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PASTOR'S WEEKLY MESSAGE: God be with you! Our next Sunday morning worship services will be the 5th of September. It’s time for another new month! The gospel for this coming Sunday is Luke 14:25-33 and Pastor Hout’s sermon theme will be “What We Have Given Up”. We invite you to read the gospel for the coming Sundays at www.biblegateway.com
Wow....the Paragon Quartet was great! This group has been with us on a number of occasions in the past and people love them. They have great barbershop harmony and everyone loved them.
The prayer of the day for this coming Sunday is “Direct us, O Lord God, in all our doings with your continual help, that in all our works, begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy name; and finally, by your mercy, bring us to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.
We are still saying thank you to our tremendous worship leaders Stephen Steingass and Dr. Marcia Vannet. They were wonderful while Pastor Hout was out of town. We thank God for such terrific blessings!
In our prayers We just heard Virginia Kinderdine is in the hospital. We pray for her and also Michael Abney. Mary Schroeder and Pam Lewis are in the Life Care unit on the top floor of Sycamore Hospital. We also pray for Bob Greb and LaVern Vollmer. We celebrate that Cliff Gebhart and Wanda Gebhart were in worship yesterday! Yea!!! Other people we keep in our prayers include Angie Rammel and Shannon Rose as well as all struggling with the floods in Pakistan and the Chilean miners.
Haiti Change has grown and the Miamisburg Work Study crew were nice enough to count it all. Their official tally shows that we are over $300. It is good to continue to help them and keep them in our prayers.
Here is some St. Jacob trivia - did you know the padded pews in our sanctuary were given from the estate of Rose and Clifford Gebhart? Did you know we have a unique and historical pipe organ? Check this out......http://organsociety.bsc.edu/SingleOrganDetails.php?OrganID=31371
Angel Food Ministries continues to have their regular sign up on the second Saturday of each month from 10-noon. The pick up is the third Saturday of the month from 9-10. You can read more about Angel Food Ministries at http://www.angelfoodministries.com/
Upcoming Events include our September 12th Rally Day. We will also welcome back our adult choir.
Pastor Hout can be reached by email at mikehout@erinet.com.
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