TCKinforms the connections made between place and identity. She is currently conducting fieldwork in a range of TCK communities (international schools - secular and mission, internet groups and other networks). She will co-present with Marjory Foyle in the session on Psychologically Healthy Children. |
Martin Lee | Martin Lee is the Director of Global Connections, the UK missions network, and the facilitator of the European Evangelical Mission Association. He previously worked for CORD, a mission working with refugees and others affected by conflict, especially children. He was part of the group set up in the 90s to look at abuse in refugee settings and has 25+ years experience of selecting staff to work with vulnerable children. In 2005 he chaired the working group in Global Connections that produced the first guidelines for missions and churches working in this area. |
Alison Caligari | Alison is a secondary teacher with 18 years' experience of working with children of all abilities, with a particular heart for those with special educational needs. She was at Bourofaye Christian School from 2007-2009, along with her teenage son, serving in her second year as the headteacher.She will lead the seminar on special educational needs in mission schools and families. |
Aslaug Austbo | Aslaug is a trained teacher who taught at the Norwegian School in Addis Ababa for 5½ years. During that time she chaired a committee for facilitating a home school programme for missionary kids, then worked as an adviser to home schooling parents. She has since earned a Masters in Theology and is currently on leave from her job as a pastor to chair a project called "Multicultural Childhood" for the Norwegian Mission Society. |
Kari Margrethe Solvang | Kari Margrethe is working with the Norwegian Lutheran Mission as the coordinator of the survey among TCKs. She has a Bachelor degree in Theology and a Masters in Education Science having focused on "Value-based Management". Together with Aslaug Austbo she will present the seminar on TCK Research and its Application - based on the major survey that she has coordinated. |
