Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
December 7,
2008 Second
Sunday of Advent
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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
*OPENING SONG: “This is a Day of New Beginnings”
#383 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Merciful
God, you sent your messengers the prophets to preach
Repentance and prepare the way
for our salvation.
People: Give us grace to heed their warnings and
for the sake our
Sins, that we may celebrate
aright the commemoration of the
Nativity, and may await with
joy
Leader: The coming in glory of Jesus Christ our
Redeemer;
People: Who lives and reigns with you and the Holy
Spirit,
One God, for ever and
ever. 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
Loving God, you powerfully proclaim through your prophet John the need for us to repent of our sins and to prepare the way of the Lord. We place these offerings upon your altar with the knowledge that they will support many ministries that proclaim your good news and lead people on your path. By offering you these generous gifts, we prepare ourselves to be led along your path of grace and love. We pray with your guiding presence. Amen.
ANTHEM: “Days of Elijah” Robin Mark, Jack Schrader
A READING FROM THE BIBLE: Mark 1:1-8, John 1:5-10
MESSAGE: “Looking in the Mirror" part 2 of 4
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: “Bless the Lord My Soul” Jacques Berthier
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “Go, Tell
it on the Mountain” #251 in your Hymnal
*PARTING
SONG: “In The Lord I’ll be Ever Thankful”
#2195 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
Communion Assistant
Robert Dixon
Dates
to Remember
December 8
Items due for 12-14 bulletin
Pastor’s Day Off
Mediation Labyrinth (12-8 thru
12-12)
Or by
appointment
December 9
Mukwonago Ministers @Fork In theRoad
Vision Committee
Administrative
Council
December
10 Community Taize-Style Evening Service
December
11 Office Hours
Choir
Rehearsal
December
13 Food Pantry
Cookie
Walk
& Community Craft
Sponsored by UMW - Dec. 13th
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Need
Volunteer
Reader
Need Volunteer
Mark
1:1-8
The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son
of God.
As it is written in the prophet Isaiah,
‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way;
the voice of one crying
out in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight” ’,
John the baptizer
appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of
repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people
of Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river
Jordan, confessing their sins. Now
John was clothed with camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and
he ate locusts and wild honey. He
proclaimed, ‘The one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not
worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals. I have baptized you with
water; but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.’
John
1:5-10
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify
to the light, so that all might believe through him. He himself was not the light,
but he came to testify to the light. The
true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and the world came into being through
him; yet the world did not know him.
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 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 Al Handy’s Aunt Helen 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
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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