Please join us for in-person worship this Sunday, January 30 at 10:00 am! The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
Fifth Sunday of Epiphany
Sunday, January 30, 2022, 10 am
Please join us every Sunday for in-person Worship at 10am wearing masks and social distancing. You can also worship online by going to our website “watsonville1stumc.org” and click Facebook or YouTube. It will be uploaded on Sunday afternoon for your viewing.
Children’s Time: “Embracing the Joy of Life” Pastor John
It has been a challenging and trying time, especially for our children and youth, living through the pandemic. Pastor John will address the reality of pandemic fatigue and offer a hope of vibrant life where we all can embrace the joy of life in God, NOW.
Special Music: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
Sebastian Temple, Arr. Jane Holstein
Special Music this Sunday will be a duet by Layla Dias & Aiden Santa Cruz, accompanied by Marina Thomas.
Message: “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace” Rev. John Song
Hurt people, hurt others. Richard Rohr said, “That which you do not transform, you will transmit.” The perennial wisdom of Rumi, the 13th century Persian mystic and a poet, wrote, “Your task is not to seek for love, but first to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have erected against it.”
We will learn the process of healing our wounds so that we may stop wounding others. Finally, how can we become a calm, healing presence for others in the face of great upheaval and uncertain future.
The Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
