The Walk to Emmaus is a spiritual renewal program intended to strengthen the local church through the development of Christian disciples and leaders. The program's approach seriously considers the model of Christ's servanthood and encourages Christ's disciples to act in ways appropriate to being "a servant of all."

• Each group should take agape action.
  
• Prepare ahead of time what to say; bring something to share
  
• Try to have every person in the group speak on a section rather than having each person go through the entire 'Order of the Reunion' at once.
  
• Be regular. The group must meet weekly and everyone should be present.
  
• Avoid digressions and irrelevant details. Go through the 'Order of the Reunion' (Yellow service sheet received with your cross on Sunday afternoon) before general visiting. Don't go beyond an hour, unless otherwise agree to and/or when agape gifts are being made afterwards.
  
• Be discreet. Never betray the rule of discretion.
  
• Be sincere. Without sincerity a lack of trust will develop.
  
• Periodically evaluate the success of your accountability group, and discuss how it could be improved.
  
• A group should preferably not be more than 12 people. The individuals can also decide among themselves whether it would be a male/female mixed group or separated into male/female groups.

• The sections on the Service sheet of Spiritual Life, Your Study and Your actions can become a check-list for the group to encourage members to be accountable to each other in order to maintain growth in each of these areas.
  
• Ask members (or if pre-arranged, one member) to share at what point during the past week they felt Closest to Christ.
  
• Share briefly on your Call to Discipleship.
  
• Share briefly on failures when Discipleship was denied. Sharing our failures enables us to learn from each other and to receive encouragement from the group.
  
• Group members can share about any Plans or vision anyone may have and how they are going to implement those plans during the coming week or over a longer period. The group can decide on how they can best support this person whilst holding him/her accountable to implement the plan.
  
• Discuss different ideas for your Accountability Group Activities, e.g. discussing together whom to spiritually sponsor for the next Walks (the group can also for example collect R10 per month from each member to financially sponsor a pilgrim or a team member to work on a walk), the making of agapé gifts, service projects, outreach, banner making, participating in Prayer vigils, etc.
  
• Pray for one another in your group - ask about any specific needs.
  
• Close by saying the Prayer of Thanksgiving together.