All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. You're listening to Join the Journey

podcast with your host, Emma Daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Psalm 127, and I am back

in the podcast studio with Mandy Bagdenov. Hello, Journey. Mandy, it's been what, two years?

I think it's been two years.

Last time you were here, you were with Leonard, your husband?

I was.

And today we brought you in solo.

By myself, it's real sad.

So for those who don't know you, would you tell us a little bit about yourself?

I would love it. Well, my name is Mandy, as Emma said, and I'm the wife

of Leonard Bagdinoff and have two great kids, Hope, who's a junior in high school, and Andrew

Bagdenoff, who is a freshman in high school. So a little bit about me. I was born and raised in the

great state of Oklahoma, and while our family attended

church, most Sundays, I didn't really learn or understand much about Christianity. But we moved

from Paul Huska, a small town, to a big town, Tulsa, Oklahoma, which had the ministry of young

life. Wait, what was the name of the small town? Hey, listen, listen, don't stop there. Paul Huska, Oklahoma, which had the ministry of Young Life. Wait, what was the name of the small town? Hey, listen, listen. Don't stop there. Paul Huska, Oklahoma. Home of the Pioneer Woman made

famous by the Pioneer Woman. Oh, yes, girl. That's noteworthy. That is very known. That's an important

detail. Okay, but you moved to Tulsa. We moved to Tulsa. I was exposed to the ministry of Young Life and learned about what it was to be a sinner

and that that sin separated me from God.

And I also began to understand the beautiful story of redemption through the person of Jesus Christ.

I placed my faith in Christ at a Young Life retreat in November

of 1981.

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