about us
Our mission is to support missionary kids as they navigate the unique challenges of growing up between cultures and transitioning into new stages of life.
We grew up under big African skies, shaped by red dirt roads, fiery sunsets and acacia tree silhouettes. Nathan’s childhood unfolded in Tanzania; Tina’s in Rwanda. Though our stories started in different places, they converged in Mombasa, Kenya, where our families settled and a childhood friendship began. As teenagers, we attended Rift Valley Academy in Kijabe for boarding school—a place that quietly stitched our lives together long before we realized it. College took us briefly in different directions, Nathan to Indiana and Tina to Arizona, but Africa had already written itself into who we were becoming.
It wasn’t until after college, when we both returned to East Africa for humanitarian work, that our friendship deepened into something lasting. We were married in 2008 and spent the next fifteen years telling stories through international photography and photojournalism, drawn to places where hope and hardship lived side by side. In 2020, we felt a new calling and shifted our focus to education, serving in Arizona’s public school system. Now, in 2026, our story is circling back in a way that feels both full and familiar: we are moving our family home to Kijabe, Kenya, returning to the very boarding school that shaped us. This time, we return as teachers and dorm parents—grateful, grounded, and ready to pour back into the place that first taught us who we are.
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