Dianne Sivulka, Part 1
Women Worth KnowingMarch 26, 202400:26:011.52 KB

Dianne Sivulka, Part 1

In the next two episodes, Robin introduces us to a lovely woman who is the Development Director for Tirzah International. Tirzah is a faith-based, global, non-profit ministry that provides opportunities for marginalized women through small business training, leadership development, and local sustainability initiatives. Dianne shared with us how this work is being carried out in difficult places in the world. Several years ago, Dianne founded another company called Travel on Purpose, where she provides unique travel experiences that combine cultural immersion, community-based tourism, and the opportunity to see how God is at work in fascinating global locations.Dianne shared about her journey with the Lord and how, as a homeschooling mom, wife and women's ministry leader, she began serving with these two influential ministries.

Dianne and her husband have two sons and live in San Diego. They have traveled to more than fifty countries with the goal of integrating education and philanthropy. Their experiences are recorded on an award-winning blog called OurEDventures.

https://tirzah.org
https://www.travelonpurpose.com

[00:00:00] Welcome to Women Worth Knowing, the radio program and podcast hosted by Cheryl Brodersen

[00:00:10] and Robin Jones Gunn.

[00:00:12] You know what we have discovered?

[00:00:14] We have discovered that there are so many Christian women with fascinating stories.

[00:00:21] Some of these are missionaries, some are musicians, some are reformers, some are authors

[00:00:25] or wives, mothers, single women.

[00:00:28] But there are examples to all of us and they inspire us and that's why we do this program

[00:00:34] isn't it Robin?

[00:00:35] Yes it is.

[00:00:36] Bring it to you every week.

[00:00:37] We can so excited when we jump in the car to come here to do the recording in the studio.

[00:00:42] Today our guest is Diane Savolchia.

[00:00:45] Did I say correct?

[00:00:46] Savolchia.

[00:00:47] Savolchia says.

[00:00:48] I know.

[00:00:49] I know.

[00:00:50] I'm sure all of them do the introduction.

[00:00:52] Diane welcome.

[00:00:53] Thank you.

[00:00:54] Good to be here.

[00:00:55] I'm so glad you invited me.

[00:00:57] We are too.

[00:00:58] And I've got to ask real quick, Silvolchia.

[00:01:01] What is it that you must know the ethnicity?

[00:01:04] Check.

[00:01:05] Check.

[00:01:06] See that's why we were like, Silvolchia.

[00:01:08] I don't know why that won't stick in my head.

[00:01:10] So here's the interesting thing.

[00:01:12] Diane and I ran into each other several months ago and sort of looked at each other like

[00:01:16] I think I know you and I had was at an event that she was hosting for a ministry that

[00:01:24] she's going to tell us about an international ministry.

[00:01:26] So of course the international ministry, women I'm there.

[00:01:30] And when we started talking, we realized I was on her the newsletter list which is how

[00:01:36] I found out about the Tierza event.

[00:01:39] But also Diane said you came and spoke at our church women's retreat many moons go probably

[00:01:47] 20 years.

[00:01:48] Oh wow.

[00:01:49] 20 years I think.

[00:01:51] 20 years ago.

[00:01:53] And so we had these overlapping lives but then when we started talking and I found out more

[00:01:59] about what she's doing now, I thought, oh we have to have her on the program.

[00:02:03] I know because you have been telling me for months.

[00:02:06] I think we've been trying to coordinate a time to do in studio.

[00:02:10] We did.

[00:02:12] But here you are and we're so excited.

[00:02:14] And Cheryl has some overlapping.

[00:02:17] Well I know Diane's father-in-law and I was thinking this is going to be your mother-in-law

[00:02:24] and your mother-in-law coming into studio.

[00:02:27] And so we met in the hallway and I was like, you know, hi do you work at K-Way?

[00:02:31] Wait a minute.

[00:02:32] You probably have your own key and she's like no I don't have a key.

[00:02:35] I'm actually your guest today.

[00:02:36] It's like, oh hi.

[00:02:37] Sorry about that.

[00:02:38] I'm like wait and I'm looking at her going, well you look so young because I'm expecting

[00:02:43] it to be at the mother-in-law.

[00:02:44] My mother-in-law's name is Deanna and my name is Diane so that's not the first time

[00:02:49] that has happened.

[00:02:50] And I think I only met your mother-in-law like a handful of times even though we went to

[00:02:54] the same church for quite a few years, you know.

[00:02:58] I think we were actually only in Vista for 13 years altogether.

[00:03:03] We took over tiny little church in a grow and then we moved in.

[00:03:08] So yeah.

[00:03:09] And I had you're still in North San Diego County.

[00:03:11] I am.

[00:03:12] I live about 10 minutes away from that church.

[00:03:15] Oh really?

[00:03:16] Yeah and my family was involved in that church for many years, probably the whole time you

[00:03:19] guys were there.

[00:03:20] So that's not my family, that's my husband's family.

[00:03:23] Right.

[00:03:24] That's what he does.

[00:03:25] But wait, I've got to know like what neighborhood down there do you live in?

[00:03:27] I live in Bonsel which is.

[00:03:29] Yes, I know exactly where Bonsel is.

[00:03:30] So it's just at the end of the vice Vista way.

[00:03:33] From my neighborhood, I used to take these walks up in, we lived in Peacock Hills.

[00:03:38] So I used to take these walks and I would come to this kind of Vista, which is funny

[00:03:43] because it's right near Vista, that you could see Bonsel and it looked like a patchwork quilt.

[00:03:50] Yeah, a lot of agriculture.

[00:03:52] It's one of the most beautiful views just to do that.

[00:03:55] And all the ways to go for Canyon, all those roads.

[00:03:57] Yes, a lot of houses, a lot of avocado trees, lots of rattlesnakes.

[00:04:01] Yes.

[00:04:02] And coyotes.

[00:04:03] And a peacock's actually, which is why my neighborhood was called peacock Hills because

[00:04:08] peacocks kill rattlesnakes.

[00:04:11] So people would have peacocks all over Vista.

[00:04:15] Did you know that Diane?

[00:04:16] I did not know that.

[00:04:17] I'm already something new.

[00:04:19] Yeah, there's especially around the foothole area.

[00:04:24] A lot of those big houses have peacocks.

[00:04:26] Okay, so tell us how did you get to Bonsel or just give us good news.

[00:04:30] Oh, good story.

[00:04:31] We went here.

[00:04:32] Well, I was born in California.

[00:04:35] So I've lived in California my whole life and there's some interesting connections.

[00:04:39] It's not just with my husband's family but it's also my own family because my dad was

[00:04:46] a four square pastor for 27 years.

[00:04:48] So I drew, grew up as a PK.

[00:04:51] But also a four square PK.

[00:04:53] Yeah.

[00:04:54] And I have this thing that four square people are like the salt of the earth people, your

[00:04:58] favorite people.

[00:04:59] But when I listen to your story, I realize that we have some things in common.

[00:05:05] Pastoral ladies.

[00:05:06] Past recipes for pastoral.

[00:05:08] You'll find them in the four square church.

[00:05:10] I'm just saying.

[00:05:11] Yeah.

[00:05:12] So we lived on the central coast and that was my dad's first pastorate and he came to

[00:05:19] faith in 1969 the year before I was born.

[00:05:25] And so Calvary Chapel in the ministry here had had a big influence on that happening and

[00:05:31] you know what was happening during those years in the late 60s, early 70s.

[00:05:35] And he actually came down to Corona Del Mar to be baptized by Lawney Frisbee.

[00:05:40] Excellent.

[00:05:41] And so anyway, just a lot of really neat things there.

[00:05:44] But I grew up on the central coast.

[00:05:46] We lived in a rural area.

[00:05:49] We had land.

[00:05:52] We built forts, you know, as kids and it was a really beautiful childhood.

[00:05:56] And so that's how I came to know the Lord.

[00:05:58] Okay.

[00:05:59] So how many siblings?

[00:06:00] I have two siblings.

[00:06:01] They're both younger, a brother and a sister.

[00:06:04] And we got to see who's building the forts.

[00:06:06] Imagine this.

[00:06:07] Yes.

[00:06:08] Yes.

[00:06:09] And so yeah, it just, it was great.

[00:06:13] And then we moved.

[00:06:14] And that's when I think for me, life got a little bit more complicated because I was kind

[00:06:21] of a cautious girl.

[00:06:22] I was an obedient girl, you know, went with the flow.

[00:06:27] And then middle school years we moved to my dad got a new assignment and a new past right

[00:06:31] and we moved.

[00:06:32] And that's when I, I mean, honestly, who knows what happened?

[00:06:37] But I became rebellious and really for no good reason.

[00:06:41] I just was interested in doing my own thing and experimenting and trying different things.

[00:06:47] And that lasted a couple of years and I know it brought my parents a lot of grief.

[00:06:52] And I was very aware that God saw my choices and what I was doing, but I just didn't care.

[00:06:59] I just was doing my own thing.

[00:07:02] And then I started high school and the Lord allowed me to meet a young lady who had a really

[00:07:09] profound influence on my life.

[00:07:12] Her name's Michelle.

[00:07:13] She was a couple years older than me.

[00:07:16] She was an athlete, I was an athlete and she was beautiful, full of life, big personality,

[00:07:25] very popular.

[00:07:27] And you know, and when I look back on that, I think well, was it all of that that attracted

[00:07:31] me to her to want to be her friend or was it actually her faith?

[00:07:36] And I know that it was her faith because she loved Jesus and she wanted to talk about

[00:07:41] him and what she was reading and learning and how she was growing.

[00:07:46] And I was so attracted to that.

[00:07:47] I think all along even in those years of rebellion, I knew that it wasn't where I wanted

[00:07:54] to be or needed to be.

[00:07:56] And so she was very influential in my life.

[00:07:59] And when I think back on that, I'm, you know, what I'm most struck with is that community

[00:08:04] and relationships are so important.

[00:08:07] Absolutely.

[00:08:08] And God has created us for community and for relationships.

[00:08:13] And I just, I know from that experience and so many others that I've had and what

[00:08:17] I've seen in other people's lives is that he absolutely uses people to transform us.

[00:08:23] But you wonder if Michelle even knew the impact she was having.

[00:08:27] You know, this young girl who's just a couple years older, loving, trying to mentor

[00:08:32] and yet she was.

[00:08:33] Yes, because she loved Jesus.

[00:08:34] Exactly.

[00:08:35] Yeah, I mean, she would have been 17 at that time.

[00:08:38] And yeah, I mean, just so that's kind of a shout out to all you high school girls who

[00:08:42] are walking with Jesus and know that you are setting an example whether you realize it

[00:08:49] or not.

[00:08:50] And I think, you know, all those insecurities on the, we don't realize, you know, they

[00:08:55] don't realize the impact that they're having.

[00:08:57] But that's, I love that.

[00:08:59] Yeah.

[00:09:00] And I still am in touch with Michelle.

[00:09:01] We don't get to see each other as much as we'd like to, but yeah, so then a couple of years

[00:09:07] later, I find myself in college and I meet the love of my life.

[00:09:14] His name is Steve Savolka.

[00:09:15] So that's how I, Savolka.

[00:09:16] Savolka, I'm going to remember now.

[00:09:20] Yeah.

[00:09:21] I met him at church in a parking lot.

[00:09:24] He was walking into the building and and I just thought, wow, he's cute.

[00:09:29] And I was 19.

[00:09:30] I invited him out on a date.

[00:09:31] I think he's cute too.

[00:09:33] So yeah, the shy kind of reserved girl had become more, I don't know, I guess more

[00:09:40] bold as the older she got.

[00:09:42] This Savolka is though.

[00:09:44] There was a, you know, it was Bob and his wife, Diane, and they had four sons.

[00:09:48] And they're all brilliantly intelligent, very smart.

[00:09:52] And they were all very, very good looking too.

[00:09:54] That was just kind of a known fact at the church.

[00:09:56] They, yes, they are.

[00:09:58] And they're in that family, you either become a missionary or an engineer.

[00:10:03] There you go.

[00:10:04] One choice is yours, yes, the other.

[00:10:08] But yeah, so we got married and I am so incredibly thankful for my husband.

[00:10:15] He's, we celebrated 30 years earlier this year.

[00:10:19] And he is a total gift.

[00:10:23] You know, I think about this often when you meet someone that young, you really have no

[00:10:28] idea what you're doing.

[00:10:31] And I mean, you're still also becoming the person that you're going to be come, you know.

[00:10:36] And you think you know this other person but how can you?

[00:10:40] And so I'm just so thankful that he has turned out to be just an incredible life partner.

[00:10:47] He loves Jesus.

[00:10:49] He is an amazing leader for our home and our boys.

[00:10:53] He loves big.

[00:10:54] You have boys too?

[00:10:55] Yes, two boys.

[00:10:56] Yeah, it just runs in the solvaca.

[00:10:59] It does.

[00:11:00] It does.

[00:11:01] It really does.

[00:11:02] Yes.

[00:11:03] Yeah, so you know, he's a servant.

[00:11:05] He's generous.

[00:11:07] He loves big and he's also very silly.

[00:11:09] So he keeps life very interesting.

[00:11:11] I'm the serious one.

[00:11:13] He's the silly one.

[00:11:14] That's something.

[00:11:15] Yeah.

[00:11:16] It always seems to be that challenge.

[00:11:18] It's, yeah, there always is.

[00:11:19] And I was thinking the other day how I think I've been married to, how would I say it?

[00:11:25] I've been married three times, three men, but it's all the same man.

[00:11:30] But each season of life, it's like, oh, you're a different person.

[00:11:33] And then he's choosing to fall in love all over again and be committed all over again

[00:11:36] to that new version of the same person.

[00:11:39] Yeah.

[00:11:40] If you look back and go, yeah, I married three different men.

[00:11:43] He's all the same person.

[00:11:44] Yeah.

[00:11:45] That's when you first started saying that, I didn't know where you were going, but that

[00:11:50] is really interesting.

[00:11:51] That has appeared well enough at the time.

[00:11:53] Yeah.

[00:11:54] No, it's true though.

[00:11:55] It's true.

[00:11:56] You know, and it really is that cross-road point where you have to stop and say, no, this

[00:12:00] is a commitment.

[00:12:01] Marriage is a sacred bond and a vow that I made to this person.

[00:12:05] I've changed.

[00:12:06] I mean, how many women has my husband married two at least?

[00:12:10] We need to really qualify, right?

[00:12:14] It's the same person.

[00:12:15] It's the same person, but how you know what?

[00:12:18] Because your start is a young insecure person.

[00:12:21] You get married.

[00:12:22] Then you're a mother for a lot.

[00:12:25] And a mothering is just totally different than you're a mother of teenagers.

[00:12:30] That's a whole different thing.

[00:12:31] Hello.

[00:12:32] And then you're a mother of...

[00:12:33] And then they're gone.

[00:12:34] The empty nest and that's when you really get to know each other all over again.

[00:12:39] And then you're married to a grandpa.

[00:12:41] And it's that voice each time.

[00:12:43] I choose you.

[00:12:44] Right.

[00:12:45] And I choose to love you and be committed to you and become the best person I can be in

[00:12:51] this.

[00:12:52] But rather than, don't you love being married to a grandpa?

[00:12:54] Oh, yes.

[00:12:55] I mean, isn't that one of the funnest things?

[00:12:57] I mean, like, you think that you really love your husband when you're seen with your kids.

[00:13:00] But when you see them trying to interact with grandchildren so she's a little one, it's

[00:13:05] just like, I am enjoying this.

[00:13:08] Oh, I can see that.

[00:13:09] That is beautiful.

[00:13:10] Yeah.

[00:13:12] This is all to say that all of us have been married to the same person.

[00:13:15] Thank you.

[00:13:16] But they are clear.

[00:13:18] There have been just multiple versions, versions, personality, growth.

[00:13:26] And in ourselves because God continues to transform the person that we are and the person

[00:13:31] He wants us to be.

[00:13:33] What kind...

[00:13:34] I have to say, what sparked that was just someone who was telling me a few days ago, like

[00:13:37] I don't even know who He is anymore.

[00:13:39] I don't even know if it works.

[00:13:40] And it's like, that's part of marriage.

[00:13:44] You have to figure out who you are and who He is and renew in your heart those vows because

[00:13:51] it's a sacred commitment.

[00:13:53] And then it gets really good because you're really enjoying this new level of your communication

[00:13:59] and partnership.

[00:14:02] So okay, that was random.

[00:14:03] Let's go back to you, direct?

[00:14:05] So well, this all goes back to the fact that she loves her husband as much now if not

[00:14:10] more than when she met him in the item.

[00:14:12] I would say even more.

[00:14:14] Yeah, absolutely.

[00:14:15] Yeah.

[00:14:16] And I'd like to share a little bit about time and a season that we went through that was

[00:14:22] really transforming to us.

[00:14:23] So our boys are today 17 and 19.

[00:14:27] Actually, no, no, no, we just had a birthday, 17 and 20.

[00:14:31] But we did not have kids for a long time.

[00:14:34] We were by ourselves for 10 years and 10 years of infertility and all of that.

[00:14:39] And this is a big part of our story because I feel like that was such a growing time.

[00:14:47] It was a very painful time and a very isolating time.

[00:14:50] I didn't know a lot of other people.

[00:14:52] In fact, I didn't really know anyone else that was going through what we were going through.

[00:14:57] So it was a season of really pressing into Jesus and learning how to trust Him in a way

[00:15:02] that was painful and hard, but really transforming.

[00:15:08] And so, and then it just led in to all of parenting because if parenting's not learning how

[00:15:14] to trust the Lord, I don't know what is.

[00:15:18] And so yeah, so anyway, it's just that that has been a really big part of our story in

[00:15:23] our lives is really learning how to take our desires and what we want, what I wanted,

[00:15:30] what I strived for and what I hoped and dreamed of in literally laying that at the feet of

[00:15:36] Jesus and saying, I trust you more than what it is that I want or what I think is right

[00:15:41] for me.

[00:15:42] And so yeah, that has served me well in other areas too as I have had now many opportunities

[00:15:49] to have things not go the way I wanted them to.

[00:15:53] And okay, so here Robin and I are resisting asking questions about this because we want

[00:16:00] to get to the other stuff, the other stuff that this is just I can tell both of us are

[00:16:05] just like old back, old back because we're curious, but you know, that just sounds so amazing.

[00:16:13] And how it shaped you to trust God?

[00:16:15] Exactly.

[00:16:16] Deeper.

[00:16:17] Exactly.

[00:16:18] And just even that is just so amazing.

[00:16:20] Yeah.

[00:16:21] I think of there are a lot of women out there who are struggling with infertility and just

[00:16:27] it's hard, it is hard in just knowing the hope and that sometimes the very thing that we

[00:16:35] are striving for and we you know, I say there's always that point where you say if I just

[00:16:41] had this then I could serve you better Lord or we say if I didn't have this I could serve

[00:16:46] you better and we find that grace is really what we need.

[00:16:51] It's the component we need and you know, it's his grace and it's his impartation of himself

[00:16:57] through grace which is like amazing.

[00:16:59] So okay and we can experience his closeness in a way that's right that we I don't know

[00:17:05] if we can experience it the same way when we're not suffering or going through something.

[00:17:09] I agree.

[00:17:10] So true.

[00:17:11] But we don't want to sign up for any of them.

[00:17:13] No.

[00:17:14] I've been in that classroom too long.

[00:17:16] Yeah.

[00:17:17] So, I mean but what's interesting too is I believe that every every every hard thing or every

[00:17:22] positive thing that you have experienced in your life lead you to something God's not

[00:17:27] going to waste anything.

[00:17:28] That's right and so and I can say that the same is true career wise if we want to segue

[00:17:34] into that because yes.

[00:17:35] I've had a lot of interesting things I started out as a teacher I did that for many years

[00:17:40] middle school teacher history.

[00:17:42] Then we homeschooled our boys and we did a lot of travel and so I started travel writing,

[00:17:47] blogging, writing curriculum for educational travel and then I got into a lot of nonprofit

[00:17:55] work volunteering and then global nonprofit work and with all of the missionaries in

[00:17:59] our family is no why were you traveling?

[00:18:02] Well because we liked it you know when when you're by yourself for 10 years and you have

[00:18:07] two incomes and no kids and everyone around you is changing diapers.

[00:18:14] You kind of are like well then what can we do?

[00:18:17] And so we started traveling and we was traveling like a ministry like were you or was it

[00:18:23] those years?

[00:18:24] During in those years it was touring okay but we were also because of all the missionaries

[00:18:28] in our family we're also visiting people but in those 10 years that we were without kids

[00:18:33] Stephen I started traveling every time we had a break from school or work and that kind

[00:18:39] of lit a passion in us to be out in the world and to experience culture people learning

[00:18:47] all of that.

[00:18:49] And so then that spilled over into when we did have kids when it came time for them well

[00:18:54] the first time we went away with our kids they were nine months old and two and everyone

[00:19:01] said oh now that you have kids you'll stop traveling and we did for a time but then

[00:19:06] we couldn't stand it anymore.

[00:19:07] Nine months.

[00:19:08] Yeah so we went to Greece for a month and we met our family in Serbia they drove down

[00:19:15] and met us and we just did life with diapers and baby food just in another place and it was

[00:19:23] really fun and it kind of opened up our eyes to the fact that okay well we don't have

[00:19:26] to stop traveling because we have kids and so then that ended up pushing into homeschooling

[00:19:33] and curriculum writing and traveling for education but also to expose our boys to the

[00:19:39] world so that they could see and understand how other people live and connect with people

[00:19:46] and then that started spilling over into well let's also see how people are making a

[00:19:51] difference in the world.

[00:19:52] And those travel blogs and the curriculum are still available online aren't they?

[00:19:57] They are they're on a website I don't even manage anymore but a lot of it's still evergreen

[00:20:01] and put it in the shade.

[00:20:02] Oh go notes.

[00:20:03] We have a lot homeschoolers that would be really interested to see how you did that.

[00:20:07] Yeah yeah thank you so yeah and then that led into travel on purpose so tell me are we

[00:20:15] just going to jump into that.

[00:20:18] Let's jump into at least giving an introduction to it because we only have about four minutes

[00:20:22] left but let's let's at least jump into you know okay what this is and you know okay so

[00:20:29] very briefly I'm just going to say that in 2020 as the world you know came to kind of a

[00:20:35] close and I was in a transitional period between a couple of things I just stopped working for

[00:20:41] a global nonprofit and something my boys Steve has always said to the boys what are

[00:20:46] you good at what are you passionate about how are you going to let God use that for good

[00:20:49] in the world and so in 2020 and I also turned 50 that felt very Jubilee transfer of

[00:20:56] me.

[00:20:57] Like you know kind of a pivot what's next and so I just started dreaming about what would

[00:21:03] it be like to start a travel company that would allow people to go and experience the

[00:21:08] cultural beauty of places and also connect with people who are doing good work who are

[00:21:13] sharing the gospel who are making a difference in the community and I took a whole year

[00:21:19] to dream it think it planet do it started and research it yeah so yeah and it's been so

[00:21:28] much fun.

[00:21:29] Tell us about some of the first trips that you took.

[00:21:31] So in 2021 well the first thing I did was I reached out to all of nonprofits and people

[00:21:38] doing good work who I already had a connection with people that we've been following their

[00:21:43] work for years or maybe were donors or advocates for their work and also places where people

[00:21:47] could travel or would want to travel because there's plenty of places where you don't want

[00:21:52] to go on a vacation right like Haiti for example that's not a place that I'm going to I'm

[00:21:57] in a plan or promote this type of travel too but but anyway reached out to a bunch of

[00:22:01] them got some really positive responses so soon as the world that open back up early 2021

[00:22:07] I was out going and visiting and learning okay what are the travel opportunities in that

[00:22:13] location what's this ministry doing are they open to having visitors and it's not so much

[00:22:19] volunteering it's more like let's go and learn let's learn about what the need is in this

[00:22:25] community who's on the ground doing something about it and then as people who can afford

[00:22:31] to travel and who want and have a curiosity to go out and be in the world what can we

[00:22:36] then bring to the table is God inviting me to be a part of their story as well.

[00:22:40] So that's kind of the idea behind travel on purpose beautiful travel and it is a vacation

[00:22:46] I don't call them mission strips they're really more like I've seen every trip.

[00:22:50] There are lovely places where you say yeah it's beautiful hotels but I like to support

[00:22:55] the local economy I want it to be ethical sustainable responsible style of travel but

[00:23:02] that really embraces the local people let's learn the history let's learn the handicrafts

[00:23:09] you know let's do all the things and then really celebrate what God's doing in those

[00:23:17] see I love this because my mother would do all this background research every time my

[00:23:21] dad was going to go speak someplace and she would know this is this is what they're well

[00:23:27] known for like when we first went to Salzburg she said they have this thing called a knuckle

[00:23:32] and it's you have to order 30 minutes before you sit down and it's a huge meringue that

[00:23:38] comes with raspberry sauce and so she's she would know that like going in she'd know which bakery

[00:23:44] to go to which restaurant to go to and she would know a lot about the people there and that is

[00:23:51] so good but that's part of the homeschooling isn't it I think because part of that research

[00:23:55] that you did just to teach your children how much of this do you think too because what

[00:24:02] we just kind of skimmed over is that one of your brother-in-law's is a missionary and went

[00:24:07] when he was just a young man 18 yeah yeah that's right so at at the Vista Calvary Chapel

[00:24:15] he was exposed to missions right after he graduated from high school he went with your husband

[00:24:22] that's right and I know he picked up the language it he sure did immediately he sure did he was just

[00:24:28] you know like a miracle it is yeah how quickly he picked it up but yeah so he went at 18 he helped

[00:24:36] get that church started in super titsa and they still live there today they're not in

[00:24:41] super titsa but they're in Serbia and it's beautiful I'll actually be with them soon

[00:24:46] see part of the minister yeah yeah it's really it is beautiful and I love how God brings all

[00:24:52] these things together but we have to hear more that's right so we'll be back for part two right

[00:24:57] so the next show that we do we'll we'll dive into the places you've been what the Lord is done

[00:25:03] and all of that so we're really excited about part two

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