Belmont Chapter #555

Order of the Eastern Star

2251 S. Smithville Road

Kettering, Ohio  45420

2^nd and 4^th Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.

"Let Love Light the Way"

Motto:  Let your light shine so that all the world may see.

Emblems:  Lighthouses and Anchors

Flower:  Red Rose

Color:  Deep Blue Sea

Installation 2009

Installing Officers	2009 - 2010 Officers

Belmont’s 2010 Officers

Honored Members of Belmont Chapter

Helen M. Bartley, Past Grand Matron

Ronald E. Seigla, Past Grand Patron

Nancy O’Shaughnessey, Grand Representative of Oklahoma

Willa Dingus, Grand Page to the Chairman of Arrangements, 2010

Here are important additional remarks

To further explain our theme and emblems, we have chosen lighthouses and anchors to show that one must be anchored in their faith and beliefs and that it is essential to let your light shine so that all the world may see Him in everything we do. 

In keeping with the Worthy Grand Matron’s vision of giving back to the community, our service project this year will be to support Food-2-Go.   This program is an outreach to school children in our own neighborhoods who would otherwise want for food on the weekends when they are not in school to receive hot meals during the day.  We will provide a tote at each meeting to receive your contributions of individual serving sizes of ready-to-eat items that can be carried home in a small sack for small hands.  Please bring your donated food items as you come to our meetings to help support this cause. 

Our color this year is teal, but I’m calling it “deep blue sea” in keeping with our theme of lighthouses and anchors.  Who doesn't love the ocean and the calm of the sea?  Come share our meetings as we visit lighthouses and places in our imagination in exotic places around the world.

This year we will honor Electa’s station to mirror our theme “Let Love Light the Way”.  I think of the elect lady’s willingness to suffer persecution to defend her faith when I see the deep and tender beauty of a red rose. It is because we love one another that we care so much about our Sisters and Brothers and our Beautiful Order of the Eastern Star.  

Sisters and Brothers, it is a great honor to serve Belmont Chapter and we hope that you will join us often.  Remember that even the smallest light can be seen in the darkness.  Let your light so shine. 

In Star Love,

Willa Dingus, Worthy Matron

Robert Gilley,Worthy Patron

“May you always find a safe harbor.  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.”  Psalms 107:29 

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2010 Belmont #555 OES Scheduled Meetings

January 14           Reobligation Ceremony / Scottish Rite Night & Mini Dinner

January 28           Pro-Tem Initiation

February 11        Belmont Hosts Harvest for Friendship Night & Mini Dinner

February 25        Anniversary Dinner / Wear Formals from Years Past (Dinner at 6:00 p.m., No meeting) Donations, $8. Entertainment by the Nordmoe’s 

March 11            Pro-Tem Initiation & Mini Dinner – Jamaica Night, Speaker Ann Coleman “Mission Jamaica”

March 20            Chuckwagon Breakfast, Belmont Masonic Center

March 25            Friendship Night at Jacob Eby (No meeting)

April 8                 Spring Theme & Mini Dinner

April 17               Walk/Sit-A-Thon at Belmont Masonic Center

April 22               Charities Director at Belmont

April 23               Belmont Travels to Washington Chapter for Friendship Night

May 13               Mother’s Day / Memorial Service / Mini Dinner & Wear White

May 23               Practice at Temple for Inspection, 2:00 p.m.

May 27               Inspection by Deputy Grand Matron

June 10               Elections / Reports & Mini Dinner

June 24               Patriotic Meeting / Honor Past Matrons & Patrons / Honor Veterans /25, 50, 60+ Year Pins & Wear     Red/White/Blue

Service Project – Food 2 Go

Please remember to bring a non-perishable food item to each meeting to support our mission to relieve hunger for school children in our local communities.  

Food to Go Project (Love in a Bag)

Acceptable items for donation (individual serving sizes please):

Pop top can of microwaveable Chef Boyardee product

Pop top can of fruit – individual size

Non-refrigerated ready to eat pudding

Pop top can of vegetables – individual serving

Pop top can of tuna, Vienna sausage, chicken, Beanie Weenies – individual size

Snack pack of goldfish or animal crackers

Cereal pack – individual size

Cereal, fruit & granola bars

Fruit juice – individual size

Cheesy Mac

Peanut Butter (16 – 20 oz. size)

Thank you for supporting Food 2 Go – You Make a Difference!

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

 2 Timothy 1:12          

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