Pacific Palisades Community United Methodist Church

The Easter Bunny hopped by our Easter Egg Hunt!

Good Friday (at 7pm) and Easter Sunday (at 10am) will be on ZOOM. Please reply with your email if you want us to send you the link. Although, we cannot worship in the same place this Holy Week, we can still worship together.

It's that time of year! Lenten devotions are due Wednesday and this year we hope you will include a photo or image with your devotion. Our theme? BE A LIGHT! We cannot wait to read your devotions! Email Joey or reply here if you have any questions!

Christmas Play Sunday today on Zoom! Hope you can sign in and watch these amazing kids bring you....

GARRISON KEILLOR ON "METHODISTS" We make fun of Methodists for their blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed, and als...o for their secret fondness for macaroni and cheese. But nobody sings like them. If you were to ask an audience in New York City, a relatively Methodist-less place, to sing along on the chorus of "Michael Row the Boat Ashore," they will look daggers at you as if you had asked them to strip to their underwear. But if you do this among Methodists, they'd smile and row that boat ashore and up on the beach! And down the road! Many Methodists are bred from childhood to sing in four-part harmony, a talent that comes from sitting on the lap of someone singing alto or tenor or bass and hearing the harmonic intervals by putting your little head against that person's rib cage. It's natural for Methodists to sing in harmony. They are too modest to be soloists, too worldly to sing in unison. When you're singing in the key of C and you slide into the A7th and D7th chords, all two hundred of you, it's an emotionally fulfilling moment. By joining in harmony, they somehow promise that they will not forsake each other. I do believe this: People, these Methodists, who love to sing in four-part harmony are the sort of people you can call up when you're in deep distress. *If you're dying, they will comfort you. *If you are lonely, they'll talk to you. *And if you are hungry, they'll give you tuna salad. *Methodists believe in prayer, but would practically die if asked to pray out loud. *Methodists like to sing, except when confronted with a new hymn or a hymn with more than four stanzas. *Methodists believe their pastors will visit them in the hospital, even if they don't notify them that they are there. *Methodists usually follow the official liturgy and will feel it is their way of suffering for their sins. *Methodists believe in miracles and even expect miracles, especially during their stewardship visitation programs or when passing the plate. Methodists think that the Bible forbids them from crossing the aisle while passing the peace. *Methodists drink coffee as if it were the Third Sacrament. *Methodists feel guilty for not staying to clean up after their own wedding reception in the Fellowship Hall. *Methodists are willing to pay up to one dollar for a meal at the church. *Methodists still serve Jell-O in the proper liturgical color of the season and think that peas in a tuna casserole adds too much color. *Methodists believe that it is OK to poke fun at themselves and never take themselves too seriously. And finally, You know you are a Methodist when: It's 100 degrees, with 90% humidity, and you still have coffee after the service. You hear something funny during the sermon and smile as loudly as you can. Donuts are a line item in the church budget, just like coffee. When you watch a Star Wars movie and they say, "May the Force be with you," you respond, "and also with you." And lastly, it takes ten minutes to say good-bye!

They brought balloons to a school. One was given to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The professors the...n mixed all the balloons. The students were given 5 minutes to find their own balloon. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon. At that point the professors told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it. Within 5 minutes everyone had their own balloon. The professors said to the students: These ballons are like happiness. We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own. But if we care about other people's happiness... we'll find ours too."

Rally Day Videos due tomorrow (Wednesday, 9/9)! Email Joey a video (a minute or less) musing on our church. Tell us your first impression, why you came back, a meaningful moment, what the church means to you, where you think God is leading our church or even take it as an opportunity to thank someone at the church. Really anything church-related! The videos will be shown in zoom worship on Sunday as we kick-off the fall season. Leave a comment if you need more directions or help making your video.