Caldwell United Methodist Church

 Bring Individuals to Christ    Nurture spiritual growth

Invite others to discipleship

Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost

August 17, 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:

One:  To you, O Lord, I call:

          My rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me,

 All:    I become like those who go down to the pit.

One:  Hear the voice of my supplication, 

All:    As I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward

          Your most holy sanctuary.  Amen

 

*OPENING SONG: “And Are We Yet Alive” #553 in your Hymnal

 

CHILDREN’S MOMENTS:  (As children come forward sing 1st verse  “Jesus Loves Me” #191 and as they leave sing refrain.)

 

PREPARATION FOR PRAYER: “Through It All”  #507                                                            in your Hymnal

 

 

 

SHARING OUR JOYS AND CONCERNS

            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 

THE LORD’S PRAYER

              

SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS  

(Loose change for: Mukwonago Medical Catastrophic Fun)

 

*OFFERING RESPONSE   “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”  # 95 in your Hymnal

 

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

Honestly God, your promise of a new life in Heaven seems so distant, so obscure! Spectacles of violence and self-indulgence defile our conscience. Sensitize us to the mosaic of personal and community struggles that envelop our brothers and sisters around the world. Multiply these gifts for ministries that empower people to trust your Holy Word. We pray in the name of the holiest of teachers, Jesus the Messiah. Amen.

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE:  Matthew 15:10-28

 

MESSAGE:    “Upset Stomach”

 

*CLOSING SONG: “My Hope is Built”

                                 #368 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

Pianist                                                                                     Jane Spires  

Greeters & Ushers                                                   Don and Barb Foster

Reader                                                                                    Steve Lohr         

                                           

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

Dates to Remember

    

      August 18         Pastor’s Day off

    

      August 21         Office Hours                                  9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

                                                  

      August 22         Choir Rehearsal                                     6:30 – 8:00 PM

 

      August 24         SPRC Meeting                                               11:45 AM     

                    

                                                                                                         

 

Volunteers for Next Sunday

 

Greeters & Ushers                         Bob and Avis Weeks                                     

Reader                                           Jane Craig

                                                  

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew 15:10-28

10 Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: 11it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’ 12Then the disciples approached and said to him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took offence when they heard what you said?’ 13He answered, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind.* And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.’ 15But Peter said to him, ‘Explain this parable to us.’ 16Then he said, ‘Are you also still without understanding? 17Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? 18But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 19For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. 20These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.’

21 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.’ 23But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, ‘Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.’ 24He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’ 25But she came and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, help me.’ 26He answered, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ 27She said, ‘Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.’ 28Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.’ And her daughter was healed instantly.

 

 

 

 

 

Other Concerns

Eunice Drought

People of Myanmar

Betty Sheady

People in Szechuan Province, China

Alex

Stewart

People of Pakistan

Mary Alice Rubach

People of Cambodia

Family of Bob Wimpee

Dennis O.

Family of Elizabeth Wright

Carol

Denise

Traveling to see Family

Deanna & Sam in Cambodia

Bev Squires

Tracy

People of Iron Mountain

Janet Wervey & Family

Sydney

Jim

Scott Oberman

Carol

Phil

Circuit 37
 
 

 


Today I will Pray For:

Joys

Anna & Ally

Hannah

Bob Richardson

August Birthdays & Anniversaries

Julie

Betty

Vacation Bible School Helpers and Kim Van Buren’s Leadership

Shut Ins

Mabel Byron

Elizabeth Stark

Dorothy Schroeder

Lois, Pastor’s Grandma

Other Concerns

Alverne

Our troops overseas

David Hempen

Lucille

Craig Jaris

Heidi

Kevin R

Jane Spires

Tracey

Kevin Mattson

 
 
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