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Summer 2009


 

NEWS AND EVENTS

  • Update on Emmaus Materials - Since Jan. of 2009 the revised Emmaus Worship booklet (E9810) is available for communities to order. They come in packets of 10 at the price of $12 per packet. Also the Emmaus Reunion Cards (E10) has been revised and are available for communities to order since February of 2009. These come in packets of 100 and the cost is $12 per packet.

  • Rev. Faith M. Weedling – Emmaus/Chrysalis Northeast Clergy Regional Leader - Rev. Weedling is an ordained elder of the United Methodist Church serving on a local church appointment with the South Covington, VA district, Virginia Annual Conference. She made her Emmaus walk with the Richmond VA Emmaus community, walk # 2 in November of 1988.

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A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Well, from the middle of the month of April 2009 to the middle of the month of May, 2009 has been an interesting time for me. I have enjoyed participating as a member of the International Advisory Committee and I have been in a bed in the Intensive Care Unit of the Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. But both times I was held into the loving arms of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Read More
 

 

 
LETTERS FROM PARTICIPANTS
Letters, poems or reflections shared with you by participants of the Emmaus weekend.

"My Own Icarus"

I spent my life building these wings.
I build them to reach the sun.
The sun,
High on it’s lofty perch,
Calls my name
His voice reaching to me on my Earth
Devoid of his piercing rays.

Mara Smith
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