A message from our Pastor and teacher

Easter Sunday, March 31 ~  "Becoming Ressurection "

When the women arrived back at the upper room, where they were staying, they were sobbing. Well, of course they were –  

they had just returned from attending to Jesus' corpse. But wait! They weren't crying. They were laughing, with tears streaming from their eyes. They told the other disciples an inconceivable tale about holy men from God, a moving boulder, and white clothing.

The others just stared. Then it began to sink in. They were saying that there was no body in his tomb! And then they remembered what Jesus had said. And soon, there was no one left in the room – they were all tearing back to the tomb to see if it was true.

Sunday's Scripture:

 LUKE 24: 1-12 

RUCC's Eggstravaganza, March 30, 2024!

It’s not too late to RSVP for Eggstravaganza.

We will be meeting in Covenant Hall for lots of Eastertime fun.

Saturday March 30

10: a.m. to noon

• Cookie Decorating
• Bingo
• Interactive Easter storytelling
• Games, prizes and more!

Please RSVP using this link: https://onrealm.org/RUCC/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=OTdjY2UzZDItOTRlZC00OTY3LTlhZjItYjEzOTAxN2VkNDhh

Please Join Us for Lunch on Easter Sunday!

We invite you to join us in Covenant Hall for lunch after the Easter Sunday worship service. RUCC will provide sandwiches and volunteers will bring salads and desserts to share. If you can bring something, please let us know by signing up using the link below or emailing minori@redlandsucc.org.

Salad & Dessert Sign-up: www.PerfectPotluck.com/TARJ4687

Hey kids! The Easter Bunny has lost all his eggs right here at RUCC!

Join us Easter morning, immediately after the service, to find as many eggs as you can, then exchange the empty eggs for a big bag of candy!

We have baskets available to use or bring your own. Everyone is guaranteed to find one or more eggs, and all receive the same bag of candy no matter how many eggs you find!

Come help the Easter bunny by finding all those lost eggs!

Remember, we're still looking for a Youth Director!

This may be only a part-time position, but it is important to our church's mission. The Youth Director plays a key role in helping our young people understand why RUCC's values and theology are important to them as they prepare to go out in the world.

......................~~ The RUCC Personnel Committee

From the Environmental Justice Team

Water shortages are becoming a way of life in cities across the globe — Los Angeles; Cape Town, South Africa; Jakarta, Indonesia; and many more — as climate change worsens and authorities often pipe in water from ever-more-distant sources.

"Water sources are depleted around the world," said Victoria Beard, a professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University. ‘Every year, more cities will face ‘Day Zero,’ with no water in their piped systems.’”

Source: MacDonell, P. J., “A metropolis runs low on water,” Los Angeles Times, 3/25/24, p. 1. 

Racial Justice reflection of the week

On April 27, 1957, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered an Easter sermon titled, "Questions that Easter Answers." For him, Easter settled the mystery of death and secured for us the importance of living a life in light of those forces that go beyond our physical experience. We are not simply biological processes. Instead, King argued, Easter cries out to us about the importance of the unseen and of the personality, those "spiritual forces that are eternal and not merely these material things that we look about and see."

We matter. Our hopes and aspirations, our joys and triumphs matter. Not because of something we have actually done, but rather, because of an inheritance borne on a cross on Calvary. King understood Easter's answer to the significance of human action in the world. "There is a faith, there is love, there is hope, there is something beyond the external that will stand through the ages."

"But thank God the crucifixion was not the last act in that great and powerful drama," King preached. "There is another act. And it is something that we sing out and cry and ring out today. Thank God a day came when Good Friday had to pass."

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/04/glaude.easter.mlk/index.html

Children and youth activities

National UCC Climate Hope Art Contest

This year’s UCC children and youth art contest is underway!

During fellowship time on April 7 our kids and youth are invited to create beautiful works of art to be submitted to this year’s Climate Hope Art Contest.

We’ll have all the supplies you need at a table in Covenant Hall during Fellowship hour. Create beautiful art to help save the climate!

Going, Going… almost Gone!

Only 3 Purple RUCC shirts are left: just $5 each! These are the sizes we have left:

• Adult Small
• Child L (14-16)
• Child M

100% of the proceeds goes to the Youth for this year’s Western Regional Youth Trip!

Contact admorics@redlandsucc.org if you’d like to buy one of these shirts.

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER

• March 28 - Maundy Thursday Seder and Tenebrae
• March 29 - Good Friday
• March 30 - Eggstravaganza
• March 31 - Easter Sunday, including lunch and children's Easter egg hunt
• April 6 - Sacred Saturday, 9 a.m. - noon
• April 7 - Book Club Founders' Room at noon The group will discuss Crossing the Line. Deborah Rada will be the discussion Leader.
• April 21 - Candidate service with Rev. Joe Zarro followed by congregational meeting to vote on calling him as RUCC's next settled pastor
• April 27 - 3rd Annual RUCC Family Nature Fair

The church calendar is found at redlandsucc.org

Click on "calendar" in the red banner near the top of the page