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From the Home to the Hunt: Faith-Driven Family Life – Aby Rinella
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In this episode of the Tricer Podcast, host Drew Miles sits down with Aby Rinella, a passionate homeschool mom, devoted Christian, and outdoor enthusiast from Idaho. Aby shares the inspiring story behind her family’s unique ministry, which offers hunting experiences to families with disabilities. Together, Drew and Aby dive into the challenges and rewards of homeschooling, the role of faith in family life, and how outdoor adventures bring families closer. Aby’s perspective is a refreshing reminder of the power of community, purpose, and the wild places we love.
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Introduction & Purpose of Tricer Podcast
00:00:01
Speaker
You are listening to the Tricer podcast, where we talk all things hunting, gear, and the great outdoors. Before we begin, let's start things out right and put God first. Lord Jesus, I thank you for Tricer, and I ask that you can use this podcast as a way to bring joy to all of our listeners.
00:00:17
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We lay Tricer and this podcast at your feet. Amen. All
Guest Introduction: Abby Rinella
00:00:23
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right. I am actually really excited for this one because I have Abby Rinella on the podcast, a homeschool mom, a Christian out of Idaho who's running a phenomenal ministry slash hunting experience for families with disabilities.
Family Life & Hunting with Disabilities
00:00:39
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And just in all, just an awesome person. um And I'm excited to have her on because it's just I want to hear about everything she's doing, what God is doing through her. and kind of how she structured her family and her life around hunting and Christ, which is kind of what you've done.
00:00:53
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so Very similar to what I'm doing Tracer. So, Abby, how are you? I am good. Thanks so much for having me on. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, I feel like we kind of already did like a 30-minute podcast before this because yeah honestly, I got onto the pod like a few minutes late, and then I was like, hey, who are you?
00:01:09
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Because I didn't know how Abby got on here because I've just been getting pods booked all week, and... ah She's like, I'm Abby or Noah. Yolanda sent me. And I'm like, oh, okay. um So had people that reached out to me. So I had people reach out to Abby to come on the pod and I'm actually really excited. I'm hoping to get to know her a little bit better, her and her husband, and maybe do some stuff together within the the ministry um outside of just hunting or hunting. So Abby, tell me about you.
00:01:36
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Married, kids, Yeah, I am married to the man of my dreams. We were 19 when we met. um And we have three awesome kids, which is in the town I live in, if you have more than one kid, people frown upon you. But in the homeschool community, which we are a huge part of, three kids is also frowned upon because it's not enough. So everywhere I go, I have the wrong amount of kids, but I have exactly the amount of kids God gave us. And um They're awesome. And we just are very um family focused and do everything with our kids, including everything in the outdoors. So um born and raised Idaho native. There aren't a lot of us anymore, but we are here.
00:02:13
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Those of us that have been around for a long time. So um that's kind of who we
Homeschooling Insights & Challenges
00:02:17
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are. We run a nonprofit. um We work in the homeschool world and the outdoor industry. And then we just do the day to day grind as well.
00:02:24
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Yeah. So we have what what's called, i got a church called Foothills, to call it the Foothills Five. and There was this thing God did in like the mid 2000s where we all just started having kids. And so like my whole group of friends, passenger vans and five kids. Some of them have like eight, right? So, um but yeah, the Foothills Five is what we call it That's hilarious.
00:02:44
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And you probably don't have passenger either because you only have three kids, right? yeah So that's also frowned upon in the homeschool community. You have to have a passenger van that tell row that's growing like mushrooms under the seats because it's yeah dirty and there's French fries and stuff. No, we didn't make it to the passenger van.
00:03:01
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yeah Did you guys ever get the minivan or did you just stick with SUVs? No, what we have a Suburban. Yeah. So we had the Suburban too. We did that. It's a promise for us is just so many kids. Like the rows are what's nice in a passenger van. Cause like when you get five kids, like you almost want separate them by row.
00:03:16
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Cause you want to kill them by the time you pull out of the driveway. Totally. and Even with rows, they still find ways to fight. Yeah. so in the Suburban, it was like, we had the Pat, we had the captain's chairs in that one and we had five kids. Every seat was filled. So you have three kids just touching for a ride to whatever. we do a lot of road trips, a lot of traveling, camping.
00:03:32
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The van was nice. we Especially the oldest boy. Like you get the back row. You get the way back by yourself just back there. Yeah. I just always figure, I don't know why they haven't come up with a window between like the front seats and the back. So you can just like roll it up and then they can have their anarchy back there and you can just be in peace up front.
00:03:49
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Someone needs to invent that. Yeah. Or like straight jackets. Straight jackets would work. That would be an excellent idea as well, as opposed to the seatbelt. Yeah, expose the seatbelt and just like lock them in so they cannot touch each other.
00:04:01
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i have um and you have You have two girls and a boy, you said? Two girls and a boy. Two girls and I have four boys, one girl. Oh, wow. So the girl's like the saint of the family, the best. But the boys, obviously, like they just go each other. So like right now, like we're dealing with like the six-year-old and the 12-year-old.
00:04:19
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Like, they love each other, but it's like, oh, you pissed me off? I'm going to smash your Lego car yesterday, right? The six-year-old knows how to get him, and, like, he's kind of – my six-year-old's kind of a gangster. And, like, so we got that going on, right, that dynamic of just, like, pecking order.
00:04:33
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Especially with boys, there's always just, like, kind of pecking order of boys. Oh, totally. They say you're going to miss it, and i do. Like I said, like, my oldest boy's going to college this fall, right, and my – My second boy is in South Dakota right now'm running some booths for Tracer and he's gonna be going off to college next fall or probably not college, probably ministry.
00:04:51
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Um, And you are going to miss these days. Yeah. Oh, no, no question for sure. I just feel like this is what God made us for. And I've always felt being a mom is absolutely the greatest call, the greatest blessing of anything I've done in my life. Being a mom is hands down, um aside from being a child of God, obviously, but it's the greatest job, the greatest calling and by far the hardest and most rewarding.
Legacy Beyond Material Wealth
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Hey, Drew, can I interrupt? Are you able to cut this out if I let my dog in? Sorry. could pause it right now. Here, I'll pause. Get a dog, they said. Oh, dude. So kids breed pets. So if you guys didn't catch that, we're playing again now. Abby and another dog out.
00:05:29
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We have three three dogs. I don't know where they come from. Kids breed pets. you have kids, all a sudden you up with chickens and dogs. And I don't know how many hamsters we've killed, how many guinea pigs we've killed. We kill those animals. Those animals fish.
00:05:42
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like We've had fish like like dry up from not getting their water changed. Totally. We are PETA's worst nightmare when it comes to pets. Like cats, like our cats are outdoor cats now. They just eaten by coyotes. We just cycle through cats. Like they're free. Someone gives them a free cat. Like cool, it's an outdoor cat until it dies. That's hilarious.
00:05:58
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He's killed mice for us, but whatever. um So anyways, I like what you said. Like, you know, you're called to be a parent. You love your kids, have that experience with them. um And really, like I told people, having this conversation with somebody recently while was on a hunt actually. I was telling them like, your only real legacy is your children.
00:06:14
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Absolutely. really like Everything I build, like Tracer won't be here in 100 years. I'm not telling you. 100%. Tracer won't be here in 100 years. You guys won't be here in 100 years. Your house will be probably destroyed in 100 years, rebuilt. Right.
00:06:25
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um The only thing that will live on is your legacy through your children, your children's children, your grandchildren. And you only get this short period of time to influence them and create these like great human beings.
00:06:36
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Absolutely. And that is why we decided to homeschool.
Education Through Life & Faith
00:06:41
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And we decided to shape Not our lives around our kids, but our kids' lives around ours and like what God had for us. That makes any sense. so long Right. Totally makes sense. Instead of having to go and we're going to go to school five days a week, we're going to go to Hawaii for a month and we're going homeschool there or we're going to go on vacation or we're going go to go like this fall. My son has mean like probably 40 days worth the tags from September through December and we're going to bring the Starlink along and we're going to hunt and do homeschool out there.
00:07:11
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but
00:07:13
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I would much rather, like, you know, you say, like, you if you want Romans, send your kids to Caesar. Like, don't expect to not get Romans back when you send your kids to public school. Like, I would much rather homeschool my kids, have them be a little different.
00:07:25
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which they're not really different. they're actually more like adults. right Then send them to school and let them have these experiences that we talk about, you know, like these, these party experiences, like the high school experience is a terrible experience for kids.
00:07:38
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It's actually traumatizing. Most people are traumatized from it. And we've just, I would never go back and we've homeschooled. Like I told you before, since before it was cool, we've homeschooled since 2000 and I think 10 or 12 years. ten or twelve Yeah. so we've yeah been And we've been there since 2011. It was the same thing. I mean, and our kids will be different, but when I look around the world, i praise God that they're going to be different, right? I mean, they they're not going to be attached to their phones. They're going to understand what work ethic looks like. They're going to understand the value of family. And um and and one of the huge reasons that we love to homeschool, well, for for many reasons, one, always to point our kids to truth, but it really gives us a lot of freedom. um We don't take the Starlink along when we're out in the field, but we can totally
00:08:20
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um schedule our homeschool schedule around hunting seasons. I mean, that's what we've always done. We'll, we'll school in August so that we can take archery September off October. um And we can schedule around that and still get our school done.
00:08:32
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um Because school is life and home comes first and kids learn through life experiences. My kids will never dissect a frog. on a science table, but they will have broken down every big game animal you can imagine on the side of a hill. And they're going to learn far more from doing that. Right.
00:08:49
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um And like you said, the whole, the whole legacy, um my husband and I both come from kind of a hunting heritage. You know, he grew up hunting. He comes from a family that hunts. I was the same. Um, and so we have this really rich heritage in, in the, in the hunting world, in the outdoor world. And it's so important to us to be able to pass on that legacy, but, but more than that, the legacy of, of who our children are as children of God and to be able to go into God's creation and see their creator, right. To be able to let that be a part of their education and a part of the legacy that we leave is really why we do a lot of what we do.
00:09:26
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Yeah. and And for us, like we really look at it and it's like, in my mind, I feel like the public school system, for one, it's a one size fits all, which is so not good for my kids. Nope.
00:09:39
Speaker
Right. Right. And for two, it's like just turning out little employees. Right. Yeah, it is. It for sure is. I mean, but that's what it was created to do from the very beginning. You know, it was it was created to make workers for a bigger system. I mean, that's exactly what the intention was from the beginning. When you look all the way past John Dewey, that was the original setup of the public school system. And so um our kids can think outside the box. Our kids can become the entrepreneurs. Our kids aren't told what to think, but they're taught how to think. And that's That's something that's so important to my husband and I is we don't teach them what to think. We teach them how to think. And then there's nothing they can't learn. You know, there's nothing.
00:10:16
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I was in a generation. We didn't grow up with the internet in elementary school. That'll tell you how old I am. But guess how fast we could learn it pretty fast because that's what we can do. We're we're educated beings. So That's what we do every day is teach our kids how to learn. There's going to be gaps. There's gaps in every kid's education, but they're going to be able to fill those gaps because they're um curious, they're self-motivated.
00:10:40
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um and it's it's just one of the most awesome things I believe that you could do, not only for a kid's education, but for family unity, for sibling relationships, for parent-child relationships, um and even just for their walk with God is just giving them a solid education at home.
00:10:57
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Yeah. And I can tell you, like, for one, my wife is a saint. She homeschooled our kids. I'm, I'm just been the facilitator, right? Yeah. ah The disciplinarian, like the guy coming in. in um I don't know how she does it. Like, I'm like, hire a tutor, right? Especially when you get to like junior high, high school, and they're doing math that I never even did in high school. Right. Like, yeah, right.
00:11:14
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Hire a tutor, right? and We've done really well at that. But like, one of my biggest fears was like, dude, we barely graduated high school. how are we gonna raise these kids? Right. And like, it turns out like some people are smarter than other people.
00:11:25
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Like my 19 year old's got a four, four GPA is off to school. He wants to go to Harvard. He wants to be a lawyer. Right. Like, and he turned out just fine. Like you're always worried. They're going to be dumb. not figure it out. Like, no, no, they will. And you'll figure out like my wife has taught every one of my kids to read.
00:11:41
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Yeah. My six year old reading. And the cool thing is when you homeschool, You can do it at their pace. A hundred like percent. You can be like, hey, this is the read. We can just do only reading this semester. Yep. And we'll do math next semester. Right. Totally. we'll figure it out. And like, and sometimes we'll have to be like, hey man, like algebra two, you got to do it again. Yeah. Or just do it again. Like there's not like, oh, you have to keep going. Like you're left behind. Right.
00:12:04
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yes hass been And you can spend the time they need and you also don't have to hold them back. Like if a kid wants to get ahead, you don't have to hold them back with the rest of the, until the yeah other 26 year kids are ready to move on. They can move on when they move on. You capitalize on their interests in the moment. I mean, I remember when my son was young, I thought he had a, ah so he was struggling with reading. Right. And I've taught all my kids to read and, and he was, he was kind of struggling with reading and I,
00:12:28
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My husband walked in the door and I was a public school teacher. So I was, I had to really break through. It took me years to break out of that, that whole mindset of what education is because solid education is not what you're seeing in the public schools. And it was not what I was taught as a public school student and as a public school teacher.
00:12:44
Speaker
So my husband walked in one day and he's like, I'm pretty sure he's not struggling with reading. I'm pretty sure that he's a six-year-old boy that's sitting in a chair all day. And that would make any of us crazy. So he grabbed the book and he threw it at my, he said, go climb up that tree. And he threw the book at my son up in the tree. And that kid read from cover to cover. And I realized this wasn't an academic issue. This wasn't a reading issue.
00:13:05
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This was that God created my son to be in the trees, to be outside, to be breathing fresh air, to be you know, in God's creation. And when he was in the element that he was created to be in, all of a sudden his mind was able to absorb but every academic thing that I presented him.
00:13:19
Speaker
Oh, yeah. If Dylan, my six-year-old, who rides his staysick through the house and does burnouts everywhere, it was in public school, I'm pretty sure all the kids get kicked out, but Dylan would be getting in trouble every single day.
00:13:30
Speaker
Yeah, or they drug them to help them sit still, right? Dylan is like, he's six. He's our son that we've adopted, right? So, but he's so by biologically, he's not mine, but he's like characteristically, he's a lot like me.
00:13:41
Speaker
But... ah He's just like, he can do backflips. Like at six years old, he can do backflips. He can race a dirt bike. Like i yeah I was outside right now and he's doing burnouts in my grass and the dog's digging next to him. and i was like, what are you doing? yeah Like he, but the cool thing is he's being a boy.
00:13:55
Speaker
We can read for 30 minutes. Then we can be like, go beat your brother to death with this sword for 30 minutes. Go jump in the pool. Come back. Like our house got set up for that, right? like we have a pool. We have a trampoline. We have a basketball court, like basketball court. We have a basketball hoop. We don't have court. Right. It's just old house, seven years old. It's not mansion.
00:14:11
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But we have a basketball hoop. You know, we have all this stuff going around, dogs, chickens, you know, and they're out there doing that stuff, living life. And then he could go back to reading a little bit. Right. Or we can be like, stop, let's go to the park.
00:14:22
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Let's come back. yeah And we can make what they're learning applicable to real life, right? It's not this yeah this abstract textbook that they're looking at, right? Like our kids get to experience how their education affects real life. And that's that's what's amazing. And I dare say, and I hope to not offend anyone in your audience, but I do believe that it feminizes boys to be sitting all day long and and not be able to do – to just embrace the the masculine way that they were created to be, to run, to jump, to climb, to conquer the things that are put in front of them. um
00:14:53
Speaker
And it's just, it is not good on any level or healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially for kids to have to sit all day long and just regurgitate facts. I mean, plus think about how many guys get out of high school and never sit at a desk again.
00:15:07
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And then what? you Never sit at a desk again. Oh, yeah, Straight into construction. Yep. Straight into something else, right? Totally. Like sales. yeah Never a desk again, right? You know I mean It's just not for us. Right. And to go even further, we talked about like creating employees in public school.
00:15:20
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yeah Anymore also creating Democrats. Like I'll say it, right? 100%. Also creating people who, you know... are going to hate your values, right? Like I'm from California, where in our public schools now, 60% of the kids identify as bisexual, but they date the opposite sex. Right, because they're sitting in these indoctrination camps all day long.
00:15:40
Speaker
And that's exactly what's happening. They're coming home with the values of somebody else. And that's the thing is, when you send your kids out every day to sit at the feet of someone with completely different values than you have, and then they're going to come home with those values. And you cannot unteach what they've been taught all day long in a matter of maybe an hour. I mean, maybe these kids get an hour. They go to school all day to these indoctrination camps.
00:16:02
Speaker
Then they go to sports. Then they go do this. Then they go do that. And then you parents get the leftovers at the end of the day, maybe a half hour. You can't unteach that. And you can't teach your values to your kids in that amount of time.
00:16:12
Speaker
And we're losing an entire generation. Oh, a hundred percent. And so hopefully you're listening to this. Obviously this is not a hunting, like but this is like, I feel like there's so of my friends in the industry who are are on the fence with homeschool. Right. And that's that's why I'm like, I'd love to talk about homeschool people. If, if this touches one guy out there, then it was worth me doing this podcast. If you're turning it off right now, I totally understand. Turn it off. I don't care.
00:16:33
Speaker
That's cool. I'm going to about this podcast, whatever the hell I want to talk about. my podcast. Right. So yeah. So there's this thing, like something, I think it's Chris Ballatin say you are for Chris Ballatin or Jordan, Bill Johnson, Bethel church.
00:16:46
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Yeah. a little I think it's m Bill Johnson. The first thing you're taught, you judge everything against, you know, right so if a kid goes to school like me i learned about sex in third grade on the back of a bus everything else that was told me after that was judged against what i heard that day totally right so if yourre kids are going to school and they're learning about sex learning about homosexual learning about two dads two moms dad is a mom. I mean, my goodness, it's so terrible.
00:17:13
Speaker
Then you go back and like, wait, well, that's not okay. Then you're, then you are being now like, you're a racist dad, or you're a bigot dad. Right. and So everything your kids learn, everything else we judge on that. So that's why like with us, like we start doing like,
00:17:26
Speaker
This is a totally off topic, but not real topic. We start doing sex talks with our kids at like six years old. We have books. We go through a series of books that go from like kindergarten through like high school.
00:17:36
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And we we start talking doing these talks to them. So they're understanding it from us. 100%. And when I say sex, I mean like God created a man and a woman at five years old, right? And we have these series that we do with the kids.
00:17:47
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So that way everything's being judged on that, not on what they learned on. My goodness, you have to watch your kids watch on on TV. Like oh it's it's in and they're trying to get your kids everywhere. They hate the devil hates your children.
00:17:59
Speaker
Yep. they He's after our kids. And and speaking of that, um I just did an interview with a gal named Greta Eskridge and she just wrote in a phenomenal book called it's time to talk to your kids about porn. And none of us would have ever like that, that the name of that book like shocks us.
00:18:12
Speaker
But the reality is we live in a culture where we We live in a world that they're after our kids. I mean, they are literally after our children. And so we have to be the, first like you said, we have to be the first voice that they hear in their head. We have to come at them with the truth so that they can combat lies. You know, you can't, you won't understand what a lie is if you haven't been, if you haven't been rooted in the truth. And so that's what we get to do as parents is we get to root our kids in the truth. We get to be the first voice um And then when they're ready to launch into adulthood, their roots will go so deep. They'll be strong. They'll be stable.
00:18:42
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They won't have spent the last 12 years fighting for their faith. They'll be so ready to launch into the world that then they'll make a difference when they actually step out into the world. Rather than trying to find themselves, they will know who they are, image bearers, and they'll make a difference in the world.
00:18:57
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Yeah, and so I'm not tooting my own horn, but like my wife jokes, but we're now elders, right? We've done it. We've got a kids at 19 right now. Right, totally. doing it And we're actually seeing the fruit of it now, right? totally. And trust me, there's times where my wife will tell me, put them school. You got to put them. We have a Christian school. I'm on the board of my church. We have a giant school.
00:19:17
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like We could put them into school. And there's times where, yes, you want them out. But like you'll never look back and regret this. But maybe when your kid's 25 and... voting totally different than you and right going through women and and doing getting divorced, like you're going to look back at me like, man, I wish would have put... You can't ever go back that. Totally. Totally. And you will never regret these times, even though they're really hard and they're really frustrating.
00:19:40
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And trust me, i would there's days where it's like, I would really love to send all you guys off Yeah. and he And the truth, Drew, is it's it's a sacrifice. And okay, so let's just go here. This is a hunting podcast. And I know a lot of your listeners want, you know, they want the hunting content.
00:19:53
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And so let's let's look at it this way. um My husband always talks about hunting. this this generation of hunting that we live in where, well, and it could have been in the past too, but where dads leave the kids home. You know, there's this this token term of like, I'm the the hunting widow, right?
00:20:09
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And the men leave and they leave the mom home with the kids and they take off for the weak hunt Um, and they go out there and they're after their trophies. Um, and then they come home and, and what he's always saying is because I married this, I just married this incredible man who said, you know, I'm never going to leave my family behind. Like, yeah, going out with a group of guys on these big hunts, it's easier.
00:20:30
Speaker
It's probably more gratifying in certain aspects. He's like, but then I come home and I've left this family and what, what legacy and hunting legacy Is that leaving? So instead, he has always, always, always taken our children from the day when when my little girl, she was one month old and she was on my back and we were bear hunting. My son was born on September 22nd and on October 10th, he was at deer camp.
00:20:55
Speaker
And you know what? It's a sacrifice. It's harder. It takes more work. it's It is grueling. I mean, we get, you know, we got this, you get ah ah an elk down 2,000 feet up, however many miles in, and it's 110 pound woman, a grown man and three little kids.
00:21:11
Speaker
It's brutal. But at so it is hard. It's the same with homeschooling. We're not telling you it's easy, but Anything worth anything is hard. There's sacrifice. It's difficult. You die to yourself.
00:21:23
Speaker
But in the end, the fruit is in both worlds, you have a generation. You have a generation that gets to carry on that legacy, right? Like because we've never left our kids home to chase the trophy animal.
00:21:35
Speaker
we're going to hand down our hunting legacy. That's part of conservation, right? I mean, we were we're conservationists. And if we want the hunting world to go the way that it is, then we're going to need a generation below us that's going to have the same values. And it's the same with homeschool.
00:21:51
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is It is a sacrifice. It's hard. When that yellow bus goes by on the street, there are days you are like, stop at my house, please. I want to put them on. But then you do the hard thing and you make the hard sacrifices.
00:22:02
Speaker
And in the end, it is so worth it. And there's such there's so much more of a gain than if you would have done it any other way. Yeah, for sure. i always, and again, I'm not tooting my own horn, but like I didn't kill a buck from like 2019 to 2023. Right.
00:22:16
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great But my kids killed everything. Yeah. And this year, where it absolutely. like I took my every, you'll see my hunt films. There's always almost a kid in the film, right? So like i'm going to Alaska by myself this year, but basically from September through December this year, I don't have a tag. I'm just guiding. The kids have three tags. We're the Sherpas now, right? The kids have three tags and farm has a tag, right? And the farm law's tag is after we're going to be in Arizona for like three weeks.
00:22:39
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We're bringing the whole family over to ah but Airbnb. Daughter's not going hunt. That dog don't hunt. She ain't going to hunt, we do dates every week together. We go out, we went and got ice cream this week together. Um, we go out and get breakfast and just talk. Cause she just wants to tell me how every freaking boy, my daughter is the most beautiful thing God ever made.
00:22:54
Speaker
Every boy loves her. every boy she oh it's it's unreal like it's it's like dad's worst nightmare but at the same time like she's just so pure that she's not she's like i'm not gonna age till i'm 17 anyway so she just but she loves telling me every boy like she's dying my best friend's son's hair pink this week because and i'm like she's like he's like can't believe i can't let him do that i'm like i can can't have you seen my daughter i can she brought around his finger you know what mean like it's like but um Where are going with that? oh just get him on the field. And like, and the thing is like, you can't get it back.
00:23:29
Speaker
Like last year was my son, it was his last year hunting basically. Like he's 18. We were hunting together this year. I'm not putting him in for any tax. He's going to college. He's going to college for six and a half years. Right.
00:23:41
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Yeah. I mean, you have the rest of your life to go hunt with your buddies and go, but, but the reality is, and and it's more than just hunting with your kids. It's, It is, it's, it's men valuing yeah family and being. 10 hour, 16 hour car drive with those kids.
00:23:57
Speaker
Yeah. Talking to them. Yeah, it is. and you get that Getting to know them and being there for them. And I mean, it's, it's sending messages saying you're worth more and Yeah.
00:24:09
Speaker
missing in the world today is we have absent fathers we have moms that are more invested in in what they want to do but it's like and you know and i know now that we're kind of on the other end of this and we have kids that are that are launching It's like you can't get it back and you have the rest of your life to chase those things. You only have one shot with these kids and and doing the time when they're little and and it is harder and going to have to say no to a lot of self you know gratifying things. But it's so much better. We eat our tags every year to hand them off to the kids, like to take the kids. But.
00:24:42
Speaker
It is so much greater to watch those kids get their animals down and to be there and to be a part of it and to work as one unit and a team. it's It's what you experience in the field as a family.
00:24:54
Speaker
It's just mind blowing. And it's it's incredible. ah Speaking of kids, here's Dylan. Say hi, Abby. Hi, Dylan. Shut the door, bro. ah Shut it.
00:25:05
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and That's awesome. I normally lock my office, but he shut the door with him in my office. I meant to share with you on the outside. Anyways. Yeah. like So good example, right? um I took my son to Africa this year, my 11-year-old.
00:25:20
Speaker
It was so much... I could care less about shooting animal Africa. Dude, seeing him just rope an ostrich at 510 yards. Isn't it the coolest? It's the coolest feeling in the world, right? I'm like...
00:25:32
Speaker
Dude, I could tell you, like, I just started big game hunting in like 2015. And like, I pretty much cut my teeth learning how hunt by bringing these kids out. But they've killed so many animals now, right? And like them shooting a doe is so much better than me shooting a giant buck. Because like when they get it down and like, not only that, it's the, like I said, the car riders. It's them being in the car with me for 12 hours listening to old country music or old rock and roll and just talking yeah and like founding these like memories and sitting around a fire or him sitting next to – I'm running tricer. We'll go do meetings on these hunts. We'll sit with people and talk to them. And they're sitting there and they're hearing me talk with another dude in camp about business and they're getting that degree.
00:26:12
Speaker
Right. What a better degree to get from me than to get from some teacher. Well, and with boots on the field in the field, right? Like they're actually seeing it happen in real life, not in a textbook. And, and you're right. Like when you're in the field with these kids, you experience the misses. I mean, there is nothing more gut wrenching,
00:26:28
Speaker
to, to, to be in the field and, and experience that with your kids when they miss, when they blow the animal. But it's like the bonding that happens, the the fact that you're setting up their life to say, you know, I'm here, I'm here during the harvest and I'm here in the mist. Like I'm here for all of it and we're in it together.
00:26:47
Speaker
And at the end of the day, we get a point back to God who created the the creation that we're in and them for on purpose for a purpose and to be there with them for every one of those things. And then the hardest day was, um you know, when my son turned 13, he took off on his own with his bow on his back. And he's like, this is what you've trained me to do. And it was like my heart, my heart just like walked away from me up that hill and he was gone all day.
00:27:15
Speaker
All day. And part of me was like, that's because he knows that when he gets home, he's got math to do. So you know that kid's not going to stop chasing animals because he wants out of math. But that day he was able to send us a spot from the Garmin and he got ah nice buck down with his bow completely and totally on his own at 13.
00:27:34
Speaker
And you know what? Everyone was like, whoa, how did he do that? and i said, here's how he did this that. His dad never left him, not once. When he was from the day that that kid was born, that kid was with his dad on every hunt and the hits and the misses and the hard and the sacrifices.
00:27:48
Speaker
And it's because of that sacrifice that that kid was able to go out there And that day in the field, he became a man, right? Like he did it on his own and he got home and he said, dad it wasn't as fun without you.
00:28:00
Speaker
You know, he was proud of himself. It was awesome. But it's that relationship that you're setting up. You are setting up relationships. And and to go back to the homeschooling thing, that's what you're doing also. you're You're setting up lifelong relationships with your kids. And it's it's the greatest blessing that there is.
00:28:16
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Yeah. I love like, For me, like there's nothing that teaches a kid hard work, like suffering on a hunt. Like yeah we, we, we, we went like, I think it was day six of seven. All my kids meal deer hunt last year. He passed 15 years ended up shooting a giant last year.
00:28:31
Speaker
And like, I remember telling them like, mean, you have more grit than 99% of dudes. Like, And it's because we've been doing it for so just suffering from the beginning. Like his favorite hunt with me, like no joke. His favorite hunt with me was when he was like three years old and we went out hunting rabbits.
00:28:46
Speaker
yeah ended up We ended up, but we ended up just shooting stink bugs with a shotgun. That's awesome. We could cause we couldn't find any rabbits. so We couldn't rabbits. ended up shooting. And like to this day, this kid talks that, but it's like, what a stupid hunt.
00:28:58
Speaker
But how much did that mean to him? Right. That was the trophy. Yeah. And that was, ah and like you know what i mean? And then when you're duck hunting with them and they're missing everything, but you're pulling trigger at the same time and they think they killed everything. Like, dude, my kids, when they were seven eight years old, thought they were the best shots in the world, right?
00:29:11
Speaker
Because you're just pulling the trigger at the same You're just following up totally. And they're, and you know, and you it's always gradual, right? Like you're not, I've always, i always tell people all the time, like you need to be gradual and how you do things with them. Like don't force me into these crazy hunts.
00:29:22
Speaker
Do the small stuff, do the does, do the, they have just as much fun at top hole too. Like you don't need a giant, you know, you need a $50,000 bass boat. They have just much fun fishing bluegills from the shore. one It's the time in the field that gets them. Yeah.
00:29:36
Speaker
gets in there And I'm telling you right now, like the like, I do not regret it at all. Like, it's ah not one bit of it. and And I'm so excited to do it again now with my now 12 year old and then soon to be Dylan, he's going to be going out with us a lot too.
00:29:50
Speaker
Like, it's just, it's the one thing I think that's the most foundational part of life was being in the field with dad. yeah and learning how to be a man watching me dude i'm telling you right now i give like two instances where i made kids cry because i was so pissed like and then i might i'd be like oh my god i'm so sorry and i have to talk to him like tell i'm sorry like it's just an animal like it's not your fault right like totally when you land trust me when there's times with kids where you land an animal for six hours and then like yeah they miss or they can't find any the scope and they blow it and you're just like yeah i've had two experiences for sure right how you sit down and be like I didn't handle myself right with you. Right. But what a learning experience, right? But there's a lesson for them, right? And there's a lesson for them in putting it all back into perspective. And I think that's what – I mean, my husband, I always laugh because, I mean, he's killed so many incredibly – you know, incredible animals that people are envious of. and
00:30:38
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And he was asked one time on an interview, like, what was your favorite hunt, like, of all your hunts? And everybody's waiting for, like, the huge out and the this and the that and all the things he's gotten. And he said – It was my very first squirrel hunt with my dad.
00:30:49
Speaker
And hands down still to this day of all that he's done. And he said, it's because I had waited so long to come of age and be able to do that. And, you know, to have that experience with my dad. And it just fascinated me that you know, from, from of everything that he's harvested of all the experiences he's had that goes down as his number one top hunt. And it was precious. And it was because why, because his dad was with him because it was him and his dad in the field.
00:31:13
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And it was just a special thing. And his dad knew how to make every single thing special from the stink bug, like you say, to the huge trophy elk. Um, it's all, it's all a gift because it's time spent.
00:31:26
Speaker
Oh yeah. I mean, we will go down and do, just go crawfishing with the kids. Yeah. We don't like a little bluegill pond and we take fishing poles with worms. We'll pull, you know, a hundred freaking crawfish out of this little pond and ah they love it.
00:31:38
Speaker
It's just as much fun. Right. totally Sometimes dad gets so down on themselves and they're like, well i can't do, you know, I get it. Some of you guys are out there working. I was up until last year, I just quit my job, you know, to do this last year.
00:31:50
Speaker
i was doing six, seven days a week and I was doing all the hours and you can't, you don't have to do the vacation to Hawaii. You could do, you could just go to the park.
00:32:01
Speaker
Yes. It's just versus any time with your kids is what they need. And I'll tell you the other big message is in the middle of hunting season, when your kids know that that's so important to you, right? Like these kids know that's dad's like favorite season.
00:32:15
Speaker
and And to be able to see dad go, I'm not hunting this weekend because I'm going be at your game or i'm I'm, you know, hanging up the rifle or the bow this season because you're in ballet and I'm going to be at every one of your shows. Right.
00:32:28
Speaker
And it's, it's even sacrificing the time in the field, right? Like we just said, the time in the field matters so much, but the sacrificing of the time in the field matters just as much to your kids. It's saying you matter more to me.
00:32:40
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than this hobby, than this thing that I'm pursuing. Because at the end of the day, our legacy is our children. At the end of the day, we're only accountable for one thing. We're not going to be accountable for how many harvests we had and the biggest animals.
00:32:51
Speaker
You know, that's all just world notoriety. What we're going to stand before God on is, you know, did you answer my call as a father, as a mother, you know, as a parent? I always that if I lead a thousand people to Christ and my kids don't God, I feel like I failed.
00:33:06
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ah hundred I know that's a little bit harsh because you learn you start learning as your kids go, oh, they make a lot of stupid decisions. they get Well, and they have free will, right? They have free will. Totally. But like I i want to know, like when stand before God, that I did everything I could to raise my kids right. Right, right. Because God's not going to ask you how many animals you killed, right?
00:33:21
Speaker
He's not going to care. No, he's not going to care at all. But he is going to say, you know, did you point your children to who I am in everything? Right. We have this big debate in our house that I always say animals don't go to heaven. My wife's like, yeah, they do. it i'm like And I'm like, if that's the case, there's going so many animals in heaven that I sent there.
00:33:40
Speaker
can thank me. They can thank me. I said so many animals to heaven because I'm like, i don't know, whatever. I don't want to get into like where your dog goes when he dies, but I don't know. Whatever.
Beyond Adventures Ministry
00:33:48
Speaker
um So we talked about homeschool, right? But I do want to put a focus onto your guys' ministry. You guys have, you call it a ministry, right? Or non-profit? It is a ministry. It's a hundred percent of ministry.
00:34:00
Speaker
It is a non-profit. What is it? Okay, so it's um called Beyond Adventures. So we kind of in our in our outdoor writing and and kind of on social media and stuff, we are called to the top.
00:34:13
Speaker
And so, you know, like we've discussed, our family has just always – We're very family focused and our mission and our when we speak across the country, when we write, it's really just about family in the field and how important it is that we do it as a family. Basically everything that you and I just talked about. And I remember sitting one day on the couch and my husband just said, um i just can't imagine as a dad not being able to do what I do.
00:34:39
Speaker
with my kids. I can't imagine, you know, and he goes, there are dads out there that can't do this with their kids due to a kid's disability or, you know, kids that have cancer. He's like, there are a lot of dads who probably just feel so incredibly hopeless. Like they want to give these opportunities to their kids.
00:34:57
Speaker
but they can't. And so he just said, I want to be able to take what God has given us, um, as far as just our physical ability, our physical health, our, um, just, just what we do and be able to come alongside families, um, and help get them out together. And so it was out of that in 2020, the worst year on the planet to start a nonprofit, right? We had to no money We had no clue what we were doing.
00:35:24
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um We knew nothing about even what a nonprofit was, but God put something on our heart and we said yes. And after that, it was just incredible to see the doors open and just little by little, baby step by baby step.
00:35:36
Speaker
um And we've been running it now for five years. We do anything from big game hunts. We just did a big game hunt last year. And I can tell you a little bit about that story if you want to, you know, we're doing this coming weekend, we're doing a jet boat sturgeon fishing trip with, you know, a 13 year old boy who has a cancer diagnosis that doesn't look very good.
00:35:55
Speaker
um so um we just took this little girl that she was found by a garbage heap in India because um she had disabilities. And so, you know, her life was not deemed valuable by people and,
00:36:07
Speaker
She was found taken to an orphanage, a family here in Idaho adopted her. um But they have a family, they have a family of four other kids. And because she's unable to walk, she's now seven.
00:36:18
Speaker
So she's getting a little big for dad to pack around on his back. And so the family was always divided to go do outdoor adventures together. They couldn't all go together because someone had to stay home with her. so Um, we just decided we we found this incredible device that he could put. It's like a one wheel device that she rides behind him and there's nowhere that guy can't go now.
00:36:38
Speaker
And so we just took them on this really awesome backpacking trip. Um, and you know, our heart is just a to, we don't do the work. We facilitate the families to do the work together. We don't take the kids. It's not one of those take my kid for this amazing adventure. It's that we come alongside families and we like to be in the background and facilitate moms and dads being able to do this with their kids. So um it's a whole family thing. It's, know, our three main, our our three main, our heart is, our purpose is to point to, you know, the value of life, um which is something that is not valued right now in our culture. And we know that every life has value um and the blessing of family. And when we see the family being under attack the way it is in our country, we just want to point to
00:37:23
Speaker
You know, God designed family on purpose for a purpose, and we need the family as a nation. We need the family. um And then the third thing is to point to our creator through his creation. We work, you know.
00:37:33
Speaker
in in in the outdoor world, a lot of people worship the creation. They're obsessed with the creation. They're obsessed with the animal, the mountains, the peaks, which we all love that, but they forget why. And it's because we have an almighty creator that created us in his image and, and he created the creation. And that's why we have such an awe for it. And so we want to be able to get families out to point to the creator through his creation and the value of life and the blessing of family. So That's what we do. We do it kind of strangely on the side because we still have to pay our bills. And, you know, my husband's still working the grind, the awful grind that he hates, but he does it every day to provide for me to stay home and homeschool our kids. And then...
00:38:13
Speaker
um We just do called beyond as a family. Our kids are 100% involved in everything. Our son helps guide our daughter. Our oldest daughter does all the admin stuff. And then our littlest is just like there for morale. um But we do that in our time off our heart, our dream, what the Lord has put on our heart is that we would be able to do this full time someday and be able to, you know, reach more families, even maybe have chapters in other states where other people, you know, come alongside and do this where they are.
00:38:42
Speaker
um under called Beyond's Umbrella. So that's that's what called Beyond Adventures is and does. That is awesome. And I can tell you like some of this ah hits close home with me, right? You talk about like the bio kids and all the other kids.
00:38:56
Speaker
Like when we became foster parents, because I have a foster ministry, I don't want to go too much into that. my The whole world became around our foster son because it was like we had three visits a week with mom and dad. We have lawyer visits with all stuff. And then our bio kids were suffering. Right. yeah And like, I, like my best friend a son's cerebral palsy.
00:39:16
Speaker
Right. And we used vacation together every single year. And now this baby was supposed to die at one day old. Now he's 10 years. right but he's still cerebral palsy he's still extremely disabled and their life's completely changed because of it right like it's like we can't go the gym in the morning together we can't vacation to get like i i said hey i will pay for you go to fly with me last week yeah we can't we can't go like i will pay for you to fly with me all you gotta do is right get on the plane and they couldn't because like they have this this son who's extremely disabled and that son will be there the rest of their life yep totally it'll be there until they're 80 years old he will be in their lives right um
00:39:54
Speaker
And for someone to come alongside, I can tell you the biggest thing that happened with me, because now I'm the board president of this foster ministry. I was, i was family number one. um People came alongside of me and I'm the most anti help person in the world. Like I'm a leader. i don't need help. Right.
00:40:09
Speaker
And we were family number one. I actually went to this meeting because i wanted to facilitate this ministry into my other foster ministry. And they're like, no, we want you to be the first family. And like getting that help and getting that support.
00:40:21
Speaker
right It changed my life. Well, now, i mean, now I'm in charge of this thing, but like for someone to come alongside of a family who has a disabled kid and the other kids see that yeah it's not just so much of it is like, all you see is like, yes, that kid has cancer.
00:40:36
Speaker
Yeah. But the other four kids were at that house. Now that kid with kids is getting all that attention and they're getting none. Right. They they feel neglected, even though it sounds, they feel selfish with feeling that. Right. Like, so like you said, bringing in like that whole family out with disabled kid from India,
00:40:53
Speaker
It was just as much for the rest of the kids as it was. Well, and so and honestly, Drew, it was probably more for them because this little girl, I mean, I will just be honest. She has enough brain damage that I don't think that she, you know, she doesn't feel sad that she's left behind at home with mom when everybody does cool stuff. She probably didn't even realize this is so cool to be overlooking this lake up on this mountain.
00:41:14
Speaker
But what it was, it was the little boy that turned and said to my husband and I, he's like, Now we can go with mom and dad. We can all go together. And it was those other four kids that always felt like it's either dad going to take us and mom stay home or mom going to take us and dad stay home.
00:41:29
Speaker
And it was it was for those four kids to be like we're all out here together. and And for the dad who said, you know, like it's such this tear. I can either go do these things with my kids or – but I'm leaving my wife at home or I stay home. And it was just for him to be able – to be up there with his whole family knowing that that he did that and that he's there. It was just, it was such a blessing to see. And and honestly, we don't do, we just facilitate it.
00:41:55
Speaker
um And then we left that device with them because our goal is also then that whatever we do, we can leave these families with, the ability to continue to adventure together. um It isn't, we're not the heroes in this. These parents are the heroes. I mean, these, we, we walk away at the end of these adventures and we go back to our life, but they're the ones that, like you said, that every day, day in and day out, because they've done the ultimate sacrifice of choosing life, which, which God blesses.
00:42:20
Speaker
um but they're in it every day. And so if we can just come along a little bit and just kind of open the door for them to to something they otherwise would not be able to do, then that's what we want to do.
00:42:31
Speaker
Yeah, that's incredible. um Very to what we're doing down here. And you hear people say all the time, like, I could never do that. That'd be so hard. Like, I could never be that. I would love have a kid from India, that'd be just too hard.
00:42:43
Speaker
Yeah. And these people people did it. Yeah, they did. and now that kid, and these people honestly just gave up the rest of their lives for that kid. Because that kid's going to be disabled when she's 18 as well.
00:42:55
Speaker
Yep. And 25 30 and 40. Right. And, forty right and I can tell you right now, like coming alongside a family like that means the world to them because I was that family, right? I was a family who was just drowning. Right.
00:43:08
Speaker
And being able to facilitate that just come alongside means the world to them and giving them. It's more than just the experience. It's like knowing that, hey, someone else is out there helping us. Totally. Someone else is willing to like, we're willing to make this ultimate sacrifice if they want to make a week of sacrifice. Totally. And honestly, there's nothing more rewarding than that, right? That's why I'm going to Kenya in the middle of my hunting season.
00:43:28
Speaker
right like i'm going to kenya from october i my my church doesn't we're from san diego they don't hunt they don't understand anything the dates are october like 20th through november like 5th like the worst the worst worst dates in the world and i was like god will give us god have given my kid drew the statewide utah general bull tag during the route with a rifle oh no i told my kid if we this god gives a tag watch and we got my kids have three they got some awesome tags that's so cool but I know that it's much more rewarding for me to go do that and to serve kids and do that than to go and
00:44:03
Speaker
you know, go hunting. Yeah. i go Well, and you're sending your kids a message of, you know, it's greater to serve and come alongside others than it is to go serve ourselves. You know, at the end of the day, you'll walk home with a bowl. Big deal.
00:44:14
Speaker
Right. I mean, how many other times can you do that? But at the end of the day, when we're serving other people, like it's kingdom work, it's eternal stuff. It's stuff that matters. It's stuff that like we talked about leaving a legacy. Like these are the important things. And we're teaching, we're teaching our children that when they see us make those sacrifices and that's, that's what's important. That's what really matters. That's what we stand accountable for.
00:44:33
Speaker
And again, back to the homeschool thing, like what are you teaching your kids doing this stuff? Yeah. Well, and that's what's like cool with them, working with them. It's right. And because we homeschool, we can do this, right? Because we homeschool, we can take the time to go do this. And my daughter runs a lot of the, she does a lot of the admin side of things. My son gets to guide, which means, I mean, that's business minded. It's just, it's so cool. And also just the compassion that our children learn.
00:44:57
Speaker
um But like you said, when we come alongside other families, we're I mean, ultimately we're the body and that's what we're meant to do. Like, so when you choose to adopt a kid, we're all called to come along inside you and support you. Like we're not meant to do it, you know, alone. And I'm not doing the whole, it takes a village to raise a kid because I've seen the village and they're not raising my kid.
00:45:15
Speaker
But when you come along Christians and you all come together to to answer the call and to do what God has called, it's just, it's carrying one another's burdens and that's what we're called to do. And and it blesses everybody in the process.
00:45:28
Speaker
That's awesome. Yeah. And I mean, same thing with like, we went to when I my first year my son went to Kenya. um His teacher was like, we're probably we do like a co op type deal, right? sometimes We do like a um a charter school he can go to school like one day a week for math whatever. She's like, I'm gonna have to fail him because he's missing these tests. And we're like,
00:45:46
Speaker
And I was like, cool, fail him. yeah Like, trust me, going to get way more out of Kenya than he is out of your student class. Yeah, 100%. Trust me, he's got chat GTP now. We don't need your class, sorry. I hate to say that, but like it's a reality, right? Like, whatever you're going teach them we can look up in three seconds on the internet. You know what i mean? like and Like, this is the point. And like, you get so much more out of that. And the having your kids serve more so than like my kids do, my son runs junior high group with me, right? And then they also do an after school Bible club once a week with grandma and my wife.
00:46:15
Speaker
And they've been in my house. They've seen me do Bible studies my house for 16 years, right? And they've been involved in all those ministries. um That's more important to me than the hunting, honestly. Oh, totally. It's like the ministry side and like bringing my kids. Absolutely. Like I am so pumped for this trip to Kenya this year because I'm developing a program to send our youth there to live there. It makes them go live there next year.
00:46:36
Speaker
And I'm bringing like all my friends at Foothills Five. Like all these kids that grew up, they're all 16, 17, 15 years old. i I'm bringing like five of them with me. And I'm like, I am i told them last night we meeting. I'm like, don't understand. Like, you guys are teaching.
00:46:49
Speaker
You guys are going to step into your anointing. You're going to do this stuff. And God is going to move in your life and something foundational is going to happen over there doing this. And if we weren't homeschooling or or ever get going as a homeschooled kid, yeah it'd be October that we'd go into public school, right? And like getting opportunity to do that is so much more foundational than anything that some teachers can teach them. I'm sorry. And they'll learn so much more. I mean, they will learn so much more hands-on than they ever would in a textbook. And ultimately, I just think, what are we created to do? what What are we really meant to be here for? Like, I don't know. Everything we do is based on the Word of God. And I look in there and I'm like, there's nothing about GPAs and Algebra 2s and –
00:47:23
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chemistry, this is, and it's it's not in there. Right. And so if our kids are called to do something, God's going to give them what they need to do it. So if my kid needs to know chemistry to do what God's called him to do, then we're going to learn chemistry. But if they're not, then, I mean, I don't know, call me. We're not, we're not going to, I half the things that I quote unquote learned in public high school and then college and Right. I don't, I don't know any of them.
00:47:47
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i don't use them, nor do I even remember them. Right. But I do know this. I know that when God calls me to do something, he gives me what I need to do it. And, and like we said before, it's, it's a group effort. Like when you adopted that, or when you fostered that first child, you needed people to come around you because we are the body. And it's the same with called beyond, like our family has the ability to do it. We have the ability to to like put these things on and come alongside these families. But we don't have, you know, we need the other people that, that have the finances to help us, right? We need the other people that will volunteer. We need the other people that will provide the the gear, all the different things. And so it isn't the Rinella family that does this. It's, this is God's ministry and he's just placed us in this particular position in this ministry. And then it takes, it takes others to make it all happen. That's awesome. So
00:48:38
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How can we support you guys at banquets because of dinners, because of stuff like that going on yet? We so like I said, we're one family. And in 2020, this was our prayer that God, we're going to say yes to this, but take it at a take it at a pace that we can still because our kids are our first ministry. Our home is our first ministry.
00:48:55
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We homeschool. where Jesse still has to pay our bills. And so it has been at a pace that has been manageable. We are now – we have older kids and we can blow this thing up now. We're able to just time-wise and with the age of our kids now go full-time doing this. And so we're moving into a position where um it's just as as the money comes in, we bless a family. And that's how we do it. You know, we're not – there's not paid staff. We just – As the finances come in we put an event out there and people sign up or or apply for it.
00:49:26
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um We'd love to move into a place where we do, you know, wild game banquets to support these kids and these families and eventually bring, you know, maybe go full time, be able to be on staff and go full time and just bless families and open up, like I said, chapters across the country because it's There's a lot of hunting opportunities or it doesn't even have to be hunting, hiking, backpacking, you know, fishing um across our country. And there's a lot of people that have the ability to help other families get out there. So um we know with God, when he calls us to do something, it it could grow as big as he allows it to grow. So we just pray that when people put it on their heart, that they'll support what we're doing and we all come in along and do it together. That's awesome. You have a website? um Yes, it's called beyondadventures.org.
00:50:10
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call Bonaventure.com and I'm sure you can go in there and donate.
Conclusion & Acknowledgments
00:50:12
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Yeah. And the other thing we do that's really fun is we try to film a lot of these. um One is we just had a, last year there was a dad, this is kind of a sad story. He has two older daughters that he always hunted with.
00:50:24
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They always, and the elk hunted and the girls had their elk ivory jewelry. And then they had kind of like a nine year old, a nine year gap. And then they had another surprise. You're pregnant again. um And when that youngest daughter turned,
00:50:38
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12, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, 45 years old, diagnosed with Alzheimer's, couldn't drive, could no longer work. And she had turned of age to go elk hunting with him. And he was just devastated. He couldn't take her.
00:50:50
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And her sisters had gotten to go. And it was always this father, daughter, and she'd waited her whole life to be able to go with dad. And now because of dad's disability, he was not able to take her. And so that's where we got wind of this family. And we stepped in and we're like, no, we're going to make it happen. So dad can take her.
00:51:05
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And we did as much in the background as we could so that we were not like, like he got to be by her side when she shot, he got to help her, you know, pack it like, but, but he couldn't do it without us. And so we, or not without us, he couldn't do it without help. And so God just put us in that place. And, um, so that was all filmed by a production company came along and said, we want to be able to tell this story.
00:51:26
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And so several of our stories have been shared, um, as production companies come along because, There's a lot of hunting shows out there, but they tend to glorify the hunter or the big harvest or it kind of seems that all eyes on me thing. And we want to be able to share the stories of um just the bigger picture of what is going on in the field, right? The connection between the people.
00:51:48
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that the ultimate harvest, the ultimate trophy on that hunt was that dad was there when she pulled the trigger. You know, the ultimate trophy isn't always what you think it is. So that's another angle of what we do. You can find all those videos on our website as well.
00:52:01
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Um, everything's there. That is awesome. Abby, this was a breath of fresh air. uh, think what you guys doing is incredible. i look forward to hopefully growing relationship with you guys as well getting to know you more.
00:52:16
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um Go visit calledbeyondadventures.org. Go support them. I'm sure they're on Instagram as well, calledbeyondadventures. Yep, calledbeyondadventures everywhere you can find us. Everywhere you can find them, YouTube, have a whole nine. Thank you so much.
00:52:28
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Let's continue this relationship. Yeah, it'd be awesome to be on your show. Thank you so much, Drew. I appreciate all that you do as well. you Thank you for listening to the Tricer podcast. Do us a favor and like and subscribe on whatever platform you're listening on.
00:52:42
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