The Impact of Emmaus

To paraphrase Jesus, it is more blessed to serve than to be served. I have been blessed to have been elected as board chair for this community for the past two years. In this role, I have had the opportunity to meet, love and be loved by so many strong, Christian people. I have been supported by board members who consistently gave of themselves to strengthen our community and allow us to share God’s love and mercy through our local Walks to Emmaus. I have also drawn great strength and insight from the entire Emmaus community. I thank each of you for your love and support.

The new board chair for 2012-2013 is Gail Clark, and the leadership chair is Monty Adams. These two extremely talented people were elected to these positions by those of you who attended the October gathering. They are both experienced members of the community and served on the Emmaus Board during 2011. I know you will show Gail and Monty the same enthusiastic love, support, and encouragement you have provided me during my term. Please keep them in your prayers during this transition.

The primary purpose of the Walk to Emmaus is to strengthen the local church—I hope you are serving or leading in your local church. I would also ask you to continue to support the Walk to Emmaus in the days, months and years ahead. As you know, it takes several hundred willing servants to enable an Emmaus Weekend. Please consider opportunities to serve new pilgrims during an upcoming weekend just as you were served on your Emmaus Walk. Everyone who has participated on a walk is welcome to serve.

Are you interested in serving on an Emmaus team or serving on the Emmaus board at some point in the future? Potential leaders must meet the following criteria (as we view them as role models for the pilgrims and the community as a whole): candidates for team or board must be in a share group, their share group must follow the service card, and they must be actively serving in a local church. If you are interested in serving in one of these roles, please contact me at (740) 527-2433 or at dougtheiss@gmail.com.

Again, I thank you for the opportunity to serve. It has truly been a blessing for me to play a small part in a ministry that has such a powerful effect on the lives of God’s children.

Doug Theiss
Emmaus Board Chair

Sponsorship Training

We began Sponsorship Training several years ago to help you as members of the Emmaus community better understand the sponsorship
process and to support you in your efforts to bring this amazing experience to as many believers as possible. This training has
been very effective in helping to better equip both sponsors and pilgrims to gain the most from their Emmaus experience.

Sponsorship training is offered in the chapel at 6:30 pm immediately prior to the gathering, and will last no longer than 45 minutes. This ensures that you will be finished in time to attend the gathering. If you have not attended training before or need a quick refresher, please join us that evening.

DeColores,
Rob & Lisa Richards
Sponsorship Co-Chairpersons

Sunday Closing
We need workers to help tear down Kirsh Hall and clean kitchen along with distributing the left over food for the 2 needed families. Al takes care of bringing the boxes and delivers the food to the families. Come for the closing and hear all the Testimonies, eat, and enjoy the laughter and blessings.

Welcome Buffet
If you have signed up to bring any of the items, that are used for the WELCOME BUFFET FOOD DONATIONS, please remember that they must be in the kitchen by 5:00pm the Thursday of the Walk. Please be sure to include your name on the items you have dropped off or you can check your name off that is usually hanging on the side of big chrome freezer in the kitchen. We would also like you to sign the poster board that will be hanging on the back of the Kitchen door. We will have it up by Wednesday afternoon so the ones that dropped their items off early can sign.
If for some reason that you can not bring the item that you signed up for, if you could give either one of us a call, that way we will know to we need to purchase any of the veggie’s or bake any of the cookies or brownies needed.