You are invited to the Mother’s Day Sunday Service on May 10, 2026 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Mother’s Day Sunday
Sunday, May 10, 2026, 10 am
Mother’s Day Celebration This Sunday May 10, 10 am
Come and celebrate Mother’s Day Service where our mothers will be sharing “Mothers Stories” by Lorrie Rubio, Michelle Stewart, Joan Culbertson, & Marieta Flores.
Moreover, our men will be cooking and serving good old-fashion breakfast during Coffee Hour to celebrate mothers, grandmothers, and women of our church.
Bring your neighbors and friends!
Choir Anthem
Thank You Lord, For Mothers Dear
Words and Music by Joe E. Parks
Music: Howard S. Savage
Message: “Mothers Stories”
Lorrie Rubio, Michelle Stewart, Joan Culbertson, Marieta Flores
Deuteronomy 32:11-12
God described as a Mother Eagle
“Like the eagle that stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young,
God spreads wings to catch you, lifting them into the air, teaching them to fly.”
On Children
by Kahlil Gibran from The Prophet published in 1923
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Norman Rockwell “Parenting Challenges”
