Month: March 2011

Prayer and Praise

Posted on by Brandee Terry
I am asking prayers for my brother.  He was injured sking 2 weeks ago, breaking all of his ribs on the right side.  He had been on coumidin and so there was some internal bleeding also.  He was sent home last Monday and developed breathing difficulties.  He is back at Strong Memorial in Rochester with a blood clot in one lung and one larger one in each leg. I am asking for the healing hands of God to bring him through this latest trial.  Thank you prayer warriors.

To My Family, My father passed away on Sunday afternoon in his favorite recliner and doing what he loved to do which was sleep.  I thank you for your prayers and your concern. You are all very precious to me.  I am asking for a huge favor from you, my family, at this time. It would mean so very much to me, if it is laid on your hearts, to send my father’s wife cards of love and support. I can’t imagine what she is going through right now. I know that you all love me, and I desperately need that love and support.  I ask of you for me that when the Holy Spirit lays it on your hearts to call, please call. When the Spirit moves you to visit, please let me know and I will welcome you with open arms and possibly a tear or two.

Message From the Lay Director

Posted on by Brandee Terry

Psalm 37 3 Trust in the Lord and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper.4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. 5 Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you.

And consider also the words from the Gospel of Luke 2:10 – “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.”

Ahh- appropriate for Christmas and appropriate for now….and I don’t profess to be an angel, but I bring you good news anyway!!

Just to recap and bring you all up to speed. In January-February last year, the board of secretariat of the former North Central New York  Walk to Emmaus made the decision to sever our ties with the Upper Room and the Upper Room Emmaus model. We held our last weekend as NCNY WTE in the spring of 2010. We have been working on rewriting all of our documentation with a planned release of spring 2011 of those documents. Our Spiritual Director, Bill Vallet and Assistant spiritual director, Bill Mudge have met with the new Upper New York Conference to explain our position and express our desires to continue as a community in the same geographic area. In October of 2010, we decided to change our name to Closer Walk, pending acceptance by the Conference. In November of 2010, Chrysalis decided to change it’s name to Koinonia.

We have been waiting for a decision by the Upper New York Conference allowing us to move forward with our community. Bill Vallet has recently heard from them with their response….which I am NOT going to share with you right now, but I will tell you it is very good. The formal announcement will be made by Bill Vallet at both secretariat on Friday, January 21st and the Community Gathering on Sunday, January 23rd.

I will send out a formal statement also following the weekend for all those who can’t attend. But the other part of this message are these 2 points…..

One: It’s time…it’s time for everyone who has not been involved for awhile…it’s time for everyone who has been waiting to see what was happening….it’s time for everyone who became discouraged without a summer and fall weekend….it’s time for anyone who needs a recharge to come out and reconnect with this amazing community….we’ve missed many of you for too long, and it’s time for us to gather, regroup and re-energize our movement!! Let’s see some of those faces again that we haven’t seen in several months or years. This is and always will be your community and continues to exist because of you. Come get reconnected! If you know someone who hasn’t been involved in awhile, get them involved!!!

Two: What the name change means…..someone asked me, “so I can’t say I’ve been on an Emmaus weekend?” Of course you can….Everyone who has made a weekend prior to now has either made a Cursillo weekend(first 6 or 7 weekends) or an Emmaus weekend(from 7 or 8 to the present) Our name change doesn’t change the fact that you made and Emmaus, Chrysalis, YAC weekend. Moving forward, people will make a Closer Walk or Koinonia weekend, and the community and events will be referred to by those names, but it doesn’t change what has happened in the past.

Welcome!

Posted on by Brandee Terry

Welcome to the Closer Walk of Upper New York Page. This site will serve as a meeting place for members of the Closer Walk, Koinonia, and YAK of Upper NY communities. We were formally known as NCNY Walk to Emmaus, Chrysallis and YAC. This is a work in progress but we would love to have suggestions so please feel free to comment.

Prayer and Praise

Posted on by Brandee Terry

Received this from Helen this afternoon, please continue to hold Helen in your daily prayers. Also prayers for family as they go through this difficult time.
God Bless,
Larry Page
Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know that I got a time for my surgery:  anytime after 10 tomorrow.  Don’t have to be there until 9, which is nice.
I so appreciate all of your support.  As the surgery has gotten closer, I’ve gotten more stressed about it.  It’s fairly minor surgery (lumpectomy and probably one lymph node), but the whole situation is pretty serious….(it’s the big C word, you know), that it has started to bother me.
But I got three cards today!  Thank you so much.  That lifted my spirits.  And I know that tomorrow there will be prayers being said coast to coast!
The doctor said that I probably will spend the night in the hospital tomorrow, but everything else has gone so well that we’ll hope that I’ll be in good enough shape to come home.  I’ll probably rest better here than in the hospital.
I’ll get word out, or have Vern do it as soon as we can.  He hates the phone, though, you know.
Big hugs to you all.
God bless,
Helen