This Sunday we are having our first gathering. I am very excited about this gathering because we will see some people we haven't seen yet, but are interested in Watermark. This area is very Sunday morning focussed and there are people (I hope!) interested in Watermark, but waiting until Sundays launch. This summer is an awesome time of weening people off the "church is an event or building" mentality. We are emphasizing that "we are the church." Our motto is "i am watermark."

We have a ton of stuff to do - little junk, but time consuming. We are spreading out the stuff to others and the trick will be kids. Everyone wants to be at our first gathering (even though it won't be our regular gathering set up) so we are attempting to have some outside help Sunday so people can participate. We are praying like crazy for a volunteer kids director, but we have a great leader overseeing kids until we can get the right hands on person.

Anyways - I have an incredible team of people leading this body. Let me quickly give you a run down of our "staff" team:
> Nate Smith is the Ministries guy. His main responsibility is setting the vision and
implementation of children, youth and community influence.
> Mike Morgan is the Worship dude. He designs and implements the musical worship experience.
> Steve Thompson is the Groups man. He makes the small groups go round.
> Me - Steve Deur is the Lead fella.

We have some OUTSTANDING core members! I will let you know more about them in the future! I am most excited about seeing our core members leading and developing ministries.

Anyways - have an epic day!

Steve