You are invited to the in-person Sunday Service on April 21 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
You can worship live on ZOOM by clicking the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9658816441 Meeting ID: 965 881 6441
You can also watch Sunday services at your convenience by going to our website “watsonville1stumc.org” and click YouTube or Facebook. Each Sunday worship will be uploaded on Sunday afternoon for your viewing.
Festival of God’s Creation on Fourth Sunday of Easter
Sunday, April 21, 2024, 10 am
This Sunday is Sunday School with Joan
First, children will be in worship. Following the Choir Anthem,
the teacher, Joan Culbertson, will lead our children to the Sunday School Room.
Children’s Time “Why are butterflies a symbol of Easter?” Pastor Clyde
Choir Anthem “Praise the Lord! O Heavens Adore Him”
Words from Psalm 148 & Edward Osley
Music by Hal H. Hopson, based on the tune Holy Manna Southern Harmony, 1835
Message: “I Can’t Believe My Eyes” by Rev. Clyde Vaughn
It is Eastertide and hopefully we are experiencing the presence of the Risen Christ in our daily lives.
Rev. Clyde Vaughn is a (semi-) retired minister, currently serving part time at the Boulder Creek UMC. He is known to most of the Watsonville UMC as he has been a frequent visitor over the years. Married to Sheila they have lived in Aptos for almost 30 years. Clyde is an active Board member of the Santa Cruz Symphony League, a fund-raising organization that supports the Santa Cruz Symphony. Children and grandchildren keep both Clyde & Sheila quite (happily) busy.
“I’ve had to confront a kind of resilience … that doesn’t really ask us to forget,
but that carries the memory of whatever harm, or whatever fire we have been through. The resurrected Jesus, after all, carried his nail-marks with him.”
~ Cole Arthur Riley, author and poet
“Because of Easter we dare to believe
that death and hatred and despair will never have the last word.”
~ Bill Toohey
Jesus reminds us,
“What is impossible for man, it is not impossible for God.
For God can do what man cannot.”
~ Luke 18:27
