Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
November 9,
2008
Twenty Sixth
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: “Trust and Obey”
#467 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Save your people, Lord, and bless your
inheritance, govern
And
uphold them now and always..
People: Day by
day we bless you. We praise your name forever.
Leader: Keep us today, Lord, from all sin. Have
mercy. Show us your love and mercy.
People: In you Lord , is our hope and we shall never
hope in vain.
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
Lord of Wisdom, we
faithfully believe in the promise of your Heavenly Kingdom. Yet, we allow our
personal living to determine our personal giving. Enable us to be generous
givers whose giving is not controlled by our personal wants. Awaken our spirit
to the knowledge that we have a limited time to give to your ministries. We
pray in the name of your Son, who will come again as Jesus the Christ. Amen
ANTHEM: “Seasons of Love” Jonathan Larson, arr Mac Huff
A
MESSAGE: "What Put the Method in
Methodist?”
(Part
1 of 3)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “Seasons of Love” Jonathan Larson
*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 Bob and Avy Weeks
Reader Need Volunteer
Dates to Remember
November 10 Pastors’s Day Off
November 11 Veterans Day
Mukwonago Ministers
@ Fork in the Road
Administrative
Council
November 12 Metro Districts Vision Team Dist-Milw
November 13 Office Hours 9-noon
Choir
Rehearsal
Bible Study
November 15 December Newsletter Deadline
Lay Leader
Training,
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers
Need
Volunteer
Reader
Need Volunteer
Matthew
25:1-13
"At
that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps
and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were
wise. The foolish ones took their lamps
but did not take any oil with them. The
wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a
long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
"At
"Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed
their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our
lamps are going out.' 'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us
and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'
"But while they were on their way to buy
the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to
the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
"Later
the others also came. 'Sir! Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!'
"But
he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'
"Therefore keep watch, because you do not
know the day or the hour.
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
.
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