THE CALL TO ACTION
October
2006
A Publication of Columbus Koinonia
2006-2007
Columbus Koinonia Continuance Board Members Deb
Allen Tom Marshall Felix Huertas Music Coordinator Warden
Coordinator Facilities
Coordinator Karmel Yelle Cindie Galloway Randy
Menges Kitchen Coordinator Pre K Coordinator Post K
Coordinator Connie Pridemore
Jim Roberts Gene
Tolliver Secretary Treasurer Communications Vacant Spiritual Director
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UPCOMING EVENTS FOR
COLUMBUS KOINONIA
October 9th – 6:30 Board Meeting @ Gene Tolliver’s
October 9th – 6:30
Prayer Meetings @ North Side Fellowship
October 14th – 7:30
Support Party for CK114 @ Trinity UMC
October 20-22 – CK114
@ Friendly Hills
October 20 – 8:00
Serenade @ Friendly Hills
November 11 – 6:00 –
9:00 Reunion @ Reynoldsburg United Methodist Church *
November 13 – 6:30
Board Meeting @ Karmel Yelle’s
November 13 – 6:30
Prayer Meeting @ North Side Fellowship
December 9 – 6:30
Christmas Party @ North Side Fellowship
Up coming COLUMBUS KOINONIA weekends for the year 2006
Ck 114 --
October 20,21 & 22 @ Friendly Hills – Zanesville
Year 2007
CK 115 –
February 16,17, & 18 @ Friendly Hills – Zanesville
CK 116-- May
18, 19, & 20 @ Friendly Hills – Zanesville
NOTES: Reunion start times*
November 11 start time is 6:00
because we need to be finished by 9:00.
HELP NEEDED
1.
Prayer is needed for the upcoming CK weekend.
2.
The kitchen trailer needs food items. Contact Karmel Yelle to see what is
needed.
3.
After putting on a weekend you’re tired and it makes for an even longer day if
you have to pack the trailer and clean up also. The Warden coordinator needs a
few “Good Men or Women” who could commit to attending the closing and helping
breakdown and clean up after the weekend. With enough volunteers this should
take over an hour. Prayerfully consider this and call Tom Marshall to help.
4.
Prayerfully consider being a sponsor. Koinonia exist to serve the Christian
community by sharing God’s love and grace with others and to raise up
individuals who can energies their local church.
5.
Musicians: Contact Deb Allen for a jam & worship session and to talk
about the music for the weekends and the reunions.
THOUGHTS TO PONDER
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once
talked about a contest he was asked to judge.
The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year
old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently
lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry,
the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just
sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little
boy said,
"Nothing, I just helped him
cry"
When someone loves you,
the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."
Billy - age 4
Koinonia History
WHERE DID KOINONIA COME
FROM?
Koinonia
is patterned after the Roman Catholic Cursillo movement in the 1940's. The
Koinonia weekend is somewhat modified from the Cursillo weekend, but the same
basic theme exists: "A Short Course in Christianity". Koinonia was
first developed in Findlay, Ohio, in 1972 by an ecumenical group of Roman
Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Quakers so that men and women,
married and single, could all participate on the same weekend.
The
experience which spawned the Cursillo Movement was lived in August 1944, in
Cala Figuera, on the island of Mallorca (Spanish island of the Mediterranean
Sea). Witnessing the wonderful results of their experience, Mgr. Juan Hervas,
the island new bishop, decided to sustain it and to actively get involved. In
January 1949 was held the first Cursillo officially sanctioned by the
ecclesiastical authorities. From that point on, thanks to Mgr. Hervas,
Cursillos were held at an accelerated pace - around thirty in his diocese
during the first year - and the Movement was given a tremendous boost.
The
growth of the Cursillo Movement has been phenomenal. As early as 1955 it
migrated to South America and Mexico, and from there quickly spread to twenty
(20) Spanish speaking countries. In
1961, it was introduced to the English speaking dioceses of North America by
two Spanish airmen serving in Texas. But Koinonia is not the only movement to
come out of Cursillo. The movement is in over 64 forms in 60 countries, and
five continents.
... in various Christian
Churches
Anglican Cursillo, Camino, Crum Christo, DeColores EnCristo, DeColores Ministries, Dias con Cristo, Diaspora, Discipleship Walk, Ecco-I, Episcopal Cursillo, Faith Walk, Great Banquet, Journey Through Faith, Journey To Damascus, Koinonia, Life, Lutheran
Cursillo, Methodist Cursillo, Presbyterian
Cursillo, Paseo con Cristo,
Presbyterian
Pilgrimage, Tres Dias, The Way of Christ, Unidos en Cristo, United Church Cursillo, Via de Christo, Walk to Emmaus.
... for Youth
Arcoiris, Awakening, Celebration, Challenge, Chrysalis, Days with the Lord, ECOS, EPJ-Encuentros
de Promocion Juvenil, Faith Quest, Footsteps, Happening, Happening Ecumenical, Jornadas de Vida Cristiana, Journey, La Flambée, La Relève, L'Étincelle, My Fathers House, New Beginnings, R3, Search for Christian Maturity, TEC - Teens Encounter Christ, The Journey, Tirosh, Troops Encounter Christ, Veritas, Vida Nueva, Vision Jeunesse, Vocare, Youth Encounter.
... for different Social Categories
Alarga, Canku Wakan, Chayah, Credo Recovery, Cursillos for the Deaf, Epiphany Ministry, HEC: Handicapped Encounter Christ, Joie de Vivre, Kairos, Kairos Outside, Kairos Torch, Keryx, REC: Residents Encounter Christ, Reflets et Lumière: Hope in Love,
Rescate Catolico.
Columbus
Koinonia is a very small part of a very large movement of God in the earth to
show forth His love and grace. And, I might add, we are very pleased and
humbled to be part of that movement.
CK 114 Team