Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
Twenty-Second
Sunday of Pentecost
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(Please sign the attendance sheet in the pew pad. Please tear the
sheets out and place them in the offering plate after everyone in your pew has
signed in)
PRELUDE: Lighting of the Candles
WORDS OF GREETING: God is Good – All the time
All the time- God is Good
SHARING OUR JOYS AND
CONCERNS: Including birthdays and
Anniversaries
Following
each joy, please respond:
For
These gifts, We thank you, God.
Following
each concern, please respond:
God,
in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
CHILDREN’S
MOMENTS: (As children come
forward sing 1st verse “Jesus
Loves Me” #191 and as they leave sing refrain.)
*MORNING GREETINGS: Greet
those around you with handshakes or hugs and words of greeting or joy. During
this time the children
leave the
sanctuary with the Church School Leaders.
Nursery is also available.
*OPENING SONG: “God of the Sparrow, God of the Whale”
#122 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: O God, In mystery and silence you are present
in our lives,
Bringing new life out of
destruction.
People: Hope
out of despair, growth out of difficulty.
Leader: We
thank you that you do not leave us alone but labor to
To
make us whole.
People: Help us to perceive your unseen hand in the
unfolding
Of our lives, and to attend to
the gentle guidance of
Your spirit, that we may know the joy you give
your
People. Amen.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All”
#507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS (Loose change for:
Margaret Ann's Place: Wisconsin’s Center of
Hope For Grieving Children)
*OFFERING RESPONSE “Praise God from Whom All Blessings
Flow” # 95 in your Hymnal
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
God of Peace, we are
confronted with so many
overwhelming needs in our world. Walk with us as we set aside our own desires
and wants and join the call to alleviate human suffering. Transform these
financial gifts into genuine acts of concern and ministry to others. In the name of the One who surpasses all
understanding, we pray. Amen
ANTHEM: “Give Thanks to God” Craig Courtney
A
MESSAGE: "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service"
Stewardship
Message: Marilee Gloe
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “You
Are Mine” #2218 in The Faith We Sing
*WORDS
OF PARTING*PARTING SONG:
Take Our Silver and Our Gold" by Ken Medema
8504 Caldwell Road,
Mukwonago, WI 53149
(800) 570-4440
www.CaldwellUMC.org
CaldwellUMC@earthlink.net
Pastor Grace
Baldridge’s Cell Phone (262) 751-0955
Secretary’s
Phone: (262) 662-0264
Ministers
All of us
Pastor
Pastor Grace Baldridge
Choir Director
Deanna Shimko-Herman
Greeters & Ushers Need Volunteer
Reader Need Volunteer
Dates to Remember
Today CROP WALK
October 13
Pastor’s Day Off
October 14 Mukwonago Ministers @ Fork in the Road
Ad Council
Circuit Leader Training Midland UMC
October 15 November Newsletter Deadline
Nurture &
Membership Committee @
Mukwonago Library
October 16 Office Hours
Choir Rehearsal
Bible Study
October 17 Conference
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Need
Volunteer
Reader
Need Volunteer
Matthew 22:1-14
Once more Jesus spoke
to them in parables, saying: 2‘The kingdom of
heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to
the wedding banquet, but they would not come. Again he sent other slaves, saying, “Tell those who have
been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have
been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.” But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm,
another to his business, while the rest seized
his slaves, maltreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those
murderers, and burned their city. Then he
said to his slaves, “The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone
you find to the wedding banquet.” Those
slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good
and bad; so the wedding hall was filled with guests.
‘But
when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not
wearing a wedding robe, and he said to him,
“Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?” And he was
speechless. Then the king said to the attendants, “Bind him hand and
foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.” For many are called,
but few are chosen.’
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Today I will Pray For: Joys Anna & Ally Hannah Bob Richardson October Birthdays & Anniversaries Julie Shut Ins Mabel Byron Elizabeth Stark Lois, Pastor’s Grandma Other Concerns Alverne Our troops overseas Family of Dorothy Schroeder David Hempen Lucille Craig Jaris Heidi Kevin R Jane
Spires Tracey Kevin
Mattson Lukas
Family Eunice Drought People of Myanmar Betty Sheady People in Szechuan Province, China Alex Stewart People of Pakistan Mary Alice Rubach People of Cambodia Family of Bob Wimpee Dennis O. Family of Elizabeth Wright Carol Denise Traveling to see Family Bev Squires Tracy Lukas Family Family of Margaret Young Bonnie Jill Al Handy’s Aunt Helen Robert Dixon and Family
Other Concerns
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Daily Prayer
Please
use this guided prayer as a way to pray daily for the whole world.
Together,
let us pray
For the
people of this congregation…
For
those who suffer and those in trouble…
For the concerns
of this local community…
For the
world, it’s peoples, and it’s leaders…
For the
Church universal – it’s leaders, it’s members, and it’s mission
In communion with the saints…Amen