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The Paragon Quartet was wondeful with their terrific barbershop harmony. It was also great to have their family and friends. Stephen Steingas 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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