Bi-Monthly Newsletter of the Nashville Emmaus Community
December 2016
Our Fourth Day DeColores and Merry Christmas from the Nashville Emmaus Community! What a wonderful time of the year it is when we have opportunity to celebrate the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ! This is certainly a great time of the year to enhance your 4th days through fellowship with other believers and participation in Advent disciplines and worship services. Last month, I wrote about the importance of sponsors and other members of the community reaching out to our new pilgrims to help them get into a reunion group. Now, with the fall walks complete, we have 42 new pilgrims in our communityand each one should begin, or continue in, an accountability relationship with other believers. Here is our opportunity to continue the momentum and energy we feel by inviting our new pilgrims into the community by attending community activities and adding them to established reunion and accountability groups. In December and in following months the community will hold gatherings to help this effort along. Each of us should lead the way in our local churches to encourage other pilgrims, interested people, and friends to attend the gatherings. This is an important step for establishing a culture of keeping the fire of Christ’s love burning strongly in your congregations and small groups. On a more personal level, invite new pilgrims, new friends, new believers, and others into your groups to help them grow in faith through meaningful relationship. Let’s make this coming year the year of revival in our Emmaus community and in the hearts of everyone we encounter. Let’s begin the work of changing our world! DeColores, Steve Zuercher
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and prayers” (Acts 2:37) As it happened with the new converts after Peter’s preaching in the book of Acts, our new Emmaus brothers and sisters discovered once again their first love. Through their 72 hours experience they were able to hear from their unknown brothers and sisters, who were by their side, how much God loves them. In the same way we did at the end of our walk, these forty one new members of our Emmaus community committed themselves to “count on Christ” as their Lord and Savior and for that we are thankful. As a Board we praise God for allowing us to be the hands and feet of Christ to them. As we enter this Advent season waiting for the coming of the Holy Child, let’s commit ourselves to continue to pray for our new brothers and sisters. Let’s reach out to them in love and Christian support as it happened with the first converts. Let’s continue to be in fellowship as a community seeking ways to be the hands and feet of Christ for our broken world. We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming December 10 gathering at The Upper Room. For more information please go to our web page. De Colores! Victor Perez Silvestry Community Spiritual Director