Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
November 30,
2008
First Sunday
of Advent & United Methodist Student 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.)
Lighting of the Advent
Candle
*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: ”This Little Light of Mine” #585 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: In the advent seasons, when the past has
fled, unasked,
Away and there is nothing left
to do but wait,
People: God,
shelter us. Be our surrounding darkness;
be
The fertile soil out of which
hope springs in due time.
Leader: In uncertain times, help us to greet the
dawn and labor on,
Love on, a faith awaiting your
purpose hid in you
People: Waiting to be born in due time, 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
During this season of
waiting and anticipation, we are reminded to stay awake for the coming of your
Son. Jesus' love often comes into our lives in quiet, unexpected ways. Today,
we generously respond to this compassion and commit ourselves to living in a manner
worthy of your love. In anticipation
of the coming of Jesus, the Savior, we pray. Amen.
ANTHEM: “In The
Beginning”
From
Light Eternal by John Michael Talbot, Phil Perkins
A
READING FROM THE BIBLE: Mark 13:24-37 and John 1: 1-5
MESSAGE: "Looking in the Mirror” (Part 1of 4)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING SONG: “Who Is He in Yonder Stall”
#190 in your Hymnal
*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
30 A Classical Concert for
December
1 Pastor’s Day Off
UMW Christmas Party
December
2 Church Annual Meeting
December
3 Nurture &Membership
@ Mukwonago Library 6:30-7:30 PM
Trustees 7:30
PM
Finance Committee 8:15
PM
UMM 7:30
PM
December
4 Office hours 9-Noon
Choir Rehearsal 6:00 PM-
7:15 PM
December
6 Mukwonago Parade Line Up 1: 00 PM
Mukwonago Parade 2:00
PM
UMW Info Explosion, Cudahy UMC 10 AM-3 PM
Board of Lay Ministry 12 PM- 2:00 PM
South District UMW
Team Meeting Office Hours 9:00 AM-11:15 AM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Need
Volunteer
Reader
Need Volunteer
Mark 13:24-37
The Coming of the
Son of Man
‘But in those days, after that
suffering,
the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light,
and
the stars will be falling from heaven,
and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
Then
they will see “the Son of Man coming in clouds” with great power and glory. Then he will send out the angels, and
gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of
heaven.
The Lesson of the
Fig Tree
‘From the fig tree learn its
lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you
know that summer is near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that
he
is near, at the very gates. Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away
until all these things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my
words will not pass away.
The Necessity for
Watchfulness
‘But about that day or hour no one
knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Beware, keep alert;
for you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey,
when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and
commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch. Therefore, keep awake—for you do not
know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or
at cockcrow, or at dawn, or else he may find you asleep when he comes suddenly. And what I say to you I say to all: Keep
awake.’
John 1: 1-5
The Word Became
Flesh
In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him,
and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life,
and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness did not overcome it.
Eunice Drought Betty Sheady Stewart Mary Alice Rubach People of Cambodia Family of Dennis O. Carol Denise Traveling to see Family Bev Squires Tracy Bonnie Jill Al Handy’s Aunt Helen Robert Dixon and Family Mission efforts Mabel Byron Today I will Pray For: Joys Anna & Ally Bob Richardson December 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 Tracey Kevin
Mattson Barb
Foster Stewardship
Other Concerns
.
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