The August gathering will be next Friday, August 1st at 7:00 pm at Brunswick First United Methodist Church. The church is located at 1400 Norwich Street. Remember that childcare is always provided. Call John or Vickie McDonald at 912-729-2020 if you have any questions.
Decolores,
John McDonald
CGWTE#66 Table of Paul
Dear Emmaus Community:
At present we only have 16 applications for the up coming Men’s walk.
Please consider meeting with your reunion group or Emmaus group from your church and giving prayerful thought as to who God might be calling you to sponsor. We need to have applications in right away in order to meet the up coming deadlines. Please do not delay but pray! With everyone’s spirit of “Cooperation and Charity” I trust God will bless another set of Walks!
Thanks,
Robbie Turner
The next gathering will be this Friday, July 11th at 7 pm at First Baptist Church in Kingsland. The phone # for the church is 912-729-5521. It is located at 295 E. Chester Street. Contact John or Vickie McDonald at 729-2020 if you have any questions.
Walk to Emmaus is a movement inspired by the Holy Spirit and demonstrated through a 72 hour retreat experience emphasizing agape love and anonymous servanthood. It is held in a cloistered environment using traditional Christianity as its structured model.
Though many feel the Spirit is constrained by the model, and thus develop local traditions in order to “loose the Spirit”; the true Emmaus model follows a carefully constructed theological outline that presents the one Spirit that is consistent with Scripture. If every community “did their own thing”, what would our movement resemble in a few short years?
Rather than taking personal liberties with the Emmaus model seeking diversity of the Spirit, it is recommended each community recognize and accept there is one true Spirit; and this same Spirit, like Jesus, is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). The diversity we seek comes not from the manner in which we attempt to manipulate the Spirit, but in the various reactions of each pilgrim as each is allowed to meet and recognize the risen Christ at a time and place on the Walk chosen by the true Spirit, rather than you, me or another team member.
Each of us understands “standard” or “benchmark” meaning something you relate to in order to maintain a certain level of quality assurance. There is no way any Emmaus community can maintain the desired consistency walk to walk, year to year, using unwritten tradition or the memory of present leadership. You will find universal agreement that there are many ways in which pilgrims can be spiritually moved through events not standard to the Emmaus model, but where would it all end? When would your walks take on the personality of your community’s gifted leaders? At what point does the Holy Spirit become second fiddle?
It is up to you. Will you do it your way or THE way?
Scoofer Jordan
S/E Regional Rep.
Hello Everyone, pls lift up Gloria Sellers of Brunswick as she continues to battle a worsening terminal cancer condition.
“Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God”. Ps. 42
May the Lord comfort Gloria, husband Johnny and family in this tough time of need.
Thank you and GOD BLESS!
Joe Taylor Jr. / Bwk Ga
GIWTE #3
Table of Mark