It's been quite a while since I posted. Could it be laziness? possibly. business? maybe. hmmmm. oh well. Today I finished my last two exams, one take-home and one final in-class exam. I'm not quite sure how I did on them all, but I'm not worrying. It's nice to be done and now I feel like I can contribute more to the new housing arrangement. The past few weeks have involved some hard work by Martin and Sylvia, moving everything in and getting it organized and taking care of two little boys while I have made Bridgewater my home, worrying about final papers and ignoring innumerable typing and editing errors (I never was one to edit my papers). Every year seems the same; same old postponing and forgetting of papers until finals week; same old lack of sleep and dull, listless eyes staring through a computer screen; same old good feeling when it's over and I can sleep without worry...of school anyways. I can now start worrying (thinking, pondering) about the summer. I really haven't even begun looking for a job. I'm still working at Sharp Shopper but I'm thinking that God has something more for me this summer. I would love a chance to use my language skills more often. Perhaps I will be surprised. I will keep you all updated. For anyone wondering about my love-life...call me and find out!
Maybe some softball pictures coming soon! - the rhodes bros take to the field
God's peace,
Dietrich - although i have been getting called Eliot a lot more recently :).
Monday, May 5, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
2 Musketeers on a Sunday Afternoon
Hanging out, frolicking and the like.
Thanks to Bek for taking all the pics and for having almost as much fun as we did.
Newest blog in the family:
http://whatsupphilip.blogspot.com/
Anita, go there and finally find out what was up on my birthday. :).
Philip
Thanks to Bek for taking all the pics and for having almost as much fun as we did.Newest blog in the family:
http://whatsupphilip.blogspot.com/
Anita, go there and finally find out what was up on my birthday. :).
Philip
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
...ooh, just a sec :)
Dear Family, Sorry about the long gap in communication. I also feel just a little weird posting on here without pics and am usually absentminded enough to forget the camera when I go somewhere cool. I took my camera to Jamaica but only took a few because I knew I had teammates who would share some with me when we got back.
I had an excellent time in Jamaica March 6-16! I was sick for the first 5 days or so, but I enjoyed seeing all my Jamaica family at one place at the Conference. It was nice to not have to run all over the country trying to find everyone--they were almost all there. I was especially excited to see my Mommi Viddi (who always gives me a great dancing hug! :), and my Maranatha kids! We spent the weekend at the Conference, then drove over to my home in the southwest corner of Jamaica...back in Ridge, St. Elizabeth and Maranatha School for the Deaf.
These were the four crazies that hung out together the whole time. Monica Unzicker (top), Boomer Bauman (right), Melanie Heatwole, and me.
Here are three of the Maranatha kids--JP is saying he loves you.
A unique photo op at a place known as the Giddy House. In a 1907 earthquake, this house was shaken a bit and part of it sunk down into the ground.
An incredible shot taken at Montego Bay by Monica.
Some others:
Beautiful evening
This is a shot from where we stayed our last night in Jamaica
Other things:
-Basketball season is well underway and we're having an awesome time in A-league this year. None of us ever want to go back to B. Last night we were ahead of the best team in the league until about 3/4 of the way through. We think we can beat them next time. :). I think we're 3 and 6. We could probably do a little better if we had more than 6 players, but I'm not making excuses--haha.
-My work at VMMissions has included helping to coordinate and promote Perspectives these last several months and I've enjoyed meeting many area pastors and "mission commission" leaders and groups. We are getting great response and expect a full first class beginning in August!
-We are very very excited about Martin, Sylvia, Elliot, and Julian moving in very soon!
-Easter with the Early Church was a beautiful time...fellowship, feetwashing, a community wide church vigil from 10 to 12, sleeping in sleeping bags up on EMU's hill (very cold!!), and a shivering sunrise service (it's fun singing and shivering at the same time).
-Betsy and I are in touch by letters (unlimited), email (limited), and a monthly Skype date (very limiting). She recently took a crazy adventurous trip with her teammates to Lesotho. Wish I could've been there. Here is a waterfall she got to see on a hike:
Love you all!
Philip
I had an excellent time in Jamaica March 6-16! I was sick for the first 5 days or so, but I enjoyed seeing all my Jamaica family at one place at the Conference. It was nice to not have to run all over the country trying to find everyone--they were almost all there. I was especially excited to see my Mommi Viddi (who always gives me a great dancing hug! :), and my Maranatha kids! We spent the weekend at the Conference, then drove over to my home in the southwest corner of Jamaica...back in Ridge, St. Elizabeth and Maranatha School for the Deaf.
These were the four crazies that hung out together the whole time. Monica Unzicker (top), Boomer Bauman (right), Melanie Heatwole, and me.
Here are three of the Maranatha kids--JP is saying he loves you.
A unique photo op at a place known as the Giddy House. In a 1907 earthquake, this house was shaken a bit and part of it sunk down into the ground.
An incredible shot taken at Montego Bay by Monica.
Some others:Beautiful evening
This is a shot from where we stayed our last night in Jamaica
Other things:
-Basketball season is well underway and we're having an awesome time in A-league this year. None of us ever want to go back to B. Last night we were ahead of the best team in the league until about 3/4 of the way through. We think we can beat them next time. :). I think we're 3 and 6. We could probably do a little better if we had more than 6 players, but I'm not making excuses--haha.
-My work at VMMissions has included helping to coordinate and promote Perspectives these last several months and I've enjoyed meeting many area pastors and "mission commission" leaders and groups. We are getting great response and expect a full first class beginning in August!
-We are very very excited about Martin, Sylvia, Elliot, and Julian moving in very soon!
-Easter with the Early Church was a beautiful time...fellowship, feetwashing, a community wide church vigil from 10 to 12, sleeping in sleeping bags up on EMU's hill (very cold!!), and a shivering sunrise service (it's fun singing and shivering at the same time).
-Betsy and I are in touch by letters (unlimited), email (limited), and a monthly Skype date (very limiting). She recently took a crazy adventurous trip with her teammates to Lesotho. Wish I could've been there. Here is a waterfall she got to see on a hike:
Love you all!Philip
Monday, February 4, 2008
Icy Landscapes
Dear family, I post this blog as an appendix to Dietrich's last one. The over-night freezing rain this past weekend left everything amazingly beautiful. We were surrounded by so many scenes that made me wish I was a professional photographer. But I gave it my best shot anyway and took these pics while taking a walk in the lingering light rain:
(to get the best effect on some of them you need to click on the pictures to make them larger...especially "red".)
silver lake (or, for Betsy's sake, "silver pond")
silver lake, ice and rain
cattails
silver lake mill #1
silver lake mill #2
cold ducks
swings
silos
blue
red
bright swirls #1
bright swirls #2
fence
fireplace
together
captured buds
brick house
brick house #2
brick house #3
untitled #1
untitled #2
untitled #3
It would be fun to know which are your favorites. :)
Love to you all.
Philip
(to get the best effect on some of them you need to click on the pictures to make them larger...especially "red".)
silver lake (or, for Betsy's sake, "silver pond")
silver lake, ice and rain
cattails
silver lake mill #1
silver lake mill #2
cold ducks
swings
silos
blue
red
bright swirls #1
bright swirls #2
fence
fireplace
together
captured buds
brick house
brick house #2
brick house #3
untitled #1
untitled #2
untitled #3
It would be fun to know which are your favorites. :)
Love to you all.
Philip
Friday, February 1, 2008
Alright, so Philip seems to be taking over the blogging scene. I'll try to make a comeback.
I have just recently gotten back into classes and consequently a load of reading is piling up around me. I am taking Christian Social Ethics, Religions of the Far East, Modern American Literature, Contemporary Politics (maybe), Evolution of the Modern Mind, and Spanish Conversation and Diction. Quite an array of classes that should be quite interesting. I am also going to be involved with a worship band that will lead worship at a campus-wide event. I have just met most of the people in the band so it should be fun getting to know them and getting everything to mesh.
On a different note altogether...
It iced over last night and today everything is beautiful. I was down at the college when the whole campus lost power because of a blown transformer or something; so we were less than halfway through class and we get the notice that class is canceled - what's an extra half-hour? oh well, now i have time to goof off before work. Tonight I work from 4-8 at Sharp and then maybe doing something with our good friend Will. dumpster diving is not out of the question. Anyhow, that's my life - next week we go to South Carolina to sing, so pray for 3n1!
Candice, I'm very excited about the new family member- congratulations!
Love you all!!
Diech
I have just recently gotten back into classes and consequently a load of reading is piling up around me. I am taking Christian Social Ethics, Religions of the Far East, Modern American Literature, Contemporary Politics (maybe), Evolution of the Modern Mind, and Spanish Conversation and Diction. Quite an array of classes that should be quite interesting. I am also going to be involved with a worship band that will lead worship at a campus-wide event. I have just met most of the people in the band so it should be fun getting to know them and getting everything to mesh.
On a different note altogether...
It iced over last night and today everything is beautiful. I was down at the college when the whole campus lost power because of a blown transformer or something; so we were less than halfway through class and we get the notice that class is canceled - what's an extra half-hour? oh well, now i have time to goof off before work. Tonight I work from 4-8 at Sharp and then maybe doing something with our good friend Will. dumpster diving is not out of the question. Anyhow, that's my life - next week we go to South Carolina to sing, so pray for 3n1!
Candice, I'm very excited about the new family member- congratulations!
Love you all!!
Diech
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
catching up on that one brother...
Ok, so I lied about the story to go along with the studio pictures, but most of the story is in the pictures anyway, so...highlights:
-talking late into the night with Dietrich about all [sic] the most important things in life
-conversations about the Bible and the future with Micah, Mel, and Diech around the supper table
-throwing football between long singing sessions
-when our recording guy, Benjamin, would make the mics do this fnky empty cave sound
-the end of an awesome take!
some other fun events of the past week
-helping Meredith move (Jeremy was a great help!)
Jeremy and Meredith laughing it up on the way back to her house for lunch.
-a fun time at Micah and Krista's for supper and afterward a moped ride in the Clover Hill area. Here, have a ride through the country with us: :)
more catching up:
-i decided to drop the Spring continuation of the Fall seminary class so I could dedicate more time to ministry with 3N1
-Betsy and I are still enjoying a dating relationship by God's grace (2 months has, of course, felt like at least twice that many)
-Jeremy has picked up one of my phrases-- "HWoooo Doggies!"
-i am more engaged in a new congregation called the Early Church (so named because their most regular meeting is at 6:00 am every Monday) and I love it...I feel God doing great things in my life and in the life of our small group of believers dedicated to Christ and his mission among the poor of northern Harrisonburg.
-my work with VMM means doing what I've been doing (speaking to youth groups and at churches as well as organizing the short-term teams) and taking on new roles, including 1) being a member of Strategic Planning Task Force which gathers data and uses it to form a new vision statement, etc and, 2) helping to organize a Perspectives class that will be held in Harrisonburg for the first time this FALL.
-i have a plane ticket to Jamaica March 6-16 for the 50th anniversary of the Jamaica Mennonite Church and some fun times with friends
Next thing:
-3N1 heading to South Carolina for a prison crusade next weekend, Feb 6-10. Please Pray!
Love you all!
Philip
-talking late into the night with Dietrich about all [sic] the most important things in life
-conversations about the Bible and the future with Micah, Mel, and Diech around the supper table
-throwing football between long singing sessions
-when our recording guy, Benjamin, would make the mics do this fnky empty cave sound
-the end of an awesome take!
some other fun events of the past week
-helping Meredith move (Jeremy was a great help!)
a pic from her old house...still some snow around :)
Jeremy and Meredith laughing it up on the way back to her house for lunch.
-a fun time at Micah and Krista's for supper and afterward a moped ride in the Clover Hill area. Here, have a ride through the country with us: :)
more catching up:
-i decided to drop the Spring continuation of the Fall seminary class so I could dedicate more time to ministry with 3N1
-Betsy and I are still enjoying a dating relationship by God's grace (2 months has, of course, felt like at least twice that many)
-Jeremy has picked up one of my phrases-- "HWoooo Doggies!"
-i am more engaged in a new congregation called the Early Church (so named because their most regular meeting is at 6:00 am every Monday) and I love it...I feel God doing great things in my life and in the life of our small group of believers dedicated to Christ and his mission among the poor of northern Harrisonburg.
-my work with VMM means doing what I've been doing (speaking to youth groups and at churches as well as organizing the short-term teams) and taking on new roles, including 1) being a member of Strategic Planning Task Force which gathers data and uses it to form a new vision statement, etc and, 2) helping to organize a Perspectives class that will be held in Harrisonburg for the first time this FALL.
-i have a plane ticket to Jamaica March 6-16 for the 50th anniversary of the Jamaica Mennonite Church and some fun times with friends
Next thing:
-3N1 heading to South Carolina for a prison crusade next weekend, Feb 6-10. Please Pray!
Love you all!
Philip
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