You are invited to the Father’s Day Sunday Service on June 16 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.
Father’s Day Sunday
Sunday, June 16, 2024, 10 am
*There will be Gifts for Dads and Father Figures.
Sunday School with Joan!
First, children will be in worship. Following the Special Music,
the teacher, Joan Culbertson, will lead our children to the Nursery Room.
Children’s Time “What Makes Dad Special?” Pastor John
Special Music Talking with My Father Brandon & Trisha Kett
by Dougie Maclean
“Talking with my Father” by 69-year-old Scottish singer/songwriter Dougie Maclean, expresses how he feels a connection to his departed father. The chorus of the song also shows his love of Scotland’s countryside where he was raised by his dad:
In this place, where life’s heart thunders,
In this place, where time holds still,
in this place of harmony and wonder
and values not of gold fulfill.
Message: “Boys Get Everything, Except the Thing That’s Most Worth Having” by Rev. John Song
I have come to believe the conditions of modern boyhood amount to a perfect storm for isolation and loneliness. All the old deficiencies and blind spots of male socialization are still in circulation — the same mass failure to teach boys relational skills and emotional intelligence, the same rigid masculinity norms and social prohibitions that push men and boys away from intimacy and emotionality. With men, there is a huge thing about mental health and shame because you’re not supposed to be weak. You’re not supposed to be broken. And the screen-addicted, American culture has only exacerbated the condition of men and boys.
So what do men and boys who seem to have everything but lack that one thing most worth having? And what can be done to help them find a healthy expression of their deepest healthy masculinity we all need today? Come and find out!
“If people can stop being so defensive, they can be awesome.”
~ Rene Tillich
“What you can feel, you can heal.”
~ John Gray, an author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
“It takes a powerful person to be vulnerable.”
~ Woman therapist speaking to a male client
“I can’t thank you enough for showing up.
It’s not the same without you.”
~ James Taylor
