Tres Dias Community Highlights
March 16th, 2008
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These are selected excerpts from the highlights form that was sent to every community.
My thanks to all those who responded.
Communities Reporting:
Chatahooghee Valley
Our Secretariat has created a Sponsorship Chair who is responsible for assisting the rectors and Pre-Weekend Couple by securing weekend fee sponsorships for candidates who cannot afford the weekend fee. We also created a Reunion Group Couple who is responsible for encouraging the fostering of new reunion groups and plugging new Pescadores into new and existing reunion groups. Finally, we created a Communication Chair who is responsible for the purchase and maintenance of all audio/video equipment and setup of the equipment prior to each weekend.
An Essentials Training will be facilitated in 2008, but the date is to be determined after the Secretariat elections in March and April.
Positions of the CVTD Secretariat are for three (3) year terms. The secretariat positions are divided into three classes. Elections are held for one-third of the offices (or a class) annually in March or April. Each member of the secretariat agrees to serve until his successor has been duly elected, installed and trained.
Coastal Georgia
We welcome Doug Denison as the new Chairman.
Elections for new officers have been held this year.
Our community continues to thrive and grow. We are seeking to hold an Essentials training in the near future.
Central Savannah River Area
Our community is growing. We are holding men’s and women’s spring and fall weekends. Our community sequela’s are held once a month.
Our first community Essentials training has been completed. We are excited about the information we received and we look forward to implementing some changes.
We hope to move our status from an emerging community to a chartered community soon.
Jamaica TD
We have scheduled an Essential’s training for the month of September. Our fall weekends are also scheduled for September. We are in dire need of money for these weekends. Our costs are very high and our funds are limited.
We have a special project in the works. In an effort to upgrade our campground we negotiated a deal with the Baptist owners. We will invest $59,000.00 in repairs in exchange for a $50,000.00 credit for future Jamaica TD campground fees.
This may prove to be a useful option for other foreign communities.
Music City Tres Dias--
Music City Tres Dias # 12 was a wonderful and blessed set of weekends. Combined we had 83 candidates and 180 team members. Among the team members were about a dozen "Guest Pescadores" from other Tres Dias communities. During an early team meeting we conducted the TDI Essentials training and had 114 people in attendance. Our next weekends will be the end of October and the first weekend in November.
We invite you and representatives from your TD communities to come and experience a weekend with us as part of TDI's "Guest Pescadores Program" adopted by the Policy Committee at the March TDI Secretariat meeting.
MCTD excited about sending a group to Kyiv Ukraine Tres Dias the last of April. We also have a group of Spanish Pescadores who meet this week and pray about holding a Spanish Tres Dias in Tennessee and launching four possible communities in Mexico!
We also have a meeting April 1 about one or two more Tres Dias communities on the east side of Nashville--one out I-40 toward Knoxville and one out I-24 headed toward Chattanooga.
Kyiv Tres Dias--
PLEASE join us for our Men's weekend April 30-May 3 or our Women's May 14-17. We love for our American friends to come and bless us. We are thankful that you brought Tres Dias to the Ukraine, and we want you to come and bless us as we bless you. We love for you to come and see what God has accomplished through your blessings. We are experiencing high inflation in our nation, and we cannot hold weekends without financial support from our American friends and your communities. We will show you our city and tell you have God is blessing our nation. Please contact Wilson Burton who is our American contact. He can answer your questions. Call 615-714-5134 or email huntandfish@comcast.net
We are trying to raise more money in the Ukraine to cover the cost of the weekends this year but we don't know yet how it will come out. We are praying. Ira
Rivne Tres Dias--
VISIT US THIS FALL: Our fall weekends will be the last two weekends in September. We'd love to have you come see what God is doing in Western Ukraine. Don't worry about the difference in language--a hug is still a hug and a smile translates the love of God. PLEASE REALIZE we cannot exist without American support! So whether you come or not, know that we need your gifts to continue Tres Dias. But if you come, we can bless you while you are here and you can see how much we love our brothers and sisters in America. We thank God for your help and support. If you have questions contact Wilson Burton at 615-714-5134 or huntandfish@comcast.net
Russia Tres Dias--
August will be the time for St. Petersburg Tres Dias and YOU ARE INVITED!!! Last year we had TEN AMREICANS that came--four were TDI Secretariat members--PRAISE GOD!!! When Americans come and serve it lets our people know the power of God's love. We praise Him that He would send you so far and at such expense to serve us--what a loving God He is!!!
BRING HIS LOVE and come and share in the ministry we cannot afford to have. The ten Americans got to see our city and with the funds they brought with them we got to hold both St. Petersburg and Voronsch Tres Dias weekends. We love for you to come so we can say THANK YOU!!! Contact Wilson Burton if you want information on coming in August, call 615-714-5134 or email huntandfish@comcast.net
North Georgia TD
Tres Dias of North Georgia has begun an emphasis on Fourth day activities.
We have revitalized our Secuelas so that those who attend are glad they did.
We are working hard to capture our new Pescadores and get them plugged into Reunion Groups. Sponsorship is a reoccurring theme in our communications to the community and our list has grown substantially.
We are in the beginning stages of developing a new TD community - Tres Dias of North East Georgia - in conjunction with our daughter community GMTD. We have held three Secuelas in Athens with another Scheduled for May 17. Our target of 60 founding Pescadores in the region who will commit to 3 years of 2 hours per week to establish the new community is almost complete.
For 25 years now God has allowed us to see first hand the fruit of our labor under His leadership.
It is the eternal return on our investment that makes this all so rewarding.
North Texas Tres Dias
We try to schedule our Tres Dias school just before the secuela. Our next school is scheduled to be held on March 29, 2008.
We also welcome our new president James B. King.
Tres Dias of Northern New Jersey
Our community is healthy and growing. We are currently in preparation for the spring weekends. Our community holds 3 men’s weekends and 3 women’s weekends per year.
We have beginning nominations for new Secretariat members in 2008.
We will be doing a spring Essentials class in and a fall Essentials class in 2008.
Tres Dias of Germany
We welcome William Green as our chairman/president.
We hold 2 men’s weekends and 2 women’s weekends per year.
We also hold 3 to 4 Sequela’s per year.
We would like to hold a Tres Dias school but we have a conflict in dates with the scheduled training in England.
We have recently had our 12th Men’s Tres Dias where a small group of men who experienced the intensity of God’s love. We give God the praise.
Trinity Valley TD
Our community is currently looking at a new campground for our weekends.
We are very excited about our April weekends.
Our community has held two Tres Dias Schools in the past year and we are planning another one in the fall.
South East Texas
We are emphasizing the follow up among each table at the weekend closing.
We are holding a Tres Dias School April 5th, 2008. During the fall team meetings and at the fall Secuela we plan to hold another school.
Our
community is very interested in obtaining the electronic version of the talk
outlines.
United Tres Dias
We are in the process of registering a domain name for our community: www.unitedtresdias.org
We have not yet loaded the contents to the site because they are still in the development stage. We hope to have this completed soon.
We are excited about the following weekends.
United Tres Dias 30- Mar-08 Women’s #9 Chinese Speaking
United Tres Dias 09- Nov-07 Men’s #10 Chinese Speaking
Vancouver
We have just held our Tres Dias school March 7th and 8th, 2008. We have high expectations for the growth of our community.
Vermont
Our tentative weekend dates are around the first two weekends in November.
We are looking to fill our presidential chair and we hope to schedule a TD School in August.