Healing the Heartland

Watershed is partnering with Serve the City and other area organizations to serve our community at the "Healing the Heartland" festival coming up Jun 12 - 14. We will be helping primarily with the Friday night BBQ at Taylor School (720 7th Ave SW in Cedar Rapids).

Watershed will be helping out in two separate events. The first will be on Saturday, June 6th. We will meet at Taylor School at 9:45am and deliver fliers in the Taylor neighborhood. We should be done with this activity by 11:30am.

The second event is the BBQ itself on Friday, Jun 12th. We will be helping at Taylor from 4:00pm - 9:00pm. Our areas of service will include cooking, serving food, and just mingling with others there. If you're not able to stay for the full time, feel free to sign up for whatever part you can be there.

We also have two specific requests for the event on Jun 12th: we need someone with a pickup truck to pick up our food and supplies at River of Life at 3:45pm and bring them to Taylor. We also need someone to be the DJ for the evening -- someone with a good selection of uplifting music and who likes putting together inspiring playlists.

We are looking for as many volunteers as possible for both of these activities. If you can help, please sign up by contacting Joe Clark. Thanks!

Summer 2009 Schedule

It's summer! Along with everything else, that also means that Watershed's meetings are going to be on a different schedule than the rest of the year. In June, July, and August:

1st Thursday of the month: 7:30 at Maranatha
2nd Thursday or Saturday of the month: Service Project (details to be announced)
3rd Thursday of the month: 7:30 at Maranatha
4th Thursday of the month: Meet at a park (details to be announced)

July has five Thursdays again this year. So far nothing has been planned for that Thursday. If you're the type that plans six months in advance, I apologize. When plans get made, they will be announced. (Have a great idea? Share it by posting a comment or contacting the leadership team.)

To make things a bit easier, here's the schedule broken out:

June 4 - 7:30 at Maranatha
June 11 - Healing the Heartland service project Friday/Saturday (details to come)
June 18 - 7:30 at Maranatha
June 25 - Palisades-Kepler State Park, Shelter #1 (Bring-your-own-food grilling and hanging out at 6:30PM; worship at 7:30PM; fire and hanging out afterwards)

July 2 - 7:30 at Maranatha
July 9 - Service Project - TBA
July 16 - 7:30 at Maranatha
July 23 - Park (to be announced)
July 30 - ?????

August 6 - 7:30 at Maranatha
August 13 - Service Project - TBA
August 20 - 7:30 at Maranatha
August 27 - Park (to be announced)

Details that are as-yet unknown, like the July and August service projects and parks, will be announced on the blog and at the Thursday gatherings. The first Thursday in September will mark our return to meeting every Thursday at Maranatha.

Notes:
"Maranatha" means the building we are currently meeting in, though "Maranatha Bible Church" is moving out and "Neighborhood Church" is moving in.
"Summer" is one of those words that is very strange to look at after typing it a few times.