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Sponsorship
Emmaus Ministries takes a different approach to recruitment than many church-related efforts. For its Walk to Emmaus, Emmaus uses a one-on-one method that is more consistent with the movement’s message: sponsorship.
Emmaus Community members want to share the gift of their Emmaus Ministries experience with others; sponsorship provides them a caring, disciplined way to do so, enabling God’s gift of grace to be passed on through the Emmaus movement. The fact that the Emmaus experience passes from person to person reflects the relational nature of God and the manner in which God purposefully reaches out to people through people. The personal character of sponsorship underlines God’s personal care and commitment to each participant. Sponsors help make the Emmaus experience an act of sacrificial love from beginning to end—something more than the usual church retreat or religious education function.
- Good sponsorship uses discernment in inviting or recruiting participants. Good sponsors do not set out simply to recruit anyone with a willingness to attend.
- Good sponsorship is the first act of agape before the Emmaus event ever begins; a participant’s experience of his or her Emmaus Ministries event begins with how the Community handles sponsorship.
- Good sponsorship grounds a healthy, effective Emmaus movement that fulfills its true purpose: continued faith formation of the participants, the development of Christian leaders, and the renewal of the church in ministry.
Walk Applications
Journey is available to young persons between the ages 18-25 that are no longer in high school.
Emmaus is available for women and men at least 18 years old and no longer in high school.