How to Work on a Walk to Emmaus Weekend

Remember your experience when you went on your walk? Do you want to relive that experience? You only have one walk as a pilgrim, but you can spend a lifetime as a servant of Christ. Opening the eyes and hearts of others by showing His love. Here is how to get involved.

I just came off a walk and am ready to return to the conference room.

That’s great! The community is grateful to have members with servant hearts. However, jumping right back in as an inside team member rarely happens. It is best to develop a servant's heart through service. Remember that someone was there to take your bags to your room. If you didn’t make your bed in the morning, it was somehow neatly made when you returned, and of course, there was the agape on your pillow each time you returned to your room. How about the food that just appeared during break times, not to mention the meals?

An angel for a day

Angels quite likely carried out these and other tasks. An Angel is a member of our Emmaus community who has devoted themselves to serving behind the scenes at a Walk to Emmaus. Angels typically serve only for the day, and sometimes may serve for more than one day at a time. Angels pay a fee for the day's meals and an additional fee if overnight lodging is required. Please get in touch with the appropriate Team chairperson below for more information about serving as an Angel.

Serving on the outside

The next progression step is to serve on the outside team. You must be involved in a reunion group to be eligible to work on a team for a walk weekend. You will be present as an outside team member for the entire weekend. Although you are not involved with the conference room activities, you directly impact the pilgrim’s Walk to Emmaus experience. The pilgrim notices that everything appears. The coffee is made, the conference room is tidy, the meals are hot, and the drinks are cold. However, they rarely get to see who does all of this preparation. As far as they know, everyone involved in the weekend is inside the conference room with them.

Another Walk on the inside

Ask anyone who has ever served on an inside team, and they will say that it is almost like being on a walk again for the first time, only better. Why? While they know what is going on, they get to experience the same love of Christ at the same time as the pilgrims. They get to see the changes, the opened eyes, the fire beginning to burn in the pilgrims' hearts.

Initially, you will serve as an Assistant Table Leader (ATL). On subsequent walks, you may serve as an ATL again, or you may be called to serve as a Table Leader (TL). Once you have been a TL, you can work as an Assistant Lay Director (ALD). You could work any of these positions more than once, and finally, a Lay Director (LD) when God calls. You can serve as an LD only once. It is a gratifying experience as you pray over every team member and pilgrim for months leading up to your walk as an LD and then see the results of your prayers as the love of Christ transforms the pilgrims and prepares them for their 4th days.

All inside/outside team members pay the same fee as pilgrims when working a walk as there are lodging costs, food and supplies for everyone on the walk.

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