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More Duggar ponderings, leaking into the main snark board. Move it if appropriate, mods. Mike Schadt is the pastor who married Ben and Jessa. We're getting a lot of mileage from his Benjermin accent in the Duggar threads. He runs SOS Ministries, soshope.org/ which has been mentioned frequently on the show over the years. I think they dropped tracts over a country in one episode. They are the group behind the El Salvador trips and they go to a few other countries, as well. A quick aside: I happened to look at soshope.org pretty soon after looking at Gospel for Asia, gfa.org/ and as a person with next to no knowledge about missionary work, except a sense of what Free Jinger tends to think qualifies as meaningful charity work versus voluntourism, the difference between the two sites is striking. SOS doesn't seem to be doing much, while GFA does, imo. Thoughts? Back to Mike. Googling didn't bring up much for me. The Bateses adore him. WTF fundies gave him a thumbs up two years ago, based on what, I'm not sure. He's in his late forties and has three kids, the youngest is approximately 10 and was adopted internationally, it seems, based on pictures. Wife's name is Sandy. The Duggars talked about him in A Love that Multiplies, so the relationship goes back a ways. The book says he did missionary work in Italy before returning to his Florida hometown and sort of falling into the El Salvador thing (my cynical synopsis). clearwatercommunity.org/OUTREACH/GlobalOutreach/MissionFamilies/MikeSchadt.aspx didn't answer any questions, but it did provide an enjoyable family photo: (a few years old, as the little girl is ten, now, according to a Facebook entry on April 2,2015: https://www.facebook.com/SOSHope?fref=nf) {L_MESSAGE_HIDDEN}: I have archived virtually the whole SOS website at the wayback machine. One of the regions served is listed simply as Mid-Asia for security reasons. I hope that's not the country where they dropped tracts. Here's a "missions trip" application: soshope.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Application-Travel-Card-Emergency-Contact.pdf Mike Schadt wants to know your testimony, FJ! I'm still poking around google, because I don't know what denomination this guy is, or whether he's been through seminary, though skeptical me has some good guesses about both of those. Many googling hands make light work, FJ detectives. Get on the case! ETA more links

Okay so everyone is making fun of how the pastor said Ben's name but everyone I know says it like that too lol. However, I've never heard Ben pronounced Bin either so can someone throw me a bone here and phonetically spell how other people pronounce Benjamin. Haha also has anyone else noticed any strange other pronunciation on the show? I'm just curious, I live in the Midwest so the duggars sound normal to me.