You are invited to the World Communion Sunday Service on October 4, 2026 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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World Communion Sunday
Sunday, October 4, 2026, 10 am
World Communion Sunday is held on the first Sunday of October and is a day for Christians to remember their unity in Christ with other believers around the world through the sacrament of communion.
[The World Communion Special Sunday offering envelopes are available in the narthex. Your gifts support racial and ethnic students in achieving their educational goals while also transforming communities. 50% percent of the offering provides scholarships for graduate students from the U.S. and other countries. 35% percent supports ethnic scholarships for undergraduate students. 15% percent funds in-service training programs for racial and ethnic persons.]
Children’s Time “I AM because of WE” Pastor John
Message “Who Am I & Who Are We?” Rev. John Song
On this World Communion Sunday, I will be examining how we define ourselves. Is it my race, gender, nationality, religion? How should we define ourselves?
Community is medicine.
If we replace the ‘i’ in illness with ‘we’,
illness becomes ‘wellness’.
~ Howie Morningstar, M.D.
“Everything belongs, including each one of us.
No one belongs until everyone belongs.”
~ John Song
“Seeing ourselves as sacred is the beginning of seeing others as sacred.”
~ John Song
Mark 3:34–35
The True Kindred of Jesus
Then his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you.” And he replied, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mothers and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
Galatians 3:28
“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free,
there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”
