Word of the Month: MIND

Elizabethtown Emmaus Community Newsletter

August 2011

 You’ll need to take a photo ID with you to get into Love the Lord your God with all your heart and the Northpoint facility. with all your soul and with all your mind and  FYI - The team, pays their team fees plus pays for with all your strength. Mark 12:30 NIV their own meals at the REC; in addition they also have to pay for their motel room and for the printing of 60 song books. If you would like to help defray Word of the Month: “MIND” some of this expense, you can place the donation in the offering at the next Gathering. Thanks to all those that helped with set up, cooking,  Northpoint will allow the team to bring in Agape serving and cleanup at the Emmaus Family Picnic held materials for the pilgrims; however, these must be prior to the July Gathering. If you missed it, you missed made of paper and can be in the form of letters, out on a special time of fellowship with a great crowd, bookmarks, poems, etc.. If you would like to and lots and lots of great food! (Our E’town Emmaus provide, please bring the Agape to the August Community has some awesome Christian Cooks!) Gathering, need 55-60 pieces.

Next Emmaus Newsletter to be “snail” mailed will be in Sponsorship … “The Most Important Job in September. In an effort to reduce the Community’s newsletter expense, we would like everyone that has a our Emmaus Community” current email address to receive the newsletter electronically. If you have previously not provided us Has God laid someone’s name on your heart to offer the with an email address or you have an updated or new gift of Emmaus to this fall? If so, have you prayed about email address, please send that information to Larry it? Have you made that initial contact? Do you have a Holthouser at [email protected]. Thanks for your current Request for Reservation form to share with cooperation in this effort. them? (That form can be downloaded from our website: http://etownemmaus.org/download/Emmaus There is a new promotional DVD for the Elizabethtown %20Application.doc) What about your reunion group, is Emmaus Community that can be used during church anyone or even your group sponsoring someone on this worship services (less than 3 minutes). It will be shown fall’s walk(s)? at the August Gathering, and copies will be available for distribution afterwards. Special thanks to all those that Quality sponsorship is how we continue this experience participated in and made this excellent promo piece a we call Emmaus, and it’s our most important task. Are reality! you doing your part to build the community and strengthen our churches through passionate Christian Northpoint REC Information leadership? If not, now is an excellent time to start! Please get your applications to our registrar, Colleen Some important information on the upcoming REC Bagley, P.O. Box 2070, Elizabethtown, KY 42702, as (Residents Encounter Christ = an Emmaus-type Walk soon as possible so our fall Walk Teams can properly inside a prison) from Bruce Seymour, Lay Director prepare for the Pilgrims. “Ditto” for Chrysalis Butterflies! Northpoint REC #17:  Anyone wishing to go to the Candle Walk at Look forward to seeing you at the next Gathering! Northpoint Training Center near Danville, KY DeColores! (September 10th) needs to turn in the REC Team/Candlewalk Form to Bruce by the August Gathering. Or you can mail them to him at 501 Sunningdale Way, E’town 42701, or you can call Doug Shepherd, E’town Community Lay Director him (270-766-8248) and he will make Walk 108, Table of Matthew arrangements to get your form completed. Forms can be downloaded from the E’town Emmaus Website at: http://etownemmaus.org/download/REC %20Volunteer%20Form.doc Prayer Time COUNTRY—LEADERS—WORLD—CHURCHES Mark Your Calendars

 Our Local, State and Federal Governmental Saturday Board Meeting 12 Noon The Shepherd’s Officials, County Churches, The World August 6th Gathering “Mind” 7:00 PM Memorial UMC  Deployed Military Service Men and Women especially those from Fort Knox Saturday Board Meeting 5:30 PM Grace  Northpoint REC #17 - Sept. 9-11 - Bruce Seymour, September 3rd Gathering 7:00 PM Heartland Lay Director - team and inmates “Strength” Church  Emmaus Board of Directors as they prepare for their Retreat through prayer and fasting September REC 17- Bruce Northpoint  Sponsorship, Fall Pilgrims and Butterflies, and 9th – 11th Seymour Lay Training Center Reunion Groups Director Danville, KY  Emmaus & Chrysalis Lay Directors (Fall 2011) Saturday Board Meeting 5:30 PM Memorial UMC . Larry Holthouser October 1st Gathering 7:00 PM (Men’s Walk #120 - October 13-16) Chrysalis Leads Fall Walk and Flight . Rhoda Baumfalk Team Dedications (Women’s Walk #121 - October 20-23) October 13th Walk 120 Send Off 6:30 PM Campground . Todd Davis & Andrea Bennett October 15th Walk 120 Candlelight 8:00 PM Memorial UMC (Chrysalis #48 - November 5-7) October 17th Walk 120 Closing 5:00 PM Campground  The Lost October 20th Walk 121 Send Off 6:30 PM Campground October 22nd Walk 121 Candlelight 8:00 PM Memorial UMC October 23rd Walk 121 Closing 5:00 PM Campground

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