THE CALL TO ACTION

February

2008

A Publication of Columbus Koinonia

COLUMBUS KOINONIA NON PROFIT ORG. P.O. BOX 32213 U.S. POSTAGE PAID

COLUMBUS, OHIO 43232 REYNOLDSBURG, OH PERMIT NO. 111

www.columbuskoinonia.com

[See our website for events, applications,

and other information]

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

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UPCOMING EVENTS FOR COLUMBUS KOINONIA

Feb 9th – 6:30 - 9:00 Reunion @ Brice United Methodist Church, Brice, Ohio

Feb 11th – CKCB board meeting @ Lovell Harper's

Feb 11th – CKCB prayer meeting @ North Side Fellowship

Mar 8th – 5:00 - 8:30 Reunion & Square Dance @ Trinity Family Life Fellowship

Mar 10th – CKCB board meeting @ TBD

Mar 10th – CKCB prayer meeting @ North Side Fellowship

Up coming COLUMBUS KOINONIA weekends for the year 2008/9

CK 117 -- May 16, 17, & 18 @ Geneva Hills - Lancaster

CK 118 -- Fall of 2008 TBD

CK 119 -- 2009 TBD

CALL TO SERVICE

Please prayerfully consider becoming a sponsor; applications are available on our web site. Also, prayerfully consider whether you would like to serve on a team or perhaps your talents are more administrative and you would like to be considered for a board position. Your help is needed at the reunions, support parties, and weekends.

HELP NEEDED

1. Prayer is needed for the upcoming Koinonia weekend.

2. CHURCHES Needed:

We need places to host reunions; they are held on the 2^nd Saturday of every month. Please contact Randy Menges if for more information about becoming a host church or if you have an interest participating in a reunion.

3. The kitchen trailer needs items such as paper goods. Contact Karmel Yelle if you can help with any of these items.

4. We need people who are willing to serve on the nominating committee and we need individuals who are willing to serve on the Continuance Board. If God has called you to serve or you know someone who may be willing please contact Jim Litt or Regina Edwards.

5. 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 Frank Juszli to help.

6. 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.

For more information, please see last month’s newsletter, or read it online at:

http://www.columbuskoinonia.com

http://www.randymenges.com/Koin/events.php

Musicians and Song Leaders! 

If you are a musician, you are wanted and needed!!!!   If you have not been to a Koinonia event recently, you may be surprised to find that we have updated our songs.  (We have not forsaken the older familiar songs, simply added songs sung in most churches today).  Whether you are familiar with the older songs, the newer songs, or both, you will find something for you! 

 We are also planning a get-together where we will just sit around and do some old fashioned “git picken”, and unplugged worship!  There’s room for everyone to join in! 

We are updating our musicians list, so please call or email Deb Allen.

We are looking forward to hearing from you! 

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NEXT REUNION: February 9, 2008 6:30 - 9:00

BRICE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Hosted by: Judy Foor

Bring a friend and a covered dish

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Annual Square Dance and Reunion: March 8, 2008 5:00 - 8:30

TRINITY FAMILY LIFE CENTER

Hosted by: Pam Larimer NOTE: 5 PM Start!!!!!

Caller: Velma Doyle

Bring a friend, a 2 liter pop, and a covered dish

Koinonia History

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, two Spanish airmen serving in Texas introduced it to the English speaking dioceses of North America. 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.

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.

Psalm 95:6-7