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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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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:
Royce Davis
Dallas Men's Walk # 203
Clyda Hilliard, Deborah Dennis, and Paul Ditto
Metro Committee
Jackie and Robyn McCreary
Music Team
Read about what your friends are doing. Visit our website to view past newsletters.
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Volunteer Wanted! |
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The Dallas Emmaus Community needs a member who is interested in keeping our website up-to-date and relevant. Many Community members have grown to rely on the Dallas Emmaus Website to plan their participation in events like Gatherings, Training, Volunteering and, of course, the Walks. What we need is a volunteer who can put in an hour or two a week as a website content manager. The website content manager will be responsible for maintaining and updating content for the Dallas Emmaus Website and overseeing the members and content of the Dallas Emmaus Community Forum. In addition to writing, editing, and proofreading site content, this person will also work closely with the Dallas Emmaus webmaster.
Responsibilities
- Create, develop and manage content for organization's web presence
- Copy, edit and proofread all web content
- Upload updates to website
- Manage content and oversee member accounts for web forum
Required Skills
- Communication and organizational skills
- Knowledge of Front Page, HTML, JavaScript, PDF creation and FTP protocol
- Willingness to learn forum interface from Website creators
If you are interested in this area, we would love to hear from you. For more information and details, please contact Dallas Emmaus Community Leader, Nancy Summers at laydirector@dallasemmaus.org.
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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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Come One! Come All!
Men's Walk #223 at Mt. Lebanon begins Thursday, February 25th, at 6:30 p.m. with Send-off and a potluck dinner. All are welcome.
Candlelight will be held as usual on 
Saturday night, February 27th, starting at 8:00 p.m. Community members are also invited to attend Closing at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, February 28th. Plan to come out to Mt. Lebanon. Let your presence be a blessing to the Pilgrims of Walk #223.
There are many ways to support Walk #223. For example, support with your presence at the Walk events, or support with your service on the Fourth Day Team, or support with your prayers for the Pilgrims and Team of Walk #223. All of these are important and enrich each Walk.
Walk #223...may the Light of Christ be with you!
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Message From The Community Lay Director
The DEC - How it Works
Everyone involved in Emmaus  knows that Walks to Emmaus don't "just happen." Much prayer, thought, planning and action are required to hold a single Emmaus weekend. For each Walk, members of the Emmaus Community come together and form an Emmaus team to serve the Pilgrims on that Walk.
But first, someone has to decide when and where the Walk will be held, who the lay and clergy leaders for the Walk will be, and who will support the Walk in a multitude of ways.
That is where the local Emmaus board and regional committees come into play.
Each year, the Dallas Emmaus Community and all other Emmaus communities across the country and around the world are required to sign a Letter of Agreement with The Upper Room International Emmaus Office, whereby we agree to conduct the Emmaus program in our community according to the Upper Room "model." In fact, every member of the DEC board of directors is required to sign this letter agreement with the Upper Room as a sign of their faithfulness to the "model."
Your Dallas Emmaus board of directors consists of twelve elected Community lay members, each serving a three-year term. Each year, four new lay members are elected to the board, and four lay members roll off. Similar to a Walk team, each member of the board has a specific role, and it takes all members of the board working together for all of the work to be done.
I would also like to announce the appointment of Will Dunn as the Assistant Community Lay Director for our community for the balance of the 2009-2010 board year. Will was elected to the DEC board in 2009 and will add the Assistant CLD duties to his other board duties. Also, please join me in welcoming Rev. Cathy Partridge to the board as an Assistant Community Spiritual Director. Cathy will be assisting Rev. Ella McDonald, our Community Spiritual Director, on clergy-related issues and tasks for the board.
Our community is blessed with willing volunteers and elected servants  who give of their time and talents for the Lord. Please do your part. Please take a moment now to pray about and then vote for the four new members of your choice for the 2010-2011 DEC Board of Directors. Deadline for ballots is March 31.
De Colores!
Nancy Summers
Walk #177
Table of Rebekah
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Ballots are now available for the 2010-2011 DEC Board. Two men and two women will be elected. Candidates for the men's slots are (in alphabetical order): Mike Allen, Tim Bubel, Kelly Wade and Jimmy Weaver. Candidates for the women's slots are (also in alphabetical order): Janis Browning, Anna Clemons, Patricia Downing and Robin McCreary.
Voting has never been easier. Download the ballot, click your selections, and type in your name and email address.Then simply press the 'Submit by Email' button, and your ballot will be on its way via email.Quick and easy! You can even print a copy of your completed ballot if you wish.
 Of course, you can still print the ballot, make your handwritten selections and sign the ballot, then mail it to the DEC. All ballots must be received via email or postmarked by March 31, 2010. Be sure to get yours in the mail today!
Ballots will be at Candlelights for Walks #223 and #224 for in-person balloting.
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Message From The Assistant Community Spiritual Director
CASTING LOTS
So they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias. Then they prayed and said, "Lord, you know everyone's heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place." And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. Acts 1:23-26
In this scripture selection in the book of Acts, Luke shares with us the process the disciples went about in selecting the replacement for Judas following Judas' betrayal of Jesus. The importance of this story for us today has little to do with how they got to that point in the story, but has more to do with the process they went through to select the replacement, to fulfill God's prophesied plan. Once Justus and Matthias were identified, Peter drew the body of believers together into full partnership in the decision-making process. He then told them to pray for guidance in making the difficult decision. And last, they cast lots as the means by which God's decision was to be made known.
So, simply put the process went like this:
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Identify qualified candidates.
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Call together the body of believers.
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Ask the believers to pray for God's direction and guidance.
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Allow the believers to vote.
 It is time for us to do the same! Each year at this time we, as the Dallas Emmaus Community, have the opportunity to select the newest board members, who each serve a three-year term. The qualified candidates have been selected, and it is an excellent group of men and women. Talk to them, read about them, and pray for them. Then vote! Ballots will be available at the next two Candlelights (Walk 223 and Walk 224) and on the Dallas Emmaus website at www.dallasemmaus.org. Just like the believers to whom Paul spoke, we too must be engaged in the decision making process.
This Community has been blessed with a Board that constantly and consistently demonstrates good stewardship, diligence, and true silent servant qualities. If you see a current or past Board member, thank them for their service. These individuals have and will continue to work faithfully and tirelessly to direct and support a Community that remembers how important it is to walk alongside Pilgrims, sharing the scripture and their stories on the Road to Emmaus, so that more men and women each year may see Jesus in the breaking of the bread and feel His amazing love and grace, which in turn builds solid Christian leadership for our churches and our homes - and enriches our spiritual lives! Amazing - so prayerfully cast your lot today!
De Colores!
Rev. Cathy Partridge
Walk #145
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