changes in downtown Waterloo

The Love is Power Mural that Youth Art Team painted in the Walnut Neighborhood May-June 2011, will be torn down with the garage as CVS Pharmacy prepares to build on their recently purchased  land.  

Immanuel Lutheran Church and School was the gateway into the Walnut Neighborhood  for years and years.  Immanuel, due to financial need, sold their land and buildings to CVS Pharmacy in 2011.  

Immanuel Lutheran Church will be demolished in the next month as CVS Pharmacy builds their store on the corner.  

First Presbyterian Church, my home church for the first 33 years of my life, sits on the perimeter of the Walnut Neighborhood.    In decline over the past seventeen years, it  faces the changes and challenge of becoming relevant to and with the neighborhood.  

This new waterfront amphitheater is the latest addition to a downtown revitalization plan for Waterloo, IA.

The new Mark's Park sits adjacent to the amphitheater and has been a terrific place for children to cool off  during this hot, dry summer!

Praying for the kind of change that glorifies Christ and His Kingdom in our local community!