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Northern California / Nevada Emmaus Community |
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4th Day ~ The rest of our lives |
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The Community has a new 4th Day Coordinator, Kelly Dobrovolny. She knows many of you have excellent ideas for developing this important Community ministry and would love to hear from you. Get in touch! 4thday@ncnec.org |
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To the Northern California/Nevada Emmaus Community
Subject: Fourth Day Reunion Groups
When did the original walk to Emmaus end? Was it with the breaking of bread with Jesus in Emmaus? I don’t think so. Luke tells us Cleopas and his friend rushed back to Jerusalem to report their discovery of the resurrected Lord to the eleven disciples. So then, did the walk to Emmaus end with the return trip to Jerusalem? Again, I think not. The message of God’s love expressed through the resurrection of Jesus eventually spread throughout the world.
When did your personal Walk to Emmaus end? Was it with the Sunday Closing or did it continue with a Fourth Day Reunion Group. The Reunion Group experience is vital to reinforcing the spiritual revelation you felt on your Walk, but some people find forming and maintaining Reunion Groups to be difficult. A natural way to start is with other participants from your own church, or with participants from other churches who live close by. Someone simply needs to take the initiative.
The Community Board is standing by to help. Through participation in our own Reunion Groups we have experience with Fourth Day meetings, and ideas about getting groups started. If you’re not already a part of an active Reunion Group, we should be able to connect you with one. If you want to start a group, we should be able to help you do that also. What we suggest you do is this: Revisit the feeling you had as your Walk ended and commit yourself to renewing and building on that experience by actively participating in a Reunion Group. You might find that simply revisiting your experience is enough to fuel the initiative in yourself to seek out or start a Reunion Group.
For assistance, please contact the Community Fourth Day Coordinator, Kelly Dobrovolny—she would be delighted to hear from you. 4thday@ncnec.org, or, 775-356-2821.
De Colores! Warren Schwegel
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