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AGAPE Tips To Help the AGAPE Room Run Smoothly During Walks 1. Count and number the AGAPE you bring in for bedtime and meals. To be safe, all walks should have 65 pieces of AGAPE for mealtime, and 40 pieces of bedtime AGAPE. Marking it as BEDTIME or MEALTIME with the item count, saves time and makes sure that the AGAPE you prepared is distributed when you want it to be. 2. When dropping off AGAPE please place it in the tote marked for AGAPE drop off in the AGAPE Room or the Kitchen. Please don't sort or attempt to deliver the AGAPE to pilgrims or team members mailboxes yourselves, as each AGAPE chair has their own system for distribution and not knowing that system can cause more work instead of helping. 3. Pilgrims need AT LEAST 15 AGAPE LETTERS for their Sunday Packets. Please don't write letters and date them for Thursday, Friday or Saturday as all letters for Pilgrims will go in their SUNDAY PACKET. 4. Pilgrim AGAPE for Sunday Packet MUST BE ABLE TO FIT IN AN 10" x 13" ENVELOPE. Remember there are at least 15 letters fitting in the Sunday Packets, so there is not a lot of room for oversized AGAPE. We do our best to fit as much as possible into the Sunday Packets, but anything larger than what fits into a 10" x 13" envelope is SUPER AGAPE and will be returned to the Sponsor to be given to the Pilgrim after Sunday night Closing. 5. Some don'ts!!! THere have been some really neat AGAPE - but sometimes because of how it is put together, it is hard to manage and distribute. Please take extra care in packaging AGAPE that has dangling strings, or stickers attached. Putting items that easily tangle in individual sandwich size baggies, and making sure that items with stickers are firmly attached so the stickers stick to the AGAPE and not to each other helps us in delivering the AGAPE, and keeps it looking as sharp as when you dropped it off. Also, please don't make "mix tape" style CD's for Pilgrims. Copying a song without permission of the songwriter/performer is a crime, and despite the good intentions any items not bearing proof of being legal copies will be discarded. 6. It would help us if AGAPE letters have a FIRST and LAST NAME written legibly on it. This applies to BOTH TEAM and PILGRIM. Sponsors, please check any AGAPE letters that your Pilgrims children write to Mom or Dad have their full name written as well. Sometimes we have more than one person on a walk with the same first name, and even the same first name and first initial. We want to make sure that the right person gets the right agape. Thanks,
Daniel and Phyllis Kinn NEWS FROM THE AGAPE CHAIR
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Just a reminder from our Agape Chair. The number of pieces of Agape for walks are as follows:
Men's walk 65 mealtime 40 bedtime
Women's walk 65 mealtime 40 bedtime
Thank you for sharing the Love of Christ!
WHY A PRAYER VIGIL?
I admit it. Sometimes I have trouble praying for five minutes, let alone the hour that the Emmaus and Chrysalis Prayer Vigils ask from me when I sign up. Still, I keep signing up. And I keep praying, even when I have one eye on the clock and 60 minutes seems like 60 hours!
Just what is a prayer vigil anyway?
The idea is centuries old in the church. A "vigil" indicates a time of vigilanc, a time of wakefulness or watch. In the earlier days of the church, they were usually kept on the night before a religious feast.
In Emmaus and Chrysalis Communities, we use the Prayer Vigil during the 72 hours of our Walk to Emmaus weekends. We use the time to intercede for the Pilgrims, Team members and the families of all those involved. We ask for God to come down and make a difference in their lives and the lives of those of us in the Emmaus Community, because one thing is for certain... when God shows up it makes a difference.
And I think that is the key to a Prayer Vigil - asking God to make a difference. The times I find it difficult to last more than 5 minutes in prayer, the difference has to start with me. Why me? Because if He makes a difference in me, I know He can do it for the Pilgrims and for the Team.
DeColores,
Daniel Kinn, Men's Walk# 51 Agape Co-Chair
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