A Message from the Founder

Greetings!

I’m Rick Granger, founder of TCKHub.com. I’ve spent the last thirty years working for youth and families in the international community. For most of that thirty years, I have kept thinking there needed to be a one-stop shop where third culture kids, their families, and the people who work with them could find resources. I hope TCK Hub can be that place.

I grew up on a small farm in eastern Pennsylvania and first worked with military kids volunteering in youth ministry while serving in the US military. I went on to study youth ministry at university, where I met and married my wife, Lynsey. Shortly after, we took our first overseas posting together in Thailand and immediately fell in love with working with TCKs and their families. We knew right away we wanted to raise our own children in the international community.

Over these past three decades we lived and worked in Thailand, the US, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands, and South Korea, raising our own TCKs along the way and eventually transitioning from youth ministry into international education. We’re now empty nesters, with all our children back in their passport country. I recently completed doctoral studies on the lived experience of TCKs transitioning home, aptly timed for our family experience, and today I serve as an administrator at an international school in central South Korea.

I hope this site can be the resource I always wished existed. Welcome. I hope you find it useful, and please share it with anyone who might benefit.

Richard Granger, Ed.D.

Founder, TCK Hub