Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
July 27, 2008
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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
ANNOUNCEMENTS & BIRTHDAYS
*MORNING GREETINGS: Greet those around
you with handshakes or hugs and words of greeting or joy.
CALL TO WORSHIP: (MARLO)
One: The
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all:
All And also with you.
One: In
All: Will you share them with us?
One: The
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and
self-control.
All: Let us celebrate God’s Holy Spirit and all
the fruits that the Spirit gives to us. Amen.
*OPENING SONG: “The Growing Song”
and
“God’s Love in Me”
Performed by the VBS
students
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All” #507
in your Hymnal
SHARING OUR JOYS AND
CONCERNS (LUKE)
Following
each joy, please respond:
For
These gifts, We thank you, God.
Following
each concern, please respond:
God,
in your mercy, Hear our prayer.
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL PRAYER
lord’s prayer
(aSHLEY)
SHARING
GOD'S BLESSINGS (Loose change for:
Mukwonago Medical Catastrophic Fund, Inc.)
OFFERATORY: "Hold On” performed by the VBS students
*OFFERING RESPONSE “Praise God from Whom All
Blessings Flow” # 95 in your Hymnal
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING (ALEX)
We offer this day a gift from our gifts, a
love from our loves, and a prayer from our prayers. Our time, treasures, and
talent are given to a world in need out of what we have. Thank you, God, for
the gifts, love, prayers, time, treasures, and talent that you have given to
us. Continue to use us in ministry to the world. It is your love, through us,
that makes that possible. Amen.
A
MESSAGE: “God: Career Counselor”
*CLOSING
SONG: “This Is a Day of New Beginnings”
#383 in your Hymnal
*WORDS
OF PARTING (KAILA)
Leader: Now go out into the world sharing the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and
self-control. AMEN
*PARTING
SONG: “The Trees of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith We Sing
(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
Pianist
Jane Spires
Greeters & Ushers this week Steve and Carol Lohr, Noah & Miranda
Reader this week
VBS Student
Flowers
Tami Wolf-Dixon
Dates to Remember
July 28
Pastors Day Off
July 29
Nurture Membership Meeting
@ Mukwonago Library 6:30 PM
July 30
Lay Leadership Committee Meeting 6:30 PM
July 31
Church Office Hours 9:00
AM- 12:00 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Elaine Kickbusch & Laurie Duffek
Reader Chuck Herman
Communion Assistant
Pete Lukas
Galatians 5:22-6:10
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
There is no law against such things. And
those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and
desires. If we live by the
Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit. Let us not become conceited,
competing against one another, envying one another.
My friends, if anyone is detected in a
transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a
spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted. Bear one another’s burdens,
and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ. For if those who are nothing
think they are something, they deceive themselves. All must test their own work;
then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for
pride. For all must carry
their own loads.
Those who are taught
the word must share in all good things with their teacher.
Do not be deceived; God
is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh,
you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will
reap eternal life from the Spirit. So
let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time,
if we do not give up. So
then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and
especially for those of the family of faith.
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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