Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
November 16,
2008
Twenty Seventh
Sunday after 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 Children’s Church Leaders.
Nursery is also available.
*OPENING SONG:” When We Are Living” (Pues Si Vivimos)
#356 in
you 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 holy 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.
People: When we shall resign into your hands the
tasks which
You have committed to us. 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
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
Beloved Lord, you offer us a precious gift. Your invitation to salvation through Jesus Christ frees us from so many unnecessary fears. As children of your light, we present these gifts so that others may share in the timeless message of your love. Encourage us to reflect your love to others, today and always. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
ANTHEM:
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READING FROM THE BIBLE: Matthew 25:14-30
MESSAGE: "What Put the Method in Methodist?”
(Part 2 of 3)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING SONG: “We Are Marching/We Are Singing” (Siyamba)
#2235 in The Faith We Sing Songbook
*WORDS
OF PARTING
*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
Reader
Dates to Remember
TODAY
Newsletter articles due to crlohr@wi.rr.com
November
16 Vision Committee
November
17 Pastors’s Day Off
November
18 Finance Meeting
November
19 Gal Clergy
November
20
November
20 Office Hours
Choir
Rehearsal
November
22 SHARE
UMM meeting
November
23 Potluck Lunch/Hanging of the
Greens
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Need
Volunteer
Reader
Need Volunteer
Matthew 25:14-30
The Parable of the Talents
‘For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his
slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another
one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. The one who had received the
five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents.
In the same way, the one
who had the two talents made two more talents. But the one who had received
the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s
money. After a long time the
master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. Then the one who had received
the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying, “Master, you
handed over to me five talents; see, I have made five more talents.” His master said to him, “Well
done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I
will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.” And the one with the two
talents also came forward, saying, “Master, you handed over to me two talents;
see, I have made two more talents.” His
master said to him, “Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been
trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter
into the joy of your master.” Then
the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, “Master, I
knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering
where you did not scatter seed; so I
was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is
yours.” But his master replied,
“You wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow,
and gather where I did not scatter? Then
you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would
have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him,
and give it to the one with the ten talents. For to all those who have, more
will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have
nothing, even what they have will be taken away. As for this worthless slave,
throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.”
Eunice Drought Betty Sheady Stewart Mary Alice Rubach People of Cambodia Dennis O. 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 CROP Walk Mission efforts Mabel Byron Today I will Pray For: Joys Anna & Ally Bob Richardson October Birthdays & Anniversaries Julie Logan Chase Willhite Children’s Church 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 Jane
Spires Tracey Kevin
Mattson Lukas
Family Barb
Foster Stewardship
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