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Women of Faith Sunday October 19, 2008

 

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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       Jane Craig

                                            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:                                         Jenny Hensgen

(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.

 

Reader: Today we recognize the legacy of love started with four women in Boston, who were called to service in 1869.  Their work led to the organization known as United Methodist Women.  Today it has a worldwide membership of close to one million.  It is an organization based on loving service, reaching out with god’s love to all who had needs.  As Christians, you have all inherited this “legacy of love.”  God has called you to serve justice through mercy and love.  To spread the good news Christ brought us with loving witness and service. God continues to call us to His service. Members of our Caldwell United Methodist Church Unit of United Methodist Women can tell how they’ve answered God’s call:

 

 

me!  That’s how much I love you!  I’d sell off the whole world to get you back, trade the creation just for you.  “So don’t be afraid: I’m with you.  I’ll round up all your scattered children, pull them in from east and west.  I’ll send orders north and south: ‘Send them back.  Return my sons from distant lands, my daughters from faraway places.  I want them back, every last one who bears my name, every man, woman, and child whom I created for my glory, yes, personally formed and made each one.’”

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE                           Teri Pritchett Steib

                       John 10:2-4, 14 – The Message

The shepherd walks right up to the gate.  The gatekeeper opens the gate to him and the sheep recognize his voice.  He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.  When he gets them all out, he leads them and they follow because they are familiar with his voice.  14 “I am the Good Shepherd.  I know my own sheep and my own sheep know me.”

 

MESSAGE: “God Has Called Us By Name”  Gail Burgess, President,

                                    Metro South District United Methodist Women

 

Stewardship Message:  Marilee Gloe

 

*CLOSING SONG:   “God, We Give to Your Our Offerings”  Ken                                           

                                           (Words on the screen)              Medema

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

*WORDS FOR THE JOURNEY:                              Deanna Shimko

     O God, gather us to you as a mother hen, under your sheltering wings, and shield us as we go.

     For we are women, people on the way.

     We go from here, blessed for the journey that lies before us, and strengthened for the challenges we will face.

     We go with the love of the God who nurtures us, the presence of the God who protects us and the sustenance of the God who inspires us.  Amen.

 

*RESPONSE:  “The Trees of the Field”   #2279 The Faith We Sing

(A woman brings forth a live plant)  More than 128 years ago four women planted a seed for mission.  From that tiny beginning, their seeds have continued to grow until today we see the work of the

women of The United Methodist Church rooted deep in communities around the world.  Just over ninety years ago, this faith community was born and it has been watered and nurtured by our own women of faith.

 

(A woman brings forth a globe)  Indeed, The United Methodist Church and the women of our church cover the earth from pole to pole.  Our missional giving and our prayers have supported women and children in far off villages in Africa, Central and South America and even in the hills of Appalachia.

 

(A woman brings forth a Bible)  2 Timothy 2:15 tells us to “do our best to present ourselves to God as one approved by god, who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of Truth.”  Our women of faith spend time in the Word and strive to live by the Word in all that we say and do.

 

(A woman brings forth a cross)  Galatians 6:2 invites us to “carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”   This cross reminds that we are called to be present for one another in times of trial as well as times of joy.

 

(A woman brings forth a candle)  A candle shines over all the other gifts we present, lighting the path for the women who will follow us, providing a light so they might not stumble and fall.  As we celebrate this our special day, let us light this candle to provide a light in a darkened world.

 

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE OF UNITED METHODIST WOMEN (All women please stand and say together):                  Pastor Grace

The organized unit of United Methodist Women shall be a community of women whose purpose is to know God and to experience freedom as whole persons through Jesus Christ; to develop a creative supportive fellowship; and to expand concepts of mission through participation in the global ministries of the church.

 

*OPENING SONG: “Surely the Presence of the Lord” UMH #328

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP:                                                 Pastor Grace

Leader:  Bring praise and thanksgiving to God, our Creator.

People:  Glory and hosanna.  Praise be to God.

Leader:  Bring joys and concerns to God, our Savior.

People:  Great is God’s steadfast love and faithfulness.  Thanks be to God.

Leader:  Bring open minds and hearts to God, our Guide.

People:  Your Spirit goes before us.  Thanks be to God.

 

PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:  “Through It All”  UMH #507

SILENT PRAYER                                                           Jane Craig

PASTORAL PRAYER

SHARING GOD’S BLESSINGS                              Jenny Hensgen (Loose change for Margaret Ann’s Place: Wisconsin’s Center of Hope for Grieving children)

 

OFFERING RESPONSE “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” UMC #139

  Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation; O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation; join the great throng, psaltery, organ, and song, sounding in glad adoration.

 

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

   You, O Lord, are a God of bountiful plenty.  In you there are no shortages, no wanting.  You have held nothing back from us, but have poured out lavishly your loving kindness.  We acknowledge that today with our gifts and ask that you will receive them with our deep gratitude for the life you have given to us. Amen.

 

ANTHEM:  “Borning Cry”

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE                                  Barbara Stark

                         Isaiah 43: 1-7 – The Message

But now God’s Message, the God who made you in the first place, Jacob, the One who got you started, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you.  I’ve called your name.  You’re mine.  When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you. When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down.  When you’re between a rock and a hard place, it won’t be a dead end—Because I am God, your personal God, the Holy of Israel, your Savior.  I paid a huge price for you: all of Egypt, with rich Cush and Seba thrown in!  That’s how much you mean to

 

 

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                                                       Ken & Nancy Pugh                         

Reader                                                                             Need Volunteer        

                                                                                                                                                      

Dates to Remember

 

     Today             Metro Districts Lay Leader Training           2:30- -4:30 PM

      October 20    Pastor’s Day Off                                                             

      October 22    Women Clergy @ Fork in the Road      11:30 AM-1:00 PM

      October 23    Office Hours                                      9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

                             Choir Rehearsal                                   6:00 PM- 7:15PM

                             Bible Study                                          7:15 PM-9:00 PM

      October 25    SHARE                                              8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

                             UMM                                                     9:00 – 10:00 AM

                             Metro So. Dist. Lay Leadership Training 12:00 -3:00 PM

     

Volunteers for Next Sunday

 

Greeters & Ushers                                           Need Volunteer                  

Reader                                                         Need Volunteer

                                                

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Ralph Hawley Family
 
Other Concerns

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

 
 
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem

 

 

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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