Kairos Outside #15, April 29-May 1, invites the Closer Walk community to participate and support us in the following ways.
* Pray for us and show it by emailing suzrwalker@yahoo.com with a YES
* Send agape by a team member or deliver to Faith Community Church in Geneva.
* Participate in Walking in Love, Saturday night at 9:15
* Come to our closing at Faith Community Sunday at 2:30
Thanks and praise for all the ways you show God’s love.
First of all-Happy Holy Week! may you all have a blessed Easter weekend!!
I have some things I want to share with the general community, so please read on….
Second- a big thank you to everyone who supported the first Closer Walk men’s weekend! It was amazing and went very well. I was very pleased to see the number of people who showed up to support Serenade, Las Mananitas and the closing. We still have a few things to do as part of the complete transition, but the weekend went very smoothly!!
Third- we have selected our leaders for the next 2 weekends. We are trying to move the process a little further ahead so the teaming process is not so frantic. We will be selecting leaders for the spring weekends this summer. The leaders will still be formally “prayed in” at the close of the weekend before theirs. Leading Walk #94 in Elmira at PAUMC will be Gordon Jetty and Judy Burry, and leading Walk #95 will be Sue Dunlap and Eric Amberg.
We have had a lot of people turn in new team applications. Please remember however that turning in a team application DOES NOT guarantee that you will be called to be on a team. The weekend leaders are given the lists of the entire community along with team apps and pray over who they will call to be on team. It is not appropriate to “ask” to be on team. The weekend leaders will compile lists and will assemble their teams from those lists. If your name is placed upon their hearts, then they may call you. Please do not call them and ask to be team.
There was some discussion at the last secretariat meeting about the need for medical support at weekends(both Closer Walk and Koinonia weekends). Marie Morley has provided a lot of our support at recent weekends, but she obviously cannot do them all. We would like to know who has a medical background out in our community and who would be willing to be available to assist with dispensing of meds, etc. for a weekend. What we would like is to have a list available for future weekend leaders just so they know who they might be able to contact. If you have a medical background, work in the medical field and would help support a weekend, please let me know- just send an email to k429@aol.com with your contact info. Thanks!
Lastly-just a big thanks to the support of this community in general. We started a new contemporary service at our church (Amplify service on Sunday nights at 6:30 pm at Seneca Castle UMC), and out of the 60 or so people who attended the kick-off service, at least 40 were from this community…and some of them drove many miles to be there. It always amazes me how supportive you all are of not only the weekends, but of each other. Thanks again for all you do.
God Bless, Kevin Farnsworth, Lay Director Closer Walk of UNY
Please pray for our great-nephew, 5 mo. old. He has an oncology appointment Mon. with testing for leukemia, also for his parents. Pray for a miracle—healing even before the test.
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My son lives in Nebraska. This prayer request is from his Pastor. The faith and strength of the parents amazes me. Please lift this child, her parents, the medical staff, those ministering to their needs…please lift them in prayer to our Divine Healer, Lord and Savior.
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Dear Friends,
I know for some of you this prayer request is the second time you have received it today, but I wanted to get this out to as many as possible today, so am sending this to our weekly e-mail with many more from throughout the land on this list.
I just got off the phone with a young family discussing their three year old daughters condition. They have found cancer cells both in the bone marrow and on the liver as well as the tumor on the lung and in her neck. The Dr. has determined it is stage 4 cancer because it has spread to these other areas.
They are beginning a regiment of chemo therapy yet this afternoon (Thursday). Of course this is not the news that any parent wants to hear. The mother let me know that she understands that their daughter is on loan from God to them and they are to be stewards of this little girl while she is here on earth. When God determines to take her back home mom and dad understand that it is His choice and they have been grateful to have her for these three years.
Please, continue to uphold both for this little adorable girl and her family in your prayers my friends. I am so very grateful that we have the assurance of victory through our Lord Jesus Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. I celebrate with you this joy that is ours which provides hope in situations like this couple and so many others are facing.
Thank you for praying for them.
Prayers for a friend who is in the hospital in Cortland with medical issues.
Thank You.
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I just saw on the Upper NY Prayer concerns that a friend has had two strokes & recovering @ home waiting for treatment in May.
Please pray for him.
I not only babysat him, many years ago, we were on a weekend together.
Thank you & God Bless.
“See I have not forgotten you. I have carved your name in the palm of my hand.” NLT Isaiah 49:16
Women’s Closer Walk #93 Team List
| Position | Name | Talk |
| Weekend Lay Director | Bonnie McDougal | Total Security #14 |
| Back-Up WLD | Lisa Vansickle | Apostolic Action #8 |
| Assistant WLD | Nancy Mitchell | Piety #5 |
| Assistant WLD | Sue Dunlap | Christian Community in Action #13 |
| Head Table Leader | Kitty Calder | |
| Table Leader | Laurie Clarcq | Leaders #10 |
| Table Leader | Sherry Kelsey | |
| Table Leader | Judy Mayne | Study #6 |
| Table Leader | Cindy Watrous | |
| Table Leader | Jane Cristman | |
| Table Leader | Cheryl Palmer | |
| Head Servant | Tami Farnsworth | 4th Day #15 |
| Servant – Bus | Chris Brown | |
| Servant – Sacristan | Marcia Burdick | Sermon on the Amount #10A |
| Servant – Agape | Rhonda Spiros | |
| Servant – Conference Room | Melanie Gazzilli | Laity #3 |
| Servant – Kitchen | Meg Soper | Study of the Environment #11 |
| Servant – Community | Julie Possee | |
| Servant – Librarian/Floater | Shirley Lewis | |
| Head Musician | Cindy Jenkins | |
| Assistant Musician | Karen Busby | Ideals #1 |
| Assistant Musician | Sarah Heit | |
| Spiritual Director | Pastor Nelson Stanford | Habitual Grace #2 Sacrements #7 |
| Spiritual Advisor | Pastor Phyllis Granger | Actual Grace #4 |
| Spiritual Advisor | Rev. Ellen Wooley | Obstacles to Grace #9 |
| Spiritual Advisor | Pastor Marcia King | Life in Grace #12 |