Natalie Kitroeff

They both grew up in South Carolina, both raised in church every Sunday kind of families.

While they were in college, they ended up at the same conference.

He joined my group.

He came in late and joined my group.

And then we met as a small group and we were talking about issues.

And he kept talking about, well, I wonder what women think about this.

And I was like, oh, wow.

Like, who is this guy?

He kept saying all this stuff, you know, about like feminism and women.

And I thought, wow, this is something different.

They hit it off, started dating, got married, had kids.

They moved to Florida and became ministers.

Things were good.

One problem, and this was a very specific problem, was that they were ministers at different churches, making them what's referred to, apparently, as a two-church family.

We had been serving two separate congregations, and it just was too hard to be a two-church family, like running back and forth between all the

meetings and the churches and like we never really spent any of the kind of sacred holidays together.

And so we... In 2013, they found their solution in Tennessee at a church where they could both work.

By then, they had four children and they moved the whole family to a house on a cul-de-sac.

The moment where I was like, oh, we're home, was there were fireflies.

And our kids had not seen fireflies.