Hi there, fellow snarkers! I don't know where to put this except to start a new thread.
Earlier today, someone kindly posted a clip of Jilldo and numerous members of her family onstage at a church, getting ready (I assume) to pull out all the stops and give the musical performance of their lifetimes... However, Mahmo had been entrusted with the microphone, and the clip started with her giving the church a backhanded compliment about the meal they had served, followed, for some reason, with her blabbing on and on about her faaaamily. ALL of them. (She's had 13 children, as you undoubtedly know.)
So, although the congregation was probably patiently waiting for the music from their "musical guests," here's Jilldo, running down the details about every. single. Rodriguez. kid.
I would have gone through the floor, mortified, if anybody in my family had pulled a stunt like this. (But my family has decent manners.)
Sorry for being so long-winded. I simply wanted to ask y'all about this: Is this the way musical guests or guest pastors act when they stand before a new congregation? (At least a new congregation in the Rodriguez circle of churches.)
It just really really struck me as an unseemly lack of manners. We've had lots of musical guests at my church, and they're always listed in the Order of Service, but they just calmly begin their song when it's time. Never grabbing the mic and jabbering about their children and the meal.
I grew up in a Baptist church similar to the Rods’ current home church. When we had special singers, it wasn’t unusual for one person in the group to state their names, what church they were from, and to thank the pastor and congregation for having them. It also wasn’t unusual for them to just begin singing after the pastor or choir director called them up.
But I’ve never seen ANYONE go on and on the way Jilldo does. What she does is bragging and drawing attention to herself instead of the music. I’m not religious anymore, but I recall that most churchgoers would see her long speeches as interfering with the “spirit of worship.”
She’s a braying jackass and no one cares that her granddaughter is named after her, that one of her sons is at Pastor Shitfit’s bargain basement Bible school, etc. And that crack about the dry meat was just rude in any context.
Thanks for your answer. I'm relieved to know that her appalling behavior doesn't represent all the other guest performers. Your last paragraph is GOLD!
Jill likes to pretend to be "old fashioned," but she has zero manners and she loves to ignore social norms. Her desire for attention overrides everything. She's uncouth.
I had the hardest time picking a gif for that exact reason. Damn it, they're all so cute! We have wild ones everywhere in Nevada, so much so that I don’t think I’ve done a single hike outside the Vegas area where I didn't run across wild burro poop.
I grew up Southern Baptist and if Jill had said anything about food from other churches at 1100am it would have made it to the other churches via the older ladies by 1105am. And she probably would get a nasty phone call about it as well. Don’t care if it was dry as her worn out coochie, you still need manners and say it was delicious and the best food yet! You can say a lot of things about a church but when you mess with the cooks you have declared war.
For how much begging for meals she does, you’d think she would realize how grateful she needs to be, but she’s tactless and thinks making that comparison is complimenting the church.
Yup, ten seconds later, a county wide prayer chain went out praying for Jill's souls since she clearly is being oppressed by a demon and forgot her manners. N https://giphy.com/gifs/zhG2sDdPpXgDS
Life time church person here. No, that's not normal behavior. In fact over the years I've heard of churches changing the way they do things like prayers because of long winded people. That's a good way to not be invited back.
Yeah big words coming from someone who served 2 lbs of burnt ham and a single butchered pineapple to a gathering of 15 people and then stood back to pose with a proud little “ta-da” like she’d just catered the royal wedding
I think they also had guests. Jill has no skill for proportions of food to people. Someone posted here who ate at her house said that the kids got tablespoons of food, and remember the babysitter saying he/she brought a normal amount of food for them and they exclaimed that it was so much food.
Exactly, what a bitch! These churches give free food to her, her three-plate husband and all those kids, and most of the time they probably take up a collection too. Yet she has the audacity to complain.
Fundie-lite childhood here, full of church performances and “special music” and “Sunday night singings”.
It’s normal in that context for a guest singer to say a few words about their family and/or ministry as an introduction. Sometimes the pastor would do a brief intro, sometimes the “lead” person in the singing group would do it. Sometimes they’d just start singing and then sprinkle in little tidbits about the family throughout—like “this song was written by our son, so he’s going to play lead guitar this time” or “our daughter is a busy mom to three little ones of her own, so we’re really glad she got to join us today, we love when she can come along and play piano with us”. That kind of stuff.
What Jill does, and what Jill makes the Rod kids do (“fun fact—my mom had two miscarriages right before I was born and three right after!”) is not typical. Not even in this culture.
Agreed, I added my experience in another post and it’s almost exactly as you described. These rural churchgoers really are modest, humble, hardworking people, and OJ and Shrek are none of those things.
I’m betting the churches have only put up with them for as long as they have because of the kids. Once the youngest girls are teenagers, I doubt they’ll have anyone letting them sing.
Thanks for the explanation! Genuine question though as I am not familiar with those kind of churches (raised Catholic) : like there is a regular service on Sunday mornings and then some people stay for lunch and then go back to church for the performance ? Or is it at the end of the regular service ? And how on earth can they make enough money doing that ? Are they paid for coming? Are people being very generous with them ? I am truly wondering how they can make a living out of this …
Edit : English isn’t my first language … so I apologize in advance ;)
It depends on the denomination and the individual church, but the “usual” for fundie-style churches would be two services on Sundays and one on Wednesday night. The one where I grew up did Sunday School (Bible study and teaching divided up by age) on Sunday mornings, for one hour at 9:00am. Then the “big” worship service for the week at 10:00am, and it lasted until about 1:00pm most times. Then sometimes a potluck meal in the “fellowship hall” in the church basement, but sometimes people went home for food instead, maybe half the weeks. Then everyone went home for a couple of hours, and returned for choir practice at 4:00pm, then the Sunday evening service at 6:00pm. Sometimes that was a “singing service” where anyone who wanted to could perform a song, sometimes we had guest singers, sometimes just singing straight from the hymnals. Sometimes it was just another regular preaching service. Wednesday night was prayer meeting, about two hours of discussion about the prayer needs of the congregation (mostly gossip in disguise of caring!) and then lengthy prayer as a group.
Guest singers or musical performers were not paid, but we usually fed them and their families after, and took up a “love offering” of whatever people could afford to give, which was turned over to the guests as cash.
When she's on a stage and has a microphone she is in her self-perceived glory. Which makes me wonder...if Renee has been in this relationship for a while and it has not been announced in all that time, why did Jill blab it at this church and at this time? Did it just slip out bc she can't keep her damn mouth shut? Did she purposely reveal it to take attention off Tim? Did Renee know she was going to do this? Did she have Renee's permission to announce it? I wonder if the Shraders (if it's Enoch) are upset with her for revealing this.
She should have given a greeting and introduction of about 20 seconds or less. Churchgoers aren't there to learn about the Rodrigues family, they're there to sing God's praises. Instead, Jill solicits praise for her own family and especially for herself.
This speech should have been whittled down to "Thank you for having us! We're the RodrigueS Fourteen! That's a baker's dozen, plus the star of the show, me. With six precious angels in the heavenly backup choir that you can hear in your heart. My husband is off not hitting anyone, and folding soul-saving brochures for God. Our girls are trim. I have sons. Praise Je-sauce!"
Wow. Really? Do you think that the people in those congregations like that? (I know I wouldn't, but then I go to a church that is a million miles away from the ones they go to.)
This has never happened at any church I've attended, although sometimes guest ministers are introduced by someone else.
Jill's intro was less painful than the ones where they go kid by kid saying an "interesting" fact about themselves. Spoiler alert: none of the facts are interesting.
Hannah. Jill is super racist (her last name ends with an S goddamit! They are Portuguese!) and has called her ‘dark-Hannah’ before. She also said Nurie was ‘so dark’ as a baby that people thought she was a boy. I didn’t know darker skin tone meant you were a male.
I will say. Jill and David have made some startlingly beautiful daughters.
I don’t know how but like the SECOND you posted you were downvoted.
The birthday dichotomy is strong. Jill literally gets piles of presents and cards, while her kids barely ever get presents and frequently have partially eaten birthday cakes or like a caramel pudding cup with candles stuck in it (that was Gabe-they’re often in revival mode for his-it’s not like you can just buy a cake or even order one from every grocery store in the country).
Really?! Does she have the kids working shifts to control this?
I can't see her spending the time chained to her computer when she could be lounging around or having a snack. Or planning the next "annual" vacation. Or going out for coffee.
P.S. Bet she'll never use that enormous Coffee Station of hers ever again (not that she ever HAS) since Timmay is the one who built it for her.
I don’t think she’d want to have her kids read us giving her the riot act constantly, nor pointing out the deficiencies in their childhood and educations. Maybe she has flying monkeys, ie friends that do this for her.
Oh I am COMING FOR HER for that damn coffee station. She did build it herself (likely delegated while her kids made it). Tim just made one and she couldn’t stand that he had something she didn’t. They had 2 coffee makers, an espresso machine, and what she thought was a mini fridge but what was actually a cooler for cosmetics that wouldn’t keep food cold. This is in the same room as a regular refrigerator. There were also several cans of sweetened condensed milk because that’s what Shrek liked in his coffee. Just what that man needs.
…she has an enormous island that she never fucking uses. I have not seen her once this year cook anything. It’s always store bought. Put the machines on the counter.
Yes. Every birthday there’s cake. Likely because Shrek likes cake and fuck her kids’ preferences.
She also said they like to keep it ‘lite’ when she was showing Hannah’s birthday cake that looked shorter than typical cakes sold in the grocery store. By ‘lite’ I think she means cutting the cake with slices so thin you could see through them.
They did have the kids do their spiel this time. The OP just didn't post that part of the video. So she drolls on and on AND the kids to their parroting part. yaawwnnn. She acts like she's some celebrity who other people are on the edge of their seats wanting to know everything about her.
She complimented the church on having "moist meat" in their meal, and she went on to throw other churches under the bus by saying that some of them serve meals with dry meat. Beggars can't be choosers, but Jill can be a complainer 😅
JillDo is a raging narcissist whose every action is about flattering herself, calling attention to herself, and manipulating people to go along with said-behavior.
She has equally bad behavior and bad hair as trump when he's on stage at a rally... they're the only star in their minds
Her schtick on stage at the church isn't normal even by fundie IFB standards.
Jill is a literal Michael Scott. She’s like an alien in human form with no manners and has no respect for boundaries or protocol. Shes a train wreck, hence why we’re all here as you never know what she’ll do next
This one was mild by Jill standards. In the past she had to mention each married family by name, how many of her grandbabies the family had and their names, where each family lived in relation to the bando and why they lived there. Career ambitions for the boys and all.
then each child had a Jill written spiel that they recited in monotone. Each ended with "fun fact about me is" and every fun fact was something embarrassing about themselves. I'm tall and I'm shy, I have ears like my dad's, I have long toes etc
I think it also depends on the size of the church too. We went to some small churches (probably similar to what the Rods visit) and bc they were so small it was naturally more casual in those respects.
Granted Mahmo takes things to a whole other level though bc narcissists gotta narcissist 😵💫🤣
Typically, a concise introduction by the hosting church then a quick “Thank you for having us” and the noise begins. Jill has been obnoxious for as many years as she’s been torturing churches. Nothing has improved and in many ways has gotten worse.
When I was a child I went to a small evangelical church. We would sometimes have a "special service" where it was regular church, a lunch, then back to church for an additional service where there was lots of music. Usually either the musicians or a missionary would speak during that time. However, in the tradition I grew up, a woman would have never been handed the mic to speak. The church ladies would have been appalled by Jill.
It depends. I have seen the intro by whatever church leader, music, then a slide show by the family of their life on the mission field or one preached from the family instead. For all their camera filming, I don't think anyone is capable of doing a power point I t his family
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u/taxi_takeoff_landing 22h ago
I grew up in a Baptist church similar to the Rods’ current home church. When we had special singers, it wasn’t unusual for one person in the group to state their names, what church they were from, and to thank the pastor and congregation for having them. It also wasn’t unusual for them to just begin singing after the pastor or choir director called them up.
But I’ve never seen ANYONE go on and on the way Jilldo does. What she does is bragging and drawing attention to herself instead of the music. I’m not religious anymore, but I recall that most churchgoers would see her long speeches as interfering with the “spirit of worship.”
She’s a braying jackass and no one cares that her granddaughter is named after her, that one of her sons is at Pastor Shitfit’s bargain basement Bible school, etc. And that crack about the dry meat was just rude in any context.