Please join us for in-person worship this Sunday, March 27 at 10:00 am! The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Sunday, March 27, 2022, 10 am
Please join us every Sunday for in-person Worship at 10am. *Masks are optional. 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.
In-Person Lego Sunday School!
This Sunday is Lego Sunday School. First, children will gather in worship. Our Sunday School Teacher, Joan Culbertson, will lead our children to the Nursery Room where Lego Sunday School will be held.
Special Music Let There Be Peace Carmelita Abenoja, solo
composer, Kennedy; arr. Knight
(originally sang by Frank Patterson, Ireland’s Golden Tenor)
Let there be peace for today and forever.
May troubles cease in this fair land we love.
With hope and faith, days of fear will be ended.
When God hears the nation(s) praying, let there be peace….
Peace to tend the fields of golden grain, watch the sky and sea.
Walk in sunshine or in rain; unafraid and free.
Peace in our time and for our children’s children,
God of our fathers grant it; Let there be peace.
Message Jesus as a Template for Transformation: Rev. John Song
Part 3)“Deny Yourself”
The Seven Week Lenten Sermon Series continues with Part 3) “Deny Yourself.” This commend is the first of three commands that Jesus required for our transformation. St. Irenaeus, the 2nd century Greek Bishop of Lyon, France, said, “Christ became what we are so we could become what he is.” We will do a deep dive into what it takes to “deny yourself” in order for us to become more like Christ.
“Salvation is transformation into Christ”
~ St. Maximus the Confessor,
the 7th century Christian monk and theologian in Constantinople, Turkey
“What happened in the life of Christ will happen in us.
In our transformed lives, God lives in us without us losing our own being.”
~ Raimon Panikkar, Christophany: The Fullness of Man, Orbis Books 2004
