May 13 YAH Luncheon–Charlie Pagnard, Trumpet Concert

We were truly blessed with some awesome music during our May Luncheon program.

We started with a Piano Prelude by Fred Scheffler and Nathan Brandt.

Following our opening activities, we had the dynamic Duo of Charlie Pagnard accompanied by Amy Hutchison assisted by Ann. Charlie is the Principal Trumpet with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and is also Sr. Professor at Cedarville University, teaching trumpet and leading the Brass Choir. Of course, we think his most important position is as our Worship Pastor, leading our Choir, Orchestra and Praise Team.

You can see a YouTube Video of one of his pieces HERE.

Amy Hutchison is an Adjunct Professor at Cedarville University. She teaches Piano and Worship. Although she mostly accompanied Charlie, she also did a very nice piece on the piano on her own. It will be the next to the last piece of the concert.

I think this program generated more positive comments than any other program that we’ve done. We’ve done many great programs but this one was truly exceptional.  You can hear the entire concert, HERE!

Following the program, Lisa Poe and the volunteers served a great meal.

Next month, we’ll enjoy a fun Juggling act with David Cain “Juggler for Jesus”. His program is always good as he involves our people. He performs more than just juggling, so come and see what he’ll be up to, or perhaps to see how you will be part of the fun!

Young@Heart Luncheon - Glenn Parks (The Banjo Man)

This month turned out a bit different than planned. Roger had planned on joining our other Pastoral Staff at a pastors’ conference in Louisville. However, allergies won the day and both Roger and Nancy were feeling punk, so instead of Nancy leading YAH as planned, Roger was able to lead with a scratchy voice.

But we still had a great program. Nancy did a piano prelude prior to the program.

The program was another new one for us and I think it was a keeper, so we will plan on this one again. Glenn Parks (The Banjo Man) joined us for a morning of music, stories and laughs!

Glenn provided a good mix of music styles including country and gospel.  Glenn was joined by his wife Pat but she doesn’t sing; only corrects his jokes!    You’ll have to listen, if you missed this, to hear what I mean.

You can hear all of Glenn’s pickin’ HERE!

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We were privileged to have John Coons give a short devotional about the meaning of The Cross.  You can listen to John HERE!

March Day Trip to Cedarville University

April 14, 2014 we took a group to Cedarville University to a “Bach’s Lunch”. In reality this is a light classical music program during the lunch our in the Recital Hall. This hall is a very special place with excellent acoustics. No amplification equipment is required. You hear exactly what comes from the instruments.  In this case, all of the instruments were brass. These included two Trumpets, French Horn, Trombone, and Tuba. The group is part of the Dayton Philharmonic Symphony and is called Carillon Brass. Their primary focus is in working with school children to promote music appreciation and interest.

The Carillon Brass (plus Ted’s head)

Aaron Brant, French Horn – Alan Siebert, Trumpet

Charles Pagnard, Trumpet – Tim Anderson, Trombone – Tim Northcut, Tuba

Charlie Pagnard leads this group and is the Principal Trumpet in the Symphony. He is also the Pastor of Worship and Music at Washington Heights. Of course, he is also a Senior Professor at Cedarville University. We will hear more from him in a special concert at our May Luncheon program. Charlie is also planning on a European Tour this summer with EuroBrass.

Of course, any Bach’s Lunch would be incomplete without a real BOX LUNCH! So, we had a good number of selections from Dorothy Lane Market!

If you are interested in more about the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance (DPO) including the Opera, Ballet and the Philharmonic Orchestra, just click HERE.

Young@Heart Luncheon–David Harney

We had an outstanding vocal concert today for our Luncheon program by Dave Harney. He is always one of our favorite singers. If I delay using him, I always get someone asking when he will return. We’ve used him every year that I’ve been involved with Young at Heart and many more before. He has a great singing voice and also a fantastic testimony that he is quick to share.

Prior to having Dave sing, we enjoyed piano music for our Prelude time by Fred Scheffler and Nathan Brandt. Listen HERE!

David shared a very good selection of gospel music along with his stories, and jokes. The music and his stories are truly inspirational while the jokes are entertaining and give most of us a good laugh. As you know, I love a good laugh!

You can listen to the entire program HERE.  Or, watch one number here on YouTube! http://youtu.be/RCtRe60e180

We also enjoyed a great meal served by Lisa and our volunteers! The tables were set with a St. Patrick’s Day theme.  Ask me about the photo of Nancy and I with the little and big green hats. You won’t see them here!

Young@Heart Luncheon Program–February 11

This month we enjoyed a nice financial update program put on by our own Greg Poe, Vice President at Fifth Third Bank. We have regularly enjoyed having Greg and several of the other Fifth Third employees serve at our luncheons. This was a service project for the bank. Greg has been promoted, so this nice benefit may need to be stopped.

Greg did a very nice job informing us about the current and projected financial outlook. You can hear it HERE and also see his PowerPoint presentation material, HERE.

We also enjoyed a nice selection of organ music by Nancy Jensen for our Prelude “Early Bird” time.

Then, we put Lisa and her team of merry cooks and servers to work. They served an excellent luncheon of Chicken Pot Pie Soup and a Salad alone with Cherry Pie. I know many of you commented on how good the soup was and asked for the recipe. So we will put that in a future newsletter along with some other favorites. We are always so happy to have Lisa and the team prepare home cooked meals and serve.

Next month, we will enjoy music by our old friend, Dave Harney!

Young@Heart Luncheon Program–January 14, 2014

This week we had the first of our Young@Heart Luncheons for 2014, also since our November luncheon. The December Luncheon was cancelled because of bad weather.

We enjoyed a great Piano Concert by Fred Scheffler and two of his piano students, Lexi Harbaugh and Nathan Brandt. Fred started by doing our prelude time prior to the actual program.

After our normal program stuff of acknowledgements, jokes and announcements, we featured a two part Piano program. Part 1 included piano solos by both Lexi and Nathan followed by a duet with the two of them. We had some outstanding comments by our people on their performances. Well done Lexi and Nathan!

Lexi & Nathan

Following Part 1, Part 2 included a nice devotional presentation written by Fred’s daughter, Julie Ruegsegger, and read by Lexi and Nathan with Fred playing piano. As they read the script, photos were shown to enhance the readings. The photo below shows Lexi reading while there is a Christmas theme on the screens behind. Nathan also did a couple of readings.

After the program, we enjoyed a nice meal prepared and served by Lisa and the volunteers. Pastor Rich McGhee surprised us by presenting Belated Christmas gifts for Lisa, Nancy and myself. Thank you all, this was a real surprise!

If you want to hear the music and narration, click this LINK!

LaComedia–December 20

Our December Day Trip for Young@Heart is often at LaComedia for several reasons. 1) They provide excellent Christmas entertainment 2) It is convenient enough that we don’t often have to be concerned about a snow day 3) Everyone enjoys the programs at LaComedia and these are generally our best attended Day Trips 4) the food is good!

I believe our total this month was about 30 people. Most of those rode down on the church bus but a few drove on their own.

Although LaComedia does not allow photography during the performances, we were able to take a few shots of our people before and after. I also added one performance photo from their Facebook page.

Time of fellowship and eating!

There were two parts of the performance; maybe even two entirely different performances. The first part was a children’s story about believing in Santa. The music was good and performances by the children and chorus line were good. I think Kids would have loved this part. The photo below is from this part of the program and appears on the LaComedia Facebook page.

The second part/performance was the “True Meaning of Christmas” and focused on the birth of Christ as told in Mathew and Luke. This ended with an awesome solo, “Oh Holy Night”.

After the show, there is always a lineup of the performers to greet and shake hand or congratulate. I thought I took several photos but the one below is the only one that came out of my camera!  I also shot photos of the kids and the soloist. Sorry that I cannot show them here!

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