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Welcome to our Fredericksburg Emmaus On-Line
Community. We hope you will take the time to browse through our site and
get to know us. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us
through the links at the top or bottom of the page.
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.
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

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