You are invited to the Father’s Day Sunday Service on June 21, 2026 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Father’s Day Sunday
Sunday, June 21, 2026, 10 am
Today we honor our fathers. Though they may be imperfect vessels of love, they helped bring us into the world as providers, protectors, teachers, and encouragers who launched us into the world. Thank you, fathers, for all that you were and did for us.
Children’s Time “The Tower of Babel” Pastor John
Children’s Music Performance
Director of Program: Mike Locke-Paddon
Music Teachers: Mike Locke-Paddon, Lara Willingham, Basillio Diego
Tech Support: Lucila Pantaleón
Message Part 2) “Pope Leo’s Encyclical on A.I.” Rev. John Song
This concludes the 2-part sermon series on “Pope Leo’s Encyclical on A.I.”
Today, billionaires and trillionaire in the technology industry—many of whom are driven primarily by profit rather than by spiritual or ethical concerns for human well-being—are largely shaping the development of artificial intelligence with little oversight. As a society, we are sleepwalking into this new reality, often unaware of its potential dangers and the profound ways it could impact humanity.
Pope Leo’s Encyclical on artificial intelligence offers a timely and much-needed moral voice to address these concerns before the technology advances beyond our ability to guide and control it. In this presentation, we will explore Pope Leo’s teachings on A.I., examine the ethical challenges he identifies, and consider why his message deserves our careful attention.
“Work is love made visible.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
“The earth doesn’t have artificial intelligence.
It’s real and it has an uncorruptible wisdom.”
~ Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota Indian
“The more human you become, the more divine you become.”
~ Teilhard de Chardin, 20th century French Jesuit priest,
paleontologist, theologian, and philosopher
