We are now in the year of 2023.  Summer Day Camp will be here before we know it.  We are talking about our event and looking at potential dates in June or July.  We have an overall theme: HOLY TRINITY WHOLLY LOVE.  Revelations 22:13 will be our text for the week.  Our five daily themes will be 1)who is God the creator 2)who is Jesus 3)who is the Holy Spirit 4)Who am I 5)Who are we
 

It may be cold out but we have a lot of warm memories from our Day Camp 2022.  It was a fantastic week, thanks to all the good planning ahead of time.  A number of our youth spent many hours working on music and skits for the event.  We met every evening at Day Camp from 5:45-8:30 and learned about how God is boundless.  Our theme was “Boundless” and God shows us this through boundless goodness, boundless love, boundless welcoming, boundless forgiveness and boundless generosity.  We will be talking about this day camp for a long time.
 

Looking back, our 2021 camp was also something very special for us.   People are still humming songs and doing motions from the action songs at our camp.  We sing a lot of them at Sunday School opening each Sunday.  The 12th - 16th of July was full of activity and fun life in the Lord.  We expanded on what we did last year when we were able to get together with a few of our youth on the St. Jacob lawn.  We had great songs, repeat after me skits, games, crafts, prayers and terrific Bible studies based on the theme “From Generation to Generation.”  We had terrific conversations about Biblical characters Sarah and Abraham, Joseph, David, Mary, Silas, Lydia and Paul.  It was a wonderful week and we were thrilled to be able to do it even without our good friends from LOMO (Lutheran Outdoor Ministries of Ohio).  We look forward to having them with us next year.  Until then, we will do all we can to continue to keep things going with active children sermons, camp songs, puppets and also some new colorful rocks for our picnic table area.
 

Looking back even farther, what a great week of Day Camp it was in 2019.  We were here July 8-12 from 9-3 each day.  To prepare for the week we collected lots of important needs with our “giving tree”.  We also collected a lot of things for other people with our white bucket challenge to help with tornado relief.  Our Day Camp was staffed by energetic and specially trained young adults from LOMO (Lutheran Outdoor Ministries of Ohio).  The theme was “Transformed Community: God’s Agents of C.H.A.N.G.E.”  Can you believe we have been doing this for nearly a quarter of a century?
 

Miamisburg has a new rock garden and it reminded us of the nice rocks we have been collecting for years in our picnic table area during Day Camp.  Many thanks to all who continue to contribute rocks for our special area.
 

Here are some pictures from a previous year: http://saintjacob.shutterfly.com/
 

For future reference, here are the names of our 2019 counselors.....

JENNY...team coordinator who graduated from Capital and is going to the seminary

LENA...from Germany and goes to Leipzig Univ.  Loves reading and crafts

TAYLOR...from Ashland and is studying to be a nurse.  Likes playing tennis

HANNAH...lives near Medina and goes to Ashland Univ. majoring in graphic design

EDDIE...comes to us from Warsaw, Poland.  She is studying psychology at Univ.

DERVIA...lives in Ireland & loves music.  She plays the ukelele, recorder and more

RHIANNE...from Scotland & studying anatomy at U. of Glascow.  She likes piano & jazz

HANNAH...Germany and goes to Univ. to study tourism and economic.  Loves dance