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1 Florida Crown Emmaus Newsletter Our Biblical Basis: Luke 24: Debi Allen Barbara Anderson LuLu Aranson Heather Ash Easter Ball Marilyn Beaton Ellen Benson Sherry Beville Ninetta Coleman Lori Declue Gerry Del Rio Kris Graham Mary Grover Nancy Hague Kasetta Hicks April Hoose-Harris Connie Johnson Leah Mason Welcome the Pilgrims of Florida Crown Emmaus Walk # 71! Laurie McSwain JoAnn Patray Pat Peterson Juana Portillo Rachelle Rapin Brenda Schreiber Laurie Shashy Rebecca Smitn Hanna Thomas Wendy Jo Williams Becky Yerkes Charles Aronson Chris Bailey Bill Beebe Mike Beville Jeff Covey Bob Cowie Danny Del Rio Richard DeVane Phil Dobbs Patrick Follian Joe Graham Walt Holton Jimmy Johnson Tom Jordan Tim Meuter Allen Patten Walt Snider November- December 2012 Carlos Timones III Tom White Table of Contents 1. Welcome the Pilgrims of Walk # Newsletter goes digital and welcome new Board members. 3. E - Attitudes and Pass the Torch. 4. Professional Musicians and a goodbye from your editor. 5. Chrysalis Corner. 6. Calendar and What s the Point with Gatherings? 7. Reunion Groups. 8. Board of Director s List. I would like to welcome all of the new Pilgrims of Florida Crown Emmaus Walk #71 to your new Emmaus Community! I hope that your new tattoo's are all healing well. (Private joke from closing!). As you enter your Fourth Day (every day for the rest of your life), it is important that we all strive to live the life of grace offered to us by Jesus Christ. The process of living this life in grace was discussed in great detail over the course of the weekend through the 15 talks. Here's a quick recap of "things to remember"! * Find and join a Reunion Group and begin practicing the disciplines of piety, study and action! Remember, this takes commitment on your part to achieve the desired relationship with Jesus Christ. * Find your place to serve in your local Church. Start somewhere! (Continued Page 2)

2 (Welcome Pilgrims continued) * Attend monthly Emmaus Gatherings and be active in your support of the Emmaus Community. After careful consideration, we have decided to transition the * Volunteer (with a Servant Spirit) when activities such as weekends or gatherings are planned. communication with the start of This change will help to Florida Crown Emmaus Newsletter to a digital-only * Volunteer to be part of a committee that improve the timeliness of our communications with the supports the board and all of the Emmaus activities. stewards of the limited funds available. Emmaus Community as well as ensure that we are good * Participate in the activities of Walk Weekends. Attend Send-off, Candlelight and Closing. Serve The mailing of the newsletter will be discontinued in The meals and participate in the 24 hour prayer vigil. version, as well as the version posted on the Florida There is ALWAYS something to do! Crown Emmaus website, will be formatted for printing should * Sponsor others to attend the Walk to Emmaus! you desire to print it at home. A small number of hard copies Share your joy! will also be available at the Gatherings for those of you who * Serve in outside support positions or on team. wish to pick up a copy. What a great way to show YOUR agape love to others! We recognize that there may be some folks who do not have Remember, no one individual or position is any access to the Internet or . We encourage you to reach out more or less important when serving on an Emmaus weekend. We welcome you to your new for you. Likewise, if you know of someone who doesn't have to an Emmaus friend who would be willing to print a version Emmaus Community! We hope that you find it Internet or access, proactively reach out to them and offer "Emmausing"! to print it for them! De Colores! Stella Painter Just as many of us have endured personal economic challenges these past few years, so too has Florida Crown Emmaus struggled with economic challenges. We believe that this change will result in substantial savings allowing the board to be better stewards and direct the funds to more effectively reach for our goals of strengthening relationships with Jesus Christ and building up the local Church. If you do not already receive the Newsletter via please contact our communications coordinator at fcecomm@gmail.com and we will get you added to the distribution list! We appreciate your support! DeColores Stella Painter FCE Community Lay Director Florida Crown Emmaus Newsletter Goes Fully Digital! Please join me in welcoming Kathy Scott and Kathy Wray to the Florida Crown Emmaus Board of Directors beginning in January Kathy Scott will be joining us as Registrar, Kathy Wray will be joining us as Kitchen Coordinator and Contessa Whitehead will be joining us as Communications Director. We are still in need of a new Music Coordinator. If God is tugging at your heart, please reach out to Paul Frendahl, for more information on this awesome opportunity to serve our God! (See Thank You on page 3)

3 E Attitudes In Emmaus, there are some qualities and actions that make our community more Christ-like and loving. I call them E-attitude, Emmaus attitudes. They are the attitudes that many in the Emmaus community demonstrate so well. Here are a few. You can add others. -Live close to Christ. Christ is the true north in the compass of faith. Point your life toward Christ -Be a servant. The true quality of Emmaus is the servant s heart. -Show gratitude. Life and salvation have come from God. Be a grateful Christian. (Thank You continued) -Say yes when called to serve. The willing spirit of We also want to thank Cheryle Busack Emmaus is readiness to serve when asked. (outgoing Registrar), Anita Simpson -Think sponsorship. Think how you can bring another (outgoing Kitchen Coordinator), Bruce Fry person closer to Christ. Sponsor someone to a walk. (outgoing Communications Coordinator) and -Participate in gatherings. Go to community events and Paul Frendahl (outgoing "music dude") for their gatherings. years of dedicated service to the Florida Crown -Pray for added grace. Join a reunion group and share your Emmaus Community. moments closest to Christ. Each of these saints gave willingly of their time and service with the true spirit of servant Can you think of others E Attitudes? Add them to the list. hood. We will be eternally grateful for all they Then join the many active people across North Florida in living have done in His Service. the E Attitudes. They will bring you to a rich and full life of Stella Painter worship, love and service for Christ our Lord. FCE Community Lay Director Rev. Fred Woolsey FCE Community Spiritual Director As my three years on the board as Kitchen Coordinator comes to an end, I look back on all the friends that I have made. Not in my wildest thoughts would I have gone beyond my comfort zone to make sure food was being prepared for 50 plus people. But, I didn t do it alone. I had the help of many people, as we call them angels. I was scared to tears the first walk I had to prepare for. I was very new to the Emmaus community and didn t really know what I was getting into. The cook teams were in place. The Middleburg United Methodist team headed up by Cameron Trotman was a definite for the men spring walks, but I had difficulty in finding a dining room coordinator. But as faith has it, the angel, Debbie Frendahl from Orange Park United Methodist came forward to help me. Her and her groupies have been right there whenever I was in need. Each and every one of the cook teams did a fabulous job. Middleburg United Methodist women s team headed by Trish Gibson and her family always did a spectacular job. In addition to the spring walks there are the fall men s walk with the cook team headed up by Bob Carter. Let s not forget the fall women s walk with the cook team headed up by Orange Park United Methodist with Connie Eden in charge. As my time on the board grew near to an end, I worked hard at convincing everyone I knew that they were

4 Professional Musicians Have you ever noticed that professional musicians rarely have any music in front of them? I used to think that they had some kind of prompter that they used to see the music, but if they do, they rarely look at it. Professionals don t look down at music or teleprompters; they look up, at you, the audience. That is what really engages you as a participant in the hearing of the music. How do they do that? Well, it s simple, they practice! Yep it s that simple. If they play the song enough times, they remember both the lyrics and the correct chords, as well as the cadence, or timing, and any special bars where they don t play, or play quieter or louder. It comes as second nature when they practice enough. When we do music for Emmaus, most of the musicians are seeing the music for the very first time at the point we take the stage and begin playing. Although you guys are very gracious, and allow us our faux paus and miscues and total mess ups without too much complaining, we still muddle through and somehow, by the grace of God, play music that somewhat resembles the original manner in which the author intended. Isn t God s Word somewhat the same? As we go through life, if we practice and rehearse His Word through study and discussions in Bible classes, we become more professional at being Christians. Through study we get a chance to not only know the nature of God (his music), but we learn how He intends for us to act and live our lives (how He intends for the piece to be played). I would recommend that we not look at the music for the first time when we get up on the heavenly stage. Let s rehearse God s Word every day, and practice it through our actions on a regular basis. Let s all strive to become professionals in our faith so we can look up to our audience and play the song the way God intended. De Colores, Paul Frendahl FCE Music Coordinator Growth Through Study an easy topic for a teacher with 36 years in the classroom.not. I have struggled with finding the time for Christian Study for the past 20 years. Every now and then I fool myself that I am faithful because I watched the latest documentary on Christianity on The History Channel, PBS or Discovery. I can find time to watch the TV, play games on Facebook and read things on line but I neglect to spend regular time reading for my spirituality. I m so bad about it that the Lord has called me to give the Talk on this theme twice during Emmaus Weekends. Apparently I m as stiff necked as the ol Israelites because it is still an issue for me. I am getting better by baby steps however. I read the Upper Room daily (I had to make the Devotional my homepage at work and home so I didn t forget) and I ve gotten back to listening to Christian radio thanks to Pandora on the cell phone. I just discovered a book I bought over a year ago that I plan on starting this weekend. If you struggle with finding the time for study you re not alone. Joel Douthett FCE Men s Team Selection right for the position. I had given up when I got a phone call when I was in San Antonio, Texas on a buying trip from another angel, Kathy Wray. She said she had been ignoring God talking to her and that she finally gave in to listening to him and came forward to take over the position as the Kitchen Coordinator for the Emmaus walks. We voted on two new positions on the board as, one of course was for Kitchen Coordinator as Kathy was voted in. I am proud and excited to say that it is now time for me to pass the torch. Welcome aboard Kathy Wray!!! DeColores! Anita Simpson FCE Kitchen Coordinator

5 It s not every day Chrysalis Corner that you get a second chance (Or Romans 7:15 says, I do not is it?). I think most of the time understand the things I do. I do we re glad to get a first one. The not do what I want to do, and I do fact is, we all fail. We do things the things I hate. we regret. We say things we Paul goes on to say, I want to do deplore. And we hurt people we the things that are good, but I do love. not do them. I do not do the things For me, the millionth chance I want to do, but I do the bad occurred on a Saturday night. It things I do not want to do. had been an interesting couple of I think if we are honest we days. I met a bunch of men, all of continually share Paul s us trying to define and figure out frustration. Who will save me from everything that was going on this body that brings death? I around us. It seemed I had it thank God for saving me through figured out. I was good at Jesus Christ our Lord! So now, navigating through the situations those who are in Christ Jesus are of life, checking the perimeters, not judged guilty Romans 7:24- staying comfortable where I was. 8:1 Then we were told we were going If I had been Paul, I might have to Another Place. I had heard put a Hallelujah! on the end of about Candlelight, though I did that paragraph. What an incredible not know when or how it would statement. What an awesome take place. The moment I saw the reality! luminaries and heard the drum, I My name is Karl Wiggins. I serve knew God was going to add Ft Caroline United Methodist another spiritual dimension to my Church in Jacksonville. I attended puzzle. The Candlelight was a Florida Crown Emmaus Walk defining moment for me. I think it #70. I sat at the Table of James. was for many, as the chapel filled Now I am humbled and honored, with emotions and tears. to serve as the Community Why is it that we struggle so hard Spiritual Director for Florida with love and forgiveness? Could Crown Chrysalis. It is my calling it be that this forgiveness concept and passion to be used by Christ is a sign of defeat, a weakness? to share the saving grace of Jesus The interesting thing is that we re Christ to a hurting world. It is my not alone in this. Even the Apostle prayer that God brings His Paul was no stranger to failure. Kingdom to Earth as it is in Heaven through the Chrysalis community. I am excited to see the transformational power of the Holy Spirit move through Florida Crown Chrysalis through His Love, Grace, Mercy, and Forgiveness. I am excited to serve beside so many beautiful people. Hallelujah, Fly with Christ, DeColores Pastor Karl Wiggins FCE Chrysalis Spiritual Director

6 Calendar November Gathering: Saturday, November 17 th at 6 PM Faith UMC 4000 Spring Park Road, Jacksonville FL No Gathering in December Florida Crown Emmaus Men s Walk # 72 April 18-21, 2012 Florida Crown Emmaus Women s Walk # 72 April 25-28, 2012 Calendar Florida Crown Emmaus Men s Walk # 73 September 12-15, 2012 Florida Crown Emmaus Women s Walk # 72 September 19-22, 2012 Emmaus Gatherings are the monthly reunion of all members of the Emmaus Community and their guests. The objectives are as follows: - to make visible the Christian Community - persons of various churches and denominations who are united in pursuing transformation - to encourage one another in our walk with The Lord and to persevere in grace - to inspire one another to make profound changes in our own lives and in the environments in which we live - to maintain relationships with other Emmaus pilgrims in order to build a vital community of persons to support future Walk to Emmaus weekends - to educate the Emmaus Community in the Walk to Emmaus movement, weekends, and method for living in the Fourth Day. Emmaus Gatherings - What's the Point? The heart of the Gathering is follow a Walk, you can count on seen in Luke 24:33-36 after the 3rd Saturday of every month. Cleopas and the other disciple's We post the dates and locations on eyes were opened and they the website. recognized Jesus as the stranger in their midst. Following our Walk In 2013 we're going to look at to Emmaus, we are encouraged to some new ways to encourage see every day as an ongoing walk active participation in the in the companionship of Christ. Gatherings...we don't want to get The monthly Gathering is the time dull! If you're interested in for us to share our Resurrection helping to plan Gatherings in stories of how God became real to 2013, please contact me at us so that we may help others to laydir@floridacrownemmaus. recognize the risen Christ in the com. I'd love to hear your ideas!! midst of their lives that we may all live more fully in His presence. See you on November 17th at If it has been a while since Faith UMC for the next you've been to a Gathering, put Gathering! I look forward to one on your schedule. Reconnect breaking bread with you! with old friends, make new friends and spend some time in DeColores God's presence. With the Stella Painter exception of Gatherings that FCE Community Lay Director immediately

7 And blessings to you in your fourth day. My name is Harry Mills and I am your Reunion Group Representative for your Emmaus Community, I attended Florida Crown Emmaus # 35 where I sat at the table of Peter. It is an honor and a pleasure to, serve and fellowship with my Christian brothers and sisters in Christ. I look forward to helping and assisting you in 2013 and your 4 th day. I will never forget the moment at my closing at Southside United Methodist Church when we were asked to respond to the questions that we were asked. Looking into the audience that day, I was able to see the faces of Christ glowing with each individual, working together as the Body of Christ. I have always been a visual learner. The visual picture of that moment of seeing all the people sharing their spiritual gifts was a reminder for me to be humble and share that servant spirit with others. Let me share my personal experience with small reunion groups. The first reunion I was asked to join was with my local church members. We met weekly at Shoney`s and we experienced weekly the joy ad blessings that we once shared together on our walk.. The weekly reunion group meetings help me grow in my spiritual walk and my 4 th day. Several years later I joined another small reunion group which was composed of different faiths and 4 th day Communities. Several of the clergy and men in this fellowship in this group had been sharing for years. It was a wonderful experience sharing with clergy and laity from different faiths the accountability within this group helped me grow in spiritual wisdom & knowledge. Today I am involved with two small reunion groups who meet weekly at Starbucks and a local restaurant called Tasty. Another group that has humbled me in my life has been to serve in Kairos at Columbia Correctional Institute in Lake City. For over 12 years I have been part of the monthly interdenominational 4 th day servants who come together from all over North Florida to serve fellowship and establish small reunion groups. I have found that successful groups often form among persons who do not really know one another but who build new friendships based on their common desire to live as accountable Christians. Some persons actually prefer the freedom they experience when meeting with persons they do not relate to in other contexts. Remember; Where two or more are gathered in my name, I am there among them. Matthew 18:20 As we begin to start the year 2013 we want to work together as a team to make Florida Crown Emmaus a vibrant and growing community. This would be a great opportunity for you to serve and be a part of the community. Reunion coordinators from each church or local community are needed to help and establish new groups and help locate groups who have openings and want to add to their group. Would you like to help serve as a church or local reunion coordinator? We are asking you to pray about serving. If you re spiritual gifts are hospitality and connecting with people you will have the right fit. If you should take on the challenge of being a church or local reunion coordinator, you will be blessed and find joy by helping others to find reunion groups. Please feel free to contact me as we work together to build our Emmaus community I look forward to hearing from you. DeColores Harry Mills. FCE Reunion Groups Coordinator HLMFB@AOL.COM

8 Florida Crown Emmaus 1058 Cathcart St. Jacksonville, Fl NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO JACKSONVILLE, FL Rush / Gathering Saturday November 17 th at Faith UMC 4000 Spring Park Rd in Jacksonville FL Return Service Requested Join us on Facebook as well as on the web at There you will find a current calendar as well as maps to all events. Board of Directors List: You may contact one of the Board Members by phone (listed below) or by ( Lay Director - Stella Painter (904) Asst. Lay Director - Brenda Martin (904) Spiritual Director - Rev. Fred Woolsey (904) Asst. Spiritual Director - Rev. Pat Small (904) Treasurer - John Fay (904) Men s Team Selection - Joel Douthett (904) Women s Team Select. - Linda Gardella (904) Secretary - Ronda Woods (904) Registrar - Kathy Scott (904) Agape, Prayer Vigil - Open Position Kitchen Coordinator- Kathy Wray Physical Arrangements - Kirk Howard (904) Music - Paul Frendahl (904) Old Communications - Bruce Fry (904) New Communications Director - Contessa Whitehead Reunion Groups - Harry Mills (904)