You are invited to the Sunday Service with Holy Communion on May 3, 2026 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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Fifth Sunday of Easter with Holy Communion
Sunday, May 3, 2026, 10 am
Children’s Time “The Hidden Gift of Defeat” Pastor John
So you lost… Now what? Children will learn the hidden gift of defeat.
Message “A Meditation on W. H. Auden’s Poem” Rev. John Song
The More Loving One
by W. H. Auden, 1957
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
“God so loved the world…”
~ John 3:16a
