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Our softball team is really rolling and we can’t believe we are 2-0! We had our bats clicking and won 19-6 in our last game. Our next game is 7:15 Monday, April 28th on diamond #3 on Rice Field. We also have a bye on the first Monday in May (the 5th). Dulcimer Sunday this past Sunday was another big success with lots of people playing dulcimers at both worship services and lots of people singing along at both services! Many thanks to Maryann DeYoung for all her work with organizing this Sunday. Congratulations to our very own Jacob Boyd who recently received his “God and Me” religious award in Scouting! We had a great Holy Hilarity Sunday. In order to get ready for next year, we are going to collect humorous stories from life at St. Jacob over the next twelve months. You can help us! Many thanks to all who helped with all the Easter decorations and the Easter breakfast and the Easter Egg Hunt. We had a great crowd and a great time. Thanks, also, to all who helped with all the Lenten services, the dialogue sermons, the soup suppers and more. It is so wonderful when a team works so well together! There sure was a lot of snow recently. Many people cancelled their worship services but St. Jacob was up and running.....even if we only had 16 at our 10:30 and 12 at our noon service! The surprising thing is that the sun came out and the roads were really clear for the Lenten Fair. We had a terrific evening with all kinds of great ways to learn about our faith. The hands on learning exhibits were really creative and we had a good crowd. A good time was had by all......and good food was had by all! Some of you may have heard of the wild and wacky game known as “broomball hockey”. This past Sunday night, right before midnight, a group of St. Jacob folks met up with some Good Shepherd Lutheran (Kettering) folks for a big night of fun. When the ice was cleared everyone was still alive although a few would limp out the door. Our new 2008 church council was installed in January. We look forward to their leadership as we work together for our Lord in this new year. We had our annual meeting on January 20th in which we passed our budget and vowed to work together for another great year of ministry at 213 E. Central. It will be exciting to see what great things happen! Wow, The Impossibles were great! They really got us going into this new year of 2008 and this new season of Epiphany. What a thrill to have them with us in worship. Dulcimer Sunday was terrific with a dozen dulcimer players leading us in Christmas carol singing. Our attendance was the most on the Sunday after Christmas in over a decade! Our Sunday School Christmas program went well and we had a good attendance. Many thanks to Dr. Marcia Vannet for her original play and her work in directing the production. Special thanks to the high school youth and the elementary youth who went Christmas caroling this past week. People really appreciated their efforts! We had a terrific night at the recent Festival of Lights in Miamisburg. St. Jacob was honored to be a part of the light parade. We also hosted our annual Live Nativity in front of our building. What a great night of meeting old friends and making new ones! The great composer John Ylvisaker was recently in our area. He is the one who composed “Borning Cry” and “I Believe I Do Believe”. Pastor Hout was honored to play in his band. You can read more about this amazing composer at www.ylvisaker.com Our parade unit of Unicyclists and Jugglers had a busy 2007 season. They recently rode in the Miamisburg Festival of Lights. 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. 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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