Join the FSE Board!

Would you like to serve behind the scenes to help make the walks and gatherings happen? The FSE board has three openings that we will be filling within the next month. If you’d like to serve your community and help it all come together, drop us a note and let us know. Board members attend monthly meetings & gatherings and serve behind the scenes at the walks.

  • Position #1 serves through the end of 2018
  • Position #2 serves through the end of 2019
  • Position #3 serves through the end of 2020

If you’re up to the challenge, please fill out the form here and tell us a little about yourself, and we’ll get back to you shortly.

De Colores!

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Ron Brace

Ron Brace’s memorial is Saturday, May 19th at 11am at Deltona Presbyterian Church in the sanctuary with fellowship to follow in the Life Center. Please help us celebrate Ron’s life.

Sid Lester

The Emmaus community has lost Sid Lester, a longtime member who attended FUMC-Ormond Beach. He had moved to Dallas to be with relatives in the last year after losing his wife Betty a few years ago. They sponsored many many Pilgrims during their time in Emmaus. Please keep the family in your prayers.

May Newsletter

Hello, community. Here is your May Newsletter. We will not have a gathering this month to give us a little more time to get back on track. We’ll return to our regular schedule in June. De Colores!

May Newsletter

The Upper Room on Inclusiveness

POLICY

The International Emmaus office was approached on various occasions by local Emmaus Community leaders seeking guidance on the participation of individuals in the Emmaus Ministries, as pilgrims or as team members.

The Emmaus office welcomes the participation of all persons.

In regards to pilgrims, the Walk to Emmaus and Chrysalis, as ministries of The Upper Room of The United Methodist Church, invite interdenominational, interracial, intergenerational and international participation, and foster a spirit of Christian unity. Their aim is to help people turn their attention away from self and towards God.

We all come to these events remembering that we are sinners saved by grace, bearing in mind that God’s grace is always extended and, believing that every person has sacred worth in God’s sight.

Consequently, the weekend should be an environment of unconditional love in which persons can gradually lower their defenses and allow God’s grace to impact their lives. It should provide an atmosphere of hospitality and acceptance that facilitates the rediscovery of self in relationship with God and, a free and honest response to the Gospel of grace.

As stated in the Emmaus/Chrysalis guidelines, intentional and purposeful sponsorship of people who demonstrate the character of Christ, as disciples and leaders in their home church and the church universal assures this principle. Thus, in all cases, a sponsor’s choice of a candidate should be trusted.

However, if during the course of the weekend a pilgrim chooses to distract the group, then the Weekend Lay Director, Weekend Spiritual Director and the Board Representative have the responsibility to provide guidance or, when necessary, gracefully ask that person to leave the group.

In relation to team members, we are mindful of the fact that the Emmaus ministries are for teaching, nurturing, and supporting the development of Fourth Day leaders who embody Christ.

Team members should work together to accomplish the unique goal of the Emmaus and Chrysalis ministries which is to call attention to Christ and to our common Christian affirmations. A team member who chooses to introduce independent agendas into these weekends misunderstands and abuses their teaching role.

In order to ensure that this objective is met, team selection should be carried out prayerfully and, in compliance with The Upper Room Handbook specifications. In all cases, the Team Selection Committee should be trusted to do its best and, if a choice is questionable, it has the responsibility to make changes.