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1 Western New York Walk to Emmaus & Chrysalis June 2016 Volume 26 No. 2 Greetings to all of our Brothers and Sisters in the Western New York Walk to Emmaus Community! We are so blessed to have the Rainbow Connection back in publication again. We have missed the opportunity to be able to communicate with you all in this forum. As many of you know, Anita Cooledge has accepted the Newsletter position. She will be assisted by Kate Moody and our friend Barb Swanson has agreed to stay on to help with the Web site. We now have an excellent team and together we look forward to helping our Community stay informed. Lots of new things have happened since we last had the opportunity to communicate with you in this newsletter. We have elected several new members of the Board of Directors, another successful Walk is be- hind us and Walk 51 is being planned. New members of the Board include Hal & Carol Goodwin as 4th Day Coordinators. Hal & Carol bring a wealth of experience having served many times on the Board including a term as Community Lay Directors. The Community Board position is being filled by Bill & Geneice Perkins and Brian & Cheryl Keesler. Jim and Julie Noreck have agreed to support the Community in the Supplies position. As you already know, Anita Cooledge is our Newsletter person and Rev Greg VanDussen now serves us as Community Spiritual Direc- tor. As a result of Walk 50 we welcomed 26 new members into the Community. Both the Men’s and the Women’s Walk were spirit filled where the love and grace of the Lord was present. The Reunion on Satur- day, April 30th at the First United Methodist Church in Springville was well attended (a record number in my estimation). Even though Walk 50 has just wrapped up, the planning for Walk 51 has already begun. The Men’s Lay Director is Mike Mortimer and the Spiritual Director is Pastor Joan Zimmerman. The Lay Director for the Women’s Walk is Janice McKinney and the weekend Spiritual Director is Brian Scharf. We know it is early yet but now is the time to search your heart and to discern those who Lord is lead- ing you to offer the gift of the Walk to Emmaus. Walk 51 will be held at the United Methodist Church in Ham- burg. Dates are located elsewhere in this edition of the Rainbow Connection. Remember your weekend and what it meant to you. Make a friend, be a friend and bring a friend to Emmaus! Thank you. DeColores, Lynn & Pat Blakeman Greengs Emmaus Community! Your Rainbow Connecon Newsleer is up and running again! Thank you for your paence as my team and I get up to speed and learn the ropes. A special thanks to Barb Swanson for the awesome job she has done sending out the Rainbow Connecon over the last three years. Barb has kindly agreed to connue tak- ing care of our Emmaus website which is a wonderful tool and blessing. She will fill you in more on that in a future newsleer. My name is Anita Cooledge and I am your new Emmaus Newsleer Coordinator. I am ex- cited to serve in this way and I have a wonderful team of people helping me. So going forward, please sub- mit all Emmaus arcles, info and pictures to a new email address: [email protected]. All Em- maus arcles, info and pictures will need to be submied in Word document format and by the 15 th of the month preceding the newsleer being worked on. Please note that we do have to strictly hold to this deadline of the 15 th . Please feel free to call or text me at 585-747-4207 or email me at [email protected] with any quesons you may have. My team and I look forward to connuing to make this an informave and enjoyable newsleer for our Emmaus Community. DeColores! Anita Cooledge
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Western New York Walk to Emmaus & Chrysalis June 2016 Volume 26 No. 2
Greetings to all of our Brothers and Sisters in the Western New York Walk to Emmaus Community! We are so blessed to have the Rainbow Connection back in publication again. We have missed the opportunity to be able to communicate with you all in this forum. As many of you know, Anita Cooledge has accepted the Newsletter position. She will be assisted by Kate Moody and our friend Barb Swanson has agreed to stay on to help with the Web site. We now have an excellent team and together we look forward to helping our Community stay informed. Lots of new things have happened since we last had the opportunity to communicate with you in this newsletter. We have elected several new members of the Board of Directors, another successful Walk is be-hind us and Walk 51 is being planned. New members of the Board include Hal & Carol Goodwin as 4th Day Coordinators. Hal & Carol bring a wealth of experience having served many times on the Board including a term as Community Lay Directors. The Community Board position is being filled by Bill & Geneice Perkins and Brian & Cheryl Keesler. Jim and Julie Noreck have agreed to support the Community in the Supplies position. As you already know, Anita Cooledge is our Newsletter person and Rev Greg VanDussen now serves us as Community Spiritual Direc-tor. As a result of Walk 50 we welcomed 26 new members into the Community. Both the Men’s and the Women’s Walk were spirit filled where the love and grace of the Lord was present. The Reunion on Satur-day, April 30th at the First United Methodist Church in Springville was well attended (a record number in my estimation). Even though Walk 50 has just wrapped up, the planning for Walk 51 has already begun. The Men’s Lay Director is Mike Mortimer and the Spiritual Director is Pastor Joan Zimmerman. The Lay Director for the Women’s Walk is Janice McKinney and the weekend Spiritual Director is Brian Scharf. We know it is early yet but now is the time to search your heart and to discern those who Lord is lead-ing you to offer the gift of the Walk to Emmaus. Walk 51 will be held at the United Methodist Church in Ham-burg. Dates are located elsewhere in this edition of the Rainbow Connection. Remember your weekend and what it meant to you. Make a friend, be a friend and bring a friend to Emmaus! Thank you. DeColores, Lynn & Pat Blakeman
Greetings Emmaus Community!
Your Rainbow Connection Newsletter is up and running again! Thank you for your patience as my team and I get up to speed and learn the ropes. A special thanks to Barb Swanson for the awesome job she has done sending out the Rainbow Connection over the last three years. Barb has kindly agreed to continue tak-ing care of our Emmaus website which is a wonderful tool and blessing. She will fill you in more on that in a future newsletter. My name is Anita Cooledge and I am your new Emmaus Newsletter Coordinator. I am ex-cited to serve in this way and I have a wonderful team of people helping me. So going forward, please sub-mit all Emmaus articles, info and pictures to a new email address: [email protected]. All Em-maus articles, info and pictures will need to be submitted in Word document format and by the 15th of the month preceding the newsletter being worked on. Please note that we do have to strictly hold to this deadline of the 15th. Please feel free to call or text me at 585-747-4207 or email me at [email protected] with any questions you may have. My team and I look forward to continuing to make this an informative and enjoyable newsletter for our Emmaus Community.
DeColores! Anita Cooledge
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Women’s Walk #50 Lay Director Reflections
There may have been some anxious hearts and minds when the women’s walk began on Thursday night. But the laughter and
friendships that were already building during our “new friend” time that evening, seemed to ease some of those anxious
thoughts. Many women were paired with a new friend, who shared the same common threads in their lives! As we all know,
Emmaus is bathed in prayer, much prayer! It must’ve been a “God-thing”!
Then on Friday morning, all discovered who they would be sharing their table with for the weekend. Again, so many common
threads! God most certainly knew who should be at each table and with whom. Some were absolutely more comfortable than
others right from the start. But as the weekend progressed, relationships grew and so did everyone’s comfort level with other
Christians around them. Friendships blossomed!
Each night as we shared our artistic responses, we recognized the amazing God-given creativeness and talents that each person
has been gifted with. Every poster, every skit, every song and every demonstration shared the depth and beauty of each per-
son’s insight of the talks. ALL women were so extremely creative during their artistic responses. It was a beautiful wrap-up of
the day, each day!
During the artistic response after Talk #2, the servants table discovered that they were really good at cutting out paper tulips
for their poster. For every talk’s artistic response after that, the servants table tried to incorporate tulips into their presenta-
tion. We weren’t sure why “tulips” were such an attraction, but it lasted the rest of the weekend. Because of this, I meditated
on this “tulip” fascination and what the Lord was trying to share with me through it. This is the analogy:
“We” are that tulip bulb. There is beauty in each and every one of us. But many times, we want to stay hidden in the dirt, not
revealing ourselves to anyone. Through encouragement, kindness, friendships and agape love we are “watered” by others
around us. We, the bulb, start to break through the ground and reveal ourselves to others. We eventually blossom! And
then, what others see in us, blesses them!
Just as the tulip doesn’t stay in the flower state forever, we too don’t stay in full blossom. Life takes hold and sin creeps in and
it’s necessary for us to “die to self”. We need to go back into the bulb stage. We need to allow God and our Christian friends
to again water, garden, love and prune us, so that we once again can blossom and bless others. My friends, thank you for being
part of God’s garden with me!
For all those persons involved in the preparation for Walk #49 and the actual Walk #50, you have been incredible! God has
used each and every one or you for team building, friendship building and Kingdom Building! What an awesome God we serve!
In Gratitude and Humble Service, Lisa Waterhouse DeColores!
Women’s Walk # 50
Row 1: Pastor Vonnie Vredenburg, Cristina Mitchell. Brenda Denk, Lisa Waterhouse, Darrell Rublee, Mary Kay Williams, Shirley
Orton, Row 2: Tracey Benjamin, Pastor Nancy Preston, Mo Poteat, Ginny Fugle, Linda Kelley, Julie Noreck, Linda Garner, Amber
Torrey, Barb Lockwood, Susan Scharf, Kathy Woika, Nancy Carroll, Row 3: Martha Thompson, Trudi Slocum, Pastor Britta
McCarthy, Jessica White, Carole Wulf, Row 4: Anita Cooledge, Debe Ploetz, Dana Phelps, Doris Brydalski, Nancy Weilert, Deb-
bie Shisler, Jennie Gleason, Row 5: Pastor Greg Van Dussen, marlene Worthington, Char Smith, Erika Morse, Cindy Jaeger, Melis-
sa Childs, Anne Finch, Cheryl Keesler, Laura Everett, Cindy Hull, Pastor Stan Scoville
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MEN’S WALK #50
Men’s Walk #50 was an awesome experience from the first team member phone call all the way up
to the Reunion. God blessed WNY with an awesome team with each person being totally ready when
Thursday night began. Thursday evening brought forth 11 pilgrims, and they were a great group of guys. We
experienced a lot of laughs, a lot of great table discussion & presentations. But most importantly we all were
drawn closer to our Savior Jesus Christ and his never ending Love & Grace. I would like to thank all in the
WNY Emmaus Community for their prayers, presence at Community events during the weekend, all the gifts
of Agape and all the Love & support that Walk #50 experienced. It takes the entire Emmaus Community
doing their part to make a successful Weekend experience. As these new community members venture
along in their fourth day please be praying for them, and invite them to gatherings, reunion groups, and most
importantly to be more active in their local church.
To God Be the glory for all that he has done thru Walk #50. DeColores, Jim Keiper
Row 1: Pastor Clara Wilder, Jim Keiper, Pastor Tim Gleason, Darrell Rublee, Pastor Ron Isaman, Ron Tillis, Bill Perkins, Fred
Rieber Row 2: Ben Schooley, Nick Tangelder, Jim Noreck, David Bernacki, Pastor Nilla Owen, Paul Gaskin,Robert Mitchell, Brad
Wheeler, Vincent HULL, Pastor Karen Grinnell, Marty Doherty Row 3: Jim Burkhardt, Alan Harrer, Steve Snyder Row 4: Harry
Garner, John Trowbridge, Blake Phinney, Paul Brown, Norb Fuest, Jack Waterhouse, Row 5: Jack Woika, Bill Skura, Bart Moody,
Arlan Harvey, Dan Van Allen, Lynn Blakeman, Rodney Stringham Row 6: Joe Peters, Bob Fisher
Please pray for these new members of our
Emmaus Community—that the Lord will
continue to speak to their hearts and
guide them on all their 4th Days!
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Calling all men who
Have been on a WALK
Sponsor your neighbor
With some sincere talk
Explain all the “pros”
What the Walk meant to you
And God will bless him
And you too!
Walk to Emmaus Men’s Walk #51
October 13-16
Registrations Due: Sept 14
Let’s go for a “Walk”
Said the sponsor to Sue
God has a special message
Arranged just for you
It’s only for 3 days
72 hours to be exact
And you’ll come home again
With nothing to lack!
Walk to Emmaus Women’s Walk #51
Nov. 17-20
Registrations Due: Oct. 13
submitted by Registrars, Dick and Roberta
Baker
WNY Emmaus Board of Directors
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Gathering Schedules, Times, Locations, & Leader Contact Information
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Alexander: Alexander UMC -
3rd Saturday of month
7 p.m. - Meeting
(Child care as needed)
Frank White (585) 734-5933
Enchanted Mountain (Olean):
Christ UMC lounge
1st Wednesday of the month
7-8:30 p.m. - Meeting Mike or Jan Mortimer
716-373-2237
Hamburg/Buffalo Southtowns:
Hamburg UMC 116 Union St., Parlor -
3rd Tuesday of the month
7 p.m. - Meeting
Jerry & Caroline Schneggenburger
716-646–1522
Honeoye Falls:
Honeoye Falls UMC 31 East St
Honeoye Falls NY 14472
2nd Sunday of the month
6:30 PM Meeting
Darrell Rublee
585-721-7237
Kendall: Kendall UMC,
1808 Kendall Road -
2nd Friday of the month;
6:30 p.m. - Meeting
Bob & Trudy Slocum 585-659-8445
Medina/Millville: Medina UMC -
2nd Friday of the month
7 p.m. - Meeting
Sandy Andrews & Holly Roush
(585) 297-4304
Napoli: Napoli UMC - (Moved back)
4th Monday of the month
7 p.m. - Meeting
Bill & Geniece Perkins
716-560-5973
Springville: Springville UMC
3rd Saturday of month
9:30 a.m. - Meeting
Duane & Anita Domes
716-592-7793
West Bank: Greece UMC -
2nd Saturday of the month
8:30 a.m. - Continental breakfast
9 a.m. - Meeting
Will & Carolyn Rickman
585-392-9784
All are welcome...
Open to all community members— YES you are
welcome & encouraged to attend!
Please prayerfully consider how you will serve God through service to those
who attended the Spring Walk or will be attending the Fall Walks.
Please submit changes in contact
information to Kathie Woika at
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B. Swanson
642 Wilder Rd.
Hilton, NY 14468
Deadline for July Rainbow Connection is June 15
