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UPCOMING EVENTS FOR CROSS POINT EMMAUS COMMUNITY

MONTHLY GATHERINGS (7:00 p.m.)
(Cross Point Board meets at 5:00 p.m.)

Nov 12 - Stratford United Methodist Church
Dec. 10 - 1st Presbyterian Church, Ardmore

SPRING 2006 WALKS

Men’s Walk # 61, Mar 3-Mar 26

Women’s Walk # 62, Mar 30-Apr 2

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS FROM WALKS 59 AND 60. YOUR CROSS POINT EMMAUS COMMUNITY IS ANXIOUS TO SERVE AND WORSHIP OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH YOU.

What a tremendous privilege to serve as the Lay-Director for Walk #60! It continues to amaze me how God so graciously laid the entire process out for me to just grasp and use for His glory. As applications came in for those who God placed on their hearts to be a part of Walk #60, to how the clergy selection materialized and developed was definitely a God-thing. Words can’t begin to describe the power of prayer that covered Walks 59 & 60. The incredible, powerful, continuous prayers that were lifted up by the Prayer Teams and others throughout the selection process, during the long, dry summer, during trainings and commissioning, and especially during the walks

Steve and I really wanted this set of walks to be ones of a servant’s heart, and I can truly say that each of you that worked the walks, prayed for the walks, sponsored a pilgrim on the walks, and so much more, was God’s Priest and displayed the servants heart that we prayed for. PTL. I truly will never forget how unselfish and Christlike each of you were as I watched you allowing God to use you in this tool we call “The Walk to Emmaus”.

May God continue to bless each of you on your fourth day.

Barbara Wood, Lay Director Womens Walk #60

We welcome Dan Patman to the board and are pleased and thankful Dan has agreed to become our new Community Spiritual Director. Dan, who is the Associate Pastor at FUMC, Ardmore, is a long time member of our Emmaus community and will lead us in continuing to seek God’s direction for the community. As Community Spiritual Director Dan is assuming many new responsibilities and we appreciate his willingness to serve and lead.

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THE CROSS POINT EMMAUS WALKS !

Volunteer sheets are available on the website to work the Spring 2006 walks. You can also contact Steve Swigert at (580) 226-0617. They are due in early November, 2005

PRAYERFULLY BE CONSIDERING WHO GOD WOULD HAVE YOU
SPONSOR FOR THE WALK TO EMMAUS.

Sponsor Sheets Available on Website

The Lay Director for Men’s Walk 61 is Tim Shields and the Lay Director for Women’s Walk 62 is Paula Pfau. These positions carry with them hard work, long hours and many blessings. Please pray specifically for Tim and Paula and their spouses as they seek after God’s will for these walks, their teams and their lives.

On October 11, 2005, the Upper Room Daily Devotional Guide devotional was entitled “Let Tears Flow.” It was based on Philippians 4:6-7 which reads: Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. The devotional told of “weep holes,” which in stone or brick walls, are small holes made in the mortar between the stones or bricks. Were it not for these holes, the water that collects behind the mortar could build up such pressure that eventually the wall would burst.

The author relates this to our lives and says, “In chaotic circumstances, I don’t have to be anxious. Even when I can’t put my needs and feelings into words, God hears my prayers - or just the cry of my heart - and knows what I need. God is willing to meet that need in the right way, at the right time. I can thank and trust God, who guards my heart and mind in Jesus Christ."

We experience God in this same way on Walks near noon on Saturday during dying moments. We are able to let go of pressures and sins instead of holding onto them until we feel we will burst. We trust God and give Him issues to handle for us. We have this same opportunity and ability daily as God walks with us and longs to hear from us. Let’s move back next to God and share with Him often.

Charley Roberts, Cross Point Walk 15

Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:

they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance.

In Thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in Thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
Psalm 89:15-16

Remind me, God, to open myself to Your happiness

each day, each moment. Help me not to let life’s pressures

And frustrations cloud my vision of Your unending joy! Amen.

Adult Members:
Steve Dyer* (Community Lay Director) 405-823-0571 or sdyer@dyerlawcenter.com; Tim Israel (Secretary/Team Selection) 580-799-0566; Mark Kent (Treasurer) 405-224-1610; Cally Southern (Registrar) 580-237-7210; Nancy Striegl (Kitchen) 405-375-5702; Steve Strong (Agape) 405-692-0591; Julie Zielinski (Hoots/Gatherings/4th Day) 405-947-7535; Jack Roper (Logistics) 405-603-6191; Barbara Wood* (Prayer) 580-226-3576

Youth Members:
Robbie Dyer* (Internet); Keisha Wood* (Prayer); Anna Shipley (Kitchen); Nick Timmons (Hoots/Gatherings/4th Day); Kirk Israel (Team Selection); Michael Southern (Logistics); Sarah Ali; John Schneider; Jessica Wills, Katie Creed*.

Clergy Members:
Steve Byrd 405-631-8997; Nancy Hamilton 580-225-0964; Charles Watson 405-222-1637, Steve Taylor.

*Denotes Cross Point Emmaus Representative.

2005 Cross Point Emmaus Board of Directors

Men’s #63 9/28/06-10/1/06
Women’s #64 10/5/06-10/8/06

WE NEED YOUR FOURTH DAY LETTERS!!!!
Someone needs to hear your testimony and witness.

ATTENTION: We are now emailing notices the Newsletter has been posted on the website. If you receive yours by email, it’s cheaper for the community!!
Please send me your email address if this is possible.

PLEASE NOTE: The Post Office does not forward this Newsletter when you move. If you do not notify me of your address change, you will not receive it!!

PLEASE SEND your address changes to Charley Roberts, PO Box 387, Marietta, OK 73448, or email to croberts70@yahoo.com
Thanks!

Our next gathering is Saturday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m. at the FUMC in Stratford, Oklahoma. This gathering is special as it is the first gathering following the October walks. Guests are welcome and members are expected! Sponsors are encouraged to bring the new members they sponsored. Let’s gather to worship and fellowship in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! He will be there.

LOVE Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. I Corinthians 13:7-8 NKJV