Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[oliviabenson]

Jill stuffed her purse full of plexus school luncheon 🤣🤣🤣. No way Dave didn’t get any.

[oliviabenson]

Jill finger(ed) Texas 

Poor Texas 

[Westiepeach]

But if Hunk did not accompany her, wouldn’t someone think she was a single mother? Or if she traveled with her “sister-in-law,” would someone think she was a *gasp* lesbian??? 🤭

[oliviabenson]

Cropped screenshots 

I guess there were vegetables 

[xwordfanatik]

Those veggies on a piece of wood instead of a dish, no thanks.  Wouldn't it be harder to wash off that board than some dishes?  

[Absolom]

Vegetables spread like that is just wrong, isn't it?

[CalicoKitty]

3 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Yes apparently only a few states offer it.

Only 5 states issue it, and their location makes me think it is to accommodate travel to Canada, even though they say that it makes travel to Mexico and the 
Caribbean easier.  It is for land and sea entry; they do not mention flying.

[BradandJanet]

17 minutes ago, Westiepeach said:

But if Hunk did not accompany her, wouldn’t someone think she was a single mother? Or if she traveled with her “sister-in-law,” would someone think she was a *gasp* lesbian??? 🤭

If Jill didn't do everything in her power to get people to notice her, no stranger  would give her a second thought. That is the worst possible existence for a desperate attention-seeker like Jilly. Even being mistaken for a *gasp* lesbian is preferable to being completely ignored. And there's a potential social media rant to exploit too.

[satrunrose]

9 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Possibly they can live comfortably on the Plexus income and what they receive from the Missions Clearing House. They are also sponsored as missionaries by  a few churches. 

 Can they though? I would imagine a lot of those Clearing House donations were inspired by the churches they visit feeling the need to send some regular money for the waifs... er... to support the Rods in their Godly mission, I mean. If they stop the in-person visits, I can't imagine "we print the same six pamphlets and send them to churches by the thousands" is going to jump out at people who are looking to donate (and Jill's SM doesn't send the message of someone who is reliant on Christian Charity much anymore).  

Edited October 16, 2023 by satrunrose

[farmgal4]

6 hours ago, crazy8s said:

Jill is so impressed and explains to us "these are all...um... hallways inside the hotel!" and "there are rooms in all of those!"

So neat!

I wish I could tell her where to stick that finger!

[oliviabenson]

10 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:

I wish I could tell her where to stick that finger!

I’m sure she stuck her finger in every dish to sample it

[oliviabenson]

I think Jill says 

yum yum in my tum?

[sagittarius sue]

2 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:

Only 5 states issue it, and their location makes me think it is to accommodate travel to Canada, even though they say that it makes travel to Mexico and the 
Caribbean easier.  It is for land and sea entry; they do not mention flying.

Yes, if one's flying to Canada one needs a passport.  We have Enhanced DL here in MN for driving across the border.

1 hour ago, farmgal4 said:

I wish I could tell her where to stick that finger!

It made me think that I would like to show her a different finger.

[Salacious Kitty]

The Rods performed at Phillip's "college" on Sunday. No big changes from the usual spiels, other than David now saying he was saved at 18 (was 19). Hannah's "fun fact" has also changed to state she looks the most like the Portuguese side of her family. Have they ever met the Rodrigueses? David's father died when David was five, and his mother remarried. Or is it a fantasy about what they think Portuguese people look like? Hell, I am more Portuguese than any of them, and I'm white as a ghost. 😄

[libgirl2]

13 hours ago, CalicoKitty said:

Don't take too much stuff.  When they say "two items with address" that is what they mean.  They used my record of giving to church because it had my address on it, so any bill or receipt should be enough.  They want you to bring in the minimum that they ask for.  

Since I was divorced once, I had to hunt down my marriage license from my first marriage. By the time they sent it to me, things started shutting down for Covid. I had ended up getting a regular license and finally got my real ID. 

Of course Jill photoshopped her hands, everyone has been saying how bloated they look. She does read here!! 

10 hours ago, oliviabenson said:

Cropped screenshots 

I guess there were vegetables 

Her kids will most likely never eat like that. 

[crazy8s]

7 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

The Rods performed at Phillip's "college" on Sunday. No big changes from the usual spiels, other than David now saying he was saved at 18 (was 19). Hannah's "fun fact" has also changed to state she looks the most like the Portuguese side of her family. 

It was the 70th anniversary of the church with FREE lunch for all so of course the Rod's were there.

Random observations

Dave tells how impressed he is when the children pick a new instrument and then teach themselves how to play.🤦‍♀️

Jill gives her spiel for the CD's and the book for young ladies. She seems to think the pics of her and hunk when they were younger is a selling point since she points that out.😂

She "introduces" the 3 older children who are not there. Interesting what she feels strangers need to know.

Nurie - Jill puts heavy emphasis on NATHAN KELLER, ANCHOR BAPTIST church and the location. 2 grandbabies.

Tim - He bought a house just 15min from us and just last week he got engaged, in ministry at... name's church. (Heidi's name not mentioned) No mention of aviation min. so i guess that is finally done.

Kaylee - married to Jonathan Hill, they live just 5 minutes from us, 3rd grandbaby little Gideon, in ministry at....names church.

Phillip - has a new jacket which is about 6 sizes too large for him. He mumbles something about Vietnam(?)

Almost the entire time Janessa was on stage she was messing around with the tie of her dress. The other girls tried multiple times to get her to stop and she would not. Olivia and Sadie clasped hands the entire time like they were terrified.

The audience seemed to be maybe 50- 60 people and then about 30 in college choir.

 

 

Edited October 16, 2023 by crazy8s

[graybrown bird]

Those poor children.

[farmgal4]

3 hours ago, libgirl2 said:

Since I was divorced once, I had to hunt down my marriage license from my first marriage. By the time they sent it to me, things started shutting down for Covid. I had ended up getting a regular license and finally got my real ID. 

Of course Jill photoshopped her hands, everyone has been saying how bloated they look. She does read here!! 

Her kids will most likely never eat like that. 

You’re right.  They don’t, and most likely won’t, ever eat food like that.  They probably ate ramen while BME was in Texas.  I’m sure the narcissistic POS showed all of her kids the food pictures and bragged about how delicious it was when she got home.

2 hours ago, crazy8s said:

It was the 70th anniversary of the church with FREE lunch for all so of course the Rod's were there.

Random observations

Dave tells how impressed he is when the children pick a new instrument and then teach themselves how to play.🤦‍♀️

Jill gives her spiel for the CD's and the book for young ladies. She seems to think the pics of her and hunk when they were younger is a selling point since she points that out.😂

She "introduces" the 3 older children who are not there. Interesting what she feels strangers need to know.

Nurie - Jill puts heavy emphasis on NATHAN KELLER, ANCHOR BAPTIST church and the location. 2 grandbabies.

Tim - He bought a house just 15min from us and just last week he got engaged, in ministry at... name's church. (Heidi's name not mentioned) No mention of aviation min. so i guess that is finally done.

Kaylee - married to Jonathan Hill, they live just 5 minutes from us, 3rd grandbaby little Gideon, in ministry at....names church.

Phillip - has a new jacket which is about 6 sizes too large for him. He mumbles something about Vietnam(?)

Almost the entire time Janessa was on stage she was messing around with the tie of her dress. The other girls tried multiple times to get her to stop and she would not. Olivia and Sadie clasped hands the entire time like they were terrified.

The audience seemed to be maybe 50- 60 people and then about 30 in college choir.

 

 

Can you please remind me of the name of the “college” where Phillip is now?  I’m interested in watching the video.  TY!

[crazy8s]

14 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:

Can you please remind me of the name of the “college” where Phillip is now?  I’m interested in watching the video.  TY!

Marietta Bible college. I watched it on their fb page. The video is long, but the rods are on stage a long time.  Jill and the kids speaking are hard to hear most likely because they used their own mics, set up for performing, and those were not connected to the church sound system that recorded the event. The closed caption had trouble with the translation for them when they spoke. For Jill captions for Nurie was Yuri and Phillip was fill up.

Edited October 16, 2023 by crazy8s

[oliviabenson]

Yuri and fill up is hilarious 

[libgirl2]

19 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:

You’re right.  They don’t, and most likely won’t, ever eat food like that.  They probably ate ramen while BME was in Texas.  I’m sure the narcissistic POS showed all of her kids the food pictures and bragged about how delicious it was when she got home.

Can you please remind me of the name of the “college” where Phillip is now?  I’m interested in watching the video.  TY!

Weren't they at a church during this? Because, they might have gotten a meal out of that, otherwise, yea, ramen or crap like that (not that ramen is bad, it can be fantastic)

[oliviabenson]

Unless someone pays for a buffet or something those kids do not eat well. It’s all about ma and Pa Rod dip up first and only those 2 go on dates and eat very well.

[crazy8s]

53 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

Weren't they at a church during this? Because, they might have gotten a meal out of that, otherwise, yea, ramen or crap like that (not that ramen is bad, it can be fantastic)

The church thing had free lunch for everyone. The pics of the vegetables were at jill's plexus schooling event in texas.

[farmgal4]

15 hours ago, Absolom said:

Vegetables spread like that is just wrong, isn't it?

Everyone is doing charcuterie boards now, so I guess that was the idea they were going for with that, but it certainly didn’t look appetizing to me.  

[Minivanessa]

Just now, farmgal4 said:

Everyone is doing charcuterie boards now, so I guess that was the idea they were going for with that, but it certainly didn’t look appetizing to me.  

Or to me. 

[libgirl2]

14 minutes ago, crazy8s said:

The church thing had free lunch for everyone. The pics of the vegetables were at jill's plexus schooling event in texas.

Yes, I knew that was from her event. Meanwhile, someone else fed her kids. Maybe. We know she doesn't.

[crazy8s]

From the Marietta Bible Center fb page (sponsor of the college) the rod fam not only was on stage for much of the early service, they were also on stage for pretty much the entire Sunday evening service.

Jill says a prayer about all the evil in the world and in Israel right now.

Older Rods sing

Renee and Tessie sing with Jill and it was dang painful.

Jill thanks the church for all the food at lunch and thanks "all the gentlemen who all said let the ladies go first. It was so sweet" 😂

Next we get Phillip, Jill states "we have shot him forth as an arrow...we know he is in the exact place god wants him to be. Phillip sings one of his self written...um... songs. Also painful to listen to him.

They sing their Copyright infringement Sound of Music song. 

The sound mix is horrible and overwhelms the system multiple times.

Dave gets up to preach and thanks them for the food. Preaches from Philippians, which I think is one of his go to messages along with one from 1st Timothy.

Phiilip is surely in the right place because mama found a grift close to the barndo.

[oliviabenson]

Sounds riveting

/s

[libgirl2]

37 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Sounds riveting

/s

They do lead exciting lives.... maybe that is why Jill likes to travel so much? Their lives seem as dull as dishwater. 

[sagittarius sue]

1 hour ago, crazy8s said:

Phiilip is surely in the right place because mama found a grift close to the barndo.

Hopefully it won't happen that often as the Rodrigui seem to hit their marks too often.

[crazy8s]

1 hour ago, oliviabenson said:

Sounds riveting

/s

ff and mute were necessary many times. 😂

[Salacious Kitty]

That the volume made it difficult to hear was a plus. 

[GeeGolly]

Yay. Phillip got to fill up! 🥗🥪

[Westiepeach]

So how much do you think her little blessed Plexus weekend in Texas set her back? I know she had to pay for flights, transportation, hotel room... I think the only thing Plexus ponied up for was the vegetable charcuterie board on the table and a cheap trinket or 2.

[oliviabenson]

1 hour ago, Salacious Kitty said:

That the volume made it difficult to hear was a plus. 

Praise Lord Daniel!

[tarheel220]

On 10/14/2023 at 2:14 PM, Teriacky said:

Tim engaged Heidi in what? War? Conversation? 
And he did it gloriously!!

You could also take it as he "engaged" her in something else, if you get my drift. 🤣

[oliviabenson]

1 hour ago, GeeGolly said:

Yay. Phillip got to fill up! 🥗🥪

He wishes 😢

[oliviabenson]

6 minutes ago, tarheel220 said:

You could also take it as he "engaged" her in something else, if you get my drift. 🤣

The sound you hear is Jill fainting. Not my Timmy! Not before gahdly/mahdest wedding.

[MaryAnneSpier]

At least they uphold the same standard of "purity" for both the boys and girls. 

[beckie]

2 hours ago, Westiepeach said:

So how much do you think her little blessed Plexus weekend in Texas set her back? I know she had to pay for flights, transportation, hotel room... I think the only thing Plexus ponied up for was the vegetable charcuterie board on the table and a cheap trinket or 2.

Is there any chance that the lady she went with also paid for the trip?

[Salacious Kitty]

24 minutes ago, beckie said:

Is there any chance that the lady she went with also paid for the trip?

Probably not. She presents even more broke than Jill. 

[GeeGolly]

1 hour ago, oliviabenson said:

He wishes 😢

Wasn't there a big luncheon at his school?

[Salacious Kitty]

8 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

Wasn't there a big luncheon at his school?

The church did feed everyone lunch. 

The Rods stuck around and performed at the evening service.

Edited October 16, 2023 by Salacious Kitty

[oliviabenson]

Wonder how much $ Jill paid for the plexus trip.

Dave had to have went with her. He is her headship and all.

[Salacious Kitty]

4 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Wonder how much $ Jill paid for the plexus trip.

Dave had to have went with her. He is her headship and all.

Jill posted over 30 pictures from the trip. None had husbands. Although one pic had Jill's diamond upline put his arms around both Jill and Betsy. Escandele! 😱

[oliviabenson]

Ok guess Dave was home relaxing while Jill was in Austin.

[satrunrose]

2 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Jill posted over 30 pictures from the trip. None had husbands. Although one pic had Jill's diamond upline put his arms around both Jill and Betsy. Escandele! 😱

It's such a good thing that Jill makes sure to let us know weekly how much she adores Dave, otherwise such immodest behaviour would set tongues a wagging!

[oliviabenson]

Just now, satrunrose said:

It's such a good thing that Jill makes sure to let us know weekly how much she adores Dave, otherwise such immodest behaviour would set tongues a wagging!

Jill can run off with a diamond level plexus man! Dave wouldn’t even notice. Based on his crying/depressed love declaration he might be relieved to be single.

[sagittarius sue]

9 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Jill can run off with a diamond level plexus man! Dave wouldn’t even notice. Based on his crying/depressed love declaration he might be relieved to be single.

I could see him appreciating every minute during his break from Jill.  Living with her must be exhausting.

3 hours ago, tarheel220 said:

You could also take it as he "engaged" her in something else, if you get my drift. 🤣

Criminal conversation?  To use the centuries old legal term for having sex .🤣

[Tasya]

There may be no set of fundie children I feel sadder for than Jill R's bunch. The schoolwork they are always shown "completing" is at such a basic level, I wouldn't be surprised if they can't read through a grade school level chapter book. 

My son is in 4th grade, and they are doing sentence diagramming, multi-digit multiplication/division, fractions and decimals, critical thinking etc. Granted, he's in private school, so it's likely a little more advanced but still. 

It's so sad that she equates being a good Christian (which I consider myself to be) with her ignorant beliefs and her woefully inadequate approach to education.