Dear Friends and Family,
Another year passes and it’s time to update family and friends on what’s been happening in the lives of the Dittman Family in North Georgia! God has been good and in spite of the failing economy, we feel very blessed!
Heather is in her senior year at Fannin County High School. She continues to act in just about every show that the high school drama department produces. She is also the president of the Thespian Theater Honor Society and recently landed a role in the Blue Ridge Community Theater’s production of Leading Ladies. In her off time, she works at Mercier’s Apple Orchard and serves in various ministries at the church. This past summer she was selected to be part of the Summer Honors program at North Georgia State University, which was just one of her many accomplishments this year. She plans to pursue a career in medicine and will be a freshman at Liberty University next year. We went to visit the school last month and while we were there she auditioned and made the King’s Player’s Drama Team … she is very excited that she will get to use her talents next year to touch the lives of others. The team travels throughout the year performing in churches, schools, prisons, military bases, and any place the Lord opens a door.
Mikayla is now a freshman at the high school and like her sister has taken to the stage. She is a fabulous actress and was the only freshman to make the cast of the fall one-act play. When she is not in the theater, she is using her other talent with words. She is a gifted writer and has won many writing contests in the past year and has had several works published. Currently, she writes for the school newspaper. Her biggest success in our minds was a song she wrote entitled, Military Man. I has now been sung on our local television station, Fort Benning (for a dedication at the museum), and in August will be sung at the Pentagon in Washington, DC (with Kayla singing the solo). Mikayla, like her mom, loves babies and is always looking for opportunities to babysit for people in our church!
Bev and I celebrated our 20th Anniversary this year! Wow … we looked back at all God has seen us through during that time and it is overwhelming. God has been so faithful and we are more in love today with Him and with each other than ever before!
Bev changed jobs recently … after 16 years as a teacher and a year in the screen-printing shop, she is finally doing what she loves to do the most – bookkeeping. She now works for Pruitt Health Services and loves it. She also plans to work for Liberty Tax again this winter. Her passion for the babies in our church remains the same and most Sundays you will find her in the nursery! As a mom she is always busy and it seems that although the girls are getting older, their busy schedules make mom’s even busier!
I continue to serve as the Senior Associate pastor at our church, which means I do a little bit of everything: education, youth, drama, website, etc. My biggest challenge this year was setting up a Bible Institute within our church. It has been fun and we will be launching an online Bible Institute in 2010! When I am not at the church, I am almost always at the high school theater. I direct and assist, as much as my schedule allows me and love not only being with my girls, but also being a part of the theater. This year I also joined the “Facebook” crowd and love reconnecting with so many who have had an impact on my life over the years.
2010 will bring changes to our family, as we send Heather off to college! Having served Jesus together as a family for so many years … it will definitely be different. But, we are so proud (in the right way) of our girls and their desire to follow Jesus in their lives!
We pray that you will have a blessed Christmas and a very prosperous New Year!
Love,
The Dittmans
Another year passes and it’s time to update family and friends on what’s been happening in the lives of the Dittman Family in North Georgia! God has been good and in spite of the failing economy, we feel very blessed!
Heather is in her senior year at Fannin County High School. She continues to act in just about every show that the high school drama department produces. She is also the president of the Thespian Theater Honor Society and recently landed a role in the Blue Ridge Community Theater’s production of Leading Ladies. In her off time, she works at Mercier’s Apple Orchard and serves in various ministries at the church. This past summer she was selected to be part of the Summer Honors program at North Georgia State University, which was just one of her many accomplishments this year. She plans to pursue a career in medicine and will be a freshman at Liberty University next year. We went to visit the school last month and while we were there she auditioned and made the King’s Player’s Drama Team … she is very excited that she will get to use her talents next year to touch the lives of others. The team travels throughout the year performing in churches, schools, prisons, military bases, and any place the Lord opens a door.
Mikayla is now a freshman at the high school and like her sister has taken to the stage. She is a fabulous actress and was the only freshman to make the cast of the fall one-act play. When she is not in the theater, she is using her other talent with words. She is a gifted writer and has won many writing contests in the past year and has had several works published. Currently, she writes for the school newspaper. Her biggest success in our minds was a song she wrote entitled, Military Man. I has now been sung on our local television station, Fort Benning (for a dedication at the museum), and in August will be sung at the Pentagon in Washington, DC (with Kayla singing the solo). Mikayla, like her mom, loves babies and is always looking for opportunities to babysit for people in our church!
Bev and I celebrated our 20th Anniversary this year! Wow … we looked back at all God has seen us through during that time and it is overwhelming. God has been so faithful and we are more in love today with Him and with each other than ever before!
Bev changed jobs recently … after 16 years as a teacher and a year in the screen-printing shop, she is finally doing what she loves to do the most – bookkeeping. She now works for Pruitt Health Services and loves it. She also plans to work for Liberty Tax again this winter. Her passion for the babies in our church remains the same and most Sundays you will find her in the nursery! As a mom she is always busy and it seems that although the girls are getting older, their busy schedules make mom’s even busier!
I continue to serve as the Senior Associate pastor at our church, which means I do a little bit of everything: education, youth, drama, website, etc. My biggest challenge this year was setting up a Bible Institute within our church. It has been fun and we will be launching an online Bible Institute in 2010! When I am not at the church, I am almost always at the high school theater. I direct and assist, as much as my schedule allows me and love not only being with my girls, but also being a part of the theater. This year I also joined the “Facebook” crowd and love reconnecting with so many who have had an impact on my life over the years.
2010 will bring changes to our family, as we send Heather off to college! Having served Jesus together as a family for so many years … it will definitely be different. But, we are so proud (in the right way) of our girls and their desire to follow Jesus in their lives!
We pray that you will have a blessed Christmas and a very prosperous New Year!
Love,
The Dittmans
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