Join us as we gather tomorrow morning at 10:30 am to celebrate this Advent season! It is a time for observing the ultimate arrival, the coming of Christ into the world.

We hope you will join us tomorrow for some hot apple cider, old traditional songs and a fresh take on God’s humanity.

Join the Watermark Community for our Christmas Partake! It will be Friday, December 11th at 6pm. We will be enjoying delicious holiday soups at the home of Pat & Jane Murray. Their address is 322 Shore Dr E., Oldsmar, FL 34677. Feel free to call Jane for some suggestions for what to bring that night, whether its a side dish or dessert or favorite holiday beverage! Their number is 813-855-0523. We hope that you are able to make it to the last Watermark event of 2009. We shared so much together this past year, let’s celebrate!

Our Thanksgiving-themed Partake will be Friday, November 20th at 7pm at the home of Shawn & Jesse Lamb. Their address is 10508 Tecoma Dr., Trinity, Fl 34655. It’s a gated community, so use the gate code of #4546 to get in. The main dish is going to be provided, so bring your favorite Thanksgiving side, appetizer, drink or dessert! Contact Joy for ideas on what to bring or anything else for that night at 813-785-9071. If you need to get a hold of Shawn in case you get lost or anything, her cell is 727-389-8257. Hope you guys can make it out!

All of our house churches will be breaking for the holidays and will be relaunching in January. We would encourage everyone to be committed to a house church, so please take this time to pray about where God may be leading you and get to know our different leaders! We are so excited to see this next chapter of our ministry evolve and take shape!

Want to know what housechurches are meeting this week? check the “housechurch” page under the “community” tab.

We will be having a thanksgiving partake later this month, check the “events” page under the “community” tab for more info!

Housechurches will be taking a break for the month of december… take time and spend it serving your community. They will start back up in the new year with (hopefully) more housechurches available in the Tampa/St. Pete/Clearwater areas.

Grace and Peace!

You can access our podcast on ITunes by searching for “watermark tampa”.

Maren Eleanor Harper McTague is here! Born October 18 at 10:48am, she was 7 pounds, 9 ounces and 20 inches long. You can help provide meals in a variety of ways: Monetary: Contributing funds toward dinnerDone Meals Meals: Pick up something from a restaurant or make a homecooked meal! Deliver it yourself or have us take it to them for you. Just let our Manna Ministry know how you would like to contribute and we will try to make it as easy as possible for you to bless this family.

Thank you so much for being Jesus to this family- for your servant’s heart and willingness to help and love!

Last week we wrapped up a 15 week study on the book of Ephesians, and this week we will be starting a new sermon series on the book of Philippians in our sunday morning gatherings. In you need information on how you can join us on sunday mornings, please click on the COMMUNITY link.

Starting This week, we will have 7 house churches spread out all over the bay area meeting weekly or bi-weekly. For all the information on these housechurches please click the “House-Church” link on the sidebar.

House-churches are the best way to get involved in our community. They are small and personal. A great place to explore your spirituality and be encouraged in your discipleship of Jesus. Feel free to bring food and drink, and please come prepared to be involved in conversation about what it means to live out the truths of Jesus in this day and age.

-We are currently going through the book of Ephesians on Sunday Morning. Please join us at 10:30 am at the Springs Theatre.
-Housechurches will be picking back up in August with new HouseChurch starting up in two new wings of Tampa Bay in September.
-Our new website with podcasting will launch soon, it is in the final stages and will be up any day now.
-Our new membership program will be also launching in September. We will be educating the congregation on how it will work in the coming weeks.
-As well as the Membership program, we will also be starting our Leadership development program for those of you desiring to be part of the current teams and the teams in future Watermark church plants.
-Tommy Preson and the band will be going back into the studio in september to record a new full length album with all the new songs we are currently singing at WatermarkTampa.