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From Sound to Sound with the GOOD NEWS,     Vol. 14, Issue 4,   April 13, 2005
  www.albemarleemmaus.org PO Box 1198, Edenton, NC 27932  
Newsletter Index:         pdf Print Version     AC25     AE Elections     Community Calendar     Kairos PCI-11     Lay Director Comment     Prayer Concerns     Upper Room Prayer Center    
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
— Frank Outlaw                  


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  • April 28 — May 1:   PCI #11, David Peele - Rector
  • May 14: 6:30 PM Gathering & Board Elections meeting @ Open Door Baptist Church, 1255 Haughton Road, Edenton
  • June 11: 6:30 PM Gathering @ Edenton Baptist Church, Edenton
  • July 9: 6:30 PM Gathering @ Beulah Baptist Church, 967 US Highway 158 East, Sunbury
  • July 14 — 17:   AC-25 Fly With Christ Weekend @ Chowan College, Murfreesboro
  • August 13, 2005: Annual Family Day Picnic
  • September 10:   6:30 PM Gathering
  • October 6 — 9:   Fall Men's Walk AE #63
    Tom Quance Lay Director
  • October 20 — 23:   Fall Women's Walk AE #64
    Kathy Howard Lay Director
  • November 3 — 6:   PCI #12, Doug Spaeth - Rector
  • November 12:   DoDU & Gathering
  • December 10:   6:30 PM Gathering

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May 8th

Lay Director Comments  

Folks, I believe that many of us need to be reminded that the sanctity of Candlelight can be obscured by using anything other than our flashlight candles during the ceremony. It's easy to get swept up in the excitement of the evening, but a subtle glimpse of a loving face in the crowd can be much more effective than overtly drawing attention to ones self.

Here is something extracted from the Upper Room Handbook on Emmaus:

“The purpose of Candlelight is to move the Pilgrims to a deeper realization of God's love and to demonstrate the support of a Christian community for their life as faithful followers of Jesus Christ. Though Candlelight is a moving experience for both Pilgrims and community, its purpose is not to create a mountain top experience for its own sake. Candlelight prepares the way for the time of personal prayer and recommitment that follows upon the Emmaus community's departure. [The anointing service] . . . Community members are asked to preserve the integrity of the service and not to block or confuse the Pilgrim's entry by reaching out to touch them as they pass. Community members reaching out to touch the Pilgrims can obscure the vision Pilgrims often have of God's love filling the sanctuary, seeing Jesus in the faces of the people, and the presence of a heavenly host with the communion of saints. Let the Pilgrims have their own experience.”

We should all try to remember that Candlelight is a sacred and spiritual occasion to raise the awareness of God's loving presence - not only for the Pilgrims but for every member of the Community. Let's fully support this special moment.

Just a reminder - while this Emmaus Community fully supports all forms of Christian outreach, our Gatherings serve a specific purpose for the Community. It is a time for singing, praising God, fellowship, sharing in the witness of our 4th Day Speaker and Holy Communion. It is not the appropriate place for editorializing, promotions, or solicitations.

I'm pleased that Day of Deeper attendance was the best that I have witnessed, and the information was presented thoroughly and professionally. We welcome the new members of the Albemarle Emmaus Community and hope they will join us for the May 14th Gathering and annual elections.

Until then may the Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless you and keep you in your loving service to Him and one another.


Punk Daniels,   Community Lay Director                      





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May is Albemarle Emmaus Election Month

The merry month of May is right around the corner and with it our annual Albemarle Emmaus and Albemarle Chrysalis Board of Director elections. Ballots like the one below will be provided at the May 14th Gathering @ Open Door Baptist Church, 1255 Haughton Road, Edenton. Click here for a map to the church.   Each ballot is required to have a signature on it. Absentee ballots may be mailed one per envelope.

The top two vote-getters for Emmaus men and women are for three year terms, replacing Doug Spaeth, Punk Daniels, Heidi Sawyer and Hattie Downing who rotate off the Board. The number three vote getter for Emmaus men will be for a two year term to replace John Collins who resigned from the Board for personal reasons.

One Emmaus Spiritual Director is being elected for a three year term and the other SD for a two year term, in order of total votes. The two year term is a replacement for David Mansingh who moved out of the Albemarle area.

All Chrysalis nominations for the upcoming elections are for at-large Board members to replace our outgoing members Gib Harrison, Cher Valure, Kyle Jones and Buffy White as they rotate off the Board. All Chrysalis replacements will serve 3 year terms.

Every position has room to write in your own candidate.

Copy the ballot in your paper newsletter, cut it out and use it, or print an Acrobat pdf copy. You can bring one with your selections already marked, send it by a friend, or mail it to Albemarle Emmaus of Eastern NC, Post Office Box 1198 Edenton, NC 27932 provided it is received before May 7th. Gathering starts at 6:30 PM. Be sure to be on time May 14th so your vote can be counted.

pen and notepad     Want to print ONLY the ballot?   click here for 2005 Ballot

2005-06 ALBEMARLE CHRYSALIS BOARD NOMINATIONS & BALLOT:
to be voted for at the May 14th Gathering

Youth Male
(select 1)		 Youth Female
(select 1)		 Adult Male
(select 1)		 Adult Female
(select 1)		 Spiritual Director
(select 2)
  □ John Lassister   □ Mallory Hopkins   □ Rocky Allen   □ Paula Allen   □ David Bundy
  □ Jason Wolfgang   □ Sarah Hupp   □ Tommy Jones   □ Kathy Jones   □ Tom Hupp
    □ Amber Sawyer       □ Thomas Patrick
write in ___________ write in ___________ write in ___________ write in ____________ write in ____________
 

2005-06 ALBEMARLE EMMAUS BOARD NOMINATIONS & BALLOT:
to be voted for at our May 14th Gathering
Emmaus Men
(select 3)		 Emmaus Women
(select 2)		 Emmaus Spiritual Director
(select 2)
  □   Mark Gamiel
  □   Tom Quance
  □   Andy Stoll
  □   Mike Twiddy		   □   Faye Abner
  □   Ella Coates
  □   Lynne Furlough
  □   Debbie McClearen 		  □   Bill Bailey
  □   Dave Bundy

write in   __________________ write in   __________________ write in   __________________
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Mail your ballots before May 7th to:

Albemarle Emmaus
Post Office Box 1198
Edenton, NC 27932
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The Upper Room Prayer Center Phone: 1-800-251-2468

      If you are in need of special prayer, please remember The Upper Room Prayer Center. You may call at any time. The Prayer lines are answered by volunteers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.




Chrysalis Flight AC25

July 14 — 17, 2005
@ Chowan College
Youth Lay Directors:
Ashley Winslow & Justin Wheeler
Adult Lay Directors:
Donna Harris & Tommy Jones


Click here to be part of the AC25 Prayer Vigil


Please pray for the inside and outside team members of Kairos PCI-11 and all residents of Pasquotank Correctional Institution during the coming weekend of
April 28 — May 1
Donald Dee Ambrose (Merry Hill, NC)
Elizabeth Ledbetter Bailey (Elizabeth City, NC)
William Robert Bailey (Elizabeth City, NC)
William Barrow Jr (Edenton, NC)
Lesia Forbes Berry (Shiloh, NC)
Joseph David Berry Jr. (Elizabeth City, NC)
Sherman Burnell Blystone Jr, (Elizabeth City, NC)
Barbara Leicester Bunch (Windsor, NC)
Ralph Harrell Bunch (Windsor, NC)
Charles Thomas Busby (Edenton, NC)
William Earle Clements (Gatesville, NC)
Kathleen Maria Clinkscales (Hertford, NC)
Robert Lee Clinkscales (Hertford, NC)
Fred Gordon Ellinwood (Elizabeth City, NC)
Helen McGlothin Ellinwood (Elizabeth City, NC)
Brent Allen Elliott (Elizabeth City, NC)
William Cecil Fuller III (Elizabeth City, NC)
Deborah Przeklasa Futrell (Hertford, NC)
Mark Stephen Futrell (Hertford, NC)
John Etheridge Guard III (Edenton, NC)
Martha H. Haberstumpf (Manteo, NC)
Randall J. Haberstumpf (Manteo, NC)
Jerry Wynn Harrell (Tyner, NC)
Phyllis Trueblood Harris (Elizabeth City, NC)
Gary Lee Heginbotham (Edenton, NC)
Ronnie William Heiniger (Edenton, NC)
Isaac Daniel House (Roduco, NC)
James Ward Hudgins (Hobbsville, NC)		 Johnnie Anthony Hughes (Merry Hill, NC)
James Richard Huskins (Edenton, NC)
Michael Jackson (Elizabeth City, NC)
Patricia Ann Johnson (Portsmouth, VA)
Barry Joel Leary (Edenton, NC)
Richard Ellis Lichtenwalner (Edenton, NC)
Eric James Lowe (Aydlett, NC)
Monica Lynn Maynard (Coinjock, NC)
Joseph John Murphy (Hertford, NC)
Wallace Edgar Nelson (Hertford, NC)
William H. Otis (Elizabeth City, NC)
David McCray Peele (Edenton, NC)
Debra Mckinsey Porter (Hertford, NC)
Burton William Porter Jr. (Hertford, NC)
Carl Eric Sealander (Elizabeth City, NC)
Ruth Marie Shriver (Chesapeake, VA)
Douglas Grant Spaeth (Elizabeth City, NC)
Raymond Michael Stadtmuller Jr. (Edenton, NC)
Jimmy E. Stallings (Edenton, NC)
George Edward Stiles (Elizabeth City, NC)
Andrew Carl Stoll Jr. (Elizabeth City, NC)
Gilbert Henly Story (Edenton, NC)
Phyllis Keeter Story (Edenton, NC)
Charles M. Ullom (Edenton, NC)
Carolyn E. Ward (Tyner, NC)
James Daughtry Ward (Tyner, NC)
Joanne Eaton White (Hertford, NC)
Claude Delton White Jr (Hertford, NC)
James Richard Woodward (Hertford, NC)
Praises and Prayer Requests
  • PRAISE for Beulah Baptist — Has a New Pastor
  • PRAISE for Family Move Smoothly Accomplished
  • PRAISE for safe travel & visit with children/grandchildren
  • Dasha Abner — Military Trng
  • Faye Abner
  • AC-25 — July 14 — 17 @ Chowan College
  • Caroline Adams — Pray for God's Guidance
  • Brenda Alexander — Heart Troubles
  • Kristen Anderson
  • Mavis Barbee — Broken Wrist; surgery was 04/07/2005
  • Alan Bell — Grieving Loss of Wife Chris Kidder Bell
  • Greg Biggs
  • Betty Blanton — Heart Troubles
  • Wreatha Brill — Alzheimer's
  • Peggy Brooks — Salvation for Son
  • Bryan — Living Arrangement
  • Thelma Burrus — Illness
  • Brandon Byrum
  • Candy & Rusty
  • Co-Worker & Husband — God Will Intervene in Their Marriage
  • Earl, Ronie, Erin Davenport
  • Todd Davis & Lindsey Smith — Getting Married 08/27/2005
  • Tom Doshen — Knee Surgery 04/11/2005
  • Families in Crisis
  • Foster Children
  • Delores Frank — Bone Cancer
  • Glenn Gray — To have Jesus as his personal Savior
  • Ed Greene
  • Beth H.
  • Coy Harbeson — (Jeff Harbeson's father)
  • Dail Harris
  • Jeannie Harris — Acceptance to North Carolina School of Science & Math
  • Quinton Harris — Jehovah's Witness
  • Health Issues
  • Bill Held — Sick
  • Hertford United Methodist Church
  • Hockenberry Family
  • Bob Huggins — Brain Tumor
  • Gary Hunter — ALS
  • Jesus Video Evangelical Outreach
  • Jesus Video Project
  • Job
  • Bill Johnson
  • Family of Francis Jones
  • Linda Jones
  • Kairos Outside # 4 — April 22-24
  • Kairos PCI-11 — April 28 - May 1
  • Frank Kata
  • Kevin, Sheri & Family — Family Problems
  • Lauren LaMothe
  • Leaders of Our Country
  • Jake Leonard & his kids
  • Adam March — Lou Gehrig's Disease - Unsaved
  • Jon Maria March — Caretaker of Adam
  • Dr. Bob Marhalik — Cancer
  • Miles McCall — Family
  • Military at Home & Abroad — U.S.A.
  • Military Overseas
  • Stacey Morin
  • Holly Nixon — sister-in-law of Stanley Nixon with Cancer
  • Ken Norelin
  • Ken Noulin
  • Jackie Nowli
  • Our Freedom Fighters — US Military
  • Billy Parks — Car Accident
  • Pastor Search Committee @ Kitty Hawk Baptist Church
  • PCI #11
  • Paul Penland — Marriage & Work
  • Katie Phelps — Cancer
  • Edwin Rea
  • James Riddick
  • Jeanne Riggs — Having a New Baby
  • Carol Sheehan — Family & Friends
  • Gary Sloan
  • Mary Stover & Family — Death of Husband
  • Straight & Narrow — for guidance
  • Straight & Narrow Ministries
  • Troubled Youth & Family Members
  • Unsaved Friends & Loved Ones
  • Unsaved Loved Ones
  • Unspoken Request
  • Denise Sawyer Venable — Brain Tumor
  • Sarah Ward — Alaskan Mission Trip
  • Captain Christopher Watson — USMC in Iraq
  • Kristy Wescott — Cancer
  • Carlton White — Cancer
  • Jeff White
  • Whitt Family
  • Angela Wilson
  • Vickie Winslow — Cancer
  • Carolyn Winslow Family
  • Youth
  • Zelly Zim — 12-year-old girl with Cancer

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