Fortuna United Methodist Church

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05/12/2026

Lay member of the California‑Nevada Conference to serve as Secretary of the General Conference ad interim.

05/12/2026

Yes, there will be mobility scooters available through Folsom Mobility Scooter, LLC. for our Annual Conference Session this year! The cost this year to rent a scooter for the entire time of the Annual Conference session is $180. The Deadline to reserve a scooter is June 19, 2026.
Learn more and reserve a scooter:
https://www.cnumc.org/newsdetails/mobility-scooters-for-acs-2026-19659702

04/01/2026

Bishop Olewine Welcomes Full Team of 2026 - 2027 Superintendents

As we look towards the beginning of a new conference year, I am glad to welcome the full team of superintendents that will serve the clergy and congregations of Cal-Nevada, along with the respective district lay leaders. The Bay and Central Valley Districts will continue to be served by one DS each, Sun Hee Kim and Mary Maaga, respectively. El Camino Real and Los Rios will be served by two superintendents, Theon Johnson III and Oliver Mangubat and Mahsea Evans and Debbie Weatherspoon correspondingly; and the Great Northern by Dawn Blundell, Mike Harrell, April Sousa, and Angel Rivero. This provides us with different models of superintendency to live into, assess, and adapt.

As we prepare for these changes, I ask that we intentionally hold these pastors and colleagues and the local churches who are sharing their pastors in this work in our prayers, seeking God’s guidance, wisdom, grace and love. As we make these shifts, I invite us also into a spirit of curiosity, evaluating and revising in a spirit of openness and hope. In all that we do, we are seeking to align how we organize to better support our living into and out of our vision to follow Jesus, thrive in community and heal the world as we participate in making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world!

All glory and honor to God!

Bishop Sandy

04/01/2026

Bishop Olewine's Tuesday Morning Musing:

Good Tuesday morning, Cal-Nev family!

Holy Week has begun, one of the most important weeks for us as Christians, if not the most important. From the entrance to Jerusalem, through the various events recalled during this week, depending on which Gospel one is reading, to the stories of an upper room, a visit to a garden, the arrest and crucifixion through to the day of holy silence when it seems the powers and principalities of this world have won, we are invited to accompany Jesus, seeing ourselves in the throngs and disciples, in the religious and political authorities, in the faithful and fickle, in the hopeful and the despairing.

It is a week through which we should not rush. It is a week we should not ignore. For in Jesus’ words and actions in these few days, we recognize the struggle between the powers of this world and the power of divine love. This week holds up a mirror for us to consider our discipleship, commitment, and faith in how we respond to the very real struggle between Empire and Kin-dom. These stories invite us to consider where we are worried, cautious, tempted, apathetic, callous, or fearful, drawn more by the power of the crowd or limited by or defenders of the status quo than by the invitation to love each other and creation as God has loved us.

This is a week during which we are asked to take stock of whether we are we people who join the throng as Jesus enters Jerusalem, shouting, “Hosanna! Save us!” but really worship a Jesus who is a whole lot more like Pilate.

Is the Jesus we share through how we move in the world one in which triumph is defined as power over others, that trumpets a world which celebrates greed, vindictiveness, and injustice to protect the interests and financial gain of the powerful? Do we shout for Jesus but really celebrate an image of a ruler that is a bully, justifying violence and cruelty, especially towards those who we do not understand, like or even hate, claiming God is on our side?

I proclaim that the Jesus of the Gospels calls us to challenge the status quo of political, social and religious structures that harm and destroy. I share that Jesus calls us to trust God and to love one another, to seek the kin-dom of God. I seek to see the world through God’s eyes, experience the world through God’s heart, and respond to the world with God’s grace.

This week calls me to be honest with myself and with God about where I hedge my bets and betray these convictions. Where do I resist the full message of Jesus? How do I hold on to the ways of the world, keeping God at a distance or tucked away in a safe place in my heart? Where do I choose to play it safe, not upsetting the powers that be? Will I allow Jesus to fully reign in my heart and life and thus discover the courage to walk with him towards the cross?

I am trying to sit with those questions honestly this week. I am examining my own heart and walk.

What questions will you wrestle with this week, my Cal-Nev family?

Bishop Sandy

Next Saturday, April 4th, we will host a "Stations of the Cross" event that will include spiritual walk stations and gro...
03/28/2026

Next Saturday, April 4th, we will host a "Stations of the Cross" event that will include spiritual walk stations and group discussions. We will meet at church from 11:30am-1:30pm. Please feel free to join us and invite others as well.

03/26/2026

Join us in prayer for those impacted by severe flooding in Hawaii, especially the island of O'ahu, where thousands of people are under evacuation orders. Pray also for first responders assisting those who have been stranded by the floodwaters.

UMCOR is in contact with CDRCs from the California-Pacific Conference of the United Methodist Church to offer support as needed.

How you can help:
🛐 Pray for those impacted, including those forced to evacuate, that they might do so safely.
👐 Give to support our U.S. relief and recovery efforts: https://bit.ly/umcorusdr.
📲 Share this post to encourage others to pray and give.

03/26/2026

Bishop Olewine's Monday Morning Musing:

Good Monday afternoon, Cal-Nev family!

I woke this morning with a news segment that I watched last night running through my mind and heart. The reporter was near Beirut, interviewing a family when the sounds of explosions filled the air. The little boy, maybe 4 years old, the look of terror on his face, began to cry, looking around anxiously to identify where the explosions were coming from. He then ran to his father, who scooped him up, and buried his little head on the offered shoulder, sobbing.

The instant look of terror on his little sweet face broke my heart. And the image of his face in that moment, not unlike the icon I wrote about last week, is a thin place to me today. A face that belongs to not only that little boy but to children all over the globe. In Beirut, Iran, Gaza, the West Bank, in Israel, in Ukraine and Sudan, in the USA - a face that reflects the image of God and the heartbreak that God is experiencing over our inability – no, our unwillingness - to choose the things that make for peace.

That face, on countless little ones, is a face that the powerful and belligerent and callous and greedy and hateful ignore. It is a face they target, seeking to crush the spirit and life and hopes of people. It is the face of hope and possibility and potential and growth. It is a face through which God cries out to all of us to pay attention, to protect, to defend, to stop the ravages of war. To grow up and be adults and stop the trampling of our babies. For they are our babies, every last one of them.

As I was holding all of this, I saw Bishop Hee-Soo Jung’s poem for this 5th week of Lent, called the Weight We Carry. I share it with you in prayerful longing

Can we face the responsibility that is ours to care for all of God’s beloved children, my Cal-Nev family?

Bishop Sandy
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Weight We Carry

This pain, it is not theirs alone.
It is ours.
It has crossed every border,
entered every quiet room,
settled into the bones of our living.

And yet, the world hardens.

A stony indifference,
cold and unmoved,
passes by suffering
as if it were distant,
as if it were nothing.

I lament this,
this numbness,
this practiced distance,
this quiet refusal to feel.

For how can we live on this earth and not tremble?
How can we breathe
and not carry the sorrow of the children in war,
the cries of the broken?

This life, here, now, feels unbearably heavy.
As if the ground itself remembers every loss.
As if the air is thick with unwept tears.

Lord, teach us again to feel.
Break the stone within us.
Give us hearts of flesh.
Let our tears return, not as weakness,
but as truth.

And if we must carry this weight,
then let us carry it together,
held within your mercy,

until even sorrow becomes a doorway
to compassion,
to courage,
to peace.

Bishop Hee-Soo Jung, 5th Week of Lent, March 23, 2026

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