You are invited to the World Communion Sunday Service on October 5 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.
World Communion Sunday
Sunday, October 5, 2025, 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: “Mural Celebrating City’s Immigrants” by Pastor John
Message “5 Keys to Church Revitalization in the 21st Century” Pastor John
How does 21st century church become relevant and alive to a population that increasingly sees institutional churches to be irrelevant to their lives? That’s a $64,000 question.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~ Howard Thurman, an American theologian, mystic and activist;
mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
~ Catherine of Siena, the 14th century Italian mystic
“Church alive is worth the drive!”
~ church slogan
