You are invited to Graduation Sunday with Holy Communion on June 1 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.
Graduation Sunday with Holy Communion
Sunday, June 1, 2025, 10 am
Children’s Time “Human Library” Pastor John
Instead of checking out books in the library, you check out people to learn about them.
Special Music Living for Jesus
Music by C. Harold Lowden, Words by T.O. Chisholm
Duet: Carmelita Abenoja & Mike Locke-Paddon
Graduation Ceremony
Graduation Share: Alessa Heredia
[Alessa Heredia graduated from California State University, Monterey Bay
where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Plant and Soil Science.]
Presentation of Graduates: 2025 Graduating Students
Message to Young People “Choose Community” Rev. John Song
Last Sunday I was watching “Meet the Press” hosted by Kristen Welker. It dedicated the entire segment addressing the lost and lonely crisis of our young people today. More young Americans are struggling with feelings of isolation, depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation than ever before. The mental health crisis in America is impacting young people in profound ways, and public health officials say it is an emergency.
The first guest was Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 19th U.S. Surgeon General, the author of the book Together: The Healing Power off Human Connection In a Sometimes Lonely World which addresses what he’s declared is an epidemic of loneliness and isolation in America. He says loneliness is one of the most urgent crises of our time and what he sees as a profound public health threat. Dr. Murthy’s one last piece of advice to America is two words, “Choose Community.”
Luke 24:35
“Then they told what had happened on the road and how (Risen Jesus)
had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.”
Matthew 18:20
“Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I, in the midst of them.”
Prayer of Blessing for the Graduates
(Ephesians 3:16-19)
I pray that out of God’s glorious riches
he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
may have power to grasp
how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
