Luncheon Program–Chris Thompson

This month we had another musical concert, this time a vocal concert featuring our own Chris Thompson.

During our “Early Bird” prelude period our conversations were enhanced by the piano music of Fred Scheffler and Nathan Brandt. You can hear their music HERE.

Following our announcements and recognition of Birthdays (there were no anniversaries this month), Chris Thompson provided an excellent vocal selection of gospel music. He chose music that was familiar to most of our people and often invited us to join in.

You can listen to the entire concert HERE! This is somewhat flawed where the audio soundtrack messed up.

I’m also including links to YOUTUBE videos of two of the songs that Chris performed.

I'd Rather Have Jesus

No More Night

During our November luncheon we will feature Chuck Clevenger as a concert pianist and artist. Yes, we will be combining these two art forms into a treat for our ears as well as our eyes. This looks like it could be a great program. I’m looking forward to how it will be done!

SCIOTO HILLS DAY TRIP

October 9th. we took a group of 33 of our Young@Heart people over to Scioto Hills Camp to enjoy a luncheon program. They typically have this program, “Seasoned Saints”, twice a year in the spring and fall. So we scheduled this trip for a nice Fall Color drive and an opportunity to enjoy some good music and comedy.

There was some color but it was a rainy, gray, overcast day! So, while the color was there, it wasn’t the great brilliant color that we think of when we think “fall color”. Here is a sample photo that I took from the patio where we had our luncheon. I was a true fall day but not a brilliant one!

The photo above is the dining hall of the camp where we ate. It does a good job of illustrating the cloudy sky.

The camp director and leader of the “Seasoned Saints” program is Scott Bruns. Scott introduced our program and gave an update about the camp. I was surprised to find that they have a full-time staff at the camp of 8 to 14 people, depending on if we count wives in the number. I think it is fair to do this since they help with the meals, and so on, throughout the entire year. The kids camps are their primary focus but they have year around activities such as “Seasoned Saints” and various church groups. In fact, our church is sending down a group of men for a Men’s Retreat, late this month.

To start, we had a very nice luncheon. Actually, it was very tasty and I have requested a couple of the recipes to use in our Newsletter. Watch for them! We had one of the larger groups and were acknowledged as the group traveling the furthest.

Joy Jones was our featured soloist. The last time we went to Scioto Hills, fall of 2012, we heard Joy and two of her sons sing. They weren’t able to join her, this year. She has a nice voice and we enjoyed the gospel music.

One of my greatest fears when planning our programs for Young@Heart is that we would have a last minute cancellation of our performer due to illness, etc. That is what happened to Scott for this program. We were supposed to have a male singer and comedian and he had to cancel two days prior to the program. We were fortunate to have Joy available.

If you’d like to know more about the camp click on this link.

If you’d like to know more about Joy and her boys check out their website, here.