Accountability Groups
	Once you have been on an Emmaus Walk, it is imperative that you join, or start your own accountability group. This will not only keep you in touch with likeminded Followers of Jesus, but also ensure that you are accountable to and for each other. It will keep you warm within the Body of Christ. This is where you will also (as in your Church) be part of a group of people whom you will be able to trust, to lean on in times of hardship, to rejoice with when you, (or they) are blessed and with whom you can be totally honest. Where you can encourage and be encouraged and where you can build each individual in the group. We will endeavor to give you some guidelines as to how an accountability group could (or should) operate. These guidelines will especially help those of you who consider starting your own accountability group. Every accountability group is unique and the people in them makes them even more unique. An accountability group is not to have a chit-chat every once in a while or sit discussing our unfriendly neighbours and their dogs, (a good Afrikaans word to use here is 'skinder'). It is to grow individuals in their faith, in their walk with God and to equip them to serve God better than before in their own Communities and Churches. This is the whole purpose of Emmaus, isn't it? Our accountability groups should help and support us to become the person God want's us to be. This we can only do in God's strength, but our accountability group will help us along the way. A good Accountability group Each group should take agape action. Prepare ahead of time what to say; bring something to share Try to have every person in the group speak on a section rather than having each person go through the entire 'Order of the Reunion' at once. Be regular. The group must meet weekly and everyone should be present. Avoid digressions and irrelevant details. Go through the 'Order of the Reunion' (Yellow service sheet received with your cross on Sunday afternoon) before general visiting. Don't go beyond an hour, unless otherwise agree to and/or when agape gifts are being made afterwards. Be discreet. Never betray the rule of discretion. Be sincere. Without sincerity a lack of trust will develop. Periodically evaluate the success of your accountability group, and discuss how it could be improved. A group should preferably not be more than 12 people. The individuals can also decide among themselves whether it would be a male/female mixed group or separated into male/female groups. We do appreciate that very few pilgrims may remember that they actually held a 'mock accountability group' during the project time after the Perseverance talk on Sunday! Therefore, we will give you the outline of that mock accountability group herewith. Mock Accountability group The weekly Accountability Group usually lasts an hour (or more if singing, love feast or Accountability group activities are included). The convener of the group, or appointed person, lead the Group in praying the "Prayer to the Holy Spirit" on the back of the Service Sheet (Yellow card received with your cross on the Sunday of your walk). The sections on the Service sheet of Spiritual Life, Your Study and Your actions can become a check-list for the group to encourage members to be accountable to each other in order to maintain growth in each of these areas. Ask members (or if pre-arranged, one member) to share at what point during the past week they felt Closest to Christ. Share briefly on your Call to Discipleship. Share briefly on failures when Discipleship was denied. Sharing our failures enables us to learn from each other and to receive encouragement from the group. Group members can share about any Plans or vision anyone may have and how they are going to implement those plans during the coming week or over a longer period. The group can decide on how they can best support this person whilst holding him/her accountable to implement the plan. Discuss different ideas for your Accountability Group Activities, e.g. discussing together whom to spiritually sponsor for the next Walks (the group can also for example collect R10 per month from each member to financially sponsor a pilgrim or a team member to work on a walk), the making of agapé gifts, service projects, outreach, banner making, participating in Prayer vigils, etc. Pray for one another in your group - ask about any specific needs. Close by saying the Prayer of Thanksgiving together. When you and/or your sponsor cannot find an accountability group in your area for you to join and you start your own, kindly inform the Board member with this portfolio of this, supplying the name of the group, the members name, addresses and contact numbers. We also require the name of the convener of the group. After a while the group may grow 'tired' following the same questions week by week. Introduce some variety in the way you ask the questions. Rotate the responsibility to ask the questions - an accountability group does not have one leader as such, even though a convener is important. If you continually sponsor pilgrims on subsequent Walks, you will always be refreshed by their vitality, as you will when you support your members working on forthcoming Walk teams. So, dear followers of our Lord and Saviour, go forth and grow daily closer to God and in your faith. Lead men, women, young adults and our precious children to God by your example and by the 'quality of your walk, not the quantity of your talk'. Step out in faith and be obedient. God will lead, protect and strengthen you as you serve Him, ever drawing closer to Him. God Bless and keep you and yours. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   DOLPHIN COAST   Area Group Name Contact person Contact Number Darnall Nkwazi Basil Hagemann 032-4861425 Stanger Sugarlorus Debbie Hammond 032-5523304   DURBAN   Area Group Name Contact person Contact Number Durban North Betalores Bruce Woolley 076-3023332 Glenwood FROADIE-LORES Bruce  Green 031-2052075 / 083-7782075 Westville Tabitha Carol Brebner 031 -262 3794 / 083 409 8306 Berea Count On Us Colleen Botes 031-2095861 Morningside Morningside Manne Donald Dallas 031-2071606 Durban North Trinity Heidi  Muller (031) 5641254 ; 082 788 7314 Durban North Trinity Julia Eksteen 079-495 0746 Westville Westville Night watch June and Duncan Haskell 031-2666725 Berea Plunge Lesley Hodsdon 031-2054926 Montclair Mountain Lights Linda Wood 031-4693846 Pinetown Nkosi Kids Liz  Castleden 031-7021065 Morningside Durban Lights Malcolm Thomas 031-5620127 Morningside Amor de Dios Manfred Kohrs 031-3125769 Kingsway The Kings Way Margie de Beer 031-9161578 Westville Westville Warriors Mervyn & Shelley Reed 031-2664129 Musgrave Bubblelores Neville & Colleen Parathyras 031 2013001 Bluff Mizpah Pam Reid 031-4665542 Hillcrest Hillcrest Accountability Peter and Mary  Swindell 031-7771437 Central KZN Angels Rose Tree 031-5620311 Kloof Highway Saints Sarel Broodryk 031-7673804 / 083-2849022 Kloof The Mustard Seeds Tricia Alcock 031-7644336   MIDLANDS   Area Group Name Contact person Contact Number Camperdown Rainbow Chicks Doug Steyn 031-7851419 Howick Rainbow Falls Glenda Fowle 033-3303079 Ixopo Twin Streams Heather  Foster 039-8341040 New Hanover Cackle-Lores Lorna Ballance 033-5011582 Crammond Lay Colores Sue McClelland 033-5690055 / 084-5069519 New Hanover Sandy Mount Tracy  Woerner 033-5012082 (H) / 083-4361750   NORTH COAST / ZULULAND   Area Group Name Contact person Contact Number Emangeni Christaloris Brian  Pitcher 035-3921258 Westbrook El Shaddai Bunny Cuthbertson 083 632 2658 Eshowe Eshowe Doug Summer 035-4741222 Melmoth Jubilee Hillbillies Karen Miller 035-4502951 Richards Bay Bay Caloris Maria Habgood 035-7893477 Mtunzini Thamela sheila Worsnip 035-3401210   OTHER   Area Group Name Contact person Contact Number No records   PIETERMARITZBURG   Area Group Name Contact person Contact Number Table Mountain Walk in the Light Bruce and Heidi Taylor 033-3904538 Scottsville PMB The Sowers Cheryl Pratt 033 (h) 3961151 (w) 2605948 Central Roosters Corrie Meintjies 033-3471299 Central Dos Colores Joan Townsend 033-3460332 Central Shepherd's Flock Kirby McCall 033-3443021 Central Shalom Lucy Fryer 033-3861750 Central The Sheep Lynn Warr 033-3472267 Pietermaritzburg Clay Jars Mike Tivers 033-3861532 Central The Eagles Nigel Warr 033-3472267 Central Wesley Roy Short 033-3861386   SOUTH COAST   Area Group Name Contact person Contact Number Uvongo Sardilores Bush and Babs Sansbury 039-3120840/ 083-5801342 Margate Hibiscus Elize Georgiades 039-3172225 / 082-3743612 Port Shepstone Twenilores Hans Basel 039-6791610 / 0721490225 Port Edward Lighthouse Roy Alport 039-3131899   SUNSHINE COAST   Area Group Name Contact person Contact Number Scottburgh Scottalores Rose Osborne 0724471147         Prayer Vigils for Walks    Walk 87 Men - Click here to add your name Walk 88 Ladies - Click here to add your name Walk 89 Alarga (Mixed) - Click here to add your name Prayer Vigils for Flights    No current Flight Prayer Vigils Available Emmaus Wish List   Please can you help with   the following items:   There are no wish items. 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