Caldwell
United Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to
Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to
discipleship
Sixteenth Sunday After
Pentecost
August 31, 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:
Leader: We pray for teachers
who wipe tears and give hugs, welcome laughter and smile often, touch hearts
and open minds.
People: We pray for teachers who
equip us for the possibilities of the future, challenge us to consider new
ideas, encourage us to do our best.
Leader: We pray for teachers who
prepare carefully despite crowded schedules, create amazing things from limited
resources, work long hours and receive little recognition.
People: We pray for teachers who are
called to a holy task, created in the image of God, empowered to transform
lives. In the name of Jesus the Great Teacher, we pray for teachers. Amen.
*OPENING SONG: “The Gift of Love” #408 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
God of Compassion, sometimes
we are reluctant to follow your divine authority and to place our entire trust
in you. We feel more secure trusting in our own ability and our own strength.
Thank you for this moment in our worship service when we are reminded that your
unwavering, steadfast love engulfs us like a mother's gentle caress. Trusting
in your heavenly grace, we pray. Amen.
ANTHEM: “I Will Lean into the Potter’s Hand” by
Douglas Nolan
A
MESSAGE: “Where is your Heart?”
*CLOSING
SONG: “Here
I Am, Lord”
#593 in your
Hymnal
*WORDS
OF PARTING
Go
now as God's servants: Do not repay anyone evil for evil,
but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If it is possible, so far as it depends on
you, live peaceably with all. Do not be
overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
*PARTING
SONG: “The Trees of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith We Sing
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Pastor Grace
Baldridge’s Cell Phone (262) 751-0955
Secretary’s
Phone: (262) 662-0264
Ministers All
of us
Lay Speaker
Leslie MacIntyre Choir Director
Deanna Shimko-Herman
Greeters & Ushers Pete
and Marianne Lukas
Reader Chuck Herman
Dates to Remember
September 1 Pastor’s Day off & Out of Town
UMW evening
Group Meeting 6:30 PM- 8:00 PM
September 3 UMW Day Group 12:00 PM
September 4 Office Hours 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Choir Rehearsal 6:30 – 8:00
PM
September 6 Christos Group Meeting 1:00 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers
Reader Robert Dixon
Matthew 6:19-22
‘Do
not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and
steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ‘The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is
healthy, your whole body will be full of light;
Mark 10:17-22
As
he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked
him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but
God alone. You know the commandments: “You shall not murder; You shall not
commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You
shall not defraud; Honour your father and mother.” ’
He said to him, ‘Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.’
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, ‘You lack one thing;
go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will
have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for
he had many possessions.
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