Caldwell United Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
Eighteenth
Sunday After Pentecost September 14, 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 welcome a new day with thanksgiving and
gladness!
People: Thanks be to God!
Leader: Come, Spirit of God, into our midst
People: Let us worship together in
Christ. Amen.
*OPENING SONG: “He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought”
#128 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
Patient Lord, you
amaze us each day with your ability to forgive our many sins. You display
merciful acts and answer our prayers in profound ways. Help us to be stewards
of your mercy and grace as these monetary gifts are transformed into active
ministries. Multiply the span of these ministries to reach people in new ways.
We pray in the name of the one who teaches true forgiveness, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
ANTHEM:
A READING FROM THE BIBLE: Matthew 18:21-35
MESSAGE: Gideon's International Representative,
Frank Mickler
*CLOSING SONG: “O How He Loves You
and Me”
#2108 in the Faith
We Sing
*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
Guest Speaker
Frank Mickler
Choir
Director
Deanna Shimko-Herman
Greeters & Ushers Van Buren Family
Reader Ashley
Van Buren
Dates to Remember
September 15 Pastor’s Day off
October
Newsletter Deadline
September 17 SPRC 6:00
PM
September 18 Office Hours 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Choir
Rehearsal 6:00
– 7:15 PM
September 19 Gift Inventory Responses Due
God’s Acre Set Up 3:00 PM-8:00 PM
Silent
Auction Preview 6:00
PM-8:00 PM
September 20 GOD’S ACRE 9:30
AM – 7:30 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Janke
Family
Reader
Elouise Benner
Matthew 18:21-35
Then Peter came and said to him,
‘Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often
should I forgive? As many as seven times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Not seven times,
but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.
‘For this reason the kingdom of
heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.
When
he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents
was brought to him; and, as he could not pay, his lord ordered him to be sold,
together with his wife and children and all his possessions, and payment to be
made. So
the slave fell on his knees before him, saying, “Have patience with me, and I
will pay you everything.” And out of pity for him, the lord of that slave released him and
forgave him the debt. But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his
fellow-slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the
throat, he said, “Pay what you owe.” Then his fellow-slave fell down and pleaded with him,
“Have patience with me, and I will pay you.” But he refused; then he went and threw
him into prison until he should pay the debt. When his fellow-slaves saw what had
happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their
lord all that had taken place. Then his lord summoned him and said to him, “You wicked
slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your
fellow-slave, as I had mercy on you?” And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured
until he should pay his entire debt. So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you,
if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart.’
Today I will Pray For: Joys Anna & Ally Hannah Bob Richardson September Birthdays & Anniversaries Julie Vacation Bible School Helpers and Kim Van
Buren’s Leadership 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 Kevin R Jane
Spires Tracey Kevin
Mattson 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
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