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​Are you a creative looking for an outlet and chance to display your work?

Call for Local Artists: "Living Water" Night of Worship
The Event: Join us for a special Night of Worship on July 18, 2026, where our community will gather for music, prayer, and visual reflection.
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We are hosting a Night of Worship on July 18, 2026, and we want to feature your art! Our Fellowship Hall will transform into an art gallery featuring the talent of local Christian artists.
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The Theme: Inspired by Jesus's encounter at the well in John 4, we are seeking visual art that explores "Living Water"—themes of spiritual refreshment, broken barriers, and inner transformation.
Submission Details:
  • Who: Open to all local artists (amateurs, professionals, and hobbyists).
  • Mediums: Painting, photography, sculpture, textile, and mixed media.
  • Artworks must be original pieces created by the submitting artist.
  • Cost: Completely free to participate.
  • The Theme: Spiritual thirst, grace at the well, and eternal refreshment.
  • Location: The Church on Northland Fellowship Hall
  • Submission Deadline: Monday, July 13,  2026
  • Art Drop-off before: Monday, July 13, 2026  at 3:00 PM to The Church on Northland, 5200 Northland Ave NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
  • Exhibit Dates: Thursday, July 16-Monday August 3, 2026 (The Church on Northland Fellowship Hall)
How to Sign Up: Ready to share your interpretation? Please contact Dina at [email protected] or to reserve your display space.

Ownership and Copyrights
By participating in this project, you are agreeing to allow The Church on Northland to photograph your work for promotional means. At the end of the show, your work will be returned to you and is yours to keep or sell.
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Please be aware that The Church on Northland is not responsible for damage to your art. We have never had a problem of this nature, but it is appropriate that we share this information. You may insure your own art if you wish.



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CreativeChurch offers Christ-centered experiences that engage hearts and minds through the arts. Activities for all ages and ability levels encourage creative expression as a means to glorify God, to strengthen faith in Christ Jesus, and to be led by the Holy Spirit.Art is a powerful way to build community and draw closer to God. Whether creating or experiencing art, CreativeChurch invites reflection, inspiration, and gratitude for God’s divine gifts.
  • Spiritual Practice: Creating and viewing art becomes a way to seek God’s voice and respond in worship.
  • Community Building: Art fosters connection and celebrates the beauty of God’s creation.
  • Opportunities: Participate in exhibits, art-making, and more.
Whether you're an artist, musician, writer, quilter or something else, we encourage you to use your talent to express your faith.  Art can create a holy moment when we as the body of Christ experience God’s presence in a real way… The arts make us more sensitive and tender to the voice of God. 

From your fingerprints to your DNA, you are unique. There’s only one you! God has designed you to be fearfully and wonderfully made and given you gifts. Some of that is a natural talent or an inclination to something creative and you have the ability to learn new things. 
There are no other creations in nature that can do Art and creativity and also learn new concepts. 

God spoke the world into existence and then as if it was a canvas, He painted and placed each detail into place. At the end of day 6, He looked at all He had made and said, “It was very good.”
Art and the Bible
You can find Art all throughout the Bible.
God, The Creator, could have designed a world in black and white. He could have made all animals the same, all people the same color, all trees the same kind and all the flowers, but He didn’t. He gave us full color with light. He created all the details of the heavens and earth for you to see, enjoy and experience. 
Why? 
Because He is a creative and loving God.
God used a rainbow as a sign of His promise to Noah after the flood. He could have just spoken to Him, gave Him something small. But no, God gave a promise in a symbol of light and color to display across the sky. He was making a bold statement in a beautiful and creative way. 
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The colors of a rainbow were a stroke of God’s paintbrush across the canvas of the sky to remind the world that He is the Master Artist and Creator. God could have made the world in black and white and we would never have known the difference. 
But He didn’t. 
God is the Master Artist
​God is the Creator of the world. He designed, spoke and formed the world and all that is in it. He placed the stars, planets, sun and moon just where He wanted them. 

God is the Potter and we are the clay. Taking dust from the ground, God picked it up in his hands, formed man in His own image and then breathed the breath of life into his lungs. (Genesis 2)
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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God desires a close relationship with His creation, but it is people who forget Him, their Creator. God’s fingerprints are all over the world left behind in His amazing details, but it is the people living life as if He does not exist that breaks His heart. 
Like Art, life can be messy. But when we apply the rules and elements that God gives us in the Bible to our heARTs, we can become the beautiful, fearfully and wonderfully made and unique work of Art that tells His story to the world. 
We can become the vessel used for His glory when we allow the Potter to mold and form us into His image!

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“In the beginning, God created…” Genesis 1:1

Create to Unwind is an opportunity for individuals to gather together to create through Christ-centered experiences that engage the heart and mind.  Activities for all ages and ability levels encourage creative  expression as a means to glorify God, to strengthen faith in Christ Jesus, and to be led by the Holy Spirit. 

Create to Unwind is an opportunity for you to take time to explore and experiment with a variety of art materials. You do not need to be an artist to attend, come prepared to have fun.  There will be a small materials fee and RSVPing is encouraged.

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Any student going into 3rd grade through adult are welcome to come Create to Unwind. 

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Dorcas Circle is a service ministry.  Ladies who enjoy sewing or quilting are invited to be a part of this ministry.  Dorcas meets on Wednesday mornings at 9:00 AM to work on quilts and lap blankets for those who are ill or are in need.  Quilts are given to those in the congregation as well as to area shelters.  


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If you are musically inclined, we welcome you to join in singing or play an instrument during worship as a solo, part of a group, or leading worship.   If you are interested in adding special music to our service please talk to a member of the worship committee.

For our technically savvy folks, we could use some more people willing to be trained to do the slides on Sunday morning as well as learning how to use the sound equipment for Sunday service and special events held here at the church. 
 

The Church on Northland
5200 Northland Ave NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
319-377-8020

[email protected]
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