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January 26th 3 - 7 pm New Years Gathering and Training February 21st - 24th Men's Walk 244 Mt. Lebanon March 7th - 10th
Women's Walk 245
Sabine Creek
June 20th - 23rd
Women's Walk 246
Camp Copass
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Kairos of Texas
Inside & Outside
If you know any woman who would benefit from Kairos Outside, please contact KONT by email |
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New Years Gathering and Training
January 26, 2013 from 3 - 7 pm Location: Highland Park UMC
3 - 5 pm Training
5:15 - 7 pm Business meeting, Communion and Potluck dinner
Click here for a flier with more details regarding training sessions.
Plan to bring a dish to share and to enjoy fellowshipping with your friends old and new in the Dallas Emmaus Community.
Upcoming Walks
 Men's Walk #244 February 21st - 24th
Women's Walk #245 March 7th - 10th
The Community is encouraged to attend the following events:
Send-off which starts at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Candlelight begins at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Closing will start around 4:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Please be careful not to arrive earlier than 7:15 p.m.
for the Candlelight services on Saturday.
The online Prayer Vigil supplements (but does not replace) the paper Prayer Vigil passed around at Candlelights and other DEC events for signature. Both Prayer Vigils are posted during Walks for Pilgrims to see who has been praying for them. Please follow the links above to sign both Walks' online Prayer Vigil.
As you begin to contemplate what the New Year will bring,
please prayerfully consider if you are being called to sponsor
a friend or member of your congregation.
"The aim of sponsorship is to build up the body of Christ."
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The Dallas Emmaus Community is sponsoring Upper Room Training on Friday, March 1, 2013 (Clergy only) from 5:30pm to 9:00pm. Then on Saturday, March 2, 2013 training for the entire community will be held from 9:00am to 3:00pm. This will all take place at First United Methodist Church, Richardson in rooms 225, 227, and 230 in the Education Bldg., West End. Please RSVP to Kerry Goad at
KM_Goad@yahoo.com if you plan to attend any of these events or if you have any questions by February 15, 2013. |
Message from the Community Communications Chair
Happy New Year
 Wow, hard to believe 2013! Where did 2012 go?? Do you ever feel that way at the beginning of a new year? We all seem to reflect upon the past year and our lives....what we did good and right and maybe what we didn't. I would like to put a challenge out to all.... Let's all try to live 2013 in a way that God would approve!
On our Service Reunion Group card it reminds us the following:
Christ needs you: your heart, your mind, your hands and feet.He needs you committed in faith, so that your life in grace may bear witness to that faith in Christ through:
1. Your Spiritual Life/Prayer
2. Your Study
3. Your Action
"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers." Acts 2:42 (NSRV)
2013 is here! Let's all make it a grace filled year!
De Colores,
Ruth Dunn
Communication Chair
Walk #178
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A Message from the Community Lay Director
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service but the same Lord. There are different kinds of workings, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. I Corinthians 12: 4-6
When my children were little, the book I most enjoyed reading to them was the Dr. Seuss book about Marvin K. Mooney. It started, I remember these many years later, with: "The time has come, the time is now. Marvin K. Mooney will you please go now?"
We have been blessed with another year. All the bright spots, all the hurts, all the missed opportunities, all the dreams realized that were 2012 have come and gone. As we, the Dallas Emmaus Community, look forward to this New Year, we must, individually and collectively, seize the day. The time has come, the time is now. There are Walks to be conducted this year, seven are planned. There are gatherings, there are meetings, training and many scheduled events. There is work to be done, for sure.
Most importantly, however, we have the opportunity to live in communion with each other and serve Him by serving others. I have never had the opportunity to deliver the "Changing Our World" talk, but I always enjoy hearing its discussion of change. Before I begin to change the world, our nation, our community, our neighborhood or our family, we must begin with "me." That change can begin by realizing our blessings, loving our neighbors, and living our Fourth Days as He would have us.
This time last year I wrote a column in which I stated that I had long since given up making New Year's resolutions since I do such a poor job of following through with them. What I suggest to myself and to you is living in the Fourth Day perpetually, without the need to start over each calendar year. Granted that is easier said than done but God is with us, our brothers and sisters in Christ are with us and we have the support of each member of the Community for the asking.
I earnestly invite you to join me in prayer, in fellowship and service. Now is the time to choose whether we will be an event-centered community or a community living in the Fourth Day. I pray we all have the resolve to do what is the right thing. That is as close as I will get to a New Years resolution. Remember, look at the back of the cross hanging from your lanyard - "Christ is counting on you."
De Colores,
Chuck Rohre
Community Lay Director
Walk #186
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 You can easily donate money to the Dallas Emmaus Community at any time by clicking here. PayPal is a secured donations system which directly deposits all funds into the Dallas Emmaus Community account. This is a great way to make payment for a pilgrim you are sponsoring or to keep the cost affordable for others who may not otherwise have means to sponsor a friend or loved one. |
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Help Wanted  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. |
DEC is on FB
Next time you are on Facebook, search the Dallas Emmaus Community, then select the "Like" button 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. As of November 2012 there are 489 likes!
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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