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November 4th - 7th
Women's Walk 229
Mount Lebanon
November 6th
Chili Cookoff & Gathering
Mount Lebanon Baptist Encampment Pavilion 6:00 - 7:30 pm (Before candlelight for Women's Walk #229)
February 24th - 27th
Men's Walk 230
Mount Lebanon
April 7th - 10th
Women's Walk 231
Sabine Creek
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New DEC Members
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Walk # 228
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Stephen Cooper
Terry Cowan
Steve Elliott
Walt Floyd
Bruce Goodhartz
Robert Howe
Bill Johnson
Tony Jones
Mike Krejci
J.W. Marshall
Kevin McClain
Charlie Pickrell
Steven Price
Brian Scheibmeir
Clayton Smith
Riley Sullivan
David Triggs
Rudy Vazquez
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We Asked You Answered
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What's your favorite
Chili Toppings
Extra sharp cheddar
Chopped Onions
Sour Cream
Asadero Cheese
HOT
Sauce
Frito Corn Chips
Scallions
Cornbread
Wondering what to bring to the
Chili Gathering?
There are great suggestions above.
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2011
APPLICATIONS
are HERE!
Kairos of Texas
Inside & Outside
The KOT website has changed! Take a few minutes to check out its updated look!
Agua Viva
Tres Dias # 2
Men: Feb 10-13
Womens : Feb 17-20
For information contact Walt & Ana Moner
214-357-5193
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Women's Walk #229
Walk #229 begins tonight, November 4th at Mount Lebanon. Send-off starts tonight at 6:30 p.m. On Saturday, November 6th, the 8th Annual Dallas Emmaus Community Chili Gathering will start at 6:00 p.m., followed by Candlelight at 8:00 p.m. The Closing will begin on Sunday the 7th at 4:00 p.m.
The Community is invited to attend.
Each Walk's success is a result of your prayers for the pilgrims and team. Please visit the Dallas Emmaus Community website to sign the online Prayer Vigil. The online Prayer Vigil supplements (but does not replace) the paper Prayer Vigil that is passed around at Candlelights and other DEC events for signature. Both the hand-signed and the printed online Prayer Vigils are posted during Walks for Pilgrims to see who has been praying for them. Updated Prayer Rosters are available on the DEC website.
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 8th Annual Dallas Emmaus Community
Chili Gathering
Saturday, November 6th at 6:00
Click here for more complete details on this fun event!
Afterwards we will proceed to the Walk 229 Candlelight worship service.
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Message from the Community Board
If You Don't Have a Reunion Group, Get One
 Are you part of a reunion group? If you're not, you are missing a wonderful experience and support system. I want to relate the importance and power of the reunion group in my life. I was blessed to be able to sponsor three very special friends on their Walk to Emmaus. These three ladies have been one of the greatest blessings of my life. We formed a reunion group, and have met every week for the last 5 ½ years. As reunion sisters, we have lovingly supported one another through good times and bad; through challenges with our jobs, our families, and personal crisis.
Since taking my Walk to Emmaus my life has been changed in such as miraculous way. I have a relationship with Christ that is more amazing than I could ever have imagined. But as we all know, just because we've had this wonderful experience with God during our Emmaus weekends, not all of our Fourth Days will be easy and without challenges. We are still faced with hardships, job losses, deaths, and many other difficult and trying situations that can only be endured through our faith in God. As we all continue our faith journey, we need the love and support of other Christians. My reunion group has been that for me. I know that my faith walk would be a million times harder if it weren't for the love, confidence, support, accountability, laughter, tears, honesty, prayers, and strength I get from my reunion sisters.
Perhaps you have never found the right reunion group. Don't stop trying. Continue to seek out the right group, the right time, the right location for you.
Perhaps you used to be in a group, but aren't now. Think about the support, love and strength you derived from your previous group and find another group to rekindle that connection.
If you don't know how to get involved in a reunion group, go to the Dallas Emmaus website, click on the reunion group tab. There you will find information about existing reunion groups. You can also attend a gathering or a Candlelight and talk to others in the Emmaus community. That is a wonder resource to get information about how to find or start a reunion group.
Believe me, a reunion group is one of God's greatest gifts for each of us. Enjoy the treasure that is yours through an Emmaus Reunion Group.
Nancy Higdon
Women's Team Selection and Nominating Chair
Walk #182
Table of Sara
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Message from the Community Lay Director
Emmaus Friendships
One of the great things about the Dallas Emmaus Community (DEC) to me is the incredible people that you are able to meet and befriend. Our community is made up of people who are committed to Christ in their life, thus their church and a Christian way of life. If you are reasonably new to our community, you initially met the members of your Walk team and other Pilgrims on your Walk weekend. You likely had new friends when you left your Walk weekend; people who were complete strangers to you the week before. I have made lifelong friends from my Walk. Since then, I have made lifelong friends among many people in the DEC by getting to know them by working on 4th Day Teams, working on Walk Teams, going to DEC Gatherings and serving on committees etc within the DEC. Many, many of our members have too.
Next weekend we have our annual Chili Cook-off Gathering at Mt Lebanon Baptist Encampment before Walk 229 from 6-7:30 pm. This is ALWAYS good food and fellowship among our Emmaus friends. This is a great time to catch up, reconnect, or just plain enjoy your DEC friends or soon-to-be friends.
God has Blessed me and my family in so many ways. One has been by allowing me to grow deeper in my faith via the Walk to Emmaus. Another has been the many great friends that my wife and I now have because of the Walk to Emmaus. If I haven't met you, please introduce yourself to me when you see me at an Emmaus function. I would love to have a new friend! Come make a new friend, see an old friend or enjoy current friends on Saturday, Nov 6. See you there!
De Colores
Will Dunn
Community Lay Director
Table of Luke
Walk # 171
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Message from the Community Spiritual Director
Not One Season Last Forever
"Like the weather your heart changes with each season, springtime summer fall and winter too. Though I know I'll never understand the reason I still wonder why each season changes you." These are the lyrics from a song sung by Dolly Parton called Each Season Changes You.
Kathleen Norris writes in her book, Hands Full of Living, "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives."
Song writer Sam Cook, while sitting on a bus, after spending the day with sit-in demonstrators in Durham, North Carolina in 1963, and after he and his friends were denied rooms at a motel in Shreveport, Louisiana because they were black, wrote these lyrics to a song called A Change Is Going To Come. "It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die I don't know what's up there beyond the sky. It's been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come. Yes it will."
 "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." These words are the first line of a contemplative poem about the seasons of life written by King Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastic 3:1-8. In this poem Solomon, powerfully make his readers aware of the fact that everything we experience in life is ordained by God.
Though Solomon wrote this many years ago, his message still remains true today. We may change a few of them to read, "a time to be single and a time to be married; a time to keep your job and a time to transition to another vocation; a time to wait and a time to wait no longer; a time to spend and a time to save; a time to be independent and a time to seek assistance; a time to worship and a time to serve; a time to think and a time to feel, etc." But the fact remains that we still have a choice. We can let our seasons pass by meaninglessly and let life become "vanity, or we can take advantage of the time, space, and resources we have and enjoy every aspect of life.
I do not know what you will choose, but may I encourage you with these words of Moses? Moses says that God said, Genesis 8:22 "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Therefore, 2 Timothy 4: 2, "Be ready in season and out of season."
I leave you with these words, if you belong to God, right now, it does not matter what season you are in because I have found out that your season is designed just for you. Just remember time and season's come, but God's word is timeless, and it's always relevant. It has the ability to save, change, heal or deliver in any season.
De Colores
Rev. Ella McDonald
Community Spiritual Director
Walk # 54
July 1995
Table of Esther
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 COMING
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An Announcement The Cost of the Walk to Emmaus
Last year our former Treasurer, Keith Karnes , reported to the Dallas Emmaus Community Board of Directors the finances of the community, as we reviewed the cost of a weekend Walk. This review was prompted, as the cost to the DEC of using the camps was increasing. Keith reported that the cost of anyone going on a Walk or working on a Walk was $206 person. This includes all expenses for the Walks (camp fees etc) as well as all expenses incurred by the community in supporting the Walks and DEC such as cost for website, storage facility for supplies, cost of supplies (yes, poster board does not simply appear for poster parties <grin>), music stands, computers, music, etc.
Our cash inflows from all sources were short of the needed number, so we had to increase the weekend fee to $180 person. Our primary sources of funding are Walk fees, offerings at Candlelight and small profits from the book table. Our costs from camps are the same, but this year we have seen an increase in both Pilgrim and Team member requests for scholarships. The economy has affected so many in the country, as well as those in our community.
To address the need, the Board has elected to put a Paypal button on our website that will enable those who want to support our movement with financial donations. You will be able to electronically donate money with your credit card or Paypal account. Sometime in the near future this will also appear on our Facebook profile as well. All of the transactions are secure and safe. Look for more information on this as the button is activated. Of course, if you would like to donate to the Dallas Emmaus Community the old fashion way, either one time or ongoing, you can simply send a check to PO Box 2361, Rockwall, TX 75087.
Our goal is simply to keep the cost of Walks as affordable as possible.
De Colores
Will Dunn
Community Lay Director
Table of Luke
Walk # 171
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We Want To Hear From You
What are you praying for today?
Selected responses will be posted anonymously.
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 Working on a Fourth Day Team is a rewarding way to participate in the Emmaus weekend as as the hands and feet of Christ, and the easiest way to stay connected with the Community. To sign up, email the 4th Day Director for the walk you want to serve on. There are three more opportunities in 2010.
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Community Response
Have you been holding your breath, waiting for just the right opportunity to express what Emmaus has meant to you? Would like to share how your Walk still affects you today, ten years later? Or maybe you just have a question you would like to ask.
We want to invite you to share your reflections and questions for consideration in upcoming newsletters. Simply email the editors.
Selected responses will be posted anonymously.
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DEC on FB! Select  to be updated on the latest news and events including Candlelights, potlucks, prayer requests and more. "Share" or "suggest" the page to your friends so they can stay easily connected to the Dallas Emmaus Community too. IMPORTANT TO NOTE: You do not have to be on Facebook to see what's going on... click here to see what's it is all about. Email Melinda O'Brien with any questions.
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Looking for an opportunity to serve in a powerful ministry? Visit Kairos of Texas online to find out about the units and areas of ministiries near you.
Kairos is a prison ministry whose success is dependent on the community of faith support in providing agape such as prayer chain signatures, cookies, and financial donations. If you are interested in knowing more about how you can participate, or to find out how to attend a Kairos closing, email the editors for information.
"... whatever you did for the least of my brothers, you did for me."
~ Matthew 24:40
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Contact Information
214-502-4072
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