Sunday evening, the servant hearts of our Journey students were on display as they spent their time together picking up trash and garbage along E Avenue. They had some fun, also! Playing 4square by the light of the cars.
Our Coffee Shop is planning to reopen Oct 18, but we need more volunteers to continue for the weeks ahead. Please email Jennifer using the form below or text Jon at 319-721-2447 if you are interested in helping. New trainees will sign up to shadow other volunteers for a week for their training. We’ll teach you everything you need to know!
Call for Nominations
Each year we nominate individuals of our congregation for positions of leadership. We believe that leaders are called to serve and our members are a key part of the discernment process in determining who that will be.
Please nominate any member, 21 years of age or older, whom you feel is gifted to provide leadership as an Elder or Deacon. Elders and Deacons provide for the spiritual care and oversight of the congregation and serve together with the pastors on the Consistory, the governing board of our congregation.
Please send your nominations by Sunday, October 11 using the form below:
Tech Team Training – Oct. 1, 4-8pm. Please let us know if you are attending using the form below.
With the installation of the new sound and video system comes a bigger demand for Worship Tech Team volunteers. Do you have an ear for music? Do you like all things computer? Would you describe yourself as the family tech-guru? Do you have a heart for volunteering? Or maybe you have a background in video/lighting? Maybe you were a part of the tech crew in high school drama team?
If any of these things describe, the Worship Tech Team might be something you would enjoy.
Once the new sound system is installed, we’ll be scheduling official training sessions for all current tech team members and those who express an interest in tech team. The beautiful thing being – we’ll all be learning a new system together.
If interested or if you just want more information, contact Scott using the form below.
PRAYER MEETING TONIGHT
Join us for prayer at the church, 6:30pm. Stop in for as much or as little as you are able. We will meet in the Gathering Space.
VOLUNTEER – MATTHEW 25 WORK GROUPS
With all of the recent storm damage and urgent needs caused by it, Matthew 25 is refocusing the August 31 – September 4 Transform Week to derecho repair projects, targeting low-income homeowners with damage that won’t be covered by insurance as well as clearing of trees and removing debris from homes. PARTNER WITH MATTHEW 25 this week.
SUNDAY CLASSES RESUME SEPT. 13
Our Fall season of ministry will begin Sunday, September 13. Classes for ages 3 to adult will be open, as well as the nursery. Help us plan by registering the whole family for this new season of ministry. READ MORE
REGISTER NOW FOR CLASSES
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The work continues on the storm clean-up. A number of groups have been coming and going from the church since last Monday’s storm.
Steve Poole has coordinated multiple groups this last week, addressing over twenty trees on the Oberembt property, cutting up and hauling away brush, clearing walkways. And the work didn’t stop at just our church members. Many times the groups also addressed the neighbors to the properties they were visiting.
In one instance, the neighbor was a single lady who living alone. Her driveway had been cleared just enough to get her car out, but Steve’s group addressed the other 3-4 trees that had fallen across the sidewalk and street. “She was very grateful because she didn’t know where she could turn for help.”
Former staff member Jeremy Van Genderen brought a crew Monday morning from Trinity Reformed Church in Allison, Iowa to assist in the clean-up. Their church sent cases of water, handmade sandwiches, chips and cookies for us to distribute as needed. We were able to bless the apartment buildings on the SW side of Cedar Rapids that took a major hit from the storm with these offerings of food and water.
We have a need to walk the grounds and continue to pick up debris around the church. We’re planning a quick pizza lunch around 12:05 after the second service this Sunday, August 23. We will then walk the property to finish the cleanup of debris. Come and help — bring gloves, sunscreen, work shoes/boots.
The Open Hands Food Pantry is reopening today to serve anyone in need of food. They will be open until 12pm.
Welcome to the New Members who have completed the membership class. They joined at the July 26 service.
The following individuals were also baptized: Bernice Coleman (adult); Zac Goodall (19 year-old) and Lucas Goodall (6-year-old); Tom McFarlane (adult),and McFarlane Family children: Reid Doyle (9-year-old), Matt McFarlane (9-year-old), Wyatt McFarlane (8-year-old), Emma McFarlane (6-year-old), and Ryan Doyle (5-year-old).