Caldwell United Methodist Church

 Bring Individuals to Christ    Nurture spiritual growth

Invite others to discipleship

Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost September 21, 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:  O God, we realize you do not call us to be successful in the

                In the marketplace; you call us to be faithful as disciples

                Of Jesus.

People:  You do not call us to achievement in work,

                But to responsible living.     

Leader:   You do not call us to make a great fortune, but to labor

                For your reign.

People:   Guide us into greater understanding of your priorities.

                Amen.

 

*OPENING SONG: “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

                                    #519 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:

Margaret Ann's Place:  Wisconsin’s Center of Hope For Grieving Children)

 

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

 

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

Knowing God, you have given us a never-wanting
future, yet we often forget the nature of your divine gift. We become entangled in the snares of self-centeredness. Today, we joyfully share these many offerings as a way to release ourselves from being self-focused to being God-focused. In the name of your loving Son, we pray. Amen.

 

ANTHEM: 

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE:  Matthew 20: 1-16

 

MESSAGE: "God Wants YOU!"

 

 *CLOSING SONG: “Sing a New Song to the Lord”
                                     #2045 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

Choir Director                                                     Deanna Shimko-Herman  

Greeters & Ushers                                                                Janke Family                     

Reader                                                                               Elouise Benner                   

                                                                                                                                                     

Dates to Remember

      September 22     Pastor’s Day off 

                                  First Day  of Autumn

 

      September 23    2008 Committee Budgets due to Carol Lohr

 

      September 24    Stewardship Training, Sun Praire   8:30 AM – 3:30 PM

                                  Women  Clergy @ Fork in the Road   11:30- 1:00 PM

                                  Lay Leadership Committee             6:30 PM- 7:45PM

 

      September 25    Office Hours                                  9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

                                  Choir Rehearsal                              6:00 PM- 7:15PM

 

      September 26    Clergy Training on Circuit Leadership            All Day

 

      September 27    SHARE                                                           8-10 AM

                                 Metro South District Annual Celebration

                                 First UMC, Kenosha                         8:30 AM-1:30 PM

                                 UMM Meeting                                9:30 AM -10:30 AM                                                                                                                           

Volunteers for Next Sunday

Greeters & Ushers                                                             

Reader                                                        

 

                                                  

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew 20:1-16

 

20‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. 2After agreeing with the labourers for the usual daily wage,* he sent them into his vineyard. 3When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the market-place; 4and he said to them, “You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.” So they went. 5When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same. 6And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, “Why are you standing here idle all day?” 7They said to him, “Because no one has hired us.” He said to them, “You also go into the vineyard.” 8When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, “Call the labourers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.” 9When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage.* 10Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage.* 11And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, 12saying, “These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.” 13But he replied to one of them, “Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?* 14Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. 15Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?”* 16So the last will be first, and the first will be last.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I will Pray For:

Joys

Anna & Ally

Hannah

Bob Richardson

September Birthdays & Anniversaries

Julie

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

 
 
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

Bev Squires

Tracy

 
 
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