Maundy Thursday Worship Service

Join us on Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 pm for a special Maundy Thursday worship service. The night looks to be unlike anything we have ever done before, so come with no expectations except to meet with God and worship Him.

CURE International Offering

Because we are in the middle of a teaching series on practical Christianity during our Thursday Gatherings, we want to follow through with what we are learning. James 1:27 tells us to care for widows and orphans, in other words, the underprivileged who perhaps feel unloved. We want to reach out to some underprivileged people who might feel unloved because of a physical deformity.

On April 5, the night of our Maundy Thursday Worship Service, we will be taking an offering to raise $2,000 to sponsor one surgery through CURE International, an organization that is helping kids in third world countries have a new lease on life through life-changing surgeries. If you have any questions about CURE International, visit their website, or talk with Amy Arp.

If you want to donate online ahead of time, please use this link, and click on "Sponsor Me" so we can know how much of the $2,000 we have raised.

Most popular young adult websites

I just saw this morning on the Church Relevance blog that Facebook is the most popular website among 17-25 year olds. Even if you aren't in this age range, what is your most popular website?

Mar 1 Gathering - CANCELLED!

As you can see on the Watershed home page, tonight's Worship Gathering has been CANCELLED due to the weather. Even though it is just wet right now (I was just out on the roads and thought we should be able to go tonight), Kirkwood has cancelled all classes after 5:00 pm (we have used them in the past to help us make cancellation decisions), plus the radar at this moment seems to be showing the storm to be swirling back to the south as it heads east, meaning the part of the storm that has closed down I-80 between Omaha and Des Moines is headed our way.

So enjoy the night tucked in at home. Stay warm, and get ready to hear Andy next week on the topic of "The Heart of God".

The Heart of God

Tonight (weather permitting) and next Thursday we have the awesome privilege of having Andy K share with us a two part series on "The Heart of God".

Andy has spoken for us before, way back in the day when we gathered in the New Covenant basement. If you have never heard Andy speak, do whatever you can to get to tonight's AND next week's gatherings. Andy shares passionately from his heart and from the Scriptures. Our hope is that some of Andy's passion oozes onto you and you will leave each Worship Gathering moved to have your heartbeat get in sync with God's.

Andy is on staff at Parkview Church in Iowa City, helping out with 24-7 and outreach. He is a popular workshop speaker at the Main Event conference every fall as well as a speaker for Perspectives. He is the husband of Jamie and father of 3 (one who went to be with Jesus before birth, and new twins (a boy and a girl) born last summer).

The Next Young Adult Generation

Erin here. I will try not to do this very often, but I thought some of you might be interested in some recent surveys that have been released in the past couple months that I posted about on my personal blog. The only reason I am linking is because it has to do with the next generation of young adults and I don't want to recreate the post over here. Some of the survey results were startling to me and might be to you as well.

As I said on my blog, these results concern me, but also motivate me. And I am glad that God has Watershed here in Cedar Rapids at this time to help address the issues raised in these reports. But it is going to take a group of people moving in step with the flow of the Holy Spirit to help reach the young adults of Eastern Iowa for Christ. Will you step into the flow with us?

Life For God forum

For those of you missing the "good old days" with the Watershed forum, you might want to know that Joe Clark and some others have gotten a "Life For God Cedar Rapids" forum up and running. If you enjoy discussing theology, sharing prayer requests, playing games, or just interacting with other young adults online, then join the Life For God forum.

Thanks, Joe (and whoever else helped), for getting that forum going!