You are invited to the Worship Service on July 27 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.
2025 Children Summer Music Fest leaning hip-hop dance
Celebration of Children’s Music
Backpack/School Supplies Give Away Sunday
Sunday, July 27, 2025, 10 am
Hot Topics for Summer
For the month of July, we will kick off 4th of July Celebration with Hot Topics for Summer, a 4-part sermon series on “America, the Land that I Love.” We will be examining four areas of American life today that are being challenged.
July 6: Part 1) “Brother, Can You Spare Me a Dime?”
Theme: Widening Income Inequality and the Biblical Ethics of Economic Justice
July 13: Part 2) “Just Who’s Country Is It?”
Theme: History of Immigrants and assault on immigrants today
July 20: Part 3) “Do Not Give Your Mind Away”
Theme: Assault on Academic Freedom, Press Freedom, and Erasing History
July 27: Part 4) “We Are Not the Only Game in Town”
Theme: Climate Justice & Creation Care
Aug. 3: Part 5) “I Hate, Therefore I Am”
Theme: Phenomena of Othering and Scapegoating
Aug. 10: Part 6) “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World”
Theme: How do we anchor ourselves in a mad world?
Conclusion of the sermon series that ties everything together.
Children’s Music Performance
Director of Program: Mike Locke-Paddon
Tech Support: Lucila Pantaleón
Message America, the Land that I Love: Rabbi Shifra Weiss-Penzia
Part 4) “We Are Not the Only Game in Town”
Rabbi Shifra Weiss-Penzias has served a rabbi at Temple Beth El in Aptos since 2005. She comes from eight generations of rabbis on her mother’s side, including her grandfather, an Orthodox rabbi in the Bronx. Rabbi Shifra received her BA in Sociology at Brandeis University, and her rabbinic ordination and M.A. in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College in New York. Rabbi Shifra loves to teach adults and children, sing, talk about G-d, strategize about how to preserve the environment and create a better world, spend time outdoors, and enjoy all things Jewish with others. Rabbi Shifra lives in Santa Cruz with husband Peter Weiss-Penzias, an atmospheric chemist at UCSC.
“If we build a society based on honoring the Earth,
we build a society which is sustainable
and has the capacity to support all life forms.”
~ Winona LaDuke
