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Lay Director: Bill Joyce

Greetings in the name of our Lord!

 

I have wonderful news to share with you.  In mid-November the Secretariats of both the Canton Cursillo Center and the Youngstown Cursillo Center  voted to merge our centers together to create one single Diocesan Cursillo Movement.  I am very pleased that we are now able to combine our efforts for Christ as one unified organization.  This is something that our National Cursillo leadership had encouraged us to do for some time.  Usually within a diocese, there is one Cursillo Center per language.  (English speaking, Spanish speaking, etc.)  I am confident that together we will be stronger and can use our combined experience to evangelize for Christ.

 

As we move forward, let us do our very best to make our Canton brothers and sisters welcome.  In the next few months, we will be scheduling dates for meetings and events designed to bring us closer together.  Christmas parties in both Canton and Youngstown are already in the works..  There has been some discussion about dinners, Grand Ultreyas, and some combined School of Leaders meetings.  From this point on, we will no longer be the Canton Center or the Youngstown Center... we will all be working together.

 

So as to include as many Cursillistas as possible, there may be some meetings that will be held in venues different than we've had them before.  There may be a few bumps along the road as we work to accomplish the merger, so we ask your patience as we proceed.  Please remember that this movement doesn't belong to one city or another... this is Christ's movement... and we are ALL working for him.

 

During the next few months, we intend to expand our current communications to include all Canton Cursillistas.  To do this, we will need to add phone, email and home addresses to our data base so that notifications of meetings, Bible Vigils and other important news can be shared. 

 

Please pray for our Cursillo movement as we move forward.    Remember those potential candidates that are leaders in their environments.  Pray and talk to God about them before talking to them about God.... then Make a friend... be a friend... and bring that friend to Christ.  Consider sponsoring that person to a Cursillo weekend.

 

The Lord has truly blessed us.  I'm very excited for the potential we now have, and we should be aware that to whom much has been given, much is expected.  Let work together to achieve all that we can for Christ.

 

May God bless you for all that you do in His service.

 

DeColores,

Bill Joyce
Lay Director
Cursillo Movement of the Diocese of Youngstown