St. Jacob’s 250th Anniversary Celebration – Decades Day

Our 250th anniversary celebration for April was Decades Day. We honored the historic Liturgy and worship of past generations from the foundations of St. Jacob’s to the recent decades gone by. During worship, we used a historic liturgy written by The Reverend Henry Melcior Muhelberg in the mid 1700’s.

Congregation members were encouraged to wear old fashioned clothing, and we observed the traditions of St. Jacob’s earliest days with women sitting on the left (choir side) and men on the right (pulpit side) sides of the aisle. We also welcomed a guest speaker, Duane Swygert, who spoke of his experience at St. Jacob’s while his father was Pastor in the late 1950’s