Elizabethtown Emmaus
Newsletter
July 2005
DeColores!
Greetings from your Community Lay
Director!
We want to devote this newsletter to
providing you with detailed information on
our possible sponsorship of an Emmaus
Community in Nicaragua. Please read over
the information and prayerfully seek God’s
Will in this decision. As a Community we
will vote on whether to be their sponsor or
not at the August Gathering.
God Bless You,
Fritz Giesecke
Walk # 57 Table of Paul
As you know by now, our
Community has been asked to sponsor a
new Emmaus Community in Nicaragua. I
have been asked to give you as many details
as I know concerning this request, so
together we as the Elizabethtown
Community can make a decision on this
request. Due to the scope of this
commitment, the Board will not make this
decision on its own. Instead the
Community will be asked to decide on this
issue at the August Gathering.
For several years now a number of
people – including folks from the
Elizabethtown and the Lexington
Communities – have been actively
supporting an REC in Costa Rica. Because
of this activity a number of people from
Costa Rica became familiar with the
Emmaus Walk and have now gone on a
walk there in Costa Rica. Last April (2005)
18 people from Nicaragua (all leaders from
local Nicaraguan churches) went to Costa
Rica to attend an Emmaus weekend. The
current plan is to sponsor another 18 people
from Nicaragua to go on another Costa
Rican Walk this October (2005). These two
Walks in Costa Rica will produce 36 people
in Nicaragua who have been on the Walk.
These 36 plus 20 people from the U.S. plus
20 more people from Costa Rica will
constitute the leadership and team members
for the first 2 sets of Walks in Nicaragua –
the necessary Walks to establish the
Community there. These Nicaraguan
Walks are tentatively scheduled for 2006
and 2007.
The attached table represents the
estimated costs for this effort. These are
estimates, and may not all need to come
from our Community. For example, some
people from the U.S. may elect to pay their
own expenses to travel to Nicaragua
(estimated at $1,200 per person per trip).
We may also be able to get assistance from
other Communities, although this
possibility has not yet been explored. For
your information, $9,000 was pledged for
this program during our June, 2005 Board
meeting.
I hope this information helps you in
making an informed decision concerning
this request. May God guide our
deliberations and give us wisdom as we
consider how to assist our brothers and
sisters in Nicaragua.
In Christ,
Art Leach
Community Spiritual Director
Walk to Emmaus in Nicaragua
Estimated Costs for Serving
As a Companion Community
 Sponsoring Nicaraguan church leaders to
attend weekend in Costa Rica
April, 2005 – 18 leaders
October, 2005 – 18 leaders
$1,800
$1,800
$3,600
 Sponsoring U.S. volunteers as team members
to Nicaragua
Walks 1 & 2 (5 men & 5 women) $12,000
Walks 3 & 4 (5 men & 5 women) $12,000
$24,000
 Sponsoring Costa Rica volunteers as team
members
Walks 1 & 2 (5 men & 5 women) $1,000
Walks 3 & 4 (5 men & 5 women) $1,000
$2,000
 Scholarships for Nicaraguans to participate
Walks 1 & 2 (15 men & 15 women) $900
Walks 3 & 4 (15 men & 15 women) $900
$1800
 Materials (e.g.: notebooks, cross lanyards,
pens & pencils, etc.)
$100
Total
$31,500
Come to the garden alone,
while the dew is still on the roses
FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING,
PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:
1.
Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH
1.
Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another
NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:
1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another
TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST
HAVE THYME:
1. Thyme for God
2. Thyme for family & friends
3. Thyme for others
WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND
CULTIVATE WITH LOVE.
THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN
BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW
ELIZABEHTOWN EMMAUS CALENDAR
July 9
6:00 p.m. - Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. Gathering
(please note the changed date for July only)
August 6
6:00 p.m. – Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Gathering
September 3 6:00 p.m. – Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. - Gathering
October 1
6:00 p.m. – Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Gathering
Team Dedications
October 1 –3
October 13-16
October 20-23
October 27-30
Chrysalis 36
Men’s Walk 96
Women’s Walk 97
OPEN – 2nd Women’s
Walk (if needed)
November 5 6:00 p.m. – Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. – Gathering
December 3 6:00 p.m. – Board Meeting
7:00 p.m. -- Gathering
2005 FALL WALK LAY DIRECTORS
CHRYSALIS 36
FEMALE – KATHY MCKINNEY
MALE – CHRIS YATES
MEN’S WALK 96 – FRANK BELDEN
WOMEN’S WALK 97 – LIZ YOUNG
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Elizabethtown EMMAUS Community
P.O. BOX 2070
Elizabethtown, KY 42702
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