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Upcoming Events |
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The New Year Gathering and Training Event
January 23rd from 3:00 to 7:00 at Highland Park UMC 3300 Mockingbird Lane Dallas, TX.
February 25-28
Men's Walk #223
at Mt. Lebanon
March 18-21
Women's Walk #224
at Sabine Creek Ranch
April 29-May 2
Women's Walk #225
at Sabine Creek Ranch
June 24-27
Men's Walk #226
at Lake Sharon |
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Welcome to the newest members of our community! |
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Women's Walk #222
Adams, Michelle
Blair, Kathy
Caswell, Jackie
Cavin, Bonnie
Cochran, Bonnie
Cooper, Maxine
Frederick, Emily
Goolsby, Janette
Henderson, Saundre'
Hohmann, Suzann
Horne, Becky
Kendall, Georgia
Kennedy, Colleen
Kingsolver, Kathy
Kirby, Cindi
Lohman, Nancy
MacKenzie, Alida
May, Sue
Moser, Courtney
Reed, Sarah
Reeves, Courtney
Richie, Jennifer
Shell, Ginger
Szymanski, Susan
Tallant, Sarah
Traugott, Jane
Wallace, Cathy
Wills, Gail
Wolfe, Cindy
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Upcoming Chrysalis Flights |
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If you're interested in working on the 4th Day Team, please email Patrick Donohoe. |
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Send Us Your Stories! |
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Send us your stories and photos. We'd love to share them with the community. What are we doing? How can we help each other? What are some of the resources being used on Fourth Day? We would like to know what members are finding effective in keeping the Fourth Day strong and vibrant.
Thank you to last month's contributors:
Pat Downing
Heavenly Heathens
Kathie Seeley
Walk 148
Table of Ruth
Read about what your friends are doing. Visit our website to view past newsletters. |
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Contact Information:
Dallas Emmaus Community
www.DallasEmmaus.org
info@dallasemmaus.org
214-502-4072
We are a faith sharing community and grow through our sharing! | |
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| Koreans Attend Walks!!!
Men's Walk 221 at Sabine Creek Ranch held October 15-18, 2009 included the following Korean Clergy (left to right): Hye Scoog Kim, Sang Chul Lee, Yong Chi Chung, and Jung Bin Im.
On Walk 221, in addition to all of the wonderful experiences usual on a Walk to Emmaus, the team and pilgrims of Walk 221 were treated to a connection of the body of Christ from the world. We had a delegation of United Methodist clergy from Korea who joined the Walk team during the weekend. These five wonderful men joined us in prayer, served in the conference room at St. Elsewhere, served as TAs for the weekend, participated in Candlelight, and served communion at closing for the Walk. They were certainly ambassadors for Christ, showing His love to us from the Emmaus Community of Korea.
The Korean Emmaus Community is growing so rapidly that they came to participate in and observe the conduct of the weekend in our Community to further improve the workings and activities for their local Community. They took many notes, asked many questions as the walk progressed, and shared continuously with lay and clergy members of St. Elsewhere and the background team. The Upper Room has fully translated all Emmaus weekend materials into the Korean language, and the visiting team was fully conversant with the weekend, having already participated in Korea, both as pilgrims and as team members. During the time we were celebrating our Walk 221, our sister Community in Denton was holding a women's walk. The Korean delegation also had five women participating as observers at that event. As a result of the two walks, ten additionally trained clergy and lay persons went back to Korea to further the ministry of Christ in our world.
It was a treat for our pilgrims and team to share with the Korean delegation, to pray with them, to discuss the outreach of the body of Christ. These warm individuals shared gifts of agape made by members of the Korean Walk to Emmaus Community, including crosses handmade from wood that grows only in Korea. As additional agape to our Community, the Korean Community has invited members from the Dallas and Denton Communities to participate in the future by visiting and serving on Korean walks. We hope to be able to serve their Community in the future.
Thanks be to God for the breadth and depth of His love and the evidence of that love from our brothers and sisters around the world.
 De Colores! Keith Karnes, Walk 221 Board Rep |
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Be Sure To Mark Your Calendar!
The New Year Gathering and Training Event is coming...here are some of the details hot off the press:
- The New Year Gathering and Training Event will be held January 23 beginning at 3:00 p.m. at Highland Park United Methodist Church, on the SMU campus, at the corner of Hillcrest and Mockingbird (the actual street address 3300 Mockingbird Lane Dallas, TX). For more information...
- Meet and Greet and Pot Luck Dinner will be in the Great Hall and Worship will be in Cox Chapel.
- Meet and Greet starts at 3:00 p.m. in the Great Hall
- Break Out Discussion Sessions begin at 3:15 These will be held in two time slots (one beginning at 3:15 and one beginning at 4:15).
- Pot/Luck Dinner and Fellowship Begins at 5:15 in the Great Hall.
- Worship (Emmaus Style) Begins at 6:00 in Cox Chapel.
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Being a Lay Director: An Indescribable Experience!
Being a Lay Director is an experience like nothing I have ever witnessed. You have heard the old saying "you get out of something what you put into it." Well, with God in charge the "what you get" is not of this world--it is "heavenly". People have asked me to describe the Walk. The only word that comes to mind is "indescribable". That word means "beyond the power of description". The apostle Paul went to places he could not describe (2 Corinthians 12: 2.) Now that Scripture became real to us. God was all over this Walk. The model for each Walk to Emmaus on which the Dallas Emmaus Board works tirelessly to follow and teach works. It works so well that our Community was chosen to model the model to a group of Korean men and women. It just so happened, that Men's Walk #221 was chosen to have the Korean men trained. No pressure!  From the moment we met the Korean team there was a connection. That connection was not spoken in like language. It was spoken in God's language, through the Holy Spirit. We were to have an interpreter with the Korean team. Somehow he was diverted in flight. He arrived a day late and late in the evening on Friday. The spiritual connection was perfect without English. God showed us the language of Koinonia. Chapel times were that word again--"indescribable". Our Walk was blessed to have all five clergy team members attend all weekend. All the Koreans were clergy. The pilgrims had no idea what hit them--Prayer!!! To be present on that 72-hour Walk was and still is "indescribable". Acts chapter 2 has always seemed strange in the way God brings Pentecost to the first-century Church. Verse 8 says "Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language? Verse 11 says "---we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!" Verse 12 continues "Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, 'What does this mean?'" Verse 33 states "Exalted to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear". Verse 38 says "Repent and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the Holy Spirit. Verse 39 concludes "The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for whom the Lord our God will call." This is what we along with our Korean Brothers experienced. Praise be to God!!
Kirk Ragsdale
Lay Director Walk 221
Table of St. Elsewhere
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 Reflections From The Head TA On Men's Walk 221
I had the honor and pleasure of serving as Head TA on Walk 221with the visiting Korean men. Their names are Sungnam Choi, Yong Chi Chung, Jung Bin Im, Dae Sik Yoo, Sangchul Lee, and HyoSeung Kim. It was also an honor for the Dallas Emmaus Community to be asked by the Nashville Emmaus Office to host and train the Korean men. They were here to observe the Emmaus Walk, so they can go back to Korea and start new Emmaus Communities. All of the Korean men are clergy and all live in Korea, except Yong Chi Chung who is on staff at the Nashville Emmaus Office. Jung Bin Im was asked to observe and work with me and the TAs. He could speak some broken English and participated in all of our activities. One evening during devotion we all circled up for group prayer. As we were praying aloud one by one, Jung Bin Im said a short prayer in perfect English. During the next day's devotional group prayer Jung Bin Im prayed in Korean. To me was beautiful even though I did not understand a word he said I knew he was praying for the Walk and the Pilgrims.  During the weekend I was speaking English and I could not understand Korean. They were speaking Korean and some English. We all understood each other. God was translating our languages into God's language...the language of God's Love.
De Colores,
Terry Hershberger
Men's Walk 115
Table of John |
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Community Sounding Board...
God has blessed me beyond comprehension after my Emmaus experience almost 20 years ago. I just had a reunion group meeting this morning and we are committed to holding one another accountable to grow in the Lord. Your fourth day experience doesn't have to be a let down, its just the next day of the rest of your life where you can chose God over this world...and he will chose you back. After all, the Bible tells us he chose us before the foundations of the earth were created.
De Colores!
Don Schoel
Walk 8
Table of Peter
The Sounding Board is a new feature of the newsletter. Send us your comments, questions, observations, and quips. |
Volunteer Wanted!
Webmaster and Forums Master: The DEC Board is beginning to interview to fill the position(s) of Webmaster and Forums Master. It's not too late to submit your application, though! Interested persons should contact Nancy Summers, DEC Community Lay Director, laydirector@dallasemmaus.org, for more specific info. | |
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Koinonia
