The Upper Room Emmaus of the Greater Fredericksburg Area is a large and diverse Community of believers from churches throughout the Fredericksburg, VA area and surrounding cities, towns and counties.

The next Gathering is at Fairview at River Club on June 13th!

thoughts from our Community Lay director...

I must be honest with you, writing these articles were tough for me this past year. Writing articles is not my forte. Give me some numbers to crunch and I will work all night. This is my last article as Community Lay Director, and I write this one with mixed emotions. This position takes a lot of time and unfortunately not too many are able to devote the time needed with other obligations such as church, family and job. I hope I have served you well and I take away from this the lasting friendships from my brothers and sisters in Christ in the community that I have spent many hours with in board meetings, team selection meetings and WLD training sessions.

Your next Community Lay Director, Assistant Community Lay Director and Community Spiritual Director will be announced at the June gathering. The new board members that were elected at the May gathering were George Mastin, Spence O’Connor, Dick Barnett, Judy Britt, Can Noden and Joseph Reed. Please hold all of these members up in prayer in the coming year. Thanks goes out to the members of the board that will be rotating off after the June meeting, Marcy Liepelt, Ruth Thomas, Wilfred Usher and Bill Walker. A special thanks to Rick Dillard for serving as Community Spiritual Director this past year and his work with implementing the new guidelines for the clergy in our community. I pray that the clergy in the community will continue to work with the next Community Spiritual Director with these new guidelines from the Upper Room of Emmaus.

God Bless and thanks again for your support.

DeColores!

Ralph Williams