August 20,2019 Gathering –
Gathering – This Gathering will be held at Riverside Park in Findlay. It will be at the Pavilion near the swimming pool. We will have a picnic style meal that will start at 6:30 PM. Meat, water and table service will be provided. Please bring your favorite dish to share and a lawn chair. Worship will begin at 7:15PM.
July 2019 Newsletter
To the Hearts of the Faithful
Greetings to the members of Greater Findlay Area Emmaus Community. First let me apologize for not sending a newsletter since March. It was one of my personal goals to send one monthly. The reason I haven’t is the Upper Room, which is our governing body decided to take over our data base. I don’t have all of technical answers but this affected our ability to send mass emails. It is the end of July and they still haven’t got things figured out. Chris Borkosky our Web Master Board Member has informed me that she will email this letter and you may or may not receive it. If you receive it please let us know. We are also going to post it on the website. The website is independent from the data base and is working just fine
Now on with the good stuff. I am happy to report the Holy Spirit is still blessing the community. On the June Women’s Walk # 107 we had 20 beautiful ladies as pilgrims. These pilgrims got to experience our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in many new ways. I would encourage the community to continue to pray for these pilgrims as they walk through life on their fourth days.
Susan Mason will be the LD for the Women’s Walk #108, October 10-13th. Scott Iams will be the LD for Men’s Walk # 81, November 7-10th. Now is the time to start praying for who you might ask to be a pilgrim on these walks. The prayer vigil calendar is available on the website, so don’t forget to sign up. You can also sign up at the gatherings.
The community continues to have good attendance at the gatherings. The musicians and fourth day speakers have been very good. But the best thing is the fellowship that happens at a gathering. If you haven’t attended one in a while come out and see what you have been missing. The August gathering will be on Tuesday August 17th at Riverside Park in Findlay. It starts at 6:30pm and we ask that you bring a dish and 2-liter of pop to share. Table service will be provided. We had it there last year in August and it was a very special time. All in attendance could just feel the power of the Holy Spirit and it was AWESOME! We even got to interact and do some witnessing to a group of young people who were there training for an athletic event.
As always “Stay in the Spirit”
Declores,
Duane Hackworth
Chairman of the Board
Women’s Walk #107 Pilgrims – June 13-16,2019
Brittanie DeWitt
Marie Sapronetti
Katherine Hackworth
Tabitha Pocock
Ruth Waggoner
Debra McDaniel
Kathy Marquart
Amanda Burden
Brenda Blunk
Joan McBride
Mandy Hengstebeck
LeAnn Orick
Sally Sheets
Chris Crowe
Lisa Sholl
Kyleigh Clum
Mary Lou Blausey
Lorri Speer
Lori Waidelich
Kasey Jeffers
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March 2019 Newsletter
To the Hearts of the Faithful
Greetings to the members of Greater Findlay Area Emmaus Community. March is just about over and soon we will see the flowers blooming, Trees blossoming and the grass greening. These are all signs of new life and a reminder of the new life we have in Christ Jesus. I am also seeing new life in our community. The Holy Spirit has been actively increasing our numbers of new members and increasing our attendance at Gatherings. Which is absolutely AWESOME!
The Men’s Walk # 80 had 12 new pilgrims and I am very happy that I was able to serve as LOG for the weekend. These men came ready to receive the love of Jesus and experience the Power of the Holy Spirit. I do not believe that any went away without feeling refreshed, renewed and ready to serve God in any way that he would lead them. I want to thank everyone who volunteered their time to serve during the weekend. There was plenty of the help in the kitchen, the prayer vigil was filled up, there was a lot of agape and candlelight was well attended. Nothing was left UN done. Great job “You All”!
At the March Gathering we had an attendance of 121 people and it was amazing. It has been several years since we have had that many in attendance. This another sign that the Holy Spirit is moving in all of you (The Hearts of the Faithful). The women from Walk # 106 were able to meet for the last time for their group reunion and share their Fourth Days. I would encourage these ladies to come back and get involved in the community and help serve others as they have been served.
As I close there is only one thing that we are going to need help with. We are going to have to get several more people trained on how to run St. Mark’s sound and video system. We have relied heavily on Tom Trumpy for many years to take care of this for us. Tom is a great servant and the Community can’t thank him enough. Tom has asked us to get some other people trained and give him some much needed relief. I believe that we need a core group of at least 10 people to get trained on how to run the system. The system is used for Gatherings and on the walks for Candle Light and Closing on Sunday. If we can get this many people to help, then it can be passed around and no one will feel burdened. Please pray and if this is something God puts on your heart please let us know.
As always “Stay in the Spirit”
Declores,
Duane Hackworth
Chairman of the Board
WOMENS WALK DATES:
#106 – February 7-10,2019
#107 – June 13-16,2019
#108 – October 10-13,2019
MENS WALK DATES:
#80 – March 14-17,2019
#81 – November 7-10,2019
CHRYSALIS NEWS:
CHRYSALIS FLIGHT DATES:
GIRLS #51: January 25-27,2019
BOYS #51: February 22-24,2019
GIRLS #52: July 12-14,2019
BOYS #52: July 26-28,2019