Hi Sky Emmaus Community Newsletter
September, 2009 - Page 4

Women's Walk #188 - November 12-15, 2009

Dear Emmaus Community,

We begin to prepare for God’s Walk in November that we will all host for 36 as yet unknown, Pilgrims. God moves in such beautiful ways and we begin with a full team and, as of today, 22 Pilgrims. Please pray for the team, pray that God will bring us those 14 Pilgrims that he wants on this Walk, pray for our clergy, and pray for God to move.

I hope you are all writing letters to those Pilgrims, even though you don't know them, planning on your calendar to be there on the 14th of November for Candlelight, the 15th for closing, gathering your food and goodies to feed their tummies as God feeds their Spirits, and making those beautiful Agape gifts we all love so much.

Please know I am depending on all of you in this great community to help us make Womens' Walk #188 "the best Walk ever."

Committee Reports

• Agape Committee –We greatly appreciate all the efforts of those of you who have continued to contribute your gift agape to the walks. If new members of new reunion groups need agape ideas, there are many resources I can give you. As you see the agape clipboards going around at the monthly community meetings, you might want to ask questions before you sign up for any particular item of food or gift agape. Some items may entail more than you are prepared to handle. You can find your board members at each community meeting by looking for the large green “BOARD” name tags on their lanyards. We are all willing to help you in any way. If one of us doesn’t know your answer, we can direct you to another board member who can help.
  
  Thanks in advance for your loving generosity, and may God continue to bless you.
  
  I will be listing here each month the walks and flights that are going on in other communities. Our prayers are requested for each of these walks, just as we request prayer from them for our walks. A list of walks in October 2009 for which we should be in prayer is available here.
  
  De Colores, Carol Hopkins, Agape Chairperson
  
  
• Administration Committee
  • Book Table – Please read the special article on Page 3 about the new arrangements for the Book Table for the Grow Through Study talk.
    
    
• Gatherings Committee – The Community meetings for the year 2009 are being held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Wilshire Park Baptist Church, 801 S. Bentwood (corner of Bentwood and Pleasant), with our next meeting being on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 beginning at 7:00 PM (Babe Chick meetings at 6:15). The beautiful walk crosses displayed at the September meeting were those of Barbara Willis (Girls Flight #42 – July 2009) and Debbie Baxter (WW #182 – Nov. 2008). Fellowship and snacks are held after the community meetings in the gym of the facility. REMEMBER TO BRING SOME REFRESHMENTS (thanks to those of you who have been faithful to bring food) and join in good Christian fellowship with your Hi Sky Community members.
  De Colores, Carolyn Arnold, Gatherings Committee Chair
  
  
• Fourth Day Committee – As we approach our next Women's Walk, I hope all of you who have been honored to serve as ALD's, LD's, Table Leaders and Assistant Table Leaders will keep in mind that it is very important for you to follow up with these Pilgrims and Caterpillars over the next year. We build our community and strengthen our outreach by encouraging participation by both our veterans and our rookies. You all remember how overwhelming community can be when you are there by yourself and that ittakes working walks and being involved before you really feel comfortable as a part of the Emmaus Community. Please continue your stewardship of these precious Pilgrims and Caterpillars by going to pick them up for community, or making sure if they are at community you visit with them, or including them or helping them in their reunion group search. Our sponsors will help us with this as well but as a participant in the walks, you have a completely different connection with these folks who have attended the weekends. Please help us to spread God's love by finding ways to keep these newbies connected. The blessing of the Walk can be increased tenfold if we can get these Pilgrims and Caterpillars included in working the weekends, and it so blesses our community to have new people coming on board.
  
  
• Music Committee – Is Music one of your talents? Have you ever wanted to be on a Music Team on a walk? Do you play Guitar, Piano, Bass, or any other type of musical instrument? The communityneeds your talent and encourages you to call or email any of the board members (contact information available on the Board tab on the website.

2009 & 2010 Hi-Sky Emmaus Walk Dates