Episode 37 – The Boarding School Dilemma – Balancing Mission and Family – The Kids’ Viewpoint – Part 4 of 5 – 5/10/25

About this episode

This episode focuses on the experiences of children attending boarding school, highlighting both positive and negative impacts on their lives.

Kids and a few parents – Heading to UBAC Band Concert at UBAC Graduation Processional 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…

People in this episode

Host: Congo Kid

Guests: Peter Eales, Peter Transburg, Tom Peters

Topics covered

• boarding school
• missions
• children's experiences
• emotional trauma
• family separation

Keywords

• boarding school
• children
• missions
• emotional trauma
• UBAC
• family
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ubangi Academy

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