Golden Isles Walk to Emmaus

We are looking forward to our Fall Women’s Walk #9 coming up from September 18 – 21.  Please plan to support this solo walk as much as possible with your prayers, your agape, and your attendance.

• Send-off will be at 7:00 PM on Thursday, September 18 at Brunswick First United Methodist Church. Pilgrims will begin arriving around 6:00.
• Candlelight will take place at 8:00 PM on Saturday, September 20 at Honey Creek.
• Closing will be at 3:30 PM on Sunday, September 21 at Honey Creek.

We look forward to seeing you there as we witness God’s work in and through Walk #9!

Greetings,

The Boy’s Chrysalis Flight #59 prayer vigil is now posted online here http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetComm.phtml. Thank you for signing up to prayer for these young men.

Fly With Christ,
Mike Koreckis
CGWTE #57
Coastal Georgia Chrysalis Board Chairman

Please pray for Emory and Mary Wilson, and the people of Gonaives, Haiti. Below is an email that was sent to the FBC Brunswick prayer network.

Thanks for your prayer and support.

Tony McNorton
GIWTE #3
Table of Luke

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Here is the post from the Christian Light Foundation webside from Sherry Fausey in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The flood in Gonaives Haiti is worse than the flood was 4 years ago, the water is at least 12 feet deep in some areas according to the information and Gonaives is completely destroyed. Please continue to pray for the Wilson’s and the people of Gonaives. Please pray for their peace, protection and provision. I am afraid the worse is yet to come as the water recedes. If you would like to contribute the information is included in the post. Thank you so much for your prayer and support.For His Glory,
Tony McNorton

Hannah Update from Haiti
9/3/2008
Thank you for praying with us through the night. Things have not changed and continue to worsen. We just received a phone call saying Emory and Mary Wilsons outside walls around their house just fell and washed away their car. There is no food in the city and no way to get in there at this time. Waters continue to rise and are causing mudslides. According to MSNBC’s latest report, Gonieves is completely destroyed.

Below is an email we received from Sherrie Fausey in Port au Prince …

Hello from very soggy Haiti;

The National Hurricane Center has been telling us for 2 days that Tropical Storm Hanna is moving northwest, but all this time it has been moving southeast or stalling over northern Haiti. All of Haiti has had torrential rain and flooding is occuring all over Haiti. This morning the storm had turned north, but according to the weather maps we will still get another rainy day. The wind in Gonaives is calm this morning but Hanna turned east again.

The situation in Gonaives is worse than the devastating flood 4 years ago. Tropical Storm Hanna kept moving southeast which was bringing it in closer. The water in Gonaives receded only to rise again. The city is still flooded. The city has been destroyed. People had no warning so they had to climb to the roof in the middle of the night and could not save anything. People have been without food & clean drinking water since Monday. Thousands of people have been 2 nights and a day on rooftops with no clean water or food. They are cold and wet.
The water totally covered 1 story houses and flooded the second story of many homes so it must be at least 12 feet deep in some areas. People were standing on the roof knee deep in water holding children. There was no way to rescue them. Boats could not be used because of the fast current of the water.

Pastor Genada did reach the orphanage. He could not get the 26 children off the roof so he stayed there with them.

All food supplies in Gonaives have been destroyed. The market where they buy rice & beans is under muddy water. Our school is flooded as are all the other schools. Many people in Gonaives live in a “pay kay” which is a dried mud thatch home. Homes of this type dissolve & collapse in a flood. Many bodies are floating in the water.

As soon as the roads are clear, we plan to send basic food supplies to Gonaives - beans, rice, cooking oil, salt, and matches. We will send whatever clothing & shoes we have here and some sheets & towels. We are coordinating with other missionaries in Port-au-Prince to use pick-up trucks & SUV’s to take these emergency supplies to Gonaives as quickly as possible.

Sherrie

Please continue to pray with us, and if you are able to help, please send contributions to:

CLF
PO BOX 23881
Jacksonville, FL 32241
Attn: Emergency Relief

or online- under emergency relief.

Thank you for all you are doing to help!

Your Community is invited to join us in supporting our up coming Walks by participating in our prayer vigil. What a wonderful experience it is for the Pilgrims to realize that their Brothers and Sisters in Christ throughout the US are praying for them…the Body of Christ in Action. Our prayer vigils can be accessed by clicking the Volunteer Sign Up link at www.northcoloemmaus.org. Please circulate this request to the members of your Community.

Thanks in advance.

De Colores!
Rus & Kris Bakich
Northern Colorado Emmaus Secretary

Greetings to our supporting communities,

Coastal Georgia Chrysalis will be holding boys flight #59 the weekend of November 13-16,2008 at Tattnall Campground. We need your help in getting the word out that we need young men (caterpillars) to go on this flight. Charley Aimone who is the lay director is also looking for willing servants for this flight as well.

Caterpillar applications can be downloaded from www.segaemmaus.org, scroll down and on the right side you will find the links for the forms.Our fees are only $70 per person. Next year we will be raising them to $75, so get those forms filled out and mailed to the registrar. We would like to see a full conference room but we know who God is preparing.

Charley Aimone can be contacted at caimone@hlchotels.com if you have any questions about what areas need servants.

Please prayerfully consider sponsoring a young man or two on this flight.

The 72 hour prayer vigil should be posted in a few days and can be found at www.3dayol.org/vigil/getcomm.phtml, and scroll down to Coastal Georgia Chrysalis.  We all experienced the awe of seeing all those names that we did not know that were praying for us, so please prayerfully consider signing up for one or more time slots for prayer.

His Servant,
Mike Koreckis
Coastal Georgia Chrysalis Board Chair

Emmaus by the Sea will be this coming weekend at Epworth. During the weekend, there will be a candlelight ceremony and the community needs to have the luminaries transported to Epworth. If someone has access to a trailer in order to transport the luminaries from Honey Creek to Epworth, it would be greatly appreciated. If someone would like to volunteer, please call Dusty Lewis at 266-0140.

DeColores!
Dustin A. Lewis

First, we would like to thank all of you for your prayers and encouragement regarding Julia’s battle against the “Sensory Integration Disorder” (Autism).

At the first appointment back in May, Dr. Stewart told us that if the meds he prescribed worked then we should see some temporary regression in her symptoms–which we did (then she improved some). We didn’t really see a great deal of visible progress in the 2 ½ months that she had been on the meds (which the Dr. also predicted). We periodically got a little discouraged, but knew this would likely be a long term undertaking (Thank you to those who have encouraged us along the way!).

Julia and Peggy just returned from their second appointment with Dr. Stewart in Austin, TX. They again ran the high-tech battery of tests on Julia. Upon viewing the graphs associated with the tests, it’s clear that Julia’s visual tracking is significantly improved and her center of balance is moving back toward her centerline showing improvement to her vestibular system.

Dr. Stewart believes that Julia is right where he wants her to be at this point. He is running more tests and adjusting her meds & supplements as we progress. Julia is scheduled to go back to Austin in Dec./Jan. So, the short version is this– Julia is improving/healing! We thank God for this and look to Him to finish the great work He has started. Please continue to stand with us in prayer for Julia’s total healing.

Thank you all so very much and may God bless you,

Brad, Peggy, Hannah & Julia Headley

Brad Headley
GIWTE #5
Table of Mark

Sorry for any confusion the email from earlier today may have caused; I inadvertently sent it before it was finished.  If you are receiving this message, then you will continue to receive emails from our site.

I do want to make everyone aware of a feature that is available for registered users of goldenislesemmaus.org - you can now subscribe to specific types of email by going to the Subscriptions tab under your profile.  From here, you can specify which types of posts you are interested in receiving via email; all other posts will still be available to you at http://www.goldenislesemmaus.org.

This is still an experimental feature so please let me know if you experience any problems.  I am trying to come up with the right set of categories so these may change over time.  Please let me know if you have a specific request about the types of email you’d like to receive (e.g. you want to be emailed about upcoming Gatherings but you will check the website for upcoming Walks).

And as always, please feel free to email me if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for our community’s website.

Blessings & De Colores!
Golden Isles Emmaus Web Servant

The following prayer request is from Melanie Williamson, a pilgrim scheduled for the next Walk to Emmaus, September 2008.  She is asking for prayer for her mother, Melinda Hulling.  Please keep both Melanie and her mom in prayers.  Melanie really wants to attend the Walk in September but it will depend upon how her mother is.  Mrs. Hulling is the wife of a Methodist preacher up in Statesboro.

Gail Ashurst

Walk to Emmaus #4

Greetings, Brothers and Sisters in Christ!

I am thrilled to announce that planning for the first Spanish Language Emmaus Walks in the state of Georgia is well underway.  God has been good to us and has richly blessed our efforts.  Please share the following information with your communities:

DATES:

MEN’s SPANISH LANGUAGE WALK     JAN 29 - FEB 1, 2009
WOMEN’S SPANISH LANGUAGE WALK     FEB 5 - FEB 8, 2009

PILGRIM APPLICATION, SPONSOR FORM, WORKER APPLICATION:  All may be downloaded from the Heart of Georgia Walk to Emmaus Web site.

WALK LOCATION: Dooly Campground, Vienna, Georgia (52 miles south of Macon on I75).

We would love to begin receiving applications now.  We covet your prayers and support.  Brochures and applications will be available at Epworth-by-the-Sea Labor Day Weekend.

SL Emmaus Walk Billingual Contact & Registrar:
Kathy Adams
605 Timberland Drive
Cordele, Georgia 31015
229-273-5217
russell.adams@mchsi.com

Serving Him,
Kathy Adams