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Dallas Men's #251
2/27-3/3, 2014
Mt. Lebanon
Dallas Women's #252
3/27-30, 2014
Sabine Creek
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If you know any woman who would benefit from Kairos Outside, and visit the Guest tab for the reservation form. |
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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. if just attending 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.
The Prayer Vigils are now available online for the 2014 Walks. Please click here to add your name and pray for the Pilgrims!
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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2014-2015 DALLAS EMMAUS COMMUNITY BOARD ELECTIONS
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.
Ballots are now available for the 2014-2015 DEC Board elections. Two men and two women will be elected. Candidates for the men's slots are (in alphabetical order): Ed Bailey, Kenna Davidson, Michael Murphy, and David Walker. Candidates for the women's slots are (also in alphabetical order): Claudia Bailey, Donna Price, Melinda Propes, Suzie Purifoy.
Voting can be done in one of two ways:
- Download and print out the ballot, mark your selections, sign the ballot, and mail it back to Dallas Emmaus Community, P.O. Box 2361, Rockwall, Texas 75087
- Ballots may be picked up, completed and turned in at the Candlelights for Men's Walks #251 at Mt. Lebanon and for Women's Walk #252 at Sabine Creek.
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT ALL BALLOTS MUST BE RECEIVED IN PERSON OR POSTMARKED BY MARCH 31, 2014!!!
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 2014-2015 DEC Board of Directors. Deadline for ballots is March 31, 2014.
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T-shirts - Get yours at any Dallas Emmaus Community Gathering
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Message from the Community Communications Chair
Share the Love
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in us the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and we shall be created. And you shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit, we may truly wise and ever enjoy your consolations. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
I recently sent out a Dallas Emmaus Community Blast about the community needing Pilgrims. As of today, we have 16 men signed up for the upcoming Men's Walk on February 27 through March 2. The March Women's Walk now has 7 pilgrims as of this time.
I continue to urge you to prayerfully consider sponsoring a Pilgrim this year. Remember your Walk with the Lord during that 72 hour journey? Remember the glow on all the faces at Candlelight? By sponsoring a Pilgrim you give that gift to someone else. Please check our website for future Walk dates and sponsorship applications. For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11
De Colores,
Ruth Dunn
Walk #178
Table of Elizabeth
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Message from Community Lay Director
Gratitude
I have a friend that attended The National Convention several years ago. One of the speakers was a "happiness" expert who suggested that, to maximize happiness, we should recognize things everyday that we are grateful for. So my friend started exchanging daily emails with a friend listing three things they are grateful for that day - things like hot water for her shower, hot chocolate, sunshine. She says sometimes it is hard to come up with three things, and they are often silly things but it doesn't matter. "What it has done for me is make me appreciate the smallest things in my life (ponytail holders, hand lotion, etc.) that before I just took for granted. I have more than most, and I recognize it." She has been exchanging these daily emails with her friend for almost four years!
Wow! We definitely need to take time to be grateful. If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world. If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you are unique to all those in doubt and despair.
Take a moment today to thank God for all the blessings in your life. Take a moment to be grateful for your family and friends and the part they play in your life. One of the things that I continue to be grateful for is my Emmaus experience and the blessings that I continue to receive from it.
Thank you......
De Colores!
Carolyn Jestis
Walk #180
Table of Esther
Community Lay Director
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A Message from the Board
Feeding the Hungry
 My name is Jimmy Weaver and I attended my walk, Walk 165 in November of 2002 at Lake Lavon where I sat at the Table of Luke.
As we all had to do at closing I was asked to answer two questions: What did the Walk mean to me and what am I going to do about it? Well I have asked myself those same questions a number of times since my Walk. I have thought about those questions after taking a Bible study, reading and studying different Scriptures, and so on. But as I approached retirement, I asked myself those same two questions again. What had my time working meant to me, what had I learned about myself, and what was I going to do with the time I now had in front of me? I had a lot of suggestions from a lot of people, but I prayed a lot and my prayers were answered when I was given an opportunity to serve through volunteering to help the homeless in downtown Dallas. Putting my hands and feet to work for the Lord in this small way has put a smile on my face and an extra step in my walk with the Lord. I have seen and felt a new meaning to the Scripture Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
When I give food and drink and welcome the 500 or so men and women each morning at the homeless shelter and they lift their heads to say thank you and a smile comes on their faces, I believe I can see Jesus smiling also.
May everyone continue to have many blessed Fourth Days.
De Colores
Jimmy Weaver
Walk #165
Table of Luke
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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, view the Walk Schedule to get in touch with 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 Dec. 2013 there are 509 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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 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. |
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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