Welcome to our Emmaus Community

De Colores News:

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EMail:

Brian Certain, FUMC Mansfield
Email: brian@bcertain.com

Please, remember to keep
the Pilgrims, their Sponsors, and
the Walk Teams in your prayers.

4th Day Gatherings are usually held on the fourth Friday of every month, except November and December.
If your church would like to Sponsor a Gathering during 2013 contact:

AMC 1st ALD 2013 Lay Director
AMC Community Scholarships, Treasurer
Patrick Jordan
Email: keltrick@sbcglobal.net

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Love Slams The Door

Abiding in Christ is not immunity from trials and tribulation but peace in the midst of them. God’s guidance is often by shutting doors. Love slams doors as well as opening them.

Joy in our Christian life is the results of faithful, trusting acceptance of God’s Will when it doesn’t seem to be joyous.

Paul had learned this lesson of slammed doors when he said “our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” We need to expect rebuffs from our Lord until this is learned – it is the only way. Man’s way leads to a joyless end – God’s way leads to endless joy!

Memorial or Honoring Scholarships:

Anyone can honor a loved one, friend, or sponsor by giving a scholarship in their name or as a memorial to that person. All scholarship funds will be used to pay the $75 application fee for an Emmaus Walk, for a pilgrim or team member. Make the check payable to Arlington Mid-Cities Emmaus Community and drop it in the collection plate at one of our community gatherings on the 4th Friday of the month
or contact
AMC 1st ALD - 2014 Lay Director and
AMC Community Treasurer-
Carla Fink
Email: thephynques@sbcglobal.net

Do you have the current application form?
The most current CTC Pilgrim application can easily be identified by the CTC logo
and
CTC Walk to Emmaus Pilgrim Application Revised – February, 2011
across the bottom of the form.

No previous form can be excepted.

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Understanding Sponsorship
(From the Emmaus Library booklet, “Sponsorship”)

When presenting The Walk to Emmaus, always present it in a positive way. Affirm people in their own walk with the Lord. Be open and honest about the weekend and answer any questions that arise.

Wise, intentional sponsorship is the foundation for building renewal in the church. Sponsors need to carry out the details of sponsorship seriously and conscientiously. Once you decide to be a sponsor, include God as your guide and counselor. The intent of The Walk to Emmaus is to develop leaders who will return to the church—God’s church—and revitalize the congregation. Since it is God’s church, God knows best who is needed when and for what. Each step of sponsorship must include God’s guidance.

As stated in “The Upper Room Handbook on Emmaus”:

The personal character of sponsorship underlines the personal care and commitment of God to each pilgrim.

The fact that the Emmaus experience is passed on from person to person reflects the relational nature of God and the manner in which God reaches out to people through people.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships are available for Pilgrims from this area for the $75 deposit from the Arlington/Mid-Cities Fourth Day Group. If the Pilgrim or Sponsor is unable to fund the remaining $100, we suggest that you first contact your, or other, Reunion Groups or perhaps even your church to see if they can help. If no other source of funding can be found, you can request a scholarship for the $100 balance from the Central Texas Conference Walk to Emmaus. Attach a note to the application requesting a scholarship.

To request the $75 deposit scholarship for your pilgrim contact:

AMC 1st ALD 2014 Lay Director
AMC Community Treasurer
Carla Fink
Email: thephynques@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Scholarship