Your Story.
His Faithfulness.

1. Tell us a little about yourself.

Are you a Pastor’s Kid, Missionary Kid, or both?
How long have your parents/family been in ministry?
What was it like growing up in a ministry family?

2. What are some of the things you loved about growing up as a PMK?

What experiences, people, opportunities, or memories are you grateful for?

3. When did you first realize that being a PMK was different from simply being another child in the church?

Was there a particular experience or season that made you aware of the expectations attached to being a pastor’s or missionary’s child?

4. What were some of the struggles you experienced as a PMK?

You may talk about areas such as:

expectations and pressure
feeling watched or judged
loneliness or isolation
difficulty trusting people
identity struggles
family and ministry boundaries
church hurt
pressure to appear spiritually strong
questions about God or the Church
burnout
rebellion or living a double life
difficulty finding people who understood you

You don't have to share details you are not ready or comfortable sharing.

5. During your hardest season, what did you wish the adults around you understood about you?

What did you need that perhaps you did not know how to ask for at the time?

6. Did you have someone or somewhere you considered a “safe place”?

Someone you could talk to honestly without immediately being judged, corrected, compared, or expected to protect your family's ministry image?

If yes, how did that relationship help you?

If no, what difference do you think having that kind of relationship could have made?

7. Was there ever a season when your personal relationship with Jesus became different from simply being “the pastor’s child” or “the missionary’s child”?

Tell us about that journey.

8. How did Jesus meet you in your struggles?

Was there a particular encounter, Scripture, person, season, failure, conversation, or experience through which you began to see Him differently?

9. What did Jesus have to heal, correct, restore, or redefine in you?

How has He changed the way you see:

yourself,
your parents,
the Church,
ministry,
and God as your Father?

10. Where are you now in your journey with Jesus?

Your story does not have to be completely resolved. What is Jesus currently teaching, healing, rebuilding, or forming in you?

11. If something like Safe Place had existed during the season when you needed support most, would you have wanted to be part of it? Would you have wanted to be part of Safe Place? Choose Yes, Maybe or NoYesMaybeNo

Why?

12. What would have made a Safe Place meaningful to you?

What kind of environment, relationships, conversations, mentoring, activities, or support would have helped you feel:

“There is a place for me here.”

13. What could make a PMK afraid or hesitant to join something like Safe Place?

What should we be careful not to do?

14. What do you believe PMKs today need most from their parents, churches, mentors, and spiritual leaders?

15. If you could help us build Safe Place for the next generation of PMKs, what would you tell us?

“Please make sure Safe Place is a place where…”

Complete the sentence in your own words.

16. What would you say to a Pastor’s Kid or Missionary Kid who is currently going through what you once went through?

Speak to them as though they were sitting across the table from you.

17. What would you want ministry parents and church leaders to understand about their children?

18. Finish this sentence:

“Through everything I have been through, Jesus…”