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255 A P P E N D I X O N E Cursillo Chronology August 1944: The first three-day Catholic Cursillo weekend is held in Cala Figuera, Santanyí, Mallorca, Spain. Founded by Eduardo Bonnín Aguiló, the weekend is called “Cursillo of Conquest.” May 1957: The first U.S. Cursillo de Cristiandad is held in Waco, Texas. October 9–11, 1965: The first Teens Encounter Christ is held in Battle Creek, Michigan , at the Sisters of Mercy Lodge. The cofounders are Father Matt Fedewa and Sister Mary Concetta (aka Dorothy Gereke), who had made their Catholic Cursillo and used their experience as a model for the TEC weekend. Sister Concetta has also been active in the Better World Movement (an interfaith, communitarian movement founded by a priest in Rome) and numerous other retreats. 1965–70: Teens Encounter Christ ALIVE retreat weekends, early TEC weekends before the TEC handbook was written and the TEC conference was formed, are held in Lansing, Michigan. 1969: The first Christ Renews His Parish is held in Parma, Ohio, a Catholic, parish -based (not diocese-based like Catholic Cursillos), ecumenical encounter. There is no national webpage, and it is not a “movement,” according to Bob Edwards, one of its founders. 1970: The first official Three-Day National Episcopal Cursillo Weekend in the Episcopal Church is conducted with help from Roman Catholic sponsors in the Diocese of Iowa. 1972: The first Lutheran Cursillo weekends are held in Iowa and Florida. The founders had attended Catholic Cursillo weekends in these two states in 1971 and formed the Lutheran Cursillo modeled after the Catholic Cursillo weekend experience. November 2–5, 1972: The first Tres Dias is held in Newburgh, New York. Founder Dave McManigal had made his Catholic Cursillo a year earlier. Tres Dias is nondenominational and ecumenical. 1974: Rev. Robert Woods, one of the three main initiators of the Methodist Walk to Emmaus, attends a Catholic Cursillo in Peoria, Illinois. 1975: Danny Morris, one of the three main initiators of the Walk to Emmaus, attends a Lutheran Cursillo in Miami Springs, Florida. 1975: The first National Episcopal Cursillo Seminar is held in the Diocese of Dallas. 1975: Tom Johnson, an attorney and Catholic cursillista from Miami, attends an ecumenical Cursillo gathering in Atlanta. September 1976: Kairos Prison Ministry International, is officially formed after Tom Johnson works with Miami-area pastors to organize the first prison Cursillo at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida. 256 Cursillo Chronology 1976: Maxie Dunham, one of the three main initiators of the Walk to Emmaus, attends a Catholic Cursillo in Peoria, Illinois. 1977: The first unofficial men’s and women’s Upper Room (Methodist) Cursillo weekends are held in Peoria, Illinois. The founders (Rev. Robert Woods, Danny Morris, and Maxie Dunham) use Catholic Cursillo handbooks and literature. November 1978: The first official Upper Room Cursillos are held at Belmont United Methodist Church in Nashville, the headquarters of Upper Room Ministries, with help from Peoria, Nashville, and Atlanta Catholic Cursillo communities. The course is Methodist-based but ecumenical. 1979: The first Kairos Prison Ministry International weekend is held in Miami, Florida , with the support of the National Secretariat of Catholic Cursillos. Following this first Kairos weekend, the Cursillo Secretariat asks others who are holding Cursillo weekends in prison to stop using the Cursillo name and join Kairos. 1979: The National Episcopal Cursillo Committee is formed in Atlanta. July 11, 1980: Tres Dias forms as a national organization. John McKinney is elected as first president. Tres Dias is incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in New York State and is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service. 1981: The National Cursillo Center in Dallas informs Upper Room Cursillo that it must discontinue using the word Cursillo in its name because its course is ecumenical. The founders of Upper Room meet and officially change the name to Walk to Emmaus. 1981: The Teens Encounter Christ Conference is formed. Father Jim Brown, Father Matt Fedewa, and Dorothy Gereke (the former Sister Mary Concetta) travel to Rome to present Pope John Paul II with the first TEC manual. 1981: The first Lutheran Via de Cristo Cursillo is held at Cross and Crown Lutheran Church in Atlanta. The Catholic Cursillo Leader’s Manual is used. 1982: The National Cursillo Center in Dallas informs Via de Cristo Cursillo that it must discontinue using the word Cursillo in its name because its course is ecumenical . Members meet and rename the movement Via de Cristo. A minority group maintains the name...

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