ST. JACOB LUTHERAN CHURCH
                                                              we are located in the beautiful historic
                                                            downtown section of Miamisburg, Ohio

                                                          

                                                               The family of St. Jacob is dedicated in
                                                                  love to sharing the gospel of Christ
                                                                              with our neighbors!!!

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PASTOR’S WEEKLY MESSAGE


This coming Sunday is the Sunday of the Passion.  This is also called Palm Sunday and we will have palms for everyone on that day.  The gospel for March 24th is Mark 15:1-39 and Pastor Hout’s sermon theme will be “Not Your Ordinary Sunday.”  Join us for Sunday worship  services at 10:30 (led by the pipe organ) and noon (led by guitar).  We also have Sunday School at 9am each week.
 

Our Lenten journey continues February 14th was Ash Wednesday and we have been having midweek worship services at 7pm.  Soup suppers at 6:00 have preceeded worship.  We are ready for our last Wednesday soup supper and service on March 20th.  You are invited to join us for this.  We will not have any soup suppers during Holy Week but we will have worship services on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.  Easter is quickly approaching and it will be on March 31st. 
 

Prayers of the church  We continue to pray for the family and friends of Shirley Dodson who died recently.  We are also praying for her husband Hank who is at Miami Valley Hospital.  Others in our prayers include Brenda Rarick, Katie Schultz and family, Jim Alsbaugh, Elaine Astor, Wyatt Dahlinghaus, Leroy McCloud, Francesca Charlene Rost, Pat Muller, Norm Snyder, Helen Termuhlen, Darleen Payne, Jean Hicks, Dale Cooley, Bill Jackle and Lois Masters.  We pray for peace and pray for our peacemakers: Steven Greenlee, Zac Boyd, Alex Eanes and Ben Sweeney along with the First of 37th Armored Regiment.
 

We have good memories of Souper Bowl Sunday  Yes, there was a football game.  But even better than that, we were able to highlight the hungry and remember others in need in our prayers and more.  Food collected that day has gone to help a number of people in very significant ways!!!  These people are saying “thanks” today.
 

We are getting pretty busy around these parts but not quite as busy as we were at the end of 2023.  We had a thrilling Christmas Eve with two great and well attended worship services.  Just before that we had our annual Sunday School Christmas program.  What a great night that was for us.  The kids did a wonderful job in their program.  Many came out to support them.  And we also had a great carry-in dinner before the show.  Many thanks go to all who made the evening go so well.  Did you know we had a live baby Jesus?  Did you know the mother of baby Jesus was also baby Jesus?  So much has been going on with our annual community Thanksgiving worship service.  Then we had our big Thanksgiving Day meal serving nearly 400 meals.  Then we had our big bazaar and parade unit in the Miamisburg Holiday Festival and the Sunday School Christmas program.  Yes, it was really busy around here at that time.
 

Prayer of the day - Sunday of the Passion/Palm Sunday  Everlasting God, in your endless love for the human race you sent our Lord Jesus Christ to take on our nature and to suffer death on the cross.  In your mercy enable us to share in his obedience to your will and in the glorious victory of his resurrection, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen.
 

Some scripture from the processional gospel for Sunday - Mark 11:9  “Hosanna!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!  Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David!  Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

 

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

So.......love galore in 2024.

 

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