Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
November 2,
2008
Consecration Sunday
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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: “Thy Word Is A Lamp Unto My Feet”
#601 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: O
God, our Guide and Guardian, you have led us apart from
The busy world into the quiet
of your house.
People: Grant
us grace to worship you in Spirit and in truth, to
The comfort of our souls and the upbuilding of every
Good purpose and hold desire.
Leader: Enable us to do more perfectly the work to
which you have
called us, that we may not fear
the coming of night, when
we shall resign into your hands
the tasks which you have
committed to us.
People: So may
we worship you not with our lips at this hour,
But in word and deed all the
days of our lives;
Through Jesus Christ our
Savior. Amen.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL 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
Prayer of
Thanksgiving: Loving Father, we humbly dedicate these tithes and offerings to
your use. As believers, we are comforted by the knowledge that you will
multiply these gifts. Allow this money to become a resource that lifts the
shadows of despair from the recesses of people's lives. We recognize that only
you can restore faith to the faithless, hope to the hopeless, and love to the
loveless. May your will be done on Earth as it is
in Heaven! Amen.
ANTHEM: “Consecration” Frances R. Havergal, John Ness
Beck
A READING FROM THE BIBLE: Matthew 23:1-12
MESSAGE: “At Home with Jonah and
Mrs. Jonah”
Charles and Nancy
Bauer-King
A SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION (Ushers
will alert the Children that it is time for communion. The children will
receive communion together and then sit in the front pew)
Musical Setting
B Page #18
in your Hymnal
The Lord’s
Prayer # 895 in your Hymnal
Breaking the Bread
Giving the Bread and Cup
Song During Communion: “Find in Me A
Thankful Heart” Jan McGuire, Lloyd Larson
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Presentation
of Gifts: Offering our Pledges
PRESENTATION
SONG: “Holy Ground” #2272 in the Faith We Sing
*PARTING
SONG: “The Trees of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith We Sing
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 Volunteers
Reader Need
Volunteer
Dates to Remember
November 3 Pastor’s Day Off
UMW Evening Group 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
November 5 UMW Day Goup 12:00 PM
Nurture &
Membership
@ Mukwonago Library 6:30-7:30
PM
Trustees 6:30
PM-7:30 PM
Finance Committee 7:30 PM -8:15
PM
November 6 Office Hours 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Choir Rehearsal 6:00 PM-
7:15PM
Bible Study 7:15
PM-9:00 PM
November 8 Food Pantry 8:00AM-10:30 AM
Meeting regional
ministry
St. James UMC,
East Troy 9:00 AM-12:00
PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Need
Volunteer
Reader
Need Volunteer
Matthew 23:1-12
Jesus Denounces Scribes and Pharisees
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, ‘The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but
do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear,
and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to
lift a finger to move them. 5They do all their
deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their
fringes long. They love to have the place of
honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with respect in the market-places, and
to have people call them rabbi. But you
are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all students.
And call no one your father on earth, for you have one
Father—the one in heaven. Nor are you to be
called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah.
The greatest among you will be your servant. All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who
humble themselves will be exalted.
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Today I will Pray For: Joys Anna & Ally Hannah Bob Richardson September 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