You are invited to Mother’s Day Sunday on May 11 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
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Mother’s Day Sunday
Sunday, May 11, 2025, 10 am
Today is Sunday School with Joan!
[First, children will be in worship. Following the Special Music,
the teacher, Joan Culbertson, will lead our children to the Sunday School room.]
Children’s Time Lay Your Heart On My Soul Pastor John
Lay your head on my pillow, um – uhm.
Lay your heart on my soul.
[A song from the African-American slaves. A mother grieving over her child
when they were separated from the slave trade.]
Choir Anthem: A Tribute to Mothers
Words by Herman von Berge
Music: Viennese Melody. Arr. By I. H. Meredith
Message What Is Good Mothering?” Rev. John Song
We will explore some fundamental principles of parenting and learn important skill sets for your children to become themselves and flourish.
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 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.
Marlo Thomas with her two Children
