Anna Dombkins

Hi, Sarah.

How did the two of you meet one another?

Yeah, so Mark and I grew up in the same city in Wollongong and we met at our local church youth group.

We were there on Friday nights as teenagers and our church community was a big part of both of our lives.

And we met there and started hanging out and eventually fell in love and got married.

And so you'd come from fairly similar families?

Yeah, very similar families.

Our families were very much a part of our local community, very involved in church and community groups.

And so we kind of both grew up in that similar world.

Yeah.

No, I didn't really.

It was a big part of our life.

We had a beautiful church community and I think that just was a part of my life that just grew over time.

and then became a big part of our family life as well.

Oh, we had no idea what it might become.

We imagined we might have a bigger family, which we thought meant three or four children.

And that's really as much as we talked.

We'd never kind of dreamed of anything beyond that.

So, yeah, we had no clue what our family would become.

Yeah, we watched a documentary called The Dying Rooms, which was about the conditions in some Chinese orphanages.