Greetings from your Community Lay Director
By David Martin
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Wow!! It’s spring of 2008 already and the spring
walk is just about here. The walks last summer in Enid were great. It was very exciting
to see the Lord work through so many servants from all across the NWOK Emmaus community, and to have a successful walk at
the Central Christian Church in Enid , OK . Thanks to everyone at Enid for making us all feel welcomed in your beautiful
church.
The spring walks #71 and #72 will be at the Woodward First United Methodist
Church and we thank them for letting us walk there again. The 2008 fall walks will be back in Enid in October
… the “ole” Emmaus truck is getting some new miles on it.
NWOK Emmaus Community has another great team of board members.
It is exciting to be working with them. The team selection committee has done a great job following
God’s direction, and the teams are coming together. It’s great to watch how God works through
His servants from all different points of our community and everyone’s willingness to give back to God the blessing
that He has given us so that the pilgrims of walks #71 and #72 will see Jesus.
Please continue to pray that as a community we will honor God as we are
loving, listening, learning and leading.
Lord, Please bless my brothers and sisters. Amen
Current
Board Members
Class of 2010:
Class of 2009
Larry Masoner, Watonga
Tim Kowalski, Foss
Roy Smith, Enid
Jim Cox, Enid
Tonia Clark, Enid
Andy Teston, Blackwell
Laura Ross, Newkirk
Keith Strack, Greenfield
Wendie Wilson, Elk City
Dee McKenna, Watonga
Ray Blakley, Woodward
Class of 2008:
Kristin Blakeburn, Clinton
David Martin, Newkirk
Annette Parham, Kingfisher
Mindy McLanahan, Miami , Tx .
Margy Spillers, Elk City
Notes
on Men’s Walk #71 & Women’s Walk #72
By Patrick & Margy Spillers, Lay Directors
Dear Emmaus Friends,
We are looking forward to these upcoming Spring Walks #’s 71 and
72. We feel so blessed to be a part of these walks and blessed to be a part of this Emmaus community.
Emmaus has been such a huge part of our lives since we attended our pilgrim walk back on walks #47 and #48.
God has used Emmaus to grow us spiritually and in so many other ways.
We have met many new friends as well…friends that we know we will have for a lifetime and beyond.
Thank you so much for enriching our lives with your friendship.
Please keep the team and the pilgrims in your prayers. Remember
how you were blessed by seeing all of your new Emmaus friends at Candlelight and Closing? Please bless
these new pilgrims by attending Sponsor’s Hour, Candlelight and Closing. They will never forget how
it felt to be so love by people who possibly didn’t ever know them!
Blessings.
Team
Roster Walk #71
Lay Director: Pat Spillers
Spiritual Director: Dave Jones
Ass’t Lay Directors:
Ass’t Spiritual Directors:
Jay Cooper
Andy Teston
Tim Kowalski
Mickey Moery
Greg Riggs
Carlos Ramirez
Matt Creach
Brian Hau
Table Leaders:
Ass’t Table Leaders:
Monte Hendricks
Keith Strack
Larry Schroeder
Clay Scheffelmear
Roy Smith
Denny Krick
Kris Mapel
Ben Wilson
Doug Hillock
Board Rep:
Jim Cox
Music Leaders:
Lynn Miller
Paula Davidson
Team Assistants:
Bill Winchester
Agape Coordinators:
Kurt Klump
Nancy Harmon - Coordinator
Calvin Stone
Barbara Schneider
Sandy Scheffelmear
TBA: Prayer Room, kitchen and snack coordinators
Team
Roster Walk #72
Lay Director: Margy Spillers
Spiritual Director: Mindy McLanahan
Ass’t Lay Directors:
Ass’t Spiritual Directors:
Laura Ross
Larry Masoner
Stephanie Riggs
Ray Blakley
Laura Girty
Jeff Ralston
Ronda Martin
Woody Hamon
Table Leaders:
Ass’t Table Leaders:
Tonia Clark
Annette Parham
Kim Shafer
Wendie Wilson
Kacy Wallace
Linda Bradford
Jana Cooper
Dee McKenna
Sharon Owsley
Sibyl Hillock
Board Rep:
Music Leaders:
Karla Johnston
Karole Hunt
Linda Jones
Team Assistants:
Shannon Christian
Prayer Room:
Pam Jackson
Linda Heemstra
Dewanna Wynn
Susan Trippett
Jimi O’Hara
Susan Viles
Jami Partain
Joyce Wears
Jenni Bruner
Agape Coordinators: Trish Hise,
Bill and Debbie Reynolds
TBA: Kitchen Coordinator; Snack Coordinator
!!
Sendoff Snacks !!
Men’s walk March 27-30—Enid,
Woodward, Waving Wheat communities
Women’s walk April 3-6—
Elk City , Kingfisher,
Newkirk communities
Please have snacks at Woodward FUMC
by 6:30 p.m.
Agape
by Wendi Wildon
Greetings from Agape!! I’m the new chairperson
for the Agape Committee and I’m so excited to help take care of your agape needs. There’s a
lot to be done.
We need agape for each of the upcoming walks from each reunion group,
communities and individuals, bagged with 50 pieces. Remember, no individual names on the agape.
And, please take a look at your wall art. Some of the banners need refreshing or replaced.
Or, if you are in a new reunion group, we’d love to have your new banners. Thanks to the internet,
we have lots of new agape letters and many communities already praying for us our pilgrims.
Candlelight
by Mindy McLanahan
Do you remember walking into the Candlelight service on your Walk to Emmaus?
For many, that is an unforgettable memory. The purpose of Candlelight is to demonstrate God’s
love to the pilgrims through the presence of the smiling faces and the shining candles of the community. So,
we need everyone to come to both Candlelight services for the upcoming Walks. Please come; and encourage
all of your Emmaus brothers and sisters to come, too. Load up a vehicle or two and come together!
There is a good chance that you will go home with your heart filled with God’s love, too.
Candlelight for the Men’s Walk will be Saturday, March 29.
The worship service is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. Childcare will be provided during the worship
service. If you come early to participate in the dinner entertainment (scheduled for 6:15 p.m.), you will
need to make other arrangements for your children The childcare workers will not be there at that time.
Candlelight for the Women’s Walk will follow the same schedule on
Saturday, April 5. Please come and participate in these worship services as a means of support for the
pilgrims, team and our Emmaus community. We need your prayers and your smiling faces to make these Candlelight
services all that God intends for them to be.
Fourth
Day
We want to welcome our new pilgrims into the community at Fourth
Day services on April 26 at 12 noon at Woodward First United Methodist Church . Please make an effort to
be there to welcome our new members with a covered dish luncheon followed by worship services.
Book
Table
by Margy Spillers & Wendie Wilson
We are making a few changes to the book table For these
walks, we have decided to poll our team members for their favorite Christian books, then purchase those specific books and
make them available to the pilgrims after the “Grow Through Study” talks on Saturday mornings. We
do still need your help though. We are asking for monetary donations in order to purchase these books.
If you feel called to help our community in this way, please send your donations to:
NWOK Walk to Emmaus
P.O. Box 2412
Woodward, Ok. 73802
Or, you can give your donations to either of us. We
are the book table chairpersons this year and we are both from Elk City . Or, you can bring your donation to one of the walks
at Woodward FUMC. The Men’s walk is March 27-30 and the Women’s is April 3-6.
Thanks in advance and may God bless you in all you do in His name!
DeColores
Send
Off and Sponsor’s Hour
Make plans to attend Send Off and Sponsor’s Hour, even if you’re
not sponsoring a pilgrim. Blessings always are abundant. Send Off for Men’s
Walk #71 will be Thursday, March 27. Send Off for Women’s Walk #72 will be Thursday, April 3.
We will gather for snacks and fellowship at 6:30 p.m. Please do not bring pilgrims before 6:30
p.m. Send off will follow at 7:30 p.m., when we send pilgrim and team members off to begin the walk.
Sponsor’s hour is the prayer service following to surround the weekend in prayer. All of these
events will be held in the fellowship hall of the Woodward FUMC.
If you are sponsoring a pilgrim, please be aware that after Sponsor’s
Hour, you will need to wait for instructions about when to make up your pilgrim’s bed. Also, sponsors,
please understand that if at all possible, you need to take your pilgrims out to eat before bringing them the Send Off.
The snacks at Send Off are not intended to be the pilgrims’ meal.
Remember, that though our satellite communities are providing snacks,
if you are planning to eat at Send Off, it will be helpful if you will bring food to share.
See you there!
Satellite
Community Gatherings
Enid Community: 4th Thursday of each month.
Sites rotated. 6:30 p.m. pot luck dinner. Child care provided.
Elk City : 2nd Friday quarterly. Sites rotated.
6:30 p.m. pot luck dinner. Child care provided if requested.
Woodward: 2nd Monday of each month.
Woodward FUMC. 6:30 p.m. pot luck dinner.
Newkirk: 3rd Thursday of each month.
Ponca City First Christian Church. 6:30 p.m. pot luck dinner. Child care provided
if requested.
Kingfisher: 2nd Tuesday of each month.
Kingfisher FUMC. 7 p.m. pot luck dinner. Child care provided if requested.
Waving Wheat: Every other month. May
6 at 7 p.m. First Christian Church, Cherokee. Child
care provided if requested.
DeColores
