You are invited to the in-person Mother’s Day Service on May 12 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Mother’s Day Sunday
Festival of the Christian Home
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 10 am
This Sunday 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 Nursery Room.
Report from the Historic General Conference Rev. John Song
Choir Anthem “Happy the Home”
Words by Henry Ware (1794-1843) Adapted by J.M.R, Music by John M. Rasley
Children’s Time “Mother Mary and Jesus” Pastor John
Message “Mother Mary as a Template for Motherhood” Rev. John Song
On this Mother’s Day we will learn what Mother Mary teaches us about motherhood and parenthood in general. It will be life changing for us parents and our relationship with our children.
The Mother
By Kahlil Gibran from “The Broken Wings”, a poetic novel set in Beirut
The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word “Mother,”
and the most beautiful call is the call of “My mother.”
It is a word full of hope and love,
a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart.
The mother is everything –
she is our consolation in sorrow,
our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness….
Everything in nature bespeaks the mother.
The sun is the mother of earth and gives it its nourishment of heart;
it never leaves the universe at night until it has put the earth to sleep to the song of the sea and the hymn of birds and brooks.
And this earth is the mother of trees and flowers.
It produces them, nurses them, and weans them.
The trees and flowers become kind mothers of their great fruits and seeds.
And the mother, the prototype of all existence, is the eternal spirit, full of beauty and love.
