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A Worldwide Marriage Encounter Community’s mission is to support and encourage encountered couples and priests to live fully intimate, responsible relationships and assisting the Worldwide Marriage Encounter movement in renewal in the Church and change in the world. Community is a monthly gathering that provides support of sacramental spirituality through presentations, dialogue, prayer, journeying with others with similar values and reevaluation. Community provides enthusiastic support for the Weekend by being focused on the values and purpose of Worldwide Marriage Encounter. Through Community we hear and act on the final instruction:

Hi!! We’re Joe & Jen Bugajsky, Community Coordinators for
the Lisle/Naperville/Woodridge Community.
This is our monthly newsletter.

Date Encountered	Encountered Couples	Parish	Prayer Couples
June,2008	Russ and Kim Harris	Our Lady of Mercy	Mark and Sue Bonucchi

©Community Schedule©
Community meetings are held the 1^st Friday of every month. Meetings gather at 7:30 p.m. and presentations begin at 8:00.
Please bring a snack to share.

Date	Host Couple	Presenting Couple
OCT 08	ST BEDE THE VENERABLE	ENRICHMENT EVENT
NOV 08	JOE AND JEN BUGAJSKY	John and Betty Schuch
DEC 08	ST JOAN OF ARC	PHIL AND PAULA CROW

Please be sure to mark your calendars for these Marriage Encounter, or Marriage Enrichment Events

DATE	EVENT	LOCATION
OCT 4-5	ENRICHMENT EVENT	?ST. BEDE THE VENERABLE
JAN 2009	COMBINED COMMUNITY MEETING	?
FEB 14TH 2009	WORLD MARRIAGE DANCE	LISLE/NAP/WOODRIDGE IN CHARGE
JULY 2009	SECTION 6~7 CONVENTION	SOUTH BEND INDIANA

REGISTRATION FORMS FOUND AT COMMUNITY MEETINGS OR wwme.org or www.wwmejoliet.org

DON’T FORGET TO INVITE YOUR COUPLE TO COMMUNITY MEETINGS IF YOU WERE A PRAYER COUPLE IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS.

If you are interested in being a Prayer Couple for an upcoming weekend, please call Joe and Jen Bugajsky 630-493-4228

PRAYER COUPLE MAILING ADDRESS:
            Dan and Mary Withrow
            23552 west Feeney
            Plainfield, Il 60544

Please let the Withrows know if you will be dropping off the letters at the hotel instead of mailing them by calling them at 815-436-8529
Please also remember to put your last name and phone number in small print on the back of the envelope so the team couples can easily call you if needed.

©Community News©

THE SEPTEMBER MEETING WAS HELD AT THE GARCIAS. THE EKINS PRESENTED ON FACING NEW CHALLENGES AND OVERCOMING THEM TOGETHER.

New Inviting Coordinators needed for LNW: We are still looking for new Inviting Coordinators. The position can be as much, or as little as you want it to be. Responsibilities would be to try to set up and organize inviting activities (such as “wine and dines” or mass talks) and work with parish reps to monitor bulletin announcements and ME activities in those parishes. We are ready to assist any willing couple who would be willing to take on this position. God is asking you to feed His people. Are you going to share your loaves and fishes?

Positions needed to be filled for the Joliet Area:
The Joliet area is currently looking for a couple for a new position of Media Couple. If you, or a couple that you know has a gift of writing, or is able to make contacts to local area newspapers, radio stations, etc. please let them know of this new need. They are receiving articles written by couples in other areas and would like to see some of this information published in our area. It sounds like the most helpful skill would be knowing how or who to contact at local papers to present the information to

Prayer Couple Reminders: We wish to remind you just how important a job you have as prayer couples. It is up to you to get those couples to come to Community. Make sure that you try to contact them more than once and try to make a connection with them. Invite them to go to the meeting with you and make them feel welcomed at the meeting. You are the way that these couples will stay involved.
We have also been asked by the Winthrows to request that you be understanding, if there is a mistake made regarding prayer couple situations. It has happened that two couples were inadvertently assigned to pray for the same couple, meaning that couple had two couples there to greet them. They had twice the prayers, maybe they needed it! And also they did not get to notify a prayer couple that their couple had left the weekend before they arrived at the hotel. They apologize about these errors, but please be Christian in your treatment of the coordinators. They are doing their best at their job.

Being more visible: Leadership has asked that we think about being more visible. Wear your ME shirts and name tags whenever possible to invite questions. Have brochures and gift certificates tucked into your glove boxes, just in case. Have you been inviting? Dialogue question for you: “Have we done enough as a couple to invite others? HDMAMMF?”

2008 Calendars for sale: We now have the 2008 calendars. They are 10 dollars each. The proceeds go to World Wide Marriage Encounter. The calendars also make a great gift for your prayer couples.

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http://erl.wwme.org/cp/index.php
See this website for all sorts of resources: ERL = Encounter Resource Library. Presentation outlines, Dialogue Questions, Enrichment outlines and ideas, Prayer Couple information, Stations of the Cross for Couples and much, much more can be found on this web site.

.eMatrimony.org
See the new web site for eMatrimony.org - the new electronic version of Matrimony Magazine. It is a wonderful site full of helpful information, articles and links. The site is free. Take this link to their site: http://www.ematrimony.org/index.htm

ME Stickers also available. We have also purchased a number of candle stickers and a few window stickers which we will make available for purchase at community meetings. Candle stickers can be purchased for $0.25 each and window decals for $0.30 each.

©Prayer Requests©
Please keep the following intentions for our local Community in your prayers this month...
- Please send all prayer requests to the Joliet Area Website www.wwmejoliet.org

©Dialogue Question For You©
Expand, enhance and deepen your relationship through dialogue. Dialogue is meant to allow your spouse to share their feelings without being judged or analyzed. Dialogue is not a time to unload or blame.

See eMatrimony for additional Dialogue questions as well

Taken from I Like Being Married, Treasured Traditions, Rituals & Stories Edited by Michael Leach and Therese J. Borchard (Doubleday, 2002)

“People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive.”
-Mother Theresa of Calcutta
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers”
-Ruth Bell Graham

Please be sure to check out the latest news on the Marriage Encounter website. While you are there you can renew your subscription to Matrimony Magazine, buy ME merchandise or find thousands of dialogue questions. http://www.wwme.org/