On Saturday, April 21, the Cincinnati East congregation’s Young Men’s Christian Leadership Club hosted the Young Women’s Christian Leadership Club, as well as other invited guests, at an end-of-the-year banquet to toast another successful year of club. The evening began with a catered meal held at the home office in Milford, including wine and dessert.

The Leadership Clubs were held simultaneously during the year in separate rooms, where the ladies would discuss the same topic as the men’s club during the first half of the regular meetings. Then instead of making speeches during the second half as the men did, the ladies participated in a prepared leadership or Christian living activity. The ladies did decide to make ice-breaker speeches as a way to introduce themselves to each other.

After the meal at the banquet, president of the men’s club, Michael Phelps, introduced the topic discussion hosts of the evening, Tom and Heather Disher. The couple led a discussion on the topic of “The proper role of emotion in the worship of God.” The 45-minute discussion included many interesting comments, with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds being represented in the diverse range of ages, nationalities and cultural backgrounds of those present. The discussion concluded that emotion does indeed play an important role in worship, and that there is a difference between godly emotion and emotionalism.

After the discussion, pastor Steve Myers made a few remarks on the topic before introducing the toastmaster, Mitchell Moss, who introduced the three speakers that evening: Clint Porter, Aaron Creech and Jonathan Magee.

The evening capped off another profitable year of Young Men’s Club and a first successful season for Young Women’s Club. Both clubs are planned to begin again in the fall.