You are invited to the in-person Service on May 26 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
You can also watch Sunday services at your convenience by going to our website “watsonville1stumc.org” and click YouTube or Facebook. Each Sunday worship will be uploaded on Sunday afternoon for your viewing.
Peace with Justice Sunday
Sunday, May 26, 2024, 10 am
Peace with Justice Sunday, May 26, 2024 – This Special Sunday is a denomination-wide celebration intended to raise awareness that even in a world plagued by war and terror, violence and destruction, people of faith have a clear call to build peace with justice. As United Methodists, our yearning for peace must move us to act. An offering is taken on this Special Sunday to support programs and ministries to educate, equip and mobilize actions in support of identified Economic, Health, and Gender Justice Priorities.
Children’s Time “Blessed Are the Peacemakers” Pastor John
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
~ Matthew 5:9
Special Music Blackbird Eden Edell
by the Beatles
Imagine
by John Lennon
Eden Edell grew up in the Bay Area, has been playing music for over twenty years, performing for ten, and has written more than a handful of songs. People are often moved when they hear Eden sing and the stories she tells in her music. Her musical style is Indie Folk but she also sings Blues and Jazz tunes. Her music is described as ethereal and grounding at the same time.
Message “A Meaning of Peace with Justice in Today’s World” Rev. John Song
“War is always a defeat for humanity.”
~ James J. Martin SJ, an American Jesuit Catholic priest and a writer
“Violence begets violence; hate begets hate… It is all a descending spiral, and the end is destruction — for everybody. Along the way of life, someone must have enough sense and morality to cut off the chain of hate.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
“When the Prophets appeared, they proclaimed that might is not supreme,
that the sword is an abomination, that violence is obscene.
The sword, they said, shall be destroyed.”
~ Rabbi Abraham Heschel
“Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.”
~ Psalm 34:14
