High School Youth Group
2020-05-03 09:30 - 11:00, 2020-05-10 09:30 - 11:00, 2020-05-17 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Reservoir Church Ministry Center Basement, 15 Notre Dame Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140, United States
Meeting virtually in the month of May.
Reach out to Youth Pastor Tory Tolles for more information.

11:30 Service
2020-05-03 11:30 - 12:50
Our 11:30 Sunday service. You can expect the service to last about an hour and a half. There will be free coffee and bagels!

On Zoom: Mid-Week Communion
2020-05-06 20:45 - 21:00, 2020-05-13 20:45 - 21:00, 2020-05-20 20:45 - 21:00, 2020-05-27 20:45 - 21:00, 2020-06-10 20:45 - 21:00, 2020-06-17 20:45 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting
Join Pastor Ivy Anthony for taking communion together every Wednesday evening. This virtual community 15-minute event welcomes all ages and all elements on hand.
Perhaps you’ll bring to the table bread and wine, gluten-free bread and juice, or cake and whatever other quarantine baking items on hand!
Email ivy@reservoirchurch.org for zoom information.

Poetry Open Mic
2020-05-08 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom Meeting
Calling all poets & poetry enthusiasts! Sign up to share an original or beloved poem over Zoom, or join to listen to some fantastic poetry on a Friday night.
Email matt@reservoirchurch.org to participate by Thursday May 7.

Virch (Virtual Church) Service
2020-05-10 10:00 - 10:50, 2020-05-17 10:00 - 10:50, 2020-05-24 10:00 - 10:50, 2020-05-31 10:00 - 10:50 | Zoom Meeting
Join us for the month of May, continuing our worship and connection with God and each other. The Virch (virtual church) service lasts about 50 minutes and offers snapshots of community life, song, sermon, and prayer. Snacks on your own for now! as we practice social distancing for public love during Covid.
Secure Zoom Webinar information shared through our church’s mailing lists. To join, send an inquiry to info@reservoirchurch.org!

Developing Spiritual Mentors
2020-05-10 13:00 - 15:00, 2020-06-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Reservoir Church – Ministry Center Dining Room
“A friend.. awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.”
– John O’Donohue
This monthly course will provide an introduction to listening, soul care, contemplative practices and spiritual mentorship for one-on-one relational and group contexts. You will learn how to craft and give your spiritual autobiography, as well as experience and teach spiritual practices like Lectio Divina, Ignatian practices and contemplative practices.
The course requires a monthly commitment to attendance, readings and spiritual practice. 2nd Sundays – November 2019 – June 2020. Exception: April 5th replaces April 12th for that month, due to the Easter holiday the following week.
Questions? Email ivy@reservoirchurch.org.
Registration deadline is November 3. Sign up here, using eventbrite.

High School Youth Group
2020-05-24 09:30 - 11:00, 2020-05-31 09:30 - 11:00 | Reservoir Church Ministry Center Basement, 15 Notre Dame Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140, United States
Join other high school students as we play games, share about life, and have fun! We meet in the Ministry Center basement at 9:30 AM most weeks. Please reach out to Tory for more information!

Asian American Meetup
2020-05-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Asian, mixed race, Asian descent, Asian American, all welcome! Let’s get together and connect!
RSVP or questions to lydia@reservoirchurch.org.

GBIO Coronavirus Congregational Campaign
2020-06-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Zoom Meeting
Greater Boston Interfaith Organization is launching a Coronavirus Campaign that include healthcare, decarceration and transitional housing, and mail-in voting.
Join us in organizing a multi-issue multi-congregational work, as we continue to engage Governor Baker, Attorney General Healy, District Attorney Rollins, Senate President Spilka and other leaders. This meeting is open to all, to learn how we’ll do this. You must register PRIOR to the event.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pdeCurTsoGdwpBZvXOyvi2QG-b27K64Lt

Reservoir Covid-19 Town Hall via Zoom
2020-06-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom Meeting
How are you coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? Are you as perplexed as many of us regarding the future of this pandemic?
Join us in a Town Hall (possibly the first of a series) aimed at discussing Covid-19-related issues on Wednesday, June 3, via Zoom. Peter Choo, physician and clinical epidemiologist, will facilitate and be joined by Pastor Steve and Lorraine Helfand-Garcia, MSW, LICSW, to address your Covid-19-related questions. Come for an update on the pandemic and plans Reservoir Church is taking to ensure a safe reopening. Learn how to navigate and care for yourself and loved ones more safely during these challenging times. Time will be set aside for questions and answers during this meeting.
Zoom link shared via Reservoir master email list, or by emailing trecia@reservoirchurch.org.
On a related note, if you are working in a field responding to Covid-19–whether as a medical professional, public health official, home health aide, social worker, mental health professional, academic researcher, biomedical industry, economic analyst, or anything else–we would love to hear from you and learn how we might encourage you and enlist your help in supporting our community. Please let us know by contacting Trecia.

Open Mic Poetry
2020-06-05 19:30 - 20:30 | Online Meeting, MA
Open Mic Poetry Episode 2 is happening! Sign up to read a beloved or original poem, or join to watch and listen as people read some amazing poetry.
Anyone can sign up by emailing Matt at matt@reservoirchurch.org by Thursday 6/4.
Photo by Richard Clyborne of Music Strive.

Online Worship Service
2020-06-07 10:00 - 11:00
We continue our virtual worship services – Virch! – which have been like a weekly reunion for our church community and visitors during Covid-19 outbreak. Each meeting we have Reservoir community announcements, singing, a spiritual practice, and sermon. We also make space to share life through stories and videos – our activism, service, finding life and joy, and sharing grief.
Get the online meeting link by emailing info@reservoirchurch.org. For security purposes please don’t share via social media, but feel free to personally invite family and friends.

Faith Into Action Meetup
2020-06-07 11:15 - 12:30 | Zoom Meeting
Want to learn how to bring your faith into action? We’re following up on our Listening Session to organize together a few issues that we can tackle with our power to bring justice. Join us to get involved!
RSVP for Zoom link to lydia@reservoirchurch.org.

Middle School Youth Group
2020-06-07 20:00 - 21:00, 2020-06-14 20:00 - 21:00 | Online Meeting, MA
Meeting ongoing online, including the month of June!
Reach out to Youth Pastor Tory Tolles at tory@reservoirchurch.org for more information and to join.

Run to the Goal Virtual 5K
2020-06-14 00:00 - 2020-06-21 00:01
Soccer Nights is hosting a Virtual 5K to fundraise for Soccer Nights Care Packages to give out to our neighborhood Soccer Night participants. Run or walk 5K anywhere between Sunday June 14th – Sunday June 21st, and tag your pictures using #racetothegoal5K.
Suggested donation is $30 per participant. *Update: thanks to your generosity, our initial goal of $5,000 was passed and all 5K donations go to our Soccer Nights care package partner, Black Yard Arts! Give your race donation HERE. All donors will get a T-shirt.
Please use this link to register for the Virtual 5K: http://tiny.cc/0a6vpz.
Contact Jenny Pan at pan.j.jenny@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Online Worship Service
2020-06-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Meeting, MA

Soccer Nights Care Package Assembly
2020-06-15 00:00 - 2020-06-19 00:01 | Reservoir Church, 15 Notre Dame, Cambridge, MA, 02140, United States
Help put together our care packages for this year’s Soccer Nights, 2020 Virtual addition. We’ll have socially distanced shifts on our campus to assemble the packages for kids that contain soccer balls, t-shirts, and more.
Email lydia@reservoirchurch.org to get updates about shift dates and times.
