CHEC 79 - April 22 - 25, 2010

CHEC 79 will take place at the Italian Cultural Center in Stone Park, Illinois beginning on April 22 through April 25, 2010. A full list of the current team roster is set forth at the bottom of this email. Please help by (a) praying for the Weekend and the team, (b) sponsoring a candidate, (c) volunteering your time as a Cha Cha during the course of the Weekend, (d) attending candlelight and/or (e) attending Clausura. Also please attend Rollo Review Day on March 21, 2010 at 2:30 PM at Church of Our Savior in Elmhurst. Please start writing your palanca, and check the Cursillo website regularly for updates on candidates and the weekend and other matters relevant to the community.

ROSTER OF CURRENT CHEC 79 TEAM MEMBERS

Rectora: Jeanne Top
Observing Rector: Murray Richards

Conference Room: Brenda Marcy, Richard Shields, Martha Furst, David Ohlson, Betsy Swank, Jan Breusch, John Cate, Frank Top, Bob Hill

Coordination: Lynn Giles, Elizabeth Ludescher, Jessica O’Bryan, Taylor St. John

Palanca: Deanne Gibbs-Brown, Ken Baxter, Doug Baddorf, Teresa Hannaman, Trilby Murray

Kitchen: Jeff Eng, Gretchen Bates, Bob Correia, Melody Hendricks Brenda Williams

Fourth Day: Ted Main

Even with all of these people we still need your help. If you are interested in volunteering even some small amount of time during the Weekend, please contact Ted Main at theodore.main@att.net.

FROM OUR SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR:

Rev. Matt Gunter, St. Barnabas

We Wish to See Jesus

Jeanne Top, rectora of CHEC 79 has chosen as her theme, “Show Me What I’m looking For”. The theme reminds me of a the passage in the Gospel of John where some Greeks ask one of Jesus’ disciples a similar question:

Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." (John 12:20-21)

When I was a student at Indiana University in the late 1970’s, there were a couple of sidewalk evangelists who would stake out a high- traffic area of campus and harangue students on their way to and from classes. Often, a group of students formed to harangue them back. The evangelists would warn them against their sins calling them to repent – real “hell fire and brimstone” stuff. The students would heckle them and call out challenging questions. It was quite a show.

As a young Christian, I mostly found it embarrassing. I usually walked past the spectacle with my head down, hoping not to be associated with either side. Once, though, as I sat under a tree within earshot of the debate, one of the evangelists said something that I could not ignore. He made the claim that, since he had become a Christian, he no longer sinned. This idea can be found the “holiness” tradition, mainly among some Pentecostal groups. But I did not know that at the time. And, having listened to this guy for some time, I would not have believed it anyway. So, embarrassed or not, I was fool enough to rush in where angels fear to tread. I got up, walked through the ring of students and said, “Wait a minute.” I pointed out that in 1 John it says that if we say we are without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. The evangelist countered with another text. For a few minutes, with a crowd of students watching on, we played dueling Bible verses. Suddenly, he looked at his watch, said it was time to go, packed up, and left.