Reservoir Church

Kids Church
2020-12-27 09:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Online Meeting, MA
Our preschool and elementary aged kids are continuing to meet online each Sunday morning. For more information about our ministry to kids in preschool and elementary years, click HERE.
Preschoolers join for the Godly Play Advent story all month. Children have all they need to tell this story at home with their grown-ups. Kim and Will Messenger host our little ones for these rich times of prayer, singing, storytelling, wonder and blessings. Email kim@reservoirchurch.org for more information.
Dan Archibald hosts our 1st – 5th graders each week. Art making is encouraged as kids Zoom in from home for conversation, worship, prayer and storytelling. Email dan@reservoirchurch.org for more information.

Online Worship Service
2020-12-27 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Meeting, MA
We continue our virtual worship services – Virch! – which have been a weekly reunion for our church community and visitors and will continue through 2020 fall. Each meeting we have Reservoir community announcements, singing to God, a spiritual practice, and sermon.
For Advent 2020, and our sermon series “Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room,” we will visit different characters in the Christmas Story. Each December service will include a participatory aspect, scripture, sermon, and a take-away for us helped by provocative images that stir us to “prepare Him room” as we wait.
We also still make space to share life through stories and videos – our activism, service, finding life and joy, and sharing grief.
You can access our service live each Sunday morning on Zoom Webinar, with interactive congregational chat and links to weekly events. If you join later in the day or week, you can view access the recorded service on our YouTube channel, Cambridge Reservoir Church.
If you have questions, email info@reservoirchurch.org. Feel free to invite family and friends anywhere!

Virtual Kids Church
2021-01-17 09:15 - 10:00, 2021-01-24 09:15 - 10:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Our preschool and elementary aged kids are continuing to meet online each Sunday morning. For more information about our ministry to kids in preschool and elementary years, click HERE.
Preschoolers and Kindergarteners join for the Godly Play story from the Bible. Kim and Will Messenger and Angel Jackson host our little ones for these rich times of prayer, singing, storytelling, wonder and blessings. Birthday blessings also! Email kim@reservoirchurch.org for more information.
Dan Archibald hosts our 1st – 5th graders each week. Art making is encouraged as kids Zoom in from home for conversation, worship, prayer and storytelling. Email dan@reservoirchurch.org for more information.

Online Worship Service
2021-01-17 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-01-24 10:00 - 11:00, 2021-02-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Meeting, MA
We continue our virtual worship services – Virch! – which have been a weekly reunion for our church community and visitors and will continue through 2021 winter. Each meeting we have Reservoir community announcements, singing to God, a spiritual practice, and sermon.
Our four-week sermon series “Stories Jesus Tells Us” will unearth truths and promises within the stories known as parables in the Bible. Each service also make space for us to share life through stories of community involvement, finding life and joy, and grief.
You can access our service LIVE each Sunday morning on Zoom Webinar, with interactive congregational chat and links to weekly events.
If you join later in the day or week, you can view access the recorded service on our YouTube channel, Cambridge Reservoir Church.

Virtual Kids Church
2021-01-31 09:15 - 10:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Our preschool and elementary aged kids are continuing to meet online each Sunday morning. For more information about our ministry to kids in preschool and elementary years, click HERE.
Preschoolers and Kindergarteners join for the Godly Play story from the Bible. Kim and Will Messenger and Angel Jackson host our little ones for these rich times of prayer, singing, storytelling, wonder and blessings. Birthday blessings also! Email kim@reservoirchurch.org for more information. [Note for 1/31: preschool and kindergarteners will not meet, but hear today’s story with their families during our youth- and kid-led service at 10.]
Dan Archibald hosts our 1st – 5th graders each week. Art making is encouraged as kids Zoom in from home for conversation, worship, prayer and storytelling. Email dan@reservoirchurch.org for more information.

Online Worship Service: Youth-led
2021-01-31 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Today is a special youth-led service! Join us as our youth guide us in worship and meditation.
We continue our virtual worship services – Virch! – which have been a weekly reunion for our church community and visitors and will continue through 2021 winter. Each meeting we have Reservoir community announcements, singing to God, a spiritual practice, and sermon.
Our four-week sermon series “Stories Jesus Tells Us” will unearth truths and promises within the stories known as parables in the Bible. Each service also make space for us to share life through stories of community involvement, finding life and joy, and grief.
You can access our service LIVE each Sunday morning on Zoom Webinar, with interactive congregational chat and links to weekly events.
If you join later in the day or week, you can view access the recorded service on our YouTube channel, Cambridge Reservoir Church.

Poetry Night: "Transition"
2021-01-31 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Meeting, MA
It’s a New Year and a new opportunity to jump in on Poetry Night.
We’ll be utilizing the prompt: “transition” this month. Sign up if you’d like to read something original or an old favorite around this theme – and invite a friend!
Email matt@reservoirchurch.org if you are interested.

Virtual Kids Church
2021-02-07 09:15 - 10:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Our preschool and elementary aged kids are continuing to meet online each Sunday morning. For more information about our ministry to kids in preschool and elementary years, click HERE.
Preschoolers and Kindergarteners join for the Godly Play story from the Bible. Kim and Will Messenger and Angel Jackson host our little ones for these rich times of prayer, singing, storytelling, wonder and blessings. Birthday blessings also! Email kim@reservoirchurch.org for more information.
Dan Archibald hosts our 1st – 5th graders each week. Art making is encouraged as kids Zoom in from home for conversation, worship, prayer and storytelling. Email dan@reservoirchurch.org for more information.

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Lent in a Bag: Pickup and Delivery
2021-02-12 11:00 - 14:00, 2021-02-15 11:00 - 14:00, 2021-02-16 11:00 - 14:00, 2021-02-17 11:00 - 14:00 | Reservoir Church Ministry Center Living Room, 15 Notre Dame Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140, United States
You have a Lent gift waiting for you! To get started with special objects for our Lenten observance, stop by and pick up your Lent in a Bag on several days and locations:
Reservoir Church Ministry Center Living Room:
Fri 2/12, Mon 2/15, Tues 2/16, and Wed 2/17 between 11am – 2pm
Home of Scott and Ivy Anthony, 15 Houston Ave., Milton:
Sat 2/13 between 9am – 5pm
Reservoir Church Sanctuary Lobby:
Sun 2/14 between 11:30am – 5pm

If you are unable to pick up your Lent in a Bag, and need someone to drop one off to you we will have delivery available. Fill out this form to request delivery.

Email Trecia with any questions at trecia@reservoirchurch.org.

Lent in a Bag: Pick up and Delivery
2021-02-13 09:00 - 17:00 | 15 Houston Avenue, Milton, MA 02186, 15 Houston Avenue, Milton, 02186, United States

Lent: What is Most Important
2021-02-14 00:00 - 2021-04-04 01:00
Each year, as Reservoir Church we embark on a six-week deep dive in spiritual formation. This year from February 14 – April 4, we will read the Bible’s minor prophets as we seek to reconnect with God and ourselves, grounded in What is Most Important.
We’ll have sermons, a daily Bible guide, weekly embodied spiritual practices, and a special Virch gift for pickup of “Lent in a Bag.”
Join us by emailing info@reservoirchurch.org!

Lent in a Bag: Pickup and Delivery
2021-02-14 11:30 - 17:00 | Reservoir Church – Sanctuary Lounge

Generous Listening: Deepening Your Relationship with God, Yourself, and Others
2021-02-14 13:00 - 15:00, 2021-02-21 13:00 - 15:00, 2021-03-07 13:00 - 15:00, 2021-03-21 13:00 - 15:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Dates: 2/14, 2/21, 3/7, 3/21, 4/11,4/25, 5/9, and 5/23
Time: Sundays 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Guided by Jesus, and a myriad of contemporary voices, you will explore how embodying the way of ‘generous listening’ can usher in healing and a greater sense of belonging to ourselves, to one another, and to God.
This class will require a commitment of attendance (8 sessions), readings, contemplative spiritual practices, and practicums of one-on-one and group spiritual direction.
RSVP at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deepening-your-relationship-with-god-yourself-and-others-tickets-137721335221

Ash Wednesday service (online)
2021-02-17 19:00 - 19:15 | Online Meeting, MA
The official start of Lent happens each year in the middle of the week on a day called Ash Wednesday. So as a community we welcome all to join that evening for a 15-minute service online to meditate and pray together, aided by the ash gifted in our Lent in a Bag.
(If you do not have ash, a lit match put out will work.)
For the online meeting link please email kim@reservoirchurch.org.
Part of our grief this year will include naming loved ones who have died recently. Share names and dates of death to kim@reservoirchurch.org.

Poetry Night
2021-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Poetry Night – Come read your favorite or original poem!
(Or you’re welcome to just come and listen.)
Email matt@reservoirchurch.org for more information.

Listening Campaign Kickoff with GBIO
2021-03-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Meeting, MA
How can we gather collective power towards equity and justice? By listening to one another.
Faith Into Action (FIA) and Reservoir’s Equity Diversity Inclusion (REDI) Team invites you to LISTENING SESSIONS, to share our concerns and build connection. Learn how you can facilitate a Listening Session: Join us on 3/16 7pm for the Listening Campaign kickoff with GBIO (Greater Boston Interfaith Organization), and hear why listening is powerful tool for action.
Save the Date for future meetings:

training on 3/30
meetings throughout April

RSVP to lydia@resrevoirchurch.org.

REDI Team Recruitment for 4 More Weeks!
2021-03-18 08:00 - 17:00
Deadline is April 15 to submit nominations for Reservoir’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion team!
One of our church’s five core values is everyone. (We seek to welcome people in all their diversity, without exception, to embrace a life connected to Jesus and others.) Another is action. (Love for Jesus compels us to act—to seek justice, show compassion, work for reconciliation, and hope for transformation in joyful engagement with the world.) As part of working towards these core values, we formed the Reservoir Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) team in Spring 2019.

The REDI team is a group of Reservoir members with a range of backgrounds working to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion at Reservoir in three main ways:

Evaluation and assessment: through surveys and listening sessions to identify and magnify voices that are underrepresented, or do not feel a sense of belonging in our community and track that over time. REDI Report 2020 available here.
Support and advise the staff and board: based on responses to survey and feedback from the community, proposing recommendations to promote EDI efforts to the staff and board, and provide resources and accountability with organizational decisions such as hiring or representation on leadership.
Operates as a think tank to jumpstart and support EDI programs such as researching strategies for crisis and trauma response, inviting our community to engage in and create diverse and inclusive liturgies, and offer other ideas that serve the community.

REDI has a two year membership commitment, which means that many of the original team members will be stepping down this spring and we are looking for new members to join and replace them.

What we need:
3-5 new people for a 2-year commitment. 2-4 of our current members will also be continuing on for another year to smooth the transition.

You are invited to apply if you are a member or in the process of becoming a member, committed to and invested in the community. All are welcome to apply, and we especially welcome applicants who are people of color, people with disabilities, people who identify as part of the LGBTQ community, people whose first language is something other than English, and those who identify as lower income or working class.
Self-nominations and nominations of others will be accepted. To nominate yourself or someone else, email redi@reservoirchurch.org with a short statement or with a request to talk in person, on why you/they would be a good candidate for the team by April 15th. We will follow up with nominations to schedule a conversation about the role by May 1st. Decisions will be made by representatives from the current REDI Team, Staff, and the Board by June 1st.
Priority will be given to members with experience in diversity and inclusion initiatives and those with trusted spiritual and relational history in our community.
Time commitment is 2 years from June 2021. Usually meeting every six weeks but sometimes more frequently depending on projects or initiatives in process. Communication happens primarily through email averaging about 5 email threads between meetings.

If you have any questions please reach out to redi@reservoirchurch.org. Thank you!

REDI Team Recruitment for 3 More Weeks!
2021-03-25 08:00 - 17:00

Members Meeting
2021-03-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Reservoir Church’s quarterly members meeting. Come hear updates from Steve about what’s on the horizon for spring and summer. Connect with others about our community and vision, and experience the joy even without the potluck!
Meeting link will be shared through our newsletter.
RSVP to trecia@reservoirchurch.org anytime by March 28.

REDI Team Recruitment for 2 More Weeks!
2021-04-01 08:00 - 17:00

Reservoir Easter Services
2021-04-04 06:00 - 11:00 | Online and In-Person Meeting
We are so excited to celebrate the risen Christ as a church community in several ways this year, both in-person and online.
You can participate in a variety of ways:

Online on Zoom, Easter Sunday at 10:00 am (email info@reservoirchurch.org for meeting information)
In-person and socially distanced at one of several small neighborhood gatherings at sunrise, Easter Sunday at 6:00 am (sign-up form shared in our virtual worship services prior to Easter)
Watch our recorded anytime on Easter or afterwards, posted on Reservoir’s YouTube channel HERE.

Check out our YouTube channel anytime to get acquainted with Reservoir’s worship service, community, and events and happenings around Greater Boston!
