February 2023 TVTD Newsletter

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GREETINGS TVTD Community! 

The Heart & Hands of Christ
TVTD Team 2023!

The next Team Meeting is this Saturday, February 4th, at 9:00 am held at Payette United Methodist Church. We hope to see you there if you have made a commitment to serve as a Team Member for the 2023 #12 Treasure Valley Tres Dias Weekends in April. 

We know that prayerful consideration on your part brought you to accepting the position offered to you by your Rector. Each Team Member is important to the Weekend's success. 

"If one part of the body suffers, every part suffers with it; If one part is honored, every part rejoices with it" - 1 Corinthians 12-26

A Tres Dias weekend is a wonderful example of the Body of Christ working toward a common purpose - to glorify God! The weekend is the most effective instrument of His grace when each task is performed under the leadership of the Rector and with the heart and hands of Christ. 

Although a team member receives ministry and blessings during this time of service, the weekend and its activities are centered on the candidates. While each team member has a unique role to fulfill, there are some tasks that are shared. These shared tasked can be divided into three categories:

• Team Building - preparing for the weekend
• Participating in the weekend
• Celebrating the weekend

We are praying for all of you that have committed to serve and ask our whole community to cover our team, rectors, weekends with continued prayer as we prepare.

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​RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE TALKS 

Did you ever realize that the Tres Dias Weekend talks, while many, are really just one BIG talk? Here is an explanation about their relationship to each other and the beautiful path they take throughout the weekend:

Clergy Talks
The first clergy talk, Grace, defines the Christian ideal to be the Life in Grace. It further defines Life in Grace to be a personal relationship with God.

The remaining clergy talks explore ways of maintaining and strengthening that relationship.
The Rollo on                                                   Says that the relationship is maintained
Holy Spirit                                               By help from God and through our brothers
Sacred Moments of Grace                   Through union with Christ Himself, and through                                                                     the special aids He instituted.
Obstacles to a life in Grace                 Through prayer, denial of self, spiritual direction,
                                                                  etc., to avoid the pitfalls of sin, the alternative to
                                                                  grace.
Life in Grace                                           By making a specific commitment to pious
                                                                   practices, to study, to action, to growth in the
                                                                    relationship.

Another way of looking at the clergy talks is to group them into talks concerning  living grace and talks concerned with overcoming difficulties and barriers to a fuller life in grace.







Lay Talks
Although the Fourth Day talk is usually given by a layman, it is logically grouped with the clergy talks because it deals with overcoming obstacles to perseverance in the Life in Grace. This grouping leave nine talks – three each day – to the “lay talks”
category.

The talks of the first day are PERSONAL and INTROSPECTIVE, growing toward the third day talks, which are COMMUNAL in nature.

The level of personal testimony, witnesses, and evangelism in each talk increases during each day. The first talk of each day is basically intellectual, and the final talk of each day is a personal witness talk.

The first talk of each day appeals to the mind or intellect, the second to the will, and the third to the heart. Stated another way, the first talks deal with understanding; the second talks deal with commitment; and the third talks deal with love. The weekend must come to each candidate at all three levels.

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The relationships depicted in this chart are not absolute, but they indicate the trend of talks on the Tres Dias weekend. “Less witness” does not mean “no personal references”, and “more witness” does not mean “forget the outline”. The Piety talk is the first “heavy witness” talk and, therefore, its witness is very important; however, the Leaders and Total Security talks will normally contain as much (or even more) personal witness than Piety. Study is a “head talk” like Ideal, but it can contain such
things as introductory prayers and personal views on religion, which are normally excluded from Ideal.

The talk outline identifies the points to be made in each talk, and the general approach to the talk; however, each talk must be a personal sharing between the rollista and each candidate, not a recitation. Therefore, the primary job of the rollista is to relate the talk outline to his own life, whether on an intellectual level (first talk) or on an emotional level (third talk), in such a way that the candidate understands what the subject of the talk means to the rollista.

The Treasure Valley Tres Dias Secretariat is a group of people that have dedicated themselves to service to a board that is the governing body of the community. The Secretariat is responsible to the Community and its overall health.

The commitment to serve on the Secretariat ensures that our Treasure Valley Community of Tres Dias will continue! Continue for the purpose of Glorifying God!

We need some positions filled and are asking you to search your heart for God's calling to you to serve.

Open Positions:
Treasurer: click on link to read more
Men's Leader: click on link to read more
Spiritual Director: a non-voting person qualified to act as Head Spiritual Director for a Tres Dias Weekend.

Please search your hearts and pray for these positions to be filled.
Your Secretariat
President: Garry Phelps
Vice-President: Ken Phelps
Secretary: Angie Meyer
Treasurer: Chrystle Fuentes (temporary), Praying
Men's Leader: Praying
Women's Leader: Adele Crownover
Fourth Day: Nancy Kolar
Spiritual Director: Danny Crego
​Communications: Jean Hershey