Who we are

We are the Goll family, Robert/高阳, Elyse /云虹, Elijah/天义 (2010), Isaiah/天成 (2014), Josiah/天为 (2018), Moriah/天珊 (2023) and Olivia/天琳 (2026).

We are a cross culture family team for 3rd Culture Living. (Read how we met across oceans or our Journey.) My husband, Rob, and I co-author the blog posts. Rob also takes care of the technical issues to keep the site running smoothly.

After moving from the big city in China in 2010, we lived in the suburbs in Ohio for 13 years and moved to the country in Brighton, Missouri in 2023.

While looking for houses in the country, we were open to smaller houses with three boys as long as the property fit our needs. Little did we know, the Lord would graciously bless us with another girl, Moriah, in 2023. Then, just when we were thinking we were too old to have another child, we had our century baby, Olivia, in 2026. I say century baby because her parents’ ages added up would be 96, almost a century! So if you are wondering whether you are too old to have another child, hopefully you are encouraged to have the faith to receive the Lord’s blessings.

We enjoy family time, simple living, exploring the wonder of God’s work in nature and human life. We are learning, relearning or unlearning cultural expectations as we learn to live as citizens for the Kingdom above.

Interested to know more about what this site is about? Read “What is 3rd Culture Living” and “Why this Site“.