Caldwell United Methodist Church

 Bring Individuals to Christ    Nurture spiritual growth

Invite others to discipleship

November 23, 2008

Twenty Eighth 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:” We Gather Together to Ask the Lord's Blessing”

                                     #131 in your Hymnal                                                                                                                         

*CALL TO WORSHIP: 

Leader:  Almighty God, who gave your Son Jesus Christ a realm

               Where all peoples, nations, and languages should serve

               Him;

People:  Make us loyal followers of our living Lord, that we may

                Always hear his word, follow his teachings, and live in

                His spirit;

Leader:   And hasten the day when every knew shall bow

People:  And every tongue confess that he is Lord; to your

                External glory.  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

Exalted One, we joyfully celebrate our unlimited trust in your faithful promises. We pray that all people will someday sound a cacophony of hallelujahs as they truly accept your steadfast love. May these gifts that we gladly lay upon your altar enable ministries that support this chorus of praise. We pray with praise and thanksgiving in our hearts. Amen.

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE: Matthew 25:31-46

 

MESSAGE: "What Put the Method in Methodist?”

(Part 3of 3)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

*CLOSING SONG: “Open Our Eyes”

                                  #2086 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

November 23      Potluck Lunch/Hanging of the Greens                11:45 am

November 24      Pastors’s Day Off

                             Rehearsal for combined choirs Ecumenical

                             Thanksgiving Eve Service, St. James UMC       6:30 PM

November 26      Office Hours                                         9:00 AM-11:15 AM

                             Women Clergy @Fork in the Road  11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

                             Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service

                             St. James UMC, East Troy                                 7:00 PM

November 28      Choir Rehearsal                                   6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

     

Volunteers for Next Sunday

Greeters & Ushers                                           Need Volunteer                   

Reader                                                             Need Volunteer

                                                  

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew 25:31-46

The Judgment of the Nations

31 ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. 34Then the king will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; 35for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” 37Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? 38And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? 39And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?” 40And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family,* you did it to me.” 41Then he will say to those at his left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; 42for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.” 44Then they also will answer, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?” 45Then he will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.” 46And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Concerns

Eunice Drought

Betty Sheady

Stewart

Mary Alice Rubach

People of Cambodia

Dennis O.

Carol

Denise

Traveling to see Family

Bev Squires

Tracy

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

November 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

Barb Foster

Stewardship

 
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