YAH Purpose

The Young at Heart Ministry is for Senior Adults (those past retirement age) in the Dayton, Ohio area. We provide times of fellowship and entertainment during our monthly Luncheons. We also provide the opportunity to see interesting places and things around the area during our monthly Day Trips. Once a year (sometimes more frequently) we offer a longer trip to see areas far from Dayton. All of our programs are designed to be honoring to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

August YAH Luncheon

Our program this month featured Gary Lare. Gary is a Ventriloquist and magician.

To start, Gary introduced us to his bird. I don’t know what kind of bird it was but maybe it was a parrot because it could talk.

Next Gary brought out his little boy who seemed to upstage Gary and then their voices got switched! But, don’t worry it all ended up normal again.
Just to even out the age range, Gary had a baby who was a bit of a crybaby then he brought out a more mature lady who had a great sense of humor. I think she would fit in our Young at Heart group very well, so I invited her to join us.Gary even mixed up working with his dummies (puppets) with some magic and also found a genie in a bottle. Unfortunately, he never let the genie out of the bottle. I would have liked meeting him. For his magic he introduced us to three balls that seemed to get their positions mixed up often.
We couldn’t let Gary’s dummies outdo our Young at Heart group, so Gary invited 5 of our people to join him for a little singing.
Helen, Sam, Bill, Paul, and Lisa (dummies extraordinaire).
Helen on the left was joined by Sam for some great seats at the ball game. Their singing voices were Ok but the stars don’t need to worry.Then, Paul and Lisa joined in singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
Paul and Lisa get points for singing enthusiasm even if their singing was NOT up to Broadway standards.

All in all, I think our group enjoyed Gary and his program. We will certainly plan to invite him back!

This month is was also good to have an old favorite back with us. Fred Scheffler was at the piano doing our Early Bird program for us.

We had the best attendance we’ve had since the beginning of our construction project. It is great to have our new parking lot. Next month will be even better with more good entertainment and the construction project completed. We are looking forward to using the new facilities for our Young at Heart Luncheons in a couple of months.

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