WALK TALK. Chattanooga-LaFayette Emmaus Community January 2019

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1 WALK TALK Chattanooga-LaFayette Emmaus Community January 2019 WOW! The New Year is already here! Where did 2018 go? With this New Year comes new people to the Chattanooga\ Lafayette Emmaus Community Board. I will serve as your Lay Director for For those of you that don t know me, I m Rick Hamill, Men s walk #33, Table of Mark (I think) The new members to the Board are: Jim Boyd, Spiritual Director; Mark Davis, Asst. Spiritual Director; Phil Talley, Asst. Lay Director (to be Lay Director for 2020); Linda Book, Agape Letters; Deborah Boyd & Jean Davis, Worship; Fritz Duncan, Logistics and Becca Pool, Team Selection The returning Board members: Ed Nanny, Treasurer; Jerry Shook, Kitchen; Martha Payne, Literature; Candy Royer, Registrar; Susan Crocker, Chrysalis; Kim McDonald, 72-hour Prayer Vigil; Clint Cooper, past Lay Director. We, as your community board look forward to serving you in the upcoming months. I ask that you please pray for each of us as well as the non-board support members, as we seek to do the Lord s work He has set before us. You ll be able to find addresses on the web clemmaus.org for all board members. Rick Hamill Lay Director for 2019 laydirector@clemmaus.org (423) Chattanooga Emmaus P. O. Box Chattanooga, TN We have a Men s walk coming up in March and a Women s walk in April. Please be in prayer for the Pilgrims. We will need applications as soon as possible in order to fill the walks. The dates will be in the newsletter and on the web site. Thanks to all of you for the way you support our community. May God truly bless in all things this coming year. DeColores, Rick Hamill

2 SPONSORSHIP January already and were just recovering from the Glorious Holidays. Let me bring in the 2019 New Year by saying; Thank You for sharing the Emmaus experience with others and reaching out when it may not have been too comfortable. Many of you have sponsored many others over the years and I know the community is far better off because you did. It is because of You that our community lives on and reaches others. The March 2019 Men s walk will be upon us before you know it! I hope you have approached someone to sponsor or will be asking someone soon. How awesome it was for the last men s walk to have more than 24 pilgrims leading up to the walk weekend. Wouldn t it be great if having to place pilgrims on a waiting list became the normal for our community once again! I search for ideas, thoughts and suggestions on how our community can better fill the pilgrim slots through sponsorship. I hope you would share with me any ideas or suggestions you may have concerning sponsorship. I try to be available and I hope you already know how passionate I am that our community grow and strengthen. Together with prayer, thoughtful consideration and Christ as the head of our community, we too can be a part of the glorious discoveries others will make when we share our saviors love with them. DeColores Keith Sands Sponsorship is the foundation of our community Newly Published Children s Books by One of Our Very Own Several years ago, Jean Davis (Wife of Mark Davis and Lay Director of Women s Walk #49 Walk 34, Table of Ruth) heard a sermon entitled, The Sense God Gave a Goose. She thought this was a wonderful premise from which children could learn valuable behavior and began to write. Never before has it been so important for a generation of children to know the importance and value of caring for those around us, of forgiving those who have wronged us, and of belonging to a community. These are the God-given characteristics that geese were given. Jean takes these attributes, along with creative license that has the geese praying with and for each other, to bring to life the fun adventures of these precious geese while they learn valuable lessons. The Sense God Gave A Goose series, is currently two books (a third will join them very soon) that seek to convey God-given values that we all need to experience and share. These books focus on 1) Caring for those around us (Allie Learns about Caring) 2) Belonging to a group and that it has responsibilities and joys (Eli Learns It Is Good to Belong) 3) (Coming soon) Forgiving those who have done something to us as well as understanding that we all can have a second chance (Sam Learns about Forgiveness) Allie Learns About Caring and Eli Learns It Is Good to Belong are available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.

3 EXCITING CHRYSALIS AND JOURNEY NEWS! It is with excitement, and with great anticipation to see what God has planned for our youth in 2019, that the Board is announcing the scheduling of the Chrysalis / Journey (formerly Crossroads) weekend for November 7 10, This will be a weekend for young adults for ages 15 to 18 for Chrysalis and ages 19 to 24 for Journey who are not married or parents of young children. While the weekend will be co-ed with interaction at meal times and during clergy talks in the chapel, the young men and their conference room team will be housed at Sunset Lodge and the young women and their conference room team will be housed in one of the cabins behind the dining hall. The young men (Chrysalis and Journey ages) and their conference room team will be cloistered and will hear their speakers and interact with their individual tables at Sunset. The individual table groups will be assigned by age so that the Chrysalis participants will be interacting with other Chrysalis age participants while the Journey participants will be interacting with other Journey age participants. The young women (Chrysalis and Journey) and their conference room team will be cloistered and will hear their speakers and interact with their individual tables in the conference room next to the dining hall. Again, the individual table groups will be assigned by age so that the Chrysalis participants will be interacting with other Chrysalis age participants while the Journey participants will be interacting with other Journey age participants. Please pray about the young person you wish to sponsor and please do not allow the weekend fees be a deterrent to sponsoring someone for the weekend. If there is a need for financial assistance, you may contact the Chrysalis Registrar regarding scholarship applications at chrysalisregistrar@clemmaus.org. Anyone with a desire to be a team member for this weekend, please advise Team Selection at teamselection@clemmaus.org. Be aware that, as servants of God in bringing Christ s love to our young people, the Board will be responsible for performing background checks on all who participate in the weekend. Please pray for our youth and mark this date on your calendars. Please get those applications in as early as possible so that we may good stewards of God s resources. Send-Off: As the new Pilgrims and Conference Room team leave the Chapel, we are to SING them out with DeColores song. Candlelight: Please be sure to sign the Candlelight Sign-In sheets as you come in on Saturday night. When the community serenades Pilgrims, the room empties from the back first. Kitchen: NEW COMMUNITY MEMBERS HELP Sign in for helping in the Kitchen is needed as well. It is located at the service counter nearest the dining room where silverware is sitting. NOTE "Team Selection uses all SIGN-IN sheets during their process. These help to be recognized for service to an upcoming team. Susan Crocker Chrysalis/Journey Registrar

4 January's Gathering January 14, :15 PM Hixson First Baptist Church 5800 Grubb Road Hixson, TN (423) Contact: Patti Harris (423) Map 2019 Emmaus Walks and Chrysalis/Journeys March Men s Walk #58 Pete Burnette April Women s Walk #70 Lanette Hamill October Women s Walk #71 TBD November 7-10 Chrysalis/Journey TBD Meal Times for Emmaus Walks Breakfast Lunch Dinner FRIDAY 8:00 12:30 5:30 SATURDAY 8:00 12:30 6:30 SUNDAY 8:00 12:00 Meal Times for Chrysalis/Journey Breakfast Lunch Dinner FRIDAY 8:30 12:00 5:30 SATURDAY 8:15 11:55 6:30 SUNDAY 8:00 12:00 PRAYER VIGIL SIGN UP -- Please let me know if you would like to sign up for a permanent prayer time for the upcoming walks, and I will go ahead and enter the information for you as soon as they are posted on the Prayer Vigil website. Thank you for all those who participated in the Prayer Vigil for the Fall Men's and Women's Walks! As we all know, prayer undergirds our whole Emmaus experience and larger Christian walk with the Lord. Please keep praying for those in our community, particularly, who have suffered loss or who are battling serious health issues. God hears our prayers! Kim McDonald prayervigil@clemmaus.org

5 2019 Board Members Spiritual Director Jim Boyd Asst. Spiritual Director Mark Davis Community Lay Director Rick Hamill Asst. Community Lay Phil Talley Director Secretary Penny Watne Treasurer Ed Nanney Agape Letters Linda Book Worship (Sponsor s Deborah Boyd worship@clemmaus.org Hour, Etc.) Jean Davis Kitchen Jerry Shook kitchen@clemmaus.org Literature Martha Payne literature@clemmaus.org Registrar Candy Royer registrar@clemmaus.org Logistics Fritz Duncan logistics@clemmaus.org Team Selection Becca Pool teamselection@clemmaus.org Chairperson Chrysalis Susan Crocker chrysalis@clemmaus.org Nominations (Past Lay Clint Cooper pastlaydirector@clemmaus.org Director) Hour Prayer Vigil Kim McDonald prayervigil@clemmaus.org NON-BOARD SUPPORT: Music Jeff Epperson music@clemmaus.org Sponsorship Keith Sands Sponsorship@clemmaus.org Agape Gifts Fran Habecker agapegifts@clemmaus.org Gathering Supplies Kristy McNeal Supplies@clemmaus.org Communication Rhonda Keith newsletter@clemmaus.org Website Coordinator Mike Payne webmaster@clemmaus.org Contact Us Visit us on the web at -The Walk Talk can be downloaded from here. AGAPE: Minimum Needed -24 Bed Agape -60 Meal Agape -36 Conference Room Agape Thank you for your acts of agape love! Your gifts are appreciated! PRAYER: To sign up for the 72 hour prayer vigil, contact Kim McDonald prayervigil@clemmaus.org DONATE: Donations can be made online through by mail to: PO Box Chattanooga TN 37424; or at the Gatherings. Your gifts are tax deductible under section 501(C)(3). Please talk to the community lay director regarding bequests. CHANGES: Send subscriptions or changes to Mike Payne webmaster@clemmaus.org CONTACT UPDATES: Do we have your correct address and phone number? If you have changed either of these, please contact us with your updated information. Contact: Becca Pool teamselection@clemmaus.org