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More Introductions!
New United States Ecclesial Team
Dear eMatrimony Subscriber,

More introductions are coming your way! Please see below for an letter from the new United States Ecclesial Team, Scott and Karen Seaborn, and Fr. Tom Griffith, SVD. Please join us in wishing them well as they take on this immense loving task for Worldwide Marriage Encounter!

Don't forget the deadline for early registration for the convention is coming up on Sunday, January 31st! The link to the web site is here.

Love, Joe and Linda Oppelt, 
your NEW eMatrimony editors
 
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ScottandKaren and Fr Tom New US Ecclesial Team!

Dearest lovers,
Happy New Year to you all!  May this year be filled with the joy of living God's Desire for us as we each strive to live intimately in our relationships!

It is with much excitement and a bit of nervousness that we begin our journey as your United States Ecclesial team.  Though we were selected in late October, in many ways it does not yet seem real.  Still when we picture so many of you whom we have been privileged to meet along this wonderful journey, we are reminded of why we said 'yes' to being open to the process of leadership.  It is indeed to all of you who are striving to live in loving relationship with each other, with your communities, your church and the world that we gave our 'yes' in October and continue to give our 'yes' to you today.

We'd like to take a moment to introduce ourselves.  We, ScottandKaren, have been married for 25 years.  We have four children and three grandchildren.  We made our weekend in 1993 in Springfield, Illinois and now live in Waterloo, Illinois which is just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.  Karen grew up in St. Louis, and Scott grew up in Marseilles, IL, which is about four hours north of where we now live.  We are members of Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Waterloo, IL and members of the Waterloo/Columbia/Arnold WWME community.
   
I, Fr. Tom, have been serving God's people as a Divine Word Missionary for 40 years. I was born and raised in Chicago.  My assignments have been in Washington, DC; Trenton, NJ; Techny, Illinois near Chicago and for the past 7 years in Duxbury, MA.  I made my Weekend in 1986 in Joliet, IL and was active in Joliet until moving to Duxbury.  I was a member of the US Board for three years representing Section 1 until my selection to USET in October. 

While the three of us have worked together in various capacities over the years, this is the first time we are serving together in leadership.  It is wonderful to get to know each other in a new way as we spend time sharing our feelings with each other in trialogue.  Because we live so many miles apart we are using the telephone and now the new venue of Skype to trialogue.  Skype at least allows us to see each via computer and that is adding a whole new dimension to our long distance relationship. 

As we write this letter to you, we are celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  He had a dream that changed the lives of so many in our country.  The three of us also have a dream.  We dream of a world where husbands and wives love each other as Christ loves us.  We dream of a world where priests love all of God's people and all of God's people love our priests.  We dream of a world where living in loving relationship is more important than the cars we drive, the number of technological gadgets we own or the amount of money sitting in our bank accounts.  But we know that dreams without action stay dreams; and action without dreams lack passion.  We invite you to dream with us over the next two years and help put those dreams into action.  We would love to hear from you and have you share your dreams with us and how you are realizing those dreams in your corner of the world.  Together we can and we will make a difference in our world.  And the world will be better for this!

With our love,
ScottandKaren & Fr. Tom

ScottandKaren Seaborn and Fr. Tom Griffith, SVD
 
United States Ecclesial Team
Worldwide Marriage Encounter

 
With our love, ScottandKaren & Fr Tom
your NEW US Ecclesial Team
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For comments related to this newsletter, or if you have something to contribute related to WWME, send e-mail to the editors, Joe and Linda Oppelt, or to Canadian editors Doriano and Patricia Baisi, or to Spanish editors Hugo and Gaby Tecuanhuehue.

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