Hello, my friends, and welcome to Life with Sally podcast.

I'm so glad you're here, so please make yourself a cup of tea and come on in.

Thank you. Please make yourself a cup of tea and come on in. Hi, my friends. I am so glad that you are joining us today. I'm sitting with my friends,

not in Scotland, which I mentioned a minute ago, but we are all actually sitting in France in my hotel room, and I just can't wait to tell you the story of my friends but first of all this whole kind of podcast tonight is going to be about

what is important in life is really developing and cultivating friends and cultivating good friends

and so my sweet friend Ainsley challenged me to

come on a trip with her for about 10 days through all of France. And so we've all been together

for the first few days. But I prayed about it and I thought, I'm going to invite my old friends who started the ministry with us.

They started different aspects of the ministry.

They didn't even know each other because one part of our ministry started in Nashville where we had a co-op.

And it's still going after these 35 years.

And it was to disciple the women and inspire them and to give their children

a community of a place where they could grow and learn in their studies and in their faith.

Well, the second part of it was that it took place in Texas. And I have a friend there who

literally, we walked into hotels and said, could you do a conference for us?

How much would it cost?

What if we added a meal to it?

And we were in the process of taking a risk for that, just like we had in the co-op in Tennessee.

And then the third aspect was we were trying to train and inspire women all over the world to start small groups.

And so that took place, and a lot of it took place as a model for other women to follow in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a very dear friend of mine.

So I thought, I'm going to invite these friends and see if they could

come to this trip so we can all be together again after years and just reunite and tell stories.

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