Lowcountry

Emmaus

Community

AND THEIR EYES

WERE OPENED,

AND THEY

KNEW HIM.

-Luke 24:31

VOLUME 19/NUMBER 6 JUNE 2010

CALENDAR OF

EVENTS

JUNE GATHERING

Friday, June 18

7:30 pm

St. Mark UMC

413 Geddes Avenue

Charleston, SC

Directions:

From I-26 East, take Exit 212B to

merge onto I-526W/Mark Clark

Expressway towards Savannah

Go 7.3 miles and turn left onto

Hwy 17N/Savannah Hwy

Go 0.4 miles and take first right

onto Stinson Dr.

Go 0.2 miles and turn left at

Piper Dr.

Continue onto Geddes Ave;

St. Mark UMC will be on the right.

Saturday, June 19th

Team Selection Meeting

10:00—Noon @ Cokesbury UMC

Gatherings are held the

3rd Friday of each month.

Board Meetings are on the

2nd Tuesday of each month.

SAVE THE DATES FOR THE

2010 FALL WALKS!

Men’s Oct. 7-10

Women’s Oct. 21-24

Calling all devotional writers! (And even those of you who do not consider yourselves writers but have a story to tell . . .) Upper Room Books is creating two new undated devotional booklets for Emmaus (Fourth Day Forward) and Chrysalis (Taking Flight). We need your help! The booklets will each be based on the 15 Talk topics from the Walks and the Flights (see below). Which one could you write about?

Daily meditations should be 150-250 words long. May include scripture verse or suggested text (state version of Bible used) Deadline: July 1, 2010 or before. Email Robin Pippin or send mail to her at Upper Room Books, 1908 Grand Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212. If we choose to use your meditation, we will notify you before publication.

Some Tips for Writing:

Devotional writing should invite people to come closer to God.

Devotional writing should tell about real experiences of real people who are strug-gling to apply their faith to daily life.

Devotional writing should express only one main idea. It should leave one memorable image with the reader.

Devotional writing should lead persons into further conversation with God after they finish reading the meditation.

Your journal can be a great source of devotional writing because it records your real thoughts about your experiences.

Thanks for sharing your gifts with Chrysalis and Emmaus!

(The above article appears in the Emmaus website at http://www.upperroom.org/emmaus/article/devotionals.asp)

EMMAUS TOPICS for Fourth Day Forward Priority Prevenient Grace Priesthood of All Believers Justifying Grace Piety Grow through Study Means of Grace Christian Action Obstacles to Grace Discipleship Changing Our World Body of Christ Sanctifying Grace Perseverance Fourth Day

CHRYSALIS TOPICS for Taking Flight Ideals God Designed You Faith God Loves You Prodigal Communication through Prayer Christian Growth through Study God’s Gift to You Marriage God Sustains You Christian Action Single Life God Empowers You Priesthood of All Believers Next Steps

WRITE FOR THE NEW EMMAUS AND CHRYSALIS DEVOTIONALS

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Treasurer’s Report as of 5/26/10

Checking account balance…….$2314.62

Savings account balance………$2622.57

TOTAL………………………………….$6377.29

DeColores-

Francis Harter, VP/Treasurer

I would like to thank everyone who

helped in the kitchen, made the special

desserts, ran errands and prayed for

the weekends! A special thank you to

those of you who dropped what you

were doing and came when called; you

truly demonstrated a servant spirit! It

was an honor and a privilege to work

with so many wonderful people who

served so willingly and with such car-

ing! I look forward to working with

you again.

DeColores!

Lynn Dukes, Kitchen

BULLETINS BOARD from the

Emmaus Servanthood, Child Care

& Monthly Gatherings!

What do they share in common?

The Lowcountry Emmaus Community

provides child care at all monthly Gather-

ings. The Community needs volunteers

for child care who are Safe Sanctuary ap-

proved in their local church. If you are

one of these and are willing to provide

child care at a Gathering from time to

time, please contact me at 843-873-1037

or by email at cashbilly143@aol.com so

that you can be added to the list of those

who will provide this act of servanthood.

DeColores-

Carroll Cash, Gatherings

I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO PRO-

VIDING THE MOST LUXURIOUS

ACCOMMODATIONS BETWEEN

I-26 AND HIGHWAY 176, AND

WILL BE SOLICITING HELP SOON

FOR THE FALL WALKS!!

DECOLORES,

ED HICKEY, FACILITIES

VISIT THE LOWCOUNTRY EMMAUS WEBSITE AT

www.umcsc.net/communities/lowcountryemmaus

Got Email? Have your newsletter arrive in full color to your inbox instead of the black and white version to your mailbox. Just send your

name, current mailing address and your email address to lpeigler@comcast.net to make the switch.

In the process you’ll be helping the LCE Community save time and money, while keeping your desk clean from paper clutter.

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FROM THE REGISTRAR...

Do you know someone already on a pilgrimage – one who desires to continue growing and moving forward in their faith, one who knows God can make and has made a difference in their life? Would you like to give that person a gift – a gift that keeps on giving? The gift of the Walk to Emmaus is available. The Fall Walks are fast approaching and the dates are

set: Men October 7-10, 2010 and Women October 21-24, 2010.

Pray for God to reveal to you the name of the person you can sponsor and share this won-

derful gift with.

Please contact me by phone or email and I will help you with your gift. Let’s get started

early and have our Fall Walks full.

DeColores,

Linda Mack

phone: 803-796-0982 - email: LMack50109@aol.com

REPORT FROM THE RECORDS COMMITTEE

The Lowcountry Emmaus (LCE) has been planning for a couple of years to utilize IMS-Emmaus/Chrysalis Data Gath-ering Guide which is an all-inclusive web server to record all functions of our local Emmaus. The first step will in-clude conversion of all community members into this system. This conversion will be accomplished in a couple of ways. Shortly, we will send IMS the email addresses from our newsletter to start the conversion process. The system needs first name, last name and email address for the conversion to be completed. Then all members will be able to log on the web server and update their personal information. We will have more on that later on. This system, when fully operational, will include members, his-torical walks, team positions, willing ser- vants (volunteers), prayer vigils, churches, walk applications and a lot more. IMS stands for Internet Member-ship Systems, Inc. They currently have 80 Emmaus/Chrysalis communities.

This is an exciting time for our community implementing this system and we need your help to make this transition go smoothly and quickly. If you are asked to fill out a paper membership or go online and complete the membership information, please do so ASAP.

Blessings,

Dave Cunha, Records Chairman

“This is an exciting time

for our community”

Proposed Amendment to the BylawsProposed Amendment to the BylawsProposed Amendment to the Bylaws

The LCE Board of Directors proposes amending the bylaws to move the specific list of committees from Article V, Sec-

tion I, to the Standing Rules. This section of the bylaws will then read: “The Board of Directors shall name Board

members to chair such standing committees as the standing rules shall specify, upon recommendation of the Lay

Director.” (The entire text of the bylaws is available on the community website.)

The reason for this change is to make it possible for the Board to rearrange the assignment of tasks to committees from

time to time. This will help us better balance the work load between committees and allow the Board to respond to new

tasks that need to be done without having to go through the three-month process of amending the bylaws every time we

need to change the name of a committee.

The change has been approved by the Board and will go into effect 60 days after publication in this issue of the newslet-

ter unless there is objection from 25 or more members of the community.

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POSITION NAME PHONE EMAIL ALT. PHONE CLASS

LAY DIRECTOR Dudley Patrick 843-881-0857 jdpatrick@bellsouth.net 843-814-4626 2011

SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR David Lupo 843-856-9246 david@lupofamily.org 843-200-3758 2011

ASSISTANT LAY DIRECTOR Francis Harter 843-688-4483 fharterjr@yahoo.com 843-452-8174 2011

ASSISTANT SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR Richard Hogue 301-821-7848 revrichardhogue@gmail.com 843-821-6230 2013

SECRETARY-TREASURER Agnes Stewart 843-769-5142 agnesstew@ave.com 843-412-3618 2011

KITCHEN & SNACKS Lynn Dukes 843-270-5004 ldukes@sc.rr.com 843-873-3303 2011

GATHERINGS Carroll Cash 843-873-1037 cashbilly143@aol.com 843-696-1912 2011

LITERATURE & SUPPLIES Paul Cianciolo 803-793-0550 cianciop@bellsouth.net 803-245-5111 2011

LUGGAGE & TRANSPORTATION Steve Waterhouse 843-437-0915 swater4579@aol.com 843-875-0270 2012

NEWSLETTER Leigh Peigler 843-814-0181 lpeigler@comcast.net NA 2012

FOURTH DAY Robert Johnson 803-968-1289 rjohnson139@sc.rr.com 803-494-3550 2012

MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT Elaine Walter 803-707-0769 eawalter101@yahoo.com NA 2012

REGISTRATION Linda Mack 803-796-0982 lmack50109@aol.com 803-422-2682 2013

RECORDS Dave Cunha 843-695-0913 dcunha@sc.rr.com 843-670-7750 2013

FACILITIES Ed Hickey 843-871-6987 hckybug91@sc.rr.com 843-864-6723 2013

SENDOFF/CANDLELIGHT/CLOSING Wendell Bailey 843-534-6821 wbailey5@sc.rr.com NA 2013

AGAPE Anthony Hodge 843-539-6559 ahodge2@umcsc.org 843-824-1419 2013

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