Faith Walk begins on a Thursday evening and ends the following Sunday evening.
The Faith Walk team leading the weekend is composed of former attendees of a
Faith Walk or similar weekend like Discipleship Walk, Great Banquet, Tres Dias, Cursillo or Walk to Emmaus..., who have
volunteered their time for months of preparation by working and praying
together as a unit.
Faith Walk presents the basics of the Christian life and the meaning of living
the Christian ideal and its application in our daily lives.
Faith Walk is centered around lay and pastor talks. Table groups discuss each
talk. Discourse that develops from these discussions makes Christ's teachings
come alive.
The basic atmosphere of Faith Walk is one of love, joy, Christian fellowship,
singing, laughing, and worship. Faith Walk makes future Christian experiences
more fruitful because of the zestful seasoning it brings to all Christian
living.
Faith Walk can be made only once in a lifetime. Therefore, it is not a
substitute for a retreat, nor does it have the individual solitude of a
retreat.
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Just as Christ meets you at your point of need, so Faith Walk is
designed for those who desire to be strengthened in their faith and to be
brought closer to Christ in their discipleship. Faith Walk is for Christians of
all denominations. The weekend is not necessarliy for new believers, but for
those who understand God's grace. It is especially gratifying for those who are
in leadership within the church.
There are weekends for men and women. If you are married, the husband is encouraged to
attend first. Wives usally attend a week or two later. It is helpful if each attendee has been
encouraged by someone who has previously attended a Faith Walk or similar
weekend.
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Faith Walk is designed for those who desire to strengthen their faith and be brought closer to Christ.
It is for all Christian denominations and is best described as a planned Weekend to encourage continued spiritual growth
in your personal relationship with Christ. A large number of those who have attended the Faith Walk Weekend have experienced
a strengthening of their walk. They encounter His love in a dynamic way and are encouraged to help one another live and grow
in the Christian life and to become more active in the local church God has placed them. Faith Walk itself began in 2001,
when the Lord began to draw people from many different similar weekends to Bartlett, Tennessee. As they began to pray together,
the Lord began to show them the need for a weekend that would impact individuals and send them back to their local churches to
serve. Thus, the dream of Faith Walk began. The purpose from the beginning would be "to strengthen and develop leaders in all
Christian churches".
But three seemingly insurmountable challenges would surface. First, they would need at least 35 people who had gone through a weekend to serve as the Weekend Team. Second, they would need a little over nine thousand
dollars to purchase the initial supplies. Third, they would need another community to come along side them and help create a Faith Walk Manual which would serve to define and guide the Weekend activities. Within a year, the
Lord miraculously provided all three in ways that were so unusual that it could have only been accomplished by a sovereign God! Discipleship Walk of Memphis, TN, came along side. Half of the Faith Walks #1 and #2 Teams (Oct 2003)
were made up of Discipleship Walk members. There were 16 male and 16 female Believers who attended the first and second Faith Walks, respectively. And donations were received which allowed for the purchase of Weekend supplies.
The birth of Faith Walk had taken place and the spirit of God had moved in a powerful, strong way – and beyond their wildest dreams!!!
Today, the Faith Walk Team leading the Weekend is composed of members from over 100 churches, 17 different states and 3 different countries. We have only just begun and we believe we can play a role in strenghtening the body of
Christ around the world. Those who have volunteered their time by serving on a Faith Walk team have prepared by working, training, and praying together as a unit. The Faith Walk Weekend begins on a Thursday evening and ends
on Sunday afternoon. The Weekend is centered around lay persons' and pastors' talks. Table groups discuss each talk, where the discourse that develops from these discussions makes Christ's teachings come alive. There are also
chapel services designed to give the Believer a chance to experience forgiveness, and other events that show the Believer tangible evidence of God's love. The basic atmosphere of Faith Walk is one of Christian love, joy, introspect,
fellowship, singing, laughter, and worship.
Faith Walk is not intended to be a 'mountaintop experience', but a life-changing encounter with God that will send the Believer back to his family, friends, work, and church to be a better disciple of Christ.
Doing so, Faith Walk takes the Believer from Believer to Disciple to Disciple Maker.
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