You are invited to the Worship Service on October 19 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.
Ordinary Time
In God’s Eternal Time
Sunday, October 19, 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 “The African King and His Close Friend” Pastor John
Special Music The Fields of Athenry Brandon & Trisha Kett
by Pete St. John, 1979
“The Fields of Athenry” was written by Irish songwriter, Pete St. John, who researched the Irish potato famine of 1845. He composed this realistic ballad in 1979 to show how young men who stole food to keep their starving families alive were sent away on prison ships to Australia. They were imprisoned without a fair trial.
Message Part 2) “5 Keys to Church Revitalization in the 21st Century” Pastor John
1. Authenticity
2. Vitality
3. Transcendence
4. Community
5. Sacred Service & Activism
This is a conclusion of the 2-part sermon series that addresses universal human longing in an increasingly secularized society.
Isaiah 54: 2
“Make your tent bigger; stretch it out and make it wider. Do not hold back. Make the ropes longer and its stakes stronger because you will spread out to the right and the left.”
Mark 4: 26-29
And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
