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1 Volume 23 No. 10 Western New York Walk to Emmaus & Chrysalis October 2013 Upcoming Community Event Men s Emmaus Walk #45: Send off---oct. 7:00 PM Candlelight--Oct. 8:00 PM Closing-- Oct. 4:00 PM (Once you get to First UMC in Springville.. follow Emmaus Community Signs) Directions to First UMC, Springville From Jamestown: Follow Rt. I-86 East to Rt Take Rt. 219 North to Rt. 39 East in Springville. Follow Rt. 39 through the village of Springville until you reach the church on the left in the far east of town. From Buffalo and Rochester: Take NY State Thruway(I-90) to Rt. 219 South. Take Rt. 219 South to Rt. 39 East in Springville. Follow Rt. 39 through the village of Springville until you reach the church on the left in the far east of town. From Olean and East: Follow Rt. I-86 to Rt. 16 North. Follow Rt. 16 to Rt. 39 West. to Springville. The church is on the right as you enter town. Bring your agape, your placemats & napkins (for Emmaus or Chrysalis), any lost but now found song books, folks from your gathering, a thankful heart, your instrument (string, vocal or other). Check to see what your prayer vigil time slot is...consider signing up for another time slot Car pool...stay overnight.sign up to help in the kitchen or as part of the out of conference room team. Deadline for November Rainbow Connection October 15 1

2 Men s Walk # 45 Pilgrims Ted Adams - Springville Presbyterian Church Matt Burger - Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church Dewey Carlson - Bemus Point UMC Heath Eisele - Alexander UMC Arlan Harvey - Springville First UMC Bob Knapp - Indian Falls UMC Steve Lockwood - Wesleyan Church of Hamburg Joe Long - UMC of Livonia Jim Navis - Delevan UMC Frank Pascarella - Baker Memorial UMC Blake Phinney - Little Valley UMC Scott Pray - Alexander UMC Rob Westcott - Christ UMC, Olean WOMEN S WALK REGISTRATION DEADLINE By the time you are reading this the deadline for the Men s Walk registration will be past. But there is still time to send your Women s registrations. We do look forward to getting them in our mailbox. It s a big mailbox; it will hold lots of registrations! WOMEN S WALK: October 31 November 3 Registration deadline: October 10 Reunion date: November 16 Will and Carolyn Rickman, Registrars 24 Butcher Road, Hilton NY wcdric@frontiernet.net 2

3 MEN'S WESTERN NEW YORK WALK TO EMMAUS #45 TEAM Randy Walker- Lay Director Talk #14 Perseverance Beth Kotteman- Spiritual Director Talk #7 Means of Grace Abel Roy- Assistant Spiritual Director Talk #2 Prevenient Grace Joan Zimmerman- Assistant Spiritual Director Talk#4 Justifying Grace Ron Sellers- Assistant Spiritual Director Talk #12 Sanctifying Grace David McKinney- Assistant Spiritual Director Talk #9 Obstacles to Grace Keith Grinnell - Assistant Lay Director Agape Talk #15 Fourth Day Bob Laurie - Assistant Lay Director Chapel Talk #10 Discipleship Rich Wheeler Assistant Lay Director Bell Ringer Talk #1 Priorities Jim Keiper- Board Rep. Dennis Weil- Log Darrell Rublee- Log Bob Fathergill- Musician John Trowbridge- Musician Bud Vredenburg- Table Leader Talk# 3 Priesthood of All Believers Brian Keesler- Table Leader Talk #6 Growth Through Study Bob Fisher- Table Leader Talk # 13 Body of Christ Chris Pahl- Table Leader Talk #11 Changing our World Brian Lothridge- Table Leader Talk #8 Christian Action Mike Quesenberry- Table Leader Talk # 5 Life in Piety Bruce Peterson- Assistant Table Leader Ron Mullen- Assistant Table Leader Joe Wesley- Assistant Table Leader Tadd Grimes- Assistant Table Leader Bert Dohl- Assistant Table Leader Men s Teaming #3 Date & Location: 9/27 & 9/28 - Springville Please keep the team in prayer during their final teaming. If you are able to help with meal preparation, serving and/or clean up during this teaming please contact Bill & Geniece. 3

4 Community Lay Directors Do you remember your Walk and all the special moments?? All of the things that were done for you by people that you didn t even know?? From the uncertainty of Thursday evening send-off, to the tears & joy of Sunday afternoon, each walk is special and unique. In order for the weekend to flow there were behind the scenes servants. Many people were praying and serving to help you get a special start to your 72 hour Walk to Emmaus week-end. The full Walk experience is so much more than just the 72 hour weekend. This is your fourth day, and how is it going?? Now is the time that we all have the opportunity to step up and help others experience a Walk to Emmaus Weekend. Each team has only 26 final spots, but so many more spots are required to be filled. Opportunities begin with sponsoring a Pilgrim; you still have time for the women s walk. The prayer vigil needs 144 slots filled in for each walk, is your name on the chart yet?? If you are making Agape please get your gifts to the walk by Thursday evening if possible. Working with the out of conference room team & serving in the kitchen are both very busy and blessed opportunities. These two opportunities need many folks at different times from Thursday till Sunday. We are sure that they can give you an opportunity to serve on the walk. Of course being in attendance at Candle light & closing is open to all. Filling up the placemats for Sunday s breakfast, and sending Agape notes for Sunday afternoon. That sounds like an abundance of opportunities to serve so sign up and bless the pilgrims of Walk # 45. Please find the contacts in this Rainbow Connection and a make a call to serve Western New York Walk to Emmaus #45. Decolores, Jim and Lora Keiper Lora Keiper traveling to Nashville! Lora Keiper has accepted an invitation to serve as a Regional Lay Member to the Emmaus International Advisory Committee where she will represent the WNY Walk to Emmaus Community. The International Advisory Committee meets annually in Nashville, Tennessee. This year the meeting will take place October The weekend is formatted similar to that of an Emmaus weekend, with a theme, talks and discussions among table groups. Time is allotted for discussions among the many Emmaus communities that will be represented where concerns and suggestions can be shared and brought back to their communities. You can read more in the June issue of the Rainbow Connection. Expenses for travel are to be expected. If you would like to offer financial support for Lora s trip to Nashville, you may send a check to the Emmaus Treasurers, Duane and Anita Domes. (Address below). Please make check payable to WNY Walk to Emmaus and note in the memo area of your check Lora s Nashville Trip. The WNY Emmaus Community congratulates Lora and is honored to have her represent us as she serves as Regional Lay Member. We are confident and appreciative of your support and prayers for her. Thank you. De Colores! Duane and Anita Domes Treasurers WNY Walk to Emmaus 9579 Creek Road Springville NY Thanks to those that have provided support in the form of prayer and financial assistance. There is still time to bless Lora with financial support and of course support through prayer and/or notes of encouragement! 4

5 WOMEN'S WESTERN NEW YORK WALK TO EMMAUS #45 TEAM Lay Director Jessica White Talk #14 Perseverance Spiritual Director Pastor Stan Scoville Talk # 7 Means of Grace Asst SD Pastor Doug Childress Talk #2 Prevenient Grace Asst SD Pastor Nancy Bassett Talk #4 Justifying Grace Asst SD Pastor Sandy Stoica Talk #12 Sanctifying Grace Asst SD - Pastor Becky Ward Talk #9 Obstacles to Grace ALD Agape Kathy Wessel Talk #15 Fourth Day ALD Bell Ringer Janice McKinney Talk #1 Priorities ALD Chapel - Char Smith Talk #3 Priesthood of All Believers Logistics Paulette Albone Logistics Nancy Carroll Table Leader Sandy Andrews Talk # 8 Christian Action Table Leader Carol Goodwin Talk #10 Discipleship Table Leader Karen Ingle Talk #6 Growth Through Study Table Leader Holly Roush Talk #13 Body of Christ Table Leader Mary Kay Williams Talk #11 Changing Our World Table Leader Kathie Woika Talk #5 Life of Piety Asst Table Leader Carol Bell Asst Table Leader Tammy Dionisio Asst Table Leader Marge Domres Asst Table Leader Mary Ann Knaus Asst Table Leader Barabara Siebert Asst Table Leader Diane Thurlow Board Rep - Musician - Musician- Pat Blakeman Bonnie Hall Becky Fox Women s Teaming #3 Date & Location 10/18 & 10/19 - Springville 5

6 Gathering Schedules, Times, Locations, & Leader Contact Information Alexander: Alexander UMC - 3rd Saturday of month 7 p.m. - Meeting (Child care as needed) Bob Neamon rneamon@gmail.com Buffalo: New Hope UMC 2846 Seneca St., West Seneca - 3rd Saturday of the month 9:30 a.m.- Meeting Pat Corsette prcorsette@verizon.net Enchanted Mountain (Olean): Christ UMC lounge 1st Wednesday of the month 7-8:30 p.m. - Meeting Mike or Jan Mortimer *** mortimer50@verizon.net Hamburg/Buffalo Southtowns: Hamburg UMC 116 Union St., Parlor - 3rd Tuesday of the month 7 p.m. - Meeting Jerry & Caroline Schneggenburger eyemann@roadrunner.com Kendall: Kendall UMC, 1808 Kendall Road - 2nd Friday of the month; 6:30 p.m. - Meeting Bob & Trudy Slocum rslocum678@aol.com Medina/Millville: Millville UMC - Second Friday of the month 7 p.m. - Meeting Jesse & Cheryl Babcock cbabcock002@rochester.rr.com Napoli: Little Valley UMC - 4th Monday of the month 7 p.m. - Meeting Bill & Geniece Perkins billperkins1951@yahoo.com Six Emmaus/Chrysalis: Middleport UMC 6 Park Ave. (at South Vernon) - 2nd Sunday of the month; 6PM Stephen & Pat Morse pamorse1@rochester.rr.com Springville: Springville UMC - 3rd Saturday of month 9:30 a.m. - Meeting Duane & Anita Domes himmiesmom@aol.com West Bank: Greece UMC - 2nd Saturday of the month 8:30 a.m. - Continental breakfast 9 a.m. - Meeting (Call ahead for child care) Sonia Ingle - Child care contact Will & Carolyn Rickman wcdric@frontiernet.net Friday September 20th Emmaus Board Meeting at Trinity UMC 7:00 PM Monday October 7th Chrysalis Board Meeting Batavia 1st UMC 7PM All are welcome Open to community members Unsure of community events? Follow community events on Twitter!!! Find us Not on Twitter??? Go to twitter.com to create an account & to sign up to follow Community events & updates!! Please notify Barb Swanson at or bms4him@rochester.rr.com. If you have moved, changed phone number or address. If you have moved to college, graduated from college, OR if you have a name change (gotten married?) 6

7 WNY Emmaus Board of Directors * correction since last month Kitchen Korner Hello friends, fall has sprung & it s September already and only 4 weeks away from the men s walk #45. Geniece & I are getting ready to fire up the ovens & cook up some great meals for the men. We would love to have you be a part of our last set of walks at the Springville UMC, so if you want to work in the kitchen send us an at billperkins1951@yahoo.com or call us at This is our last set of walks as kitchen coordinators & we are looking for a couple of people to take over & be blessed as much as we have been, if you are interested or have questions give us a call. Sending blessings from our family to all your families. DeColores & God Bless Greetings for the Musician's corner. Bill & Geniece The weather's getting cooler and the leaves are beginning to fall which means the fall Walk's are right around the corner and our opportunity to serve our Lord and WNY Emmaus community is here once again. Musician's please mark your calendars with following dates. The Men's Walk will be Oct 10-13th and the Women's Walk will be Oct 31-Nov 3. Please plan be at Springville UMC to support Thursday send-off, Saturday Candlelight and Sunday closing. Look to next month's newsletter for the time and place of this fall's Musician's workshop. DeColores and Fly with Christ, Dan Benjamin, Music Chair Term Position Name Phone Comm. Lay Dir. Jim & Lora Keiper (585) wnyemmaus@wildblue.net 2015 Spiritual Director Rick Koch (716) ministerrx@aol.com th Day Mike Quesenberry (716) DaQuiz57@aol.com 2015 Library Allen & Alethia Keiper (585) akeiper@rochester.rr.com 2015 Newsletter Barbara Swanson (585) bms4him@rochester.rr.com 2015 Supplies Jeff & Char Smith (585) jsmith24@rochester.rr.com csmith72@rochester.rr.com 2015 Community Ron & Alice Alsworth (585) rgalsworth@aol.com 2013 Clergy Joan Zimmerman pastorjzimm@aol.com 2013 Kitchen Bill & Geniece Perkins (716) billperkins1951@yahoo.com 2013 Music Dan Benjamin (585) dbenjamin003@stny.rr.com 2013 Secretary Kathy Wessel (585) wessel.kathy@gmail.com 2013 Treasurer Duane & Anita Domes (716) himmiesmom@aol.com 2014 Agape Rich & Nancy Preston (716) rnpreston@hotmail.com 2014 Clergy Renee Engels (716) pastor_renee@yahoo.com 2014 Evangelism Vern & Judy Heiler (716) jv.heiler@verizon.net 2014 Facilities Bob & Trudie Slocum (585) rslocum678@aol.com 2014 Registration Will & Carolyn Rickman (585) wcdric@frontiernet.net 2014 Team Selection Rose Caldwell (716) * rgscaldwell@msn.com 2013 Chrysalis Kathy Weil (585) kadew1973@gmail.com 7

8 CHRYSALIS Board of Directors * correction since last month AGAPE Planning for the Fall Walks is in progress. The teams have been picked. Now is the time to start praying for the team and about who YOU will be sponsoring. With the number of members we have, we should be able to have full Walks every time. Have you decided who you will sponsor. Start thinking about agape for the up-coming walks! Again, pray for the team as it develops and throughout the coming months. Pray without ceasing! If you have agape napkin and placemat packets please get them back to us via mail or through a board member. 72 Hour Prayer Vigil Remember your walk and seeing the posted prayer vigil. There were so many people praying for you and your fellow pilgrims and the team. Just 30 minutes to devote to the new pilgrims and the team members over their weekend will show that you truly care. Sign-up now to get a convenient time. Currently only about HALF of the time slots have been taken in each of the prayer vigils, time is running out. The men s walk is less than a month away please support the team and the pilgrims. Men s Walk #45 Prayer Vigil Sign in Women s Walk #45 Prayer Vigil Sign in De Colores Rich and Nancy Preston, Agape Chairs Term Position Name Phone Lay Director Kathy Weil (585) kadew1973@gmail.com 2014 Agape Suzanne Perry (585) wnyagape@gmail.com 2014 Spiritual Director Steve & Laura Calos (585) scalos@frontiernet.net (585) lcalos@frontiernet.net 2013 Clergy Sue Russell (585) asjrussell@hughes.net 2015 Community Bob & Deanna Laurie (716) dbblaurie@verizon.net 2015 Evangelism Laurie Manzer (585) lmanzer@rochester.rr.com* Asst Evangelism Sonia/Karen Ingle (585) * karenlingle8488@yahoo.com 2013 Library Frank White (585) uncleferter@msn.com 2015 Newsletter Barbara Swanson (585) bms4him@rochester.rr.com 2014 Supplies Marty Goodenbery (585) mzgoodenbery@yahoo.com 2015 Registration Erich/Vickie Jones (585) EVJones4u@yahoo.com 2014 Kitchen Zina Goodenbery (585) mzgoodenbery@yahoo.com 2013 Next Steps Mary Trowbridge (585) jtmtst@rochester.rr.com 2014 Treasurer Chris Collins (585) ccollin9@rochester.rr.com 2015 Team Selection Rose Caldwell (716) rgscaldwell@msn.com* 2014 Secretary Jessica White (716) jdgirl25@yahoo.com 2013 Facilities Natalie Diedrich (585) Nataliec2@yahoo.com 2015 Music To be announced in January 2014 Emmaus LD Jim & Lora Keiper (585) wnyemmaus@wildblue.net 2015 Clergy Mary Rublee (585) mrublee@rochester.rr.com* 8

9 Team Selection Uncovered! Perhaps as new information for some, and as refresher for others, we would like to share a bit about how Walk and Flight teams are chosen and how you, too, can serve our amazing God in this way and other ways in our Emmaus-Chrysalis Community. First, how can you serve? Progressive servanthood, which is serving in different Community and then more team-oriented roles, is part of the answer. Although there is a one-year waiting period for sponsoring someone on the Walk and for serving on team, there is no waiting period to get involved, for example, by helping in the kitchen, with set up at Candlelight, by cleaning bathrooms or other tasks on the out of conference room support team on the next Walk or Flight, and serving on the Board. In other words, involvement in the Emmaus-Chrysalis community is important so that when you are asked to serve on team you have greater level of comfort, a better understanding of how and why the weekend happens the way it does, and can best support it then in any role, whether inside or outside of the conference room team. Read the Rainbow Connection and get involved! Attendance at a Gathering also shows your interest in Emmaus because you are concerned with living out your Fourth Day and being accountable for it. Gathering attendance is tracked and reviewed at team selection time. Involvement in a small Group Reunion is also encouraged. If you have been on a Walk or Flight, have done these things and never been asked to serve on team, or your situation has changed and you couldn t before but now can serve on team, please let me or any committee or board member know. Our 2013 Committee members are Bill Barber, Norb Fuest, Carol Goodwin, Cheryl Isaman, Alethia Keiper, Jan Mortimer, John Trowbridge and Kathy Wessel. How are teams chosen? The Team Selection committee is made up of nine members who must have served as Lay Director of a Walk. Members serve a three-year term and three members rotate on and off each year. It is this group, and the Community Lay and Spiritual Directors, as well as the upcoming Walk or Flight Lay and Spiritual Directors, who are charged with assisting in compiling a list of names from which the Lay and Spiritual Directors will make their calls. Before going any further, I would like to emphasize one thing: prayer. Prayer is present and integral to every part of the process from selecting the members of the Team Selection committee to the final calls made by the Lay and Spiritual Directors. That s why so many Lay Directors refer to their team as God s team. Because truly it is. That being said, we need to assist God in his selection as we know that Teresa of Avila reminded us that Christ has no body on earth now but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours... A team selection meeting of the above described group takes place typically during the afternoon of the Walk Reunion for the following Walk. Flight team selection is generally conducted about six months before the Flight. Before the meeting, team members complete a three-deep list of potential team candidates. With prayer, first-hand knowledge and poring over the database of team service and participation in Community events, team members record names of Community members with varying amounts of service: one-third of the lay team with no prior team service (assistant table leaders), one-third with one to three team experiences and one-third with more than three. At least one past Lay Director and one past Spiritual Director serve on team to provide support to the current Lay Director or Spiritual Director should he or she need it. At the meeting, names are brought forth by the Lay and Spiritual Directors and committee members for each of the teams. From the final list, the Lay and Spiritual Directors will make their calls for service. While no process is perfect, this procedure has been developed and honed over time, following the Emmaus model from Nashville and it helps to ensure that in every Walk or Flight, some team members are moving into different and more experienced roles, eventually perhaps serving as lay director. Again, let us know if you believe you have been missed and would like to serve, and we encourage anyone interested in serving on team (or not) to take advantage of the many servant opportunities outside of the conference room. Every role is equally important to sharing these Walk to Emmaus and Chrysalis Flights with adults and youth for the building of the kingdom and to the glory of God! De Colores! Rose Caldwell, 2013 Team Selection Chair 9

10 From God s Holy Word And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 11 May you be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in who we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1: 9-14 ESV From DUANE AND ANITA DOMES OUT OF CONFERENCE/WEEKEND SUPPORT STAFF COORDINATORS FALL WALKS #45 COMING SOON! The Men s and Women s Walks will take place at SPRINGVILLE UMC. Please mark your calendars with the dates below! Men s Walk #45 OCTOBER Women s Walk #45 OCTOBER 31-NOVEMBER 3 Our task is to coordinate the many volunteers required to serve as the Weekend Support Staff. Remember when YOU were a Pilgrim or served on Team and things seemed to be done automatically for you? The housekeeping was taken care of, restrooms were cleaned, the dining room was wonderfully decorated, chairs and tables were arranged at appropriate times and many other tasks seemed to happen automatically. Along with many others this is due to the behind the scenes service and commitment of the Weekend Support Staff! The Support Staff is there to serve not only the Pilgrims but also the team (especially the Logs ) so that in turn the team may better serve the Pilgrims. The Support Staff is a group of Emmaus community members willing to assist when available during the Walks. They are not required to be present for the entire weekend. Please note the dates of the Fall Walks and contact us via e mail or phone to inform us of your availability to serve. Thank You. De Colores! Duane and Anita Domes ( ) himmiesmom@aol.com (Anita s e mail) 10

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12 Deadline for November Rainbow Connection is October 15 B. Swanson 40 Newcomb Dr. Hilton, NY