Word of the Month: YOUR

Elizabethtown Emmaus Community Newsletter

March 2011

30 Love the Lord YOUR God with all YOUR heart and with all YOUR soul and with all YOUR mind Busy Time for the Emmaus Community and with all YOUR strength. Mark 12:30 NIV Spring is really trying to “sprung”! And that signals a busy time for the Word of the Month: “YOUR” Elizabethtown Emmaus Community. At this writing Chrysalis 47 is taking place at the Campground, with 46 Butterflies on this Flight! Also According to the dictionary, your is a possessive pronoun meaning of Women’s Walk #119 Team is holding their first formation. The Men you, belonging to you, related to you, and a determiner that conveys Team for Walk #118 is getting ready for their second formation. This familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun. It also can be of course means there are two upcoming Walks in March. So many, an adjective - in which case it’s described as used with little or no many folks are putting in lots of quality hours in prayer, preparation, meaning almost as an equivalent to the definite article “the”. But in this meeting with potential pilgrims, study, serving, cleaning, organizing, scripture, don’t think the latter is the case! In fact don’t really think in acquiring and assembling supplies - list goes on and on! any of scripture that’s the case, where it has “...little or no meaning...” - since it’s used some 1776 times by a possessive God, whose words Remember your Walk experience and all the Agape shown to you? definitely have major meaning! This month’s, this fall’s and all those future pilgrims on Walks need to have that same Agape Love experience...so make every effort to And so is the case in the pronouncement by Jesus in our focus attend openings, candlelights, closings, write letters, and sign up on scripture verse where the word is mentioned five times in one sentence prayer/serving/speaker charts. Remember too, if you missed signing (think He might be trying to tell us something of importance?!?!?!) up for any of the 72 hour prayer vigils, you can still do so online at Let’s look at what Jesus is telling us to love, in light of the dictionary www.etownemmaus.org. Click on the Walk link on the left, then click definition of our word of the month: on the Walk you want to sign up to pray for, and another link will then take you to the prayer chart. Your entry will be downloaded and added  Your God: belonging to you, related to you. A God that is one to the actual Walk Prayer Chart. you accept or take ownership in; you are a child of God according to scripture so God is definitely related to you. But the last part of Thanks Emmaus Community for ALL you do and please continue your the description about “conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge good efforts - the Walk to Emmaus does not happen without the of...” - that’s where He really wants us, to be as familiar and have Community! Please continue to bathe all aspects of what is done in the same knowledge of God that He has of us. Are you there prayer. yet? He is! Board Happenings  Your Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength: All of these are truly “of you, belonging to you” - it would be a little hard for you to control these  In House Audit Committee of Bobby Smith, Johnny Scott and important elements in another person since they only reside inside of “your” body! Do you realize the awesome and total Steve Hart reported that the Community’s treasurer books were in power of these four elements - and the fact that we cannot order with no discrepancies found. function without any of the four?  Recommended by the Board that all clergy serving on a Walk be placed in a prayer group at team formations, to allow them to get to My challenge to you (and me!) since we have all been on “The Walk”, know one another, discuss clergy type issues, and discuss each is to continue to pursue our God in a way that totally consumes us...all other’s talk. of our total being: our heart, mind, soul and strength each and every  An invitation had been received from Grace Heartland Church day in our daily walk! Much like those two pilgrims on their walk back offering their facility for a Gathering. After much discussion the from Emmaus...that must have been one awesome Walk! consensus of the Board was to look into the possibility of rotating the Gatherings once a quarter to different churches in the De Colores! Elizabethtown area. However, if a rotation is adopted, this will not Look forward to seeing you many times this month! At Gathering and be done prior to the third-quarter of 2011. two Openings, Candlelights, and Closings!  Board agreed to order Upper Room and Devo’Zine daily devotional booklets to place in the Pilgrim and Butterfly packets. These are provided to Emmaus Communities by the Upper Room free of charge except for shipping.  Board voted to purchase a new color inkjet printer/copier for use by the Community. This should also allow the Community to print Doug Shepherd, Walk 108 Table of Matthew Walk/Flight photos in-house at a cost-savings. Elizabethtown Emmaus Community Lay Director  Community Website is being upgraded to make it more “web- friendly” and allow videos and other similar media to be incorporated into the site.  There is a new, one-minute DVD “commercial” promoting Elizabethtown Emmaus that can be used in worship services at various churches. If you would like to borrow a copy to use at your church see the Community Lay Director.  Jimmie Garcia gave the Board an update on the REC in Nicaragua. They need prayers and volunteers for the next Nicaraguan REC on July 6-8, 2011. Please contact Jimmie if you would like to volunteer. Prayer Time Thursday Men’s Walk 118 7:00 PM Campground March 10th Sendoff COUNTRY—LEADERS—WORLD—CHURCHES Saturday Men’s Walk 118 8:00 PM Memorial UMC ∙ Military Service Men and Women March 12th Candlelight ∙ “Duke” 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division Sunday Men’s Walk 118 5:00 PM Campground stationed at Fort Knox deployed to Afghanistan March 13th Closing ∙ “Darkhorse” 3rd Battalion 5th Marines serving in Thursday Women’s Walk 119 7:00 PM Campground Afghanistan March 17th Sendoff ∙ Pilgrims and Teams of Walks 118 and 119 ∙ Nicaraguan Emmaus Community Saturday Women’s Walk 119 8:00 PM Memorial UMC ∙ Emmaus & Chrysalis Board Members March 19th Candlelight ∙ Emmaus & YAC Sponsorship Sunday Women’s Walk 119 5:00 PM Campground ∙ Chrysalis and Emmaus Reunion Groups March 20th Closing ∙ Emmaus Lay Directors (Spring 2011) Saturday Board Meeting TBD Memorial UMC Kevin Oldham (Men’s Walk #118) April 2nd Gathering – “Lord” 7:00 PM Carolyn Cox (Women’s Walk #119) May YAC 2 Campground ∙ Chrysalis YAC #2 Lay Directors 21st – 23rd Amanda Drane (Girls) Carl Stoltzfus (Guys) ∙ The Lost

Welcome Chrysalis 47 Butterflies

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Mark Your Calendars

Saturday Board Meeting 5:00 PM Memorial UMC March 5th Gathering – “Your” 7:00 PM