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Time for Souper Bowl Sunday Thanks for helping us remember the hungry on this day. Get ready for yo-yo day at St. Jacob It will be coming Sunday afternoon, February 19th. Yo-yos will be flying everywhere and we will be getting expert help from Mark Hayward. He comes from Pittsburgh and has been everywhere, even on the David Letterman show! Our annual meeting was this past Sunday and we had a great meeting. Actually, it was a great celebration as we finished the year in the black for the first time in year and years. Good job, St. Jacob! We are now looking forward to another exciting year. Christmas Sweater Sunday on January 1st was a lot of fun. How great to see all the colorful sweaters (both pretty ones and ugly ones). A special treat was seeing Daisy the dog at both worship services in her pretty red sweater. “It’s a Wonderful Life” at St. Jacob! What a great movie. We heard all about it at our busy Christmas Eve worship services. It’s not a perfect life here, but it is a wonderful life. Hope you felt all the wonder this Christmas. Thanks be to God for the gift of his son, Jesus. Our Sunday School Christmas program went well and it was so exciting to see all the costumes and to hear the wonderful sounds from our musicians. The Live Nativity and Parade were wonderful at the recent Miamisburg Holiday Festival. Many thanks to the many who helped with all the activities. What a great day that was for St. Jacob and historic downtown Miamisburg. We welcome Rev. Christina Scheuller to the Burg She was installed as the new pastor at St. John’s on December 4th. Pastor Hout was thrilled to be a part of the service. We look forward to working with her and St. John’s in mutual ministry in this great community. Thanksgiving Meal was tremendous and we were happy to serve so many people on that day. Many thanks to all who helped and special thanks to Dawn Warrick for organizing the entire event. Wonderful Community Thanksgiving Worship Wow, did we have a great time on Sunday evening with four congregations going together to give thanks. The combined choir was especially wonderful with sixty voices and a fantastic sound. The praise band was terrific, too. Many thanks to Pastor John Mittermaier from Zion Lutheran. He gave a wonderful message. It was such a great night and we look forward to next year. Thanks for the great Stewardship Sunday It was wonderful to have a full sanctuary for worship and a large crowd for the dinner following the service. What a great family feeling we had going throughout the day. Many thanks to Rev. Ed Williams, assistant to the bishop, who delivered the sermon and helped us with the Consecration Sunday program. When the final results were tallied, we ended up with a 6% increase! Thanks be to God for the people of St. Jacob that have committed to continue our strong ministry in the area. Have you heard of Martin Luther? We talked about him quite a bit this past Sunday, which is known as Reformation Sunday. He was quite an amazing man for his time and was a key part of the reformation. Can you believe it was 494 years ago that he nailed the 95 these to the door at the Wittenberg Church? Our hayride was wonderful Somehow we were able to avoid all the rain (we did get hit with a few drops) and the Gores were great hosts. What a joy to participate in the campfire, food, rides, fellowship and more. The congregational meeting went well and it was great to have so much support as we made plans for the next year with a new budget and some new council members. We had a great picture directory week and we are thankful for all the participation. Thanks go to all who helped make this such a smooth event. Special thanks go to Steve Schultz for his extra work and great organizational skills. Rally Day was great and we not only did “rally” behind our Sunday School but we had a Dog Days picnic at noon. It was great to enjoy some good old dogs to eat and some good old fashioned fun like watermelon seed spitting and cream pie eating. The 12th annual Whirled Top Festival was so much fun. Everyone was in “top” form. Congrats to everyone who participated and thanks to all who helped. Special congratulations goes to the winning team “The Top Toppers”. They won the battle top championship and the 100 gold dollar coins. All the kids received lots of terrific prizes all the way from Spain, New York, Texas and Virginia! Many thanks to our lay worship leaders Over the past several years we have been fortunate to have individuals from the congregation lead worship while Pastor Hout was on vacation. Many thanks, again, to Dr. Marcia Vannet, David Gore and Stephen Steingass for their fine help in continuing the 190 year old Lutheran tradition of worship at St. Jacob in Miamisburg. Christmas (Eve) in July was great and special thanks to Sidney Wagner for all her great Christmas music. We had Christmas hymns, a Christmas tree for the children’s sermon, bells for special music and lots of good old fashioned fun as we celebrated this cool holiday in the summer heat. The Paragon Quartet was here this past Sunday and they were great. We wish we could have had them longer but they had to head out to Mound park for worship with Trinity U.C.C. Day Camp was record setting (and tremendous) What a terrific week we had at Day Camp. Despite all the construction on the street in front of the building, we had a record number of campers! We sure had tremendous counselors from Lutheran Outdoor Ministry and a wonderful staff of workers from St. Jacob to go along with all those great children. The theme for the week was “Jesus Chooses Us” and we felt our Savior’s love in everything we did. Back from confirmation camp and it is so great to know that three of our confirmation youth were there for all the activities. What a great week we had. There was great weather, great new friends and lots of great counselors. Ask Maria Boyd, Elizabeth Fell and Dane Parrett about their week. They will be happy to tell you. Did you hear about our softball team? We are in the middle of another season and we won a game! Pastor Hout was going to brag about hitting a home run at the age of 58 but then Quillard Abney came to church on Sunday and reported that he got a hole in one (and he is at least 20 years older than Pastor Hout). Our Annual Talent Show was another hit. Our seniors (who served as emcees) were hilarious. Everyone agreed that Lauren Smith was especially good on the piano. Jacob Boyd is getting better and better with the guitar. Megan Davis is quite a dancer but she is still scared of spiders! Many thanks to all who helped out with the show and the food beforehand. We look forward to next year’s edition of the St. Jacob talent show! Memorial Day parade was certainly warm but at least it was dry. Many thanks to all who helped ride bikes to support this important community event. Spring Fling parade was great How terrific it was to have another Spring Fling in Miamisburg. And how great it was to have another great unit in the parade. This year we had a new twist with six motorcycles! Can you believe we have gotten a couple of softball games in? It has been quite the rainy spring but somehow we have been able to play a few games on muddy fields. We look forward to some more games but the rain keeps coming and coming and coming! Christ is Risen He is risen, indeed! How wonderful to have such a great breakfast, an exciting egg hunt and thrilling worship services. We had a wonderful Easter here at St. Jacob. Now we look forward to a wonderful Easter season. Holy Week was special We had lots of great participation at our Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services. It was hard to believe how many people were involved in the Good Friday dramatic dialogues. Lent is over We had great soup suppers and wonderful worship services. We cannot say enough thanks to all who helped with making the meals and helping with the worship services. Lenten Fair was fun Many people joined us for our annual evening of fun hands on learning (and lots of snacks!). Many thanks to the many who made this evening so special. Yo-Yo Day was a blast and how exciting to have 25 people here spinning up and down for hours. The contests and challenges were fun, too, along with our professional Mark Hayward. He is such a great guy and so patient in sharing information with others about yo-yos and tricks. We are already making plans for our third yo-yo day next year! Congrats to our Souper Bowl champs It was great to have some soups and more representing Green Bay and Pittsburgh but the real winners of the day were those we were highlighting....the hungry. Well, we won two in a row before our win streak was snapped. Still, we are having lots of fun and happy to win a few in our coed volleyball league. Many thanks to Randy Hardin for organizing the team and coaching us every week. Our games are on Monday nights. Have an exciting Epiphany It is great to be in this new season of the church year. We expect to see lots of examples of God’s greatness and wonder in the coming days. Happy New Year! We know about new years. This is our 190th!!! Christmas Eve & the Sunday after were great worship services for us. We had lots of terrific music at the early service on the 24th. Many thanks to our families for that. Thanks also to the choir for their special music at the late service. And on Sunday we had some more special music in the form of chimes and bells. Stephen Steingass directed everyone in a chime chorus while Pastor Hout played bell melodies and harmonies to Christmas carols! Our Sunday School Christmas program went very well this past Sunday. How great to have a large turnout of children and adults for the meal and the program. Many thanks to Dr. Marcia Vanet for writing all the parts and the script. Thanks also to Laura Quinn for all her work in making the evening go so smoothly. The Miamisburg Holiday Festival was great! We not only had a nice unit in the parade but we also had a busy bazaar of gently used Christmas items back at the church building. Our Community Thanksgiving meal was amazing. We not only had great food and great weather but we had a record breaking crowd! Can you believe we served 1/3 more people than ever before? Many thanks to the many people who worked together so well so that we were able to serve the giant crowd. Thanksgiving worship service for the community was a big success last Sunday. Three congregations have gone together for years to do this. How terrific to have St. John’s Lutheran and Trinity UCC with us for this significant service. The musical “Godspell” was terrific at the Baum Opera House. What a great production that tells the story of Matthew in a clever and creative way. We were especially excited because our very own Karen Izor was in the production and even had a recorder solo. The recent CROP walk was a great day to be outside. We would have liked to have had more participants but it was nice to have the concern we had for the hungry. Many thanks to Trinity UCC for all their work in organizing the event. Did you know we have a celebrity in our midst Special congratulations to Jonathan Steingass. His cross-country team won the GWOC South championship. This is the first time in school history that the xc team has won the conference. Go Jonathan. Go Burg XC! What a terrific hayride out at Rex and Elise Gore’s residence on Union Road. The weather was terrific, the location was spectacular, the hayrides were wonderful (behind a truck and a horse) and the food was tasty. Many thanks to all who helped organize the event. It was a great evening of fun. Perfect Sunday School attendance Can you believe Mary Ellen Wagner has a full 52 years of perfect attendance? Even more amazing is that Sidney Wagner has 54 years of perfect Sunday School attendance! Rally Day was a fun day as we “rallied” behind our Sunday School to start a new school year. It was great having a band with Stephen Steingass on the bass guitar and Justin Wantz on the drums along with Pastor Hout. It was also great having some skits to perform. Our actors were hilarious! Our parade unit was busy on Labor Day at the Holiday at Home parade. This was the 17th time Pastor Hout was in the parade so he was quite happy to complete it. The Paragon Quartet was wonderful with their terrific barbershop harmony. It was also great to have their family and friends. Stephen Steingass was great! He had his first sermon and people are still talking about it. While Pastor Hout was out of town Marcia Vannet also led one of the services and did a wonderful job. It was not her first sermon as she has helped us on a number of occasions. Many thanks to both of these people for their work for the Lord. Christmas in July When we saw the 25th was on a Sunday we just had to celebrate Christmas in July. We had Christmas hymns, Christmas decorations, Christmas special music and even a visit from St. Nick himself. A good time was had by all and we look forward to Christmas in July next year but first we need to get through Christmas in December! Tour d’Burg was fun and it was really something to watch all the bikers flying through our historic downtown. St. Jacob was represented by Mayor Dick Church and Pastor Mike Hout in the celebrity race. It was a hot day but lots of hot action on July 18th. Lunch Bunch was great at Champs and Dale Schram made the winning shot in pool action after the meal. Special congrats to Hannah Steingass as she is the winner of the corn hole tournament at our recent game night. Go Hannah! You win free pizza from Ron’s! Read about our pipe organ here: Congratulations to our graduates! We wish them well as they move ahead with their lives. Congrats to Chris Boyd (West Carrollton), Taylor Macy (Fenwick), Emily Miller (Miamisburg), Sean Stapleton (Carlisle) and Elizabeth Steingass (Miamisburg) Talent Show 2010 was another fun night. How great to have all the creative acts and developing talents of the congregation. Many thanks to all who helped with the food. Thanks, also, to all who shared their talent. Special thanks to our seniors who were the MC’s for the evening. Memorial Day and the parade through the downtown Miamisburg streets was special. We had terrific weather and lots of bike riders.....over 30! Got an old bike? Start right now to get it ready for next year! The annual Spring Fling parade was very nice and we didn’t get rained on! How terrific to have over twenty people in our unit including lots of unicyclists, high wheel riders, banner carriers, scouts and a giant steeple being pulled by Jim Proctor in his vehicle. The Day of Pentecost was great and we had a good time celebrating the birthday of the church. We had lots of balloons and streamers. The kids helped with the festivities by decorating the sanctuary during the children’s sermon. Look out for the Holy Spirit moving in amazing ways!!! Yea! We won a game!!! Our softball team is celebrating because they have their first win of the season. It was a great game for us against Hope Church and the good news is that we have Hope for the future as we will play them again later this year! Congrats to the many hands at St. Jacob. They worked together well to put together our most recent puzzle challenge......a globe of the earth! It was quite a task but they came through magnificently. You have to see it to believe it. We love Chipotle and they must love us because recently they gave us a free meal to everyone who had a bulletin from St. Jacob! It was a great day with lots of great food. Thanks, Chipotle!!! Easter was great as we had wonderful attendance at both worship services and had yummy food at the Easter breakfast earlier that morning. You should have seen the eyes of the little ones as they hunted eggs in the yard. What a great day to celebrate the fact that Jesus is alive! Lenten Fair was great Everyone enjoyed all the hands on learning and hands on food at our annual Lenten Fair. It was a night of creative crafts and symbols that tell us so many things about our faith. And we continue to enjoy that evening as people are working on completing a round puzzle of the globe that was started at the Lenten Fair. Midweek worship services are nearly over. We have had great soup suppers and well attended Wednesday worship services. The attendance has been good and the chili has been.....interesting! The green chili may have been a little over the top, though. Please join us for our last Wednesday service as we hear from more from one of the 12 disciples in worship (at 7pm) and soup supper (at 6pm). Ash Wednesday starts off the Lenten season and this penitential season of forty days. A faithful group came to this special worship service that not only included Holy Communion but also the imposition of Ashes. Yo-Yo Day at St. Jacob was a blast and we had lots of participation with youth and their parents here to learn from expert Mark Hayward. Justin Wantz was crowned the Miamisburg champ and won some nice yoyos. You can read more about our guest (who was on the David Letterman show) at markhayward.net Souper Bowl Was Super Many thanks to the many who helped support the special needs of our Haitian brothers and sisters. Your donations will go to Lutheran World Relief and go directly to the work in Haiti. Welcome 2010 It will be another big year for us as we serve our community. Take a look at all the activity over the past year! We had our annual meeting last Sunday and it was a good one. Everyone has pledged to work hard for the development of St. Jacob on the coming year. Christmas Eve was a busy time here at St. Jacob. How great to have so many people here at both of our worship services that night. It was also great to have so many families sharing special music at the 7:30 service. Of course, at the 11:00 service we had the outstanding music of our adult choir. Joy to the world, the Lord has come! 10 Sunday School Christmas programs! That is how many Dr. Marcia Vannet has written and directed over the past 10 years. We are very grateful for all her work. Our 2009 evening was another successful program with lots of great music, great acting, great costumes and great participation. Thanks, Marcia.... and thanks to everyone who made the evening such a wonderful success! The Miamisburg Holiday event was great and people from St. Jacob were heavily involved. We had riders in the parade and a float with a live nativity. Back at our church lawn we had a full live nativity with live animals. Inside the building we had a Christmas bazaar with some great food treats. It was a good Saturday to be in Miamisburg and a good Saturday to be at St. Jacob. Congrats to our St. Jacob racing team Our people not only did well in the race but they dressed up ahead of time and came in 4th in the costume contest as different characters from the Wizard of Oz. Good work, Zac Boyd, who was the fastest finisher from St. Jacob with David Gore close behind. Thanksgiving worship was great this year at Trinity UCC. Three congregations went together to make this a special night of giving thanks. We certainly had a wonderful combined choir! Thanksgiving day community meal was another big success thanks to all the workers and helpers. We ended up serving over 200 meals to people at St. Jacob and carryout orders to people at their home. Springboro Christmas parade went very well and we want to say many thanks to the many who were in our parade unit. Sweet and Treat was another big night of candy fun in historic downtown Miamisburg. It was estimated that over 3,000 people attended the activities. Many thanks to the many from St. Jacob that helped out by manning a booth with games and handing out candy The Annual Hayride was really special despite the cool weather. We had a terrific crowd and Hook’s Farm was great. What a great night of food, frivolity and fellowship! We had a good congregational meeting. It was well attended and we now have a full slate of new members for our Church Council. Go Alumni Band...even in the rain How great to have good participation in the homecoming parade despite the weather. We could have used more instrumentalists (several did not want to participate and harm their instruments) but we did have a dozen in the auxilary and a dozen percussion! Rally Day was another great day for St. Jacob. We had fun rallying behind our Sunday School and also eating some of those crazy Jelly Belly jelly beans. Ask around and find out who got the skunk spray flavor and the vomit flavor! The Paragon Quartet was tremendous, like always. How great to have their barbershop music at St. Jacob on the 13th. It is hard to believe they have sung for several presidents and now us. Holiday at Home parade was another big success for us, despite the precipitation. It looked like the parade would be a washout but the skies cleared just in time for us to have a happy ride down Far Hills Avenue. Many thanks to all our participants, especially our new friends helping with the unit! Our tenth Whirled Top Festival was another fun and successful night. We had nine teams of youth playing for the container full of 100 gold dollars, plus one extra for every year of our fest. Congratulations to the Top Toppers who came from behind to win the championship. Congrats also to the Three Pigs and Three Stooges who finished a close second and third. Other teams that competed well included the Furious Three, the Hedgehogs, Spinners of Doom, Hit Mon Tops, Flying Hippos, the Sultans of Spin and the Flying Monkeys. Pastor says thanks to whoever changed the outside sign board to recognize his second place finish at the World Top Spinning Championships in Orlando. It was quite a trip and quite a competition. It was great to have the Kettering Community Chorus with us for worship. This is the same crew that recently sang the national anthem at the Dayton Dragons game. The KCC was here for the 10:30 worship service on the 9th of August. National ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans Wow, what a great event. We had 13 participants and it was a once in a lifetime experience. The people kept saying “thanks”......thanks for coming, thanks for your service, thanks for being so nice. Read more about our adventures at www.forministry.com/USOHELCIASJLCS/News.dsp Co-ed softball is over and we didn’t win the league. We did finish 3rd, though, and had lots of fun playing. We were hoping for David to beat Goliath in the last game but it didn’t quite work out. Day Camp was amazing and we are thankful for all the children and counselors and staff and more. The place was really hoppin! You can see some of the action at: http://saintjacob.shutterfly.com/ Applebee’s Day was great and we made $62.21 for our youth to attend the national youth gathering in New Orleans. It was really neat to go out as a congregation and eat together! Talent Show 2009 was another fun night full of great food and great talent. Congratulations to seniors Shannon Quinn and Stephen Steingass who served as MCs for the evening. What a great evening of piano music, juggling, instrumental music, top spinning, wacky challenges and more. Our parade unit of Unicyclists and Jugglers had a busy season. They recently rode in the Miamisburg Holiday Festival parade. In the past year they have also participated in the Bellbrook Sugar Maple Parade, the Miamisburg Spring Fling Parade, the Kettering Holiday at Home parade, the Springboro Christmas parade and our local Memorial Day parade. AND BELOW IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT US: Our parish is located in the Southern Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Read more about what's happening in our synod at the Synod Home Page St. Jacob is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (the ELCA). Read more about it at the ELCA Website The ELCA also has a very fine magazine. Check it out at “The Lutheran” Our softball and volleyball team plays Monday nights with the Miamisburg Churches. We have a Lenten fair each March with lots of great “hands on” learning! There is a great daily devotion on the ELCA webpage. Check it out by clicking here
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