Caldwell
United Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to
Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to
discipleship
Fifteenth Sunday After
Pentecost
Back to School Blessing of Our Teachers and Students
August 24, 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: (All
students and teachers are invited to come to the
Front of the Church to receive a
blessing.)
Pastor: Before you are the
learners and those who will share their
knowledge. Let us pray for their health and their wisdom as they begin a new
school year.
Teachers and Students: Help us to
see each other as God sees us, all of us as children of God, some teaching,
some being taught.
Congregation: We pray a blessing of
wisdom and patience on all of our students and teachers, knowing that through
their collective knowledge, the schools in our town, state, and country will
bless the whole world.
All: Thank you God for the gift of
knowledge and for being a loving source of wisdom for us all. Amen.
*OPENING SONG: “A Mother Lined a Basket”
#2189 in The Faith We Sing Songbook
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
Merciful Lord, you
have provided each of us with many similar, yet unique gifts. Thank you, Lord,
for the talents and abilities of people within this congregation. We are a
blessed people! Now, we unite as one body to share in this worshipful act of
the offering. Giving is such a joy-filled experience! Thank you, Lord, for this
opportunity to support the transformation of
people's spiritual lives through the ministry and mission of this body of Christ.
Amen.
A
MESSAGE: “Apple for the
Teacher”
*CLOSING SONG: “Many Gifts. One
Spirit”
#114 in your
Hymnal
*WORDS
OF PARTING
*PARTING
SONG: “The Trees of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith We Sing
(800) 570-4440
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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 Avis Weeks
Reader Jane Craig
Flowers by
Jane Spires
Dates to Remember
August 24 SPRC Meeting 11:45 AM
August 25 Pastor’s Day off
Nominations/Lay
Leadership 6:30 PM
August 26-30 Pastor Out of Town
Women Clergy @
Fork in theRoad 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
August 28 Choir Rehearsal 6:30 – 8:00 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Pete and Marianne
Lukas
Reader Chuck Herman
Matthew 16:13-20
Peter’s Declaration about Jesus
Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he
asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ And
they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others
Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I
am?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah,
the Son of the living God.’ And Jesus answered him, ‘Blessed are you,
Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my
Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter,
and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades
will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of
heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever
you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.’ Then
he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was
the Messiah.
Points to Ponder:
1. What does Jesus ask the disciples? Why does he want to know?
2. What task does Jesus give to his disciples?
Today I will Pray For: Joys Anna & Ally Hannah Bob Richardson August Birthdays & Anniversaries Julie Betty 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 Eunice Drought People of Betty Sheady People in Alex Stewart People of Mary Alice Rubach People of Family of Bob Wimpee Dennis O. Family of Elizabeth Wright Carol Denise Traveling to see Family Deanna & Sam in Bev Squires
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